DAVE GROHL: “SOUND CITY IS MY LIFE’S MOST IMPORTANT WORK”
Dave Grohl has written a letter to fans who have preordered his Sound City Studios documentary from SoundCityMovie.com:
Hey there….
Thanks for scraping up your hard earned dough and buying the movie direct from our site! We’re stoked! Hope you love it as much as we do….
Ummm………Holy shit! I made a movie!
I started this project a little over a year ago with ONE of my good old friends (Jim Rota from the band Fireball Ministry). That’s right….just me, my drinking buddy, and a crazy idea that we should tell the story of a studio we had loved hanging around for years, and our heartbreak to see it close. It soon blossomed into something truly epic! I don’t think either of us ever imagined our little project would become what it is now. Like all the best things in life, it just…….happened.
From day one, it was the most incredible experience of my life. I swear. Sitting down with Neil Young talking about recording guitars, John Fogerty telling me about the day he decided to become a musician, Stevie Nicks telling me the story of how she joined Fleetwood Mac, Trent Reznor schooling me on the world of computers and digital technology, etc etc etc…..can you imagine? All I had to do was listen…I am the luckiest man on earth.
And, being a completely independent film, no one told us how or what to do! Me and my crew of under 20 people did it OUR way. It was like a keg party with a camera. WE got to tell the story of a place we all held so dear. WE wanted to do it justice. And I think we did.
But, SOUND CITY is only part of the story…..
What is it that happens when 4 people turn on, plug in, and really play that makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up? What is it about those moments when you hear something and it immediately puts its hooks in you, and you feel…..understood? What is it that will inspire the next generation of kids wanna do what I did when I was a little punk growing up in Springfield, Virginia? That feeling like, “Wait……I can do this too…..
That’s what I’m talking about. That human connection. That human feel. That human sound…that isn’t perfect…but it’s sooooo good.
I really feel like SOUND CITY is my life’s most important work. I hope you do too.
Psyched that you get to see it! Show it to your friends! Get together, start a band, sound like shit, and change the world. GO!
Thank you, thank you, thank you………Dave
ummm, ok…nevermind..
Nevermind might be a classic album but that does not mean it was Daves most important work !
Haha…shutup Dave!
@mandigo
Uh yes that kind of does.
Maybe Dave will say that but the society will decide what his “most important work” will be. And that will be “Nevermind”.
Millionaire ham is getting more $$$$ from people who don’t know there being fed regurgitated shit.
This docs gonna have some gems!
And to Grungy: I’ll bet ya $20 (to be PayPal’d) that Sound City Studios documentary tells at least 3 stories and even more insightful things from past artist and albums that we all have never known and will be impressed with. Wanna take it?
If the man says its his most important work then it IS his most important work. Simple as that.
hmm.. nevermind, it’s kurt’s most important work, and partly dave’s.
i think it really comes down to composing and/or in this case directing and doing something unique and fresh that will stand out in the future.
i think dave’s putting it out there to be remembered by nevermind and to be remembered as a humble bow to a great studio and great artists that recorded there.
and there’s a point to be made by this and it comes out like an cycle that has run it’s course.
can’t wait to check it out
@ SuperSG
yeah, every artist will tell you abt his new stuff that this is the most important work of his life, check every single interview of every single artist…simple like that (i wld be surprised if anyone wld say “nah, our new album is kinda meeeeh”)…re Grohl’s comment, its not even funny…a whole generation was influenced by this…and this movie (cld be a pretty decent work i agree) will stay a simple documentary forever..guy tried himself first time as director? that doesnt make this work biggest work of his life, cmon
*was influenced by nevermind
Millionaire ham is getting more $$$$ from people who don’t know there being fed regurgitated shit.
Must you be a screaming cunt Grungy? From your mouth to straight up your ass.
My point is Dave will be remembered mostly as the drummer from Nirvana in a couple of decades. And, well Nirvana for the masses=Nevermind.
Why didn’t I get this through the foo fighters site or through the soundcity site… thought I preordered it… runs off to double check.
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