Sound City Page #10

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a room together and you don't

know what's gonna happen.

You just hit "record" and keep

your fingers crossed that it's

gonna explode.

Mama!

The limitations of this - it

forces you to make decisions

based on what's most important

to translating that song.

If we start...

Gah gah gah gah

Gah gah gah

One of the things, I think,

that makes good music is some

sort of restriction.

And then you want to go to

the - should we - and then go

into the...

And that's where 24-track

mentality comes in.

You commit to what it is.

With Pro Tools, you can always

come back to it, or you can

change it or you can add to it,

to try and make it work.

You know?

'Cause you're not being forced

to make choices - creative

ones.

Maybe then go to the...

"A"

We don't know what's gonna

come on top of this

But something is

That, we'll find out later

And then go to the riff

Breakdown

Like the intro.

I think you should go to that

"A" maybe one more time.

It's such a lift.

Yeah.

After staying in that "D" for

so long, it just has such a

great impact when it goes up

there, and it's so quick.

It's just four times through.

If this mike was in the

room

so it's live.

That's all right.

Do it. Make it simple.

Make it fast.

Don't overthink it.

Let it, like, come straight out

of you, and do it.

Dear mama

Set me free

Oh, mama

Let me be

Oh, mama

Watch me run

Mama

I wanna have some fun

Whoo ooh-ooh-ooh ooh ooh

Whoo ooh-ooh-ooh ooh ooh

Well, mama

Don't let me down

Mama

Wanna go to town

Yeah

Magical.

You didn't even know what the

hell you were doing, but it's

genius.

Exactly.

That's my autobiography.

"I didn't know what the hell

I was doing".

"I wasn't thinking: The

Krist Novoselic story".

"What was I thinking?"

"I wasn't thinking".

There's a lift.

Yeah.

It would be nice if this

would sort of...

Yeah.

"Ah".

Maybe even if it came after the

lift.

Ah

You let the lift happen.

And then take it further with a

chord - vocal chord.

Yeah.

Ah

Whatever it is.

Ah

Who sings? You do?

Me and you.

Krist?

No.

No. I'm just checking.

How long do you want to

be here?

Are you double-parked?

Just checking.

So, let's just try it, and then

you tell us what's wrong with

it.

Yeah, let's tell

Paul McCartney what to do.

Ahhhh

Ahhhh

Sounds pretty cool.

Should we do it in the other

section, too?

Okay.

Why can't it always be this

easy?

It is.

Yeah-eah

Whoo-ooh-ooh

Ahhh

If you want to take a ride,

you got to cut me some slack

Don't get me wrong

I might not come back

Getting a chance to play

music with the person that is

the reason why I'm a musician,

and recording through the board

that's the reason why I'm here

today, it was a huge full-circle

moment for me.

I think it's really

important - and it's a lesson I

didn't learn until in my late

teens - is that whatever bands

that you love, go find out what

bands they love and what bands

turn them on.

And then you really start

getting into the human aspect of

it, because the further back you

go in time, the less technology

you had and, consequently, the

better records that you had.

There's this incredible library

of music, thank god, that is still there.

Ahhh

If you want to take a ride,

you got to cut me some slack

Don't get me wrong

I might not come back

Whoo ooh-ooh-ooh ooh ooh

Whoo ooh-ooh-ooh ooh ooh

Be true to yourself and make

the music that you love.

Go out and play.

Turn people on to your music.

Spread it yourself.

Don't think it happens any other

way.

Let me be

Let's rock, let's play, let's

record, let's play it back.

"Wait till you hear this".

I can't wait to get in my car to hear it.

I'm gonna play it for my friend.

I'm making a copy.

I'm gonna blast for f***ing

to it.

Mama, ma-ma-mama watch me

go

Mama, watch me rock

Wanna have some fun

Just wanna have some fun

Yeah, set me free

Set me free

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Ohhhhhh, yeah

Whoo

What was the name of your

first band? The Icy Blues.

It was called Bloodfest.

Yeah! Good name.

My first band was called

Fury, and we were a Kiss cover

band.

Which was your favorite?

My favorite Kiss record?

Yeah.

Oh, I - I could never

choose.

What was your first band?

My first band was Autocracy.

Huh?

A band called The Senders.

The Pixies.

The Pixies was your first

band?

Absolutely.

No band before that?

No.

Really?

Yeah.

Wow.

I'd been in practically every

other kind of band - blues

bands, punk-rock bands, standard

rock 'n' roll bands, top-40

bands, jazz-rock fusion bands.

In New York, I had a band called

Daybreak.

Did you have a band?

Had a band.

What was the band?

The Pricks.

Made sense to me, too.

Okay, so, coming up on the

right, you know, we have the

Budweiser brewery, which...

on a good night...

smells like someone burping

right in your face.

The thing that was cool about

the brewery is, like, every band

that came there always wanted to

go take the tour.

So they would always go over

there and come back with cases

of Budweiser and then sit around

and get hammered all the rest of

the night.

But that smell - I'll never

forget that smell when the front

doors of Sound City were open on

a good, windy day.

The smell of hops would just

fill the whole building.

It was just, "Ew, what is that?"

Beer smells like poop.

You know, apparently, Budweiser

smells like poops.

And the funny thing I

remember, when Gladys Knight and

The Pips were there, and they

walked out and they went,

"Whoo-whee! Is that you?"

You know, they were, like,

kidding each other about it.

But it was pretty strong -

pretty...

See? Smell it.

Hmm.

There you go. You got it.

Gonna be a good night.

Heard a song on the radio

just after school

Back from the '80s,

before Reagan was cool

The band wore leather, and the

boys were lookin' so pretty

They rocked all the clubs

down on Sunset

Doin' all those things

that we try to forget

When they screamed out there,

the guitars sounded so pretty

If it sounds as good in your

room as it does in your car

You're on your way

to be a rock 'n' roll star

It's a good thing to say,

"Hey, boys, you're gonna go

far

I wanna play a song,

everyone sing along

Standin' on the stage

with the lights turned on

Wearin' those trends

with all my friends

Rockin' all night

like it'll never end

With all our dreams

hangin' on one little ditty

Yeah, we got it on 2-inch tape

down at Sound City

I wanna play a song,

everyone sing along

Standin' on the stage

with the lights turned on

Wearin' those trends

with all my friends

Rockin' all night

like it'll never end

I wanna play a song,

everyone sing along

Standin' on the stage

with the lights turned on

Wearin' those trends

with all my friends

Rockin' all night

like it'll never end

All those epic songs

with a phrase so witty

There's always room for two to

a car that offers no pity

All our dreams

hangin' on one little ditty

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