Dave Grohl’s Sound City Real to Reel

Sound City: Real to Reel is the companion album to the Dave Grohl-directed feature length documentary Sound City, which debuted at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival last month.

The documentary Sound City was conceived by Grohl after purchasing the legendary custom-built Neve 8028 recording console from Sound City Studios last year. Built in 1972, this board is considered by many to be the crown jewel of analog recording equipment, having recorded legendary artists  over the past 40 years such as Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty, Johnny Cash, Guns and Roses, Metallica, NIN, Rage Against the Machine and countless others.

Grohl’s personal connection to this Mecca of recording studios began with the 1991 with the recording of Nirvana’s breakthrough album, Nevermind. Selling over 30 million copies worldwide, Nevermind changed the entire musical landscape and forever altered the course of Dave Grohl’s life.

The album Sound City: Real to Reel is a brand new collection of all-new all-original songs, each one composed and recorded exclusively for the film within its own 24-hour session on that console after it was reinstalled in Grohl and his Foo Fighters’ own 606 Studios. The new tracks- featuring an amazing and idiosyncratic cast of collaborators including Paul McCartney, Grohl’s former Nirvana and current Foo Fighters bandmates, Stevie Nicks, Rick Springfield, Trent Reznor, Joshua Homme of Queens of the Stone Age, Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick, Lee Ving of Fear, Corey Taylor of Slipknot, Brad Wilk and Tim Commerford of Rage Against The Machine and more-passionately exemplify Sound City’s celebration of the human element of musicianship and recording in an increasingly digital world.

The album and film  is now available for pre-order along with  the film on iTunes.

All pre-orders for the album, due out March 8th, 2013 will immediately receive first single “Cut Me Some Slack”- the original studio recording of the track performed by Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl, KristNovoselic and Pat Smear at the historical 12-12-12 benefit as well as on this weekend’s Saturday Night Live holiday episode. This is a must for rock music fans!

 

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