Dave Grohl's Documentary On Legendary Sound City Recording ... - Concert Blogger (blog)

Nirvana’s Nevermind, Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours, Neil Young’s After the Gold Rush, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ Damn the Torpedoes, and Rage Against the Machine’s Rage Against the Machine – all monumental albums in the history of music, all birthed with the help of one place: Sound City Studios.

Since its incorporation in 1969, Sound City Studios has had its hand in recording or mixing more than 100 certified gold and platinum albums.  Visionary producer and record label exec Rick Rubin has chosen the studio to record with artists like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, and Johnny Cash.  Visit www.soundcitystudios.net, browse the Artist List or catalog of Recordings By Year, and sit there in awe at the talent this place has seen and helped to cement in the music world.

Dave Grohl, Foo Fighter’s front man and former member of Nirvana, currently is in the process of sharing the Sound City Studios story by directing and producing a documentary on the legendary recording studio in the San Fernando Valley.  According to the film’s official Facebook page, Grohl was inspired last year to create the documentary after purchasing the studio’s “legendary Neve 8028 recording console… considered by many to be the crown jewel of analog recording equipment.”  Sound City is known for their world famous drum sound and boast their vintage analog equipment that have “captured the sounds of some of the world’s most important and best-loved music.”

In an April interview with Billboard Butch Vig, producer of Nirvana’s Nevermind, said about the documentary that “[Grohl] probably interviewed 150 to 200 people so far and now we’ve been working on musical collaborations to be a part of the soundtrack for the film.”  The brief trailer that has been released for the documentary features clips of interviews with heavyweights Tom Perry and Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails).  The trailer can be viewed at www.soundcitymovie.com, but don’t get your hopes up because it reveals very little about the film.

Jim Rota, John Ramsay, and Therapy Studios will be co-producing the documentary, Paul Crowder, editor of  “Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who” and “Dogtown and Z-boys,” will add the Sound City documentary to his resume, and Mike Monroe, scripter of “The Cove” and “The Tillman Story,” will write.  Roswell Films, a branch of Roswell Records who release Foo Fighters albums, will be distributing the documentary. The film has yet to receive an official release date, however talk surrounding the topic points to early 2013.

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