ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Not just San Francisco. As noted below even in South Carolina, yes South Carolina. A lot of people do not realize that the 3 major cities in SC (Charleston, Greenville and Columbia) are extremely progressive for the most part at least in city limits, you go out into the surrounding areas you're on your own!

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
That's really cool - I've never seen that site before.  Yes, it is much more well-lit than I remember it being, though I had been in there in the mid-afternoon once or twice - for reasons which now elude me.

The last MOJO (Magazine) has a list of the 100 best rock movies/docs, and is a fun read. Also available in the US
 

I never saw it this well-lit, that's for sure.

 Proclivities wrote: 
It was pretty foul in the stairwell because I think most people just never made it all the way to the actual toilet before they began involuntarily expelling bodily substances all over the place.
 
In a nod toward equality of some sort, a lot of San Francisco nightclub/bar bathrooms were unisex. Which led to a strange pickup line, "I promise I didn't piss on the seat." 

 sirdroseph wrote: 
Indeed.

 Proclivities wrote: 
You haven't lived until you have been to a club with only one bathroom. No no no, ONE bathroom.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
I'll have to check that out.  The bathroom wasn't that disgusting, compared to most rock clubs back then.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Oh... Kewl!  Thanks for the heads-up!  I'll rent a copy!

I hope this one's good:
 

 oldviolin wrote:  

Technological advancement is always a give and take... I love being able to listen to pretty much any song I want to hear, any time, for free via Spotify. It's definitely not all bad

 Alexandra wrote: 
 

Will do   If it does play here, it's likely to be shown at a theater in a part of town where every other person is in a rock band (so it seems). That would be the right audience!

 olivertwist wrote: 
 
I think (but I'm not 100% sure) that they did a sprinkling of screenings this past week in major cities. Then they're going to have longer runs for about a week sometime this month. Keep checking.....because yeah, that communal experience was really nice.

 Alexandra wrote: 
Yeah, that's a good point, too. I was hoping the movie would be showing at one of the local arthouse theaters... not yet  It's apparently available via iTunes, but I was really hoping to see it at the theater this weekend for that "communal" experience. 

 olivertwist wrote: 
We're sentient, analog creatures; slowly being forced through an increasingly sampled digital sieve...To hell with format I say! Long live the sine(sign) wave good-bye!

 olivertwist wrote: 
 
That was a great quote. That got applause from my viewing audience. The other point of the film that really hit home, was the importance of human interaction. Something that has been lost to an ocean of "screens" these days.

 Alexandra wrote: 
Just watched the preview on the Sundance site. Looks well worth seeing. Like you said, a lot of heavy-hitters in this film. I bet it will the be on Sundance Channel soon. Quote from Josh Homme: "Like many things, there's no book store, there's no record store and no Sound City ." Yup, that's one of my problems with the way the world is changing today.

 olivertwist wrote: 
 
This is precisely why I love him. He's so real. And so good to people.
 
It really shows in "Sound City" too. You will love it.

 Alexandra wrote:  
I'll have to check that out. I wasn't a fan of Foo Fighters at first, but I've grown to appreciate their music more and more over the years. Their most recent album ("Wasted Light") was very good.

Dave Grohl seems like the most down-to-earth, well-adjusted rock star around. I saw a documentary of the band a year or so ago, which included footage of the recording of "Wasted Light."  He lives in an ordinary suburban house (with pool), not one of those huge mansions favored by movie and rock stars. The recording sessions seemed a bit surreal for a rock band. Very family-friendly - at one point his daughter walked into the middle of a session and tugged on Grohl's arm, asking him to go swimming. He treats his bandmates well, too. When the bass player decided to leave the Foo Fighters to join another band, Grohl told him "OK, then you call the rest of the band and tell them."  Then Grohl let him back in the band when he changed his mind. Cool guy.

Dave Grohl has certainly been coming into his own (as evidenced by the heavy hitters who come out to play with him these days) and making some marks in the rock world, and has created quite a little masterpiece that was just supposed to be a movie about the rare and awesome Neve Soundboard used to create hundreds of notorious rock albums since the early 70s.

 
"Sound City" (see trailer below) spiraled into a full-on rock documentary about the history that happened in the dumpy little recording studio in Van Nuys, California where the likes of Tom Petty, Fleetwood Mac (where the Buckingham/Nicks fusion pretty much happened), the Grateful Dead, Neil Young and countless others recorded chart-breaking albums.
 
The movie focuses on not only the integrity of old-school reel-to-reel sound recording before digital took over, but also the human interaction and expertise necessary for such recordings....the sounds that can only be made when people are actually playing together, looking at one another, and feeding off the energy of the jam.
 
You get to be a fly on the wall of so many great moments where artists are creating.....and you don't want to even whisper to your friend or look away for ONE SECOND throughout the film because Grohl did SUCH a great job with subtle nuances of facial expressions, mutterings, comical subtitles, and camera angles.
 
When digital took over, this era of rock history almost went extinct - but then Nirvana saved Sound City's ass, quite unwittingly (another great sub-story of small-town boys dropping their world and going for it with all they have).
 
To say anymore would ruin your experience, so let me just say..........
 
 
SEE THIS!
 
 
EDIT: Apparently, you can watch it online? (not sure if this is all of it...)
 

 
I am waiting impatiently for the soundtrack to come out (there are some f-ing awesome collaborations and jams on it), and have it on pre-order. I'd love to own the DVD too.
 
 

Way to go, Mr. Grohl. Like I needed another reason to love and admire you.