Sound City (2013)

[TransMonk]

Dave Grohl directed a documentary about the history of the famed Los Angeles recording studio Sound City and the making of the album he recorded with some of the musicians who recorded there.

The movie features: Vinny Appice, Frank Black, Lindsey Buckingham, Kevin Cronin, Rivers Cuomo, Mick Fleetwood, Josh Homme, Alain Johannes, Paul McCartney, Tom Petty, Trent Reznor, Ross Robinson, Rick Rubin, Pat Smear, Rick Springfield, Corey Taylor, Benmont Tench, Lars Ulrich, Butch Vig, Lee Ving, Brad Wilk, Neil Young, Stephen Pearcy, Warren DeMartini,

Of course, I loved it having spent countless hours recording analog music. This movie was pretty much made for peeps like me.

[Edgy MD]

No women? All white guys too. Is this a recording studio or a golf club?

Seriously, you had me at Cronin.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Pat Smear, known at "Pap" to his friends.

[TransMonk]

Edgy MD wrote: No women? All white guys too. Is this a recording studio or a golf club? Seriously, you had me at Cronin.

Stevie Nicks. How did I miss that? (Shame on Wikipedia's list of featured artists.)

[Edgy MD]

In our tour documentaries about the record making bidness, our next selection is Dave Grohl's history of Sound City, the LA dump of an analog studio that took rock from mid-period classic (their first album was the Buckingham/Nicks duet that precipitated them joining Fleetwood Mac, followed by Rumours and TP&tHBs' Damn the Torpedoes) through pop nu wave (Rick Springfield), a little punk (Fear), lotsa eighties glam (Ratt, Warrant), until finally their failure to modernize and go digital had them on the verge of going out of business, when a grunge band at a crossroads landed on their doorstep, recorded an album called Nevermind, and the lack of computer processing and sequencers became a virtue for all the acts that followed in Nirvana's wake.



Featuring, among many others: Vinny Appice, Frank Black, Lindsey Buckingham, Mike Campbell, Kevin Cronin, Mick Fleetwood, John Fogerty, Dave Grohl, Jim Keltner, Barry Manilow, Stevie Nicks, Rick Nielsen, Krist Novoselic, Tom Petty, Trent Reznor, Rick Rubin, Pat Smear, Rick Springfield, Benmont Tench, Lars Ulrich, and Butch Vig.

[TransMonk]

I enjoyed it.

Another short thread here.

[Edgy MD]

Oops