Sound City’s visual legacy is in good hands.
Dave Grohl will direct and produce Sound City,
a documentary about the historic San Fernando Valley recording studio,
and he knows a thing or two about it: Nirvana made its watershed album Nevermind there.
That, and the Foo Fighters frontman bought the legendary Neve 8028
analog recording console that had been the studio’s showpiece since
1972. The unit, now in Foo Fighters’ private studio in Northridge,
Calif., was used to record acts ranging from Neil Young and Elton John to Guns N’ Roses and Metallica to Mastodon and Arctic Monkeys. Even Josh Groban.
