{"id":9807,"date":"2013-05-08T10:17:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T17:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=9807"},"modified":"2013-05-08T10:17:09","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T17:17:09","slug":"sound-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/05\/sound-city\/","title":{"rendered":"SOUND CITY"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sound-city-M-Review-No26\"SOUND CITY<\/h1>\n

[RCA]<\/p>\n

Dave Grohl\u2019s directorial debut centers on the titular studio\u2014the defunct Southern California facility where Nirvana cut Nevermind<\/i> and countless other artists did some of their finest work\u2014but that\u2019s not really what this film is about. On a micro level, it\u2019s about \u201cthe Neve,\u201d an analog recording console purchased by Sound City\u2019s owners in 1973 for the then-princely sum of $75,000. If Grohl and his buddies\u2014an impressive cast that includes Tom Petty, Neil Young, Rick Rubin, Stevie Nicks and even Barry Manilow\u2014are to be believed, the enormous contraption is the answer to all of man\u2019s problems. The Neve will ease hunger, cure sickness and, more importantly, give you a killer live drum sound.<\/p>\n

The Neve worship and Sound City story are interesting enough, and Grohl\u2019s participants\u2014particularly the studio\u2019s charming former owners and staff\u2014paint the place as something special. It was a dump, but it brought out the best in people. Really, though, Grohl is interested in what\u2019s \u201creal,\u201d and for most everyone interviewed, that means analog gear and live instruments. The rise of Pro Tools led to Sound City\u2019s demise, so the attitude isn\u2019t surprising, and while there\u2019s a case to be made for purism, Grohl risks sounding like a luddite. Only Trent Reznor gets a digital pass\u2014he doesn\u2019t use technology as a \u201ccrutch,\u201d Grohl says\u2014and yet when Paul McCartney shows up for a closing jam, one can\u2019t help but remember what sonic explorers the Beatles were. Given the chance, wouldn\u2019t they have used computers? Then again, if they\u2019d booked Sound City, they\u2019d have bashed out something great. \u2013Kenneth Patridge<\/p>\n

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SOUND CITY [RCA] Dave Grohl\u2019s directorial debut centers on the titular studio\u2014the defunct Southern California facility where Nirvana cut Nevermind and countless other artists did some of their finest work\u2014but that\u2019s not really what this film is about. On a micro level, it\u2019s about \u201cthe Neve,\u201d an analog recording console purchased by Sound City\u2019s owners […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,6467,1078,6524],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9810,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9807\/revisions\/9810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}