In 1991, Grohl, Krist Novoselic and the late Kurt Cobain slammed out their generation-defining album

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Sound City Center in Van Nuys where Nirvana s Nevermind and key albums by Neil Young, Tom Petty, Fleetwood Mac and Johnny Cash were made from 1970 to 2011 has now been immortalized on film. (Michael Owen Baker/Staff Photographer) The ledger from Sound City Center in Van Nuys shows Tom Petty recorded in the studio. (Michael Owen Baker/Staff Photographer) Read Dave Grohl: "I am a total Valley Girl"
Sound City - the legendary Van Nuys recording studio where key albums by Neil Young, Tom Petty, Fleetwood Mac, Johnny Cash, Nirvana and dozens more were made from 1970 to 2011 - has now been immortalized on film.
Actually, "Sound City" - which has its L.A. premiere Thursday night at the Cinerama Dome followed by a sold-out concert at the Palladium - marks the first time Nirvana and Foo Fighters drummer/guitarist Grohl has made a movie.
In 1991, Grohl, Krist Novoselic and the late Kurt Cobain slammed out their generation-defining album "Nevermind" over two weeks in Sound City's historic Studio A. Twenty years later, when Tom Skeeter and his daughter Sandy, who still own the Sound City complex, ceased operating the studio, Grohl bought its storied, custom-built Neve 8028 recording console, which he now uses at his own Studio 606 in Northridge.
"When I bought the board from Tom and Sandy, I thought that I would make a short film about the history of the studio and the board to go along with the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's `Nevermind'," Grohl recalled.
"I have a real emotional connection to that studio and that board because I don't know where I would be without Sound City. So I asked Tom for a list of all the people who've recorded there, and I started reaching out to them about doing interviews. It soon became clear that I couldn't fit these 40 people into the 12-minute long YouTube clip I was trying to make. So I decided it made more sense to make a full-length feature documentary."
The resulting film is not only a love letter to the place where "After the Gold Rush," "Fleetwood Mac" and The original doormat at Sound City Center in Van Nuys where Nirvana's "Nevermind" was recorded.
(Michael paris hotel and casino las vegas Owen Baker/Staff Photographer) "Rumors," "Damn the Torpedoes," "Rage Against the Machine" and countless other classic albums were recorded. It's an in-depth exploration of how changing technology affected both the business and artistic sides of the music game, and shows just how articulate rock stars can, sometimes unexpectedly, be when discussing their art.
"Before I interviewed any of these people, I let them know that the film wasn't just a retrospective documentary about the history of the studio and silly anecdotes of what it was like to make those albums," Grohl said. "I wanted them to know that the movie was also about technology and the human element of music and the craft of playing an instrument and what it really feels like to play music with other people. In that, the questions were a lot deeper and much broader than just specific questions about trivial bull----."
The 1970s pop sensation Rick Springfield, who was managed by Tom Skeeter's late business partner Joe Gottfried, agrees that Grohl's film goes well beyond the usual sex, drugs and you-know-what rockumentary recollections.
"It could make Sound City the second most famous studio in the world, after Abbey Road," said Springfield, who hopes to play at tonight's Palladium concert if he can shake the nasty cold he caught at a similar paris hotel and casino las vegas marathon gig following the movie's world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this month.
"I think it's great," Springfield said of the film. "It builds really well, the up and down and up and down of the studio, paris hotel and casino las vegas based on the music trends of the time, and then the final demise of the studio and then the re-animated board."
"We're still keeping the studio history alive," she said, noting that bands who record at Fairfax still buy her Sound City T-shirts. The Skeeters also maintain a Sound City Facebook page and the website soundcitystudios.com and are working on a book about the place.
As for Thursday night's concert, Grohl promised Stevie Nicks, paris hotel and casino las vegas John Fogerty, Springfield, Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen, Lee Ving from Fear, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Chris Goss from Masters of Reality and Al Johannes (Queens of the Stone Age) would all show up and play.
"I was surprised that everybody was as excited about the project as I was," Grohl said. "It's because of what Sound City represented to us. It wasn't some commercial studio where you backed the truck up to the door, put your gear in, made an album and split. paris hotel and casino las vegas There was something about that studio that really grew on you. Everyone seemed to have the same emotional connection that I did to Sound City."