Sound City: Real to Reel

by Sound City: Real to Reel

Overview

Sound City, Dave Grohl's love letter to the golden age of recording studios, plays very differently as an album than it does a documentary. On the screen, Grohl devotes a significant amount of time tracing the history of Sound City Studios, the legendary Los Angeles studio where such rock classics as Fleetwood Mac's Fleetwood Mac and Rumours, Tom Petty's Damn the Torpedoes, Pat Benatar's Crimes of Passion, Rick Springfield's Working Class Dog, Foreigner's Double Vision, and Nirvana's Nevermind were recorded. Sound City closed in 2011, and Grohl not only wound up purchasing the studio's Neve mixing board, he made his film as a tribute to this golden age of rock and, then, decided to make an accompanying album of all-new songs using that board in his own home studio, finalizing his salute to the golden age of analog. Grohl brought in friends and colleagues, including his longtime jam partner Josh Homme, then invited a bunch of Sound City veterans like Springfield, Stevie Nicks, Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen, and Fear's Lee Ving to cut new songs. He also roped in Paul McCartney to play with Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear -- aka, the surviving members of Nirvana -- a nifty coup that earned the project tons of publicity and resulted in a pretty good little rocker called "Cut Me Some Slack." It's not the only tune here with an immediate hook or melody -- Nicks' "You Can't Fix This" isn't bad, Ving's "Your Wife Is Calling" conjures a bit of Fear, and Rick Springfield's "The Man That Never Was" is rather excellent -- but it's one of only a handful, as the rest of Sound City: Real to Reel sounds exactly like what it is: a bunch of old rockers jamming in a studio. Often, this is quite enjoyable, as they're all excellent musicians playing through a top-notch board, but the songs do have a tendency to drift away from the point, sounding like exceedingly well-executed first drafts. It is telling that the songs that do catch hold all come from survivors of the golden age of classic rock, musicians who can knock out a well-sculpted song without too much effort, and that is as much a testament to the heyday of Sound City as the soundtrack itself. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	03/12/2013
Label:	Columbia
UPC:	0887654499219

Tracks

1. Heaven and All  - Robert Levon Been  - Dave Grohl  - Peter Hayes
2. Time Slowing Down  - Tim Commerford  - Chris Goss  - Dave Grohl  - Brad Wilk
3. You Can't Fix This  - Dave Grohl  - Taylor Hawkins  - Rami Jaffee  - Stevie Nicks
4. The Man That Never Was  - Dave Grohl  - Taylor Hawkins  - Nate Mendel  - Pat Smear  - Rick Springfield
5. Your Wife Is Calling  - Dave Grohl  - Taylor Hawkins  - Alain Johannes  - Pat Smear  - Lee Ving
6. From Can to Can¿¿¿t  - Dave Grohl  - Rick Nielsen  - Scott Reeder  - Corey Taylor
7. Centipede  - Chris Goss  - Dave Grohl  - Joshua Homme  - Alain Johannes
8. A Trick with No Sleeve  - Dave Grohl  - Joshua Homme  - Alain Johannes
9. Cut Me Some Slack  - Dave Grohl  - Paul McCartney  - Krist Novoselic  - Pat Smear
10. Once Upon a Time¿¿¿ The End  - Jessy Greene  - Dave Grohl  - Rami Jaffee  - Jim Keltner
11. Mantra  - Dave Grohl  - Joshua Homme  - Trent Reznor

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Rami Jaffee   Primary Artist
Nate Mendel   Primary Artist
Alain Johannes   Primary Artist
Tim Commerford   Primary Artist
Brad Wilk   Primary Artist
Scott Reeder   Primary Artist
Robert Levon Been   Primary Artist
Jim Keltner   Primary Artist
Stevie Nicks   Primary Artist
Peter Hayes   Primary Artist
Joshua Homme   Primary Artist
Krist Novoselic   Primary Artist
Pat Smear   Primary Artist
Dave Grohl   Primary Artist
Lee Ving   Primary Artist
Taylor Hawkins   Primary Artist
Trent Reznor   Primary Artist
Paul McCartney   Primary Artist
Corey Taylor   Primary Artist
Chris Goss   Primary Artist
Jessy Greene   Primary Artist
Rick Nielsen   Primary Artist
Rick Springfield   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Jim Scott   Engineer
Rick Springfield   Composer
Emily Lazar   Mastering
Alain Johannes   Composer
Tim Commerford   Composer
Brad Wilk   Composer
Chris Lord-Alge   Mixing
Scott Reeder   Composer
Robert Levon Been   Composer
Jim Keltner   Composer
Matt Bissonette   Composer
John Lousteau   Engineer
Stevie Nicks   Composer
Butch Vig   Producer
Derek Silverman   Engineering Support
Peter Hayes   Composer
Joe LaPorta   Mastering
James Brown   Mixing,Engineer
Joshua Homme   Composer
Sami Ansari   Photography
Pat Smear   Composer
Dave Grohl   Composer
Lee Ving   Composer
Jessy Greene   Composer
Taylor Hawkins   Composer
Trent Reznor   Composer
Paul McCartney   Composer
Corey Taylor   Composer
Chris Shiflett   Composer
Chris Goss   Composer
Krist Novoselic   Composer
Rick Nielsen   Composer
Rami Jaffee   Composer