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Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways an HBO documentary

HBO has a new documentary series called Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways. It was conceived and directed by Dave Grohl.

While I’m not a big Foo Fighters fan, Dave Grohl did a remarkable job with the Sound City documentary, so I've been anxious to see this.

The idea is to visit 8 different cities that were/are vital to music in America to see how much the people, places and culture influence the music. Then write a song per city and then put out an album with the music that was inspired.

The first installment was set in Chicago. They interviewed Buddy Guy, Bonnie Raitt, Rick Nielsen and several others including producer/engineer Steve Albini. I never knew all the info around Steve and was pleased to get more info on this incredibly talented man.

The song that was written and recorded at the end of the segment was awesome. Major ROCK-N-ROLL. Hard driving and really, really good.

I can't wait for the future shows. This is a must see!
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The fifth segment was filmed in Los Angeles although most of the action takes part "outside" of the LA area.

I had never heard of Rancho de la Luna before. It's a pretty crappy, rundown house in the desert that has a world renowned recording studio inside. They talked a lot about the two guys that started it and it is still used to this day.

They also flashed back to Rodney Bingenhiemer's club that was very popular in the 1970's. His "English Disco" was home to some of the soon to be top acts from that era.

I also learned about "generator parties". They would take a gas generator out into the desert and plug in all of their instruments and play out in the middle of nowhere.

They interviewed Joan Jett, Joe Walsh, Joshua Homme, David Catching and a few others.

The song called "Outside" was written and recorded at Rancho de la Luna.

Each week has had a pretty interesting show and I've learned
quite a bit that I didn't know.
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This week's show, (the sixth) was in New Orleans. New
Orleans is probably my favorite city in the country. Been
there many times. It's one city you can wake up to music
and go to sleep with music. There's music everywhere.

They interviewed Cyril Neville, Bonnie Raitt, Ben Jaffe, and
talked quite a bit about and to Allen Toussaint and Mac
Rebennack, or as we all know him Dr. John. The group the
Meters was also featured.

They discussed the history of Preservation Hall and the jazz
band that plays there.

They also spent some time around the city to show how the
diverse mixture of cultures make New Orleans the city that
it is. They also talked about Hurricane Katrina and the
devastation and rebuild that followed.

They played and recorded this show's song in Preservation
Hall.

Another excellent segment. My favorite so far.
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I just bought the vinyl slab of Sonic Highways yesterday. I am very impressed with the music and the quality of the recording. And the vinyl is very quiet too. Highly recommended!

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