Dave Grohl - not bad at that singing and stuff

Yep another 27 yr old rock star that bit the dust....

 

Had tickets to see them 6 years ago in Wembley....... My youngest decided to be born on that day, so I never got there

 

I don't mind, he is a hard working fella, I read somewhere he bought a load of old recording gear from a studio, but can't remember where it was from, w as it what the Beatles used or Sun Recording stuff, Mono stuff I think, i will google it

 

found it
"It honestly was more like a keg party with a camera than making a Hollywood film," he said.

Grohl knew nothing about the Sound City studio in Van Nuys, Calif., when he and fellow Nirvana members Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic booked a session to make "Nevermind" in 1991. Their California record company wanted Nirvana nearby to keep an eye on them and time at Sound City was cheap.

It was in a nondescript neighborhood and looked like a dump, with tired shag carpeting. Then Nirvana noticed all the gold records on the wall from artists who had recorded there: Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty, Van Halen, REO Speedwagon, Guns `n Roses, Neil Young, Cheap Trick, Slayer, Rick Springfield and more.

After plugging in their instruments and running through "In Bloom," Grohl and his mates discovered why. The sound, to their ears, was amazing. Nirvana had never been captured with such clarity and power before.

"You might have never heard of Nirvana if we had recorded in Hollywood with a fancy producer who made us sound like Def Leppard," he said. "The fact that that (sound) board made us sound like us is what people appreciated. To be reunited with it, honestly, it was like meeting your real parents for the first time."

Sound City owners bought the recording console designed by British engineer Rupert Neve for $76,000 at a time many houses cost half that. When Grohl inquired about buying it a few years ago, the studio operator then suggested she'd rather sell her grandmother. But Sound City closed and Grohl's wish came true (he won't say what he paid for it). The console is now in a studio that Grohl and his band, Foo Fighters, operate in the North Ridge section of Los Angeles.

Sound City became a hot studio after the modern incarnation of Fleetwood Mac was essentially born there, and Grohl's film includes vintage footage of a young Petty with his Heartbreakers.

 

He's obsessed with trying to write a pop song as good as a Nirvana one, but he can't.

 

Only the first two were on the BBC - 3 to 6 are on BBC I player and the last two are back on the BBC - don't ask me why.

Seen them 8 times from the O2 to Wembley, Earls Court & Leeds Festival. Never disappointed

Tickets are on sale on Friday at 0900 but if you had the pre- sale link and the password then you can see if you can get tickets tomorrow at 0900.

Shhhhhhh - don't tell anyone....

http://gigst.rs/FooPre
Presale Password is HIGHWAYS

 

Love the foos. Caught them at reading many years ago and then again at v when they did two sets. Lucky to have seen them crooked vultures and Taylor Hawkins and the coattail riders too!

 

Saw TCV at Leeds Festival - crowd was mental. Chris Shifletts band The Dead Peasants are quite good too if you like it a bit countryfied.

 

Am afraid Mrs Mabel has said exactly the same thing.

Must admit I have been listening to quite a few of the bands featured on Sonic Highways. The Nashville one had me downloading some Tammy Wynette, Steve Earle and The Zac Brown Band. The LA one on Friday night had me listening to The Germs!!! - but I do like my punk.....

 

HaHa - It doesn't matter what he can't do, if he turned up on my doorstep, I'm history and I know it......

 

Managed to get tickets this morning on the presale link - woo hoo!

 

Having a good day - also just got two tickets to see Biffy Clyro this Saturday at The Troxy in East London for the Relentless Energy Drink Xmas Party in the ticket ballot for £10 each. Comes in threes and there 4 and a half hours left - is there a lottery draw tonight?

 

Got my 4 tickets for Manchester ,anybody want to buy a kidney -- i have one for sale