“a celebration of just how unbelievably awesome it is to make rock music for a living”

While listening to Ken Caillat and Richard Dashut’s legendary produced Fleetwood Mac’s album Rumours (SPOTIFY), I am writing this article about Sound City, and you just simply feel that you finally found that last piece of the puzzle of why this album sounds so DAMN! good!! I just found out that the album was recorded at the famous Sound City studio. Sound City is a legendary 1969 founded recording studio located in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California. The facility was previously a showroom and recording studio of the British musical equipment manufacturer VOX. Sound City is the birthplace of many of the greatest recordings in rock and roll history. For more than four decades, Sound City has contributed its signature analog sound to the recording or mixing of more than one hundred certified gold and platinum albums. Here are my personal favourite albums that where recorded and produced at Sound City, obviously Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 album Rumours, Cheap Trick’s 1978 Heaven Tonight, Johnny Cash’s 1996 Unchained, Neil Young’s 1970 After the Gold Rush, Weezer’s 1996 Pinkerton, Tool’s 1993 Undertow, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ 1979 Damn the Torpedoes, Nirvana’s 1991 Nevermind, Rage Against the Machine’s 1992 Rage Against the Machine and A Perfect Circle’s 2000 album Mer de Noms. In May 2011 Sound City closed down as a commercial studio. The studio now can only be reserved for exclusive use. Dave Grohl, former Nirvana drummer and current leader of the Foo Fighters, purchased a custom Neve 8028 Console from Studio A at Sound City, installing it in his private recording studio. Grohl being so inspired by it’s history of Sound City, and having recorded the legendary album Nevermind with Nirvana in 1991 there himself, decided to create a documentary about the studio (TRAILER). Well I can tell you the documentary is a true feast musically as visually of just how unbelievably awesome it is to make rock music for a living! NPR agreed me on this. I felt it for a bit, having toured myself with the Malibu, California rock band Whitestarr throughout the US and Canada. And Witnessing them recording the 2007 Fillith Tillith album. Beverly Hills Hotel (VIDEO) was my favo single of that album. The Sound City documentary premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 18th. The soundtrack to the film — which includes many of the Sound City Players, plus Paul McCartney and more — will be available on March 12. The Film can be watched for $12.99 here!  A-ONE-TO-WATCH (photo copyright sound city)