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Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

moonspinner55 When he left Seattle with his band Nirvana in the early 1990s, drummer Dave Grohl was initially excited his group would be recording their first major label album at famous Sound City recording studios in Van Nuys, CA...that is, until he saw the place. Described by many as "a real s***hole," the cluttered, crowded studio--downwind of a brewery!--was considered outdated by 1992, but was about to experience a resurrection after Nirvana's "Nevermind" went to number-one. Now closed for business, Sound City's history is fascinatingly laid-out by director and co-producer Grohl, who charts the studio's early successes beginning in 1973 with help from the artists who were there (Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Rick Springfield). Grohl--who purchased Sound City's revolutionary analog mixing console, the Neve 8028, and moved it into his home studio--proves to have a surprisingly sentimental side for the ramshackle place and its colorful crew, but comes up short on narrative (at one point, engineer Keith Olsen defects and opens his own studio "next door," but we never see the studio and aren't told of its fate). The documentary's third act, with Grohl and his all-star friends recording a hard-rocking tribute album to Sound City using the Neve, is stretched out too far and stalls the nostalgic momentum, but otherwise this is a respectful, thoughtfully-composed and moving musical journal. *** from ****

john32935 Unbeknownst to the music-consuming public, Sound City was a studio in LA's San Fernando Valley where some of the greatest rock music in history was recorded. But as the analog age slipped into the digital age, the uniqueness of the sound provided by Sound City's facilities fell by the wayside until Dave Grohl, with the help of some legendary musical performers, made the effort to restore and preserve the essence of Sound City.This well-made documentary (by novice film director Mr. Grohl) is an ode to those days where music was more the product of people rather than music as a product of digital manipulation. Interviews with rock's luminaries are interspersed throughout and add a personal touch that this documentary could have easily missed and would have been the lesser for.Recommended to fans of rock music everywhere.

siderite Dave Grohl directed and wrote this documentary. You know, he is the guy that is always playing at least two songs in the best ever list of songs, one with Nirvana and the other with Foo Fighters. And this is a film about Sound City, the legendary sound studio that gave life to so many great bands and albums, including Nirvana, Rage Against the Machines, Nine Inch Nails, Fleetwood Mac, and so on.What starts like a smelly place that nobody cleans but has great acoustics goes through a series of transformations through various crises, the most important one being the advent of digital technology, which also meant its death. But there are so many good musicians that jammed there, rose to stardom there, that Grohl is trying to recreate the feeling and asks those musicians to join him in remembering it all.I know you will hate me for this, but what I liked even more than the love of music that transpires throughout the entire film is the fact that it all started with the Neve board, a sound board created by a very precise British engineer called Rupert Neve. The guy was probably very creative himself, but people describe him as precise. And British. He enabled through science and engineering scores of musical generations.Anyway, sometimes the film is a bit slow, especially at the beginning, where the history of the studio and of the people there is laid out. But then it all is worth it at the end, where you get to see all these old musicians coming to record with Foo Fighters using the reconditioned Neve board, recording everything on 2 inch tape.Bottom line: they kind of repeat a lot that music is something human and must be done in a group to enhance pleasure and creativity, but it's not too annoying. This is a great movie nonetheless. If you like music, you will love this film. If you don't like music, I still think you are going to love it.

jimmy-ihl If you're a fan of classic rock, rock or metal. This documentary will take you backstage and tell the stories about the making of some of the best records ever made. And they we're all made in Sound City.What makes this documentary so excellent is Dave Grohl himself. Dave manages to transfer his musical passion on to the viewer and made me as a fan feel part of it. Dave being Dave, I believe he got his fellow musicians to share in a way that no other director would have managed, because his one of them. They fought in the same trenches so to speak. That's a big part of what makes this a great documentary. The human aspect of it, the feelings and the memories. And the music, oh boy the music.I tip my hat to you Dave. See you on the next Foo tour.