Sound City - Film and Soundtrack - Dave Grohl & Friends
Dave Grohl is now, without question, music royalty. He will be remembered alongside the Lennon's, the Jagger's, the Petty's and the Springsteen's of the musical history books. Rightfully so! Not only was he the drummer in one of the most influential bands of all time (Nirvana) he's managed to carve out a mainstream rock niche with the Foo Fighters and a string of side projects.
He is now adding film maker to his long list of skills, but luckily he isn't straying to far from what he knows : music.
Sound City is a new, truly amazing, music doco about Sound City Studios - a scummy old music studio located in the San Fernando Valley, amidst a bunch of run down warehouses. The amazing thing is that this little known recording studio was home to some of the greatest artists and albums the music world has ever known.
Names like Fleetwood Mac, Neil Young, Rick Springfield, Tom Petty, Kyuss and - of course - Nirvana have all recorded their own take on the "groundbreaking record" at the studio. Grohl's film tells the story of how the studio grew from it's very early days, and how it crumbled when it closed 2011. It then follows Dave Grohl (who purchased the studio's mythical custom analog console) who sets up a "new era" Sound Studio in his home.
Even more impressive than the movie itself is the amazing soundtrack that's been assembled (and obviously recorded using the famous equipment).
Dave Grohl's Sound City Players are a rag tag team of hard nosed rockers and divas and features mega music mashups and meet ups with the likes of Stevie Nicks, Tim & Brad from Rage Against The Machine and a dream team combo of Grohl, Josh Homme, Trent Reznor and Paul McCartney.
For those wondering, here's the full track listing. And just a reminder of music fans - you receive an instant download of "Cut Me Some Slack" when you pre-order through iTunes. We aren't making cash off telling you this, we just thought you'd like to know as music nerds share and care!
- Heaven And All - Robert Levon Been, Dave Grohl & Peter Hayes
- Time Slowing Down - Chris Goss, Tim Commerford, Dave Grohl & Brad Wilk
- You Can't Fix This - Stevie Nicks, Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins & Rami Jaffee
- The Man That Never Was - Rick Springfield, Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel & Pat Smear
- Your Wife Is Calling - Lee Ving, Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Alain Johannes & Pat Smear
- From Can To Can't - Corey Taylor, Dave Grohl, Rick Nielsen & Scott Reeder
- Centipede - Joshua Homme, Chris Goss, Dave Grohl & Alain Johannes
- A Trick With No Sleeve - Alain Johannes, Dave Grohl & Joshua Homme
- Cut Me Some Slack - Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic & Pat Smear
- Mantra - Dave Grohl, Joshua Homme & Trent Reznor
