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Dave Grohl, 60 Minutes, and eight U.S. cities

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Three very interesting segments on 60 Minutes tonight. The final one was on a project that Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters are working on. They've spent a week at each of the eight U.S. cities that (I guess in their opinion) have had the greatest effect on America's music (they didn't list the cities, but it includes Nashville, Nawlins, and Seattle). They absorbed, interviewed the local legends, then Dave wrote a song that they recorded with the locals at the end of each week.
I didn't pick up what the final product is going to be (album, documentary, video game, burger, or some combination) but I'll be anxious to see/hear/read/taste it when it comes out. Mr. Grohl's enthusiasm is gigantic, and this will be fun to experience, whatever it is.
:music-rockout: :music-rockout: :music-rockout:
 
It is a HBO series with each episode being a mini-documentary on each song and the city where it was created and recorded. The end result in a CD and full length documentary consisting of the episodes on HBO.

The project is called "Sonic Highways" and the CD can already be pre-ordered on Amazon.
 
Thanks Flint; hopefully the series comes out on disk as I don't have HBO.
 
The cities are:
  • Chicago
    Austin
    Nashville
    Los Angeles
    Seattle
    New Orleans
    Washington, DC
    New York

I'm not sure I'd have the same list if that's what they think are the most influential cities.
 
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Saw a repeat of the original 60 Minutes episode tonight (it's over 100F outside, let's watch TV!!). I was gonna wait until I got through it, but the whole series (8 1-hour episodes, plus almost 3 hours of other stuff) on 3 Bluray disks became available at Amazon for less than $20 (!!!) and I popped for it.
Fantastic series; each "city" episode ends with a final-mix 5.1 version of the song that Dave wrote for that city (wish they'd release a standalone 5.1 album of those songs!). Very highly recommended for fans of music, regional music, music history, culture, and the Fighters of Foo. Fantastic value too! :handgestures-thumbup:

EDIT: the second episode was the music of DC, which was kind've interesting. Because it's the US capitol, the emphasis there is on guv'mint, money, and transients, not the local population/music. Two known bands came from DC: Bad Brains, and The Starland Vocal Band! Oof-dah!
 
Have watched the first two episodes of this, very interesting! Ok I admit Foo Fighters, and the punk side of rock, are not my daily bread&butter, but I respect what they're doing and I like all the historic (meaning >20 years old :laughing: ) music footage they include in this. Good stuff.
 
PaulyT said:
Have watched the first two episodes of this, very interesting! Ok I admit Foo Fighters, and the punk side of rock, are not my daily bread&butter, but I respect what they're doing and I like all the historic (meaning >20 years old :laughing: ) music footage they include in this. Good stuff.
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I'm actually not a big fan of Dave's music either (have none of their albums) but anytime I run across them on Palladia, I have to watch; and Dave's antics and actions are ALWAYS worth reading about. He's one of the coolest guys in the music business. :handgestures-thumbup: :handgestures-thumbup: :handgestures-thumbup:
 
After watching the Nashville episode, I think I'm gonna have to sample some of Zac Brown's stuff.
 
PaulyT said:
After watching the Nashville episode, I think I'm gonna have to sample some of Zac Brown's stuff.
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Coincidence. I've not listened to him / his band, but a copy of his latest, Jekyll + Hyde, is waiting for me to pick it up at the library tomorrow. I only put in a request because a search for Sara Bareilles songs turned her up as a contributor on this album.

Jeff
 
The guy breaks his leg on stage in Sweden, goes off stage briefly, gets a temporary cast on and goes back out to finish the show!! That's solid in my books!!
 
mcad64 said:
The guy breaks his leg on stage in Sweden, goes off stage briefly, gets a temporary cast on and goes back out to finish the show!! That's solid in my books!!
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It sounds solid, but his actions have made his leg break significantly worse than it would have been if he just left the show and gone immediately to the hospital. Now he's had to cancel the Foo Fighters' European tour and potential the rest of their world tour and more fans have lost out in the long run than would have lost out if he had left that particular show and got the help he needed. This will be sold for the rest of his life as proof of his dedication to his fans, but in reality it was fool-hearty and cause significantly more disappointment than necessary.
 
Flint said:
It sounds solid, but his actions have made his leg break significantly worse than it would have been if he just left the show and gone immediately to the hospital. Now he's had to cancel the Foo Fighters' European tour and potential the rest of their world tour and more fans have lost out in the long run than would have lost out if he had left that particular show and got the help he needed. This will be sold for the rest of his life as proof of his dedication to his fans, but in reality it was fool-hearty and cause significantly more disappointment than necessary.
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I doubt seeking immediate attention would have made any difference for his leg break. If you look at the photos, he sat in a chair for the rest of the concert with a paramedic next to him. I also doubt that going to the hospital immediately would have made any difference as far as him cancelling a few shows.
Mike
 
mcad64 said:
Flint said:
It sounds solid, but his actions have made his leg break significantly worse than it would have been if he just left the show and gone immediately to the hospital. Now he's had to cancel the Foo Fighters' European tour and potential the rest of their world tour and more fans have lost out in the long run than would have lost out if he had left that particular show and got the help he needed. This will be sold for the rest of his life as proof of his dedication to his fans, but in reality it was fool-hearty and cause significantly more disappointment than necessary.
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I doubt seeking immediate attention would have made any difference for his leg break. If you look at the photos, he sat in a chair for the rest of the concert with a paramedic next to him. I also doubt that going to the hospital immediately would have made any difference as far as him cancelling a few shows.
Mike
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You are welcome to doubt it, for sure.
 
Just finished the L.A./desert episode. Having grown up in the southwest, and went to college in southern CA, I empathized particularly with this episode. Even my 11 yo daughter, who was otherwise bored and watched the latter half of this one with me, thought it was interesting. Cool.
 
... And I thought the Seattle episode, given Grohl's history here especially, was fairly emotional. I liked the song they did at the end of this one probably the most of all so far.

This whole series is a fascinating insight into a side of music that I'm not all that familiar with, but it touches so much... Very well done.

I just ordered Nirvana's Nevermind. ;) (This was SO not the music I was listening to at the time...)
 
Finished the series with the New York episode. Again great stuff. And I don't care what you think about Obama, or Grohl, but he managed to swing an interview with the fucking PRESIDENT on a fucking MUSIC DOCUMENTARY video - that alone is a feat worthy in itself. (Actually the few sentences that Obama said I thought were were pretty insightful and on-topic.)

I really appreciated this series. As a classical musician, I think my view into the history of music goes back a lot further than most anything in popular music, but still it's the same "river" - there's a connection to all of it that gets to the soul of humanity in a way that nothing else does. In our era of dehumanizing capitalism and population explosion, I truly believe that what's embodied in the spirit of music is essential to what we stand for as a species. Music, in all its forms throughout history, defines and embodies humanity. It's that important.

Ok enough blathering, I'm done now.
 
Glad you liked the series, Paul, and I've got some catching up to do. :? Dave Grohl is still one of the coolest guys in music.



(I am not, however, in any way responsible for you wasting money on Nevermind...)
 
Bored tonight and not exactly related to this, however I just saw on Palladia at 8PM CST; Dave Grohl; Sound City is on..........going to head into the HT and check it out, even thought I already caught parts of it.................

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