In an effort to presumably battle Questlove for Busiest Musician title, Dave Grohl will host and produce a documentary show for HBO set to premiere later this year.
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Paul Brannigan, author of the Dave Grohl biographyThis Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl, announced the news on Classic Rock magazine, noting that the series will find Grohl visiting and recording music at various studios around the world. The Foo Fighters frontman and Hall of Fame inductee will also interview select artists at each studio, including Kiss Paul Stanley, Hearts Nancy Wilson, the Eagles Joe Walsh and Fugazis Ian MacKaye.
Brannigan didnt reveal the full list of studios documented in the as-yet-untitled series, but noted that Steve AlbinisElectrical Audio, Don Zientaras Inner Ear studios in Washington, D.C. andRancho De La Luna the California studio frequented byQueens Of The Stone Age and Arctic Monkeys will all appear.
The show builds on Sound City, the 2013 documentary directed and produced by Grohl that focused on the famed Los Angeles recording studio of the same name. Asked last year if it was hard to teach himself to be a director, Grohl toldRolling Stone, No. This movie was not hard to make.Apocalypse Now probably. TheSound Citymovie was really getting together with friends and digging deep into what music means to each one of us, telling the story of a studio thats very close to me, and trying to give the viewer something that will inspire them to fall in love with music like I did.
Sound Cityis about having kids see this film and be inspired to go to a yard sale and buy a guitar and start a band and play in the garage and then take over the world. Because that can still happen. It happens all the time. To me, personally, its the most important thing Ive done because its not for me.