plot to the beginning uh... at the premier you said how director and he
said it surprised
it wasn't meant to be the movie really
the story comes from
uh... a studio that there are reported at twenty years ago
it was a total comp
but it it had a room up but a little bit better than this room that for whatever
reason just sounded magical
and that uh... recording console that was custom ordered one of a kind of only
one of them in the world
that everyone considered to be that the uh...
that one of the best boards in the world and
uh... after and that change my life
has had it not been for that board in that room i don't know if i would be
here right now
i really i think that that the people in the places where albums are made are
just as instrumental to the albums
as the instruments that are played on the album
so um...
they closed last year
opportu by the board and i was reunited with this
piece of equipment
that represents something huge to me and i thought i pay tribute to that just by
making a short film
reached out to
everyone from
rick springfield neil young too
recruitment of japan's narain
and everyone
uh... agreed to jump on board because they they believed in and what we were
trying to say which is
you know we were trying to show people that
the human element in that human connection when musicians play together
is where real magic happens
so it just all kind of came together and i i didn't
i didn't know
what director
was supposed to do our weather director does
no
why minutes as the other day i was talking to someone about it like
i'm not a period of time player faking it you know
i never took lessons to do that and i got from an average of persons to do
that
at fort campbell mystics backwards are clear on that
so but if this i think the same thing applies and and uh... as to some of the
total maker
why do what you're supposed to do y
white house someone tell you that that's not really how it's done
because what
why would you want to do it like everyone else and and music it's the
people that
don't take lessons and do
the wrong thing
that become
jimi hendrix or dethroned
and you listen to that music all mike dot u_k_ never heard anything like it
because they weren't they were never turn to be anyone but themselves so all
i had to do is tell the story of this
and promote studio that was really close to me and
talk to the my heroes about music
really easy
thinking you talk a little bit about how
the handcrafted nis of movie is this something that you is it something that
you think about as you make it easy ten studio films indie films the sort of
gamma
are you looking to get some kind of that same creativity
that serendipity that feeling
as began and i think it's uh... as i said this and i think it's a very uh...
very similar process and it's always trying to
tap into something and uh...
and every project i i always approached kind of uh... you know
every project its own unique thing just like every albums its own you need
nato reunited ebert and songs but
but but movies for me has always evolving
i wake up and i've just got a different feeling that i had the day before that
baby in the middle of a movie in the nasty like a camera take a left turn
here and and then try to figure out to the feels writer i do a lot of
improvisation on uh... on one of the actors and soul talk through
that cameras rolling in all thrown idea that an actor and the run with it while
rolling in on that
taking aside and go into a lot of
textbook rehearsals and and and elect to it it's really just just like jack but
was avalanche
the idea hit me at the super bowl deficit from ball ammo we are sound
mixing in july
uh...
and it was just a really amazingly aggressively
uh... energetic the
just go get 'em let's do it and we did it short and sweet and quiet and had a
hell of a great time making it norms of it
becomes a its own unique process and and and product that way
very raw and
and and uh... on polished and i think a lot of acting academy pearl to like
doing karate band approached and making music that you know sometimes
few drops of mayekar in a cattle feed back and and and samples out at those
the beauty of it and
this move is full and slurs and things like that the people really try to iron
out a lot of times are really
protects the light and make the actors look cooler find the perfect close-up
and this is just about you know get out there and see what we found instead of
having a proof four hundred and spending
in a four million dollars a day when you know we had a crew of ten an abandoned
no one had a trailer and we had one camera no lights and we went on film
paul run the male hirsch run around in the burnt down for us for
sixteen days
with a sixty-page script and so you know you don't know what you're getting into
everybody just
i mean surprisingly everybody enthusiastic fantastically jumps on
board and works for donuts and knows it somewhere is going to happen and so on
dot when i go for it
or that we are things that happened
wildlife is of the women in the
it really is a c_d_ that's a good sitting here really great work ethic
uh... you know everybody's crazy service dot the little temperatures tensions in
there you know
things you don't want to do you know what was really needed him
um... and sometimes has to be really effective to tap into indeed actually
can be really
beautiful creative
devices and that's kind of what as well out of the rivers are in this room could
be like strange things we like to create things we have lines at work a little
less mathematically or we can translate math into music or we can
whipple arrays can work in in and
interesting ways in which i appreciate the abrazo working and he wasn't so
by getting those people together of but some sort of unique design
and again just let me go man ever need
bring their ability to the table i would say that
you know with movies there's
there's filmmakers that are shooting for perfection
stanley kubrick is up as a perfectionist david fincher perfectionist illnesses
guys and some of mine my favorites and
the greatest omega altiris professions but
i really
uh... i would be terrible doing anything perfect so mum about momentum and and
jumping right into it and sometimes that's premature in some time time
you know chasing the bus trying to get it all together before it uh...
for it uh... runs be over but uh... i'm really about the uh... journal and then
the
the uncertainty in the opportunity of the moment
uh... and let met let me just let me go crazy so it's it's uh... on the moment
in this month perfection
many of you said that this is the most important thing you've done
yeah i think so
i mean he he
people think that that's a silly thing to say if you cancel the
bans that i've been in and all the fight nirvana and
what they're going to have an effective in dessert what's ahead
as i've heard of a bill i'd we're pretty good uh... nadya
you make me e make signs and you make music and you do that
you people will think that your grade
and the attention of sense that it was the opposite of that it was for other
people
to want to do that themselves you know agreed we wanted to inspire another
generation of people to fall in love with music like we did
it wasn't
it wasn't about it's it's it's not it's not even about how many
people
by the movie or how many people get a sense that he had a t-shirt
it's a it's week i would just like everyone to see it so they can
understand
uh...
what it is when musicians
the feeling that musicians get when they play with each other living zelik about
your movie
here what you definitely have a eight point about this and and love
method of making music but you're not against it you know there's a place
where both
and uh... there's a hopefulness
about i think sirica about i mean i think that um...
it's inspiring what you can do with technology now mean
when i was not local car kit in order for me to get
and they want to hear my music i have to go down to the crappy for track studio
at my friend's basement record something that doesn't sound that great
send it off to a pressing practice and back singles are good at
kinkos america make little covers and stuff the sleeves and and
put a stamp on an envelope and send it to someone for three dollars and fifty
cents
that process
has changed too
recording something in your living room the city are technology the sounds
amazing
and the click of a button is distributed to the entire world
which is a awesome mud that's everyone have everyone can anyone can do that so
i think that's inspiring i don't think there's anything wrong with that
the time
you know this is the story of sound city
and technology that's it you know technology basically
has made these wonderful old studios that i consider
uh... to be like museums are cathedrals you know
there at the fair they've become obsolete now
you can do
you can you can simulator emulate what those studios are capable of in your
living room you might not capture the magic of those places but
so other studios are going under
and uh...
it's it's one of the reasons why technology is a big part of the
sensitive movie because that alternately
the biggest reason why some city could really uh... survive
but also that the conversation of the human element of music
you know you can you can use your iphone
and report the buster in the subway
and listen to it all day long and that can change your life in this human they
see as you can hear at
the humanity and what he's saying error that the uh... motion in his voice
so the device doesn't really matter i think it's the content of the artist and
where you where comes from as a musician like
that's don't you don't rely on that ship to be a musician like to rely on
yourself
use that as an instrument use that as a tool
but proliant
that's kind of what we're talking about