Apr 13 2014 08:04 PM
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.