Sound City Page #8

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kid when I walked into

Sound City, and that board is

the reason I'm here right now.

I'd do anything for it.

This big room and that Neve

console is what got us all the

big rock 'n' roll bands.

We're digging out all this

stuff, and I never dreamed, in a

million years, I could find

this.

Here's the original order for

the Neve console.

Oh, my god.

Really?

Wow!

And whose signature - is that

Rupert Neve's signature?

Who's that?

I'm gonna give that to you if

you'd like it.

Tom, thank you so much, man.

You're welcome.

Historic document, there.

It really is.

Thank you very much, my friend.

Thank you.

Tom, that's great, man.

Wow!

That Neve console, we sold to

Dave, and that's how all this

all started.

All right. Let's do this.

To me, it's, like - it's a

living, breathing piece of the

music that we've made.

It's just as instrumental as any

instrument that's run through

it.

It's the sound of the records

that were made at Sound City.

This thing is a piece of

rock 'n' roll history.

I thought that board would

just go straight to the

Rock 'n' Roll hall of fame.

I thought no one was gonna get

that board.

I think they knew, like, I

wasn't just gonna bubble-wrap it

and stick it in a warehouse.

I was gonna f***ing use it...

A lot.

Trying to pull it through a

window.

I spent so much time sitting

over here, playing with these

things.

Well, was it still sitting

there, Dave?

Yeah, you know, it had been

working.

So, the first thing I really

wanted to do was invite everyone

back to make this new record.

Giving that old board this new

life with new music.

Telling the story of Sound City

is one thing.

Plugging in and actually putting

it through the board and putting

it on a 2-inch reel?

That's what I'm talking about.

They don't talk much about

it

It goes back so many years

All the times we almost didn't

make it

We stayed clear

We walked through the

darkness

And made a pact not to dance

with the devil

Even when the devil seemed to

have a heart

He said we'd never be sorry

For what we've done

And we never allowed the devil

to come to the party

I messed up.

It's amazing.

Want to do another?

Sure.

You want to take it up

through verse one and verse two,

up to that first chorus?

Yeah.

What we're hoping to do on

this album is to catch a little

bit of that vibe that was

captured when all those classic

records were made at Sound City.

We'll try to put some of that

into this album.

... Sorry

For what we've done

And we never allowed the devil

to come to the party

You can't fix this

You lost a friend

Hearts breaking

Right and left

F***in' "A".

That girl can sing.

Any input from the foos?

Just go.

I'm not - just do what you do.

I am kind of radical, you

know.

Never dance with the devil

Keep running, yeah

There's a reason why these

people have achieved these

things that they've achieved.

You can hear it. You can see it.

Don't ever dance with the

devil

He will burn you dow-ow-n

You can't fix this

That's rad. Sounds rad.

And I get to do my snake

dance.

I'm just feeling very wonderful

to be in your studio with this

board and know that this board

was the first place that we did

"Buckingham Nicks".

"15458 Cabrito Road, Van Nuys,

California".

This is a letter that I wrote to

my mom and dad and my brother in

the middle of the making of

"Buckingham Nicks".

"Dear mom and dad and Chris,

Well, here I am once again at

the famous Sound City recording

studio".

"Sound City, Inc. "

Ta-da!

"I'm getting very tired of

sitting around listening to

Oh, well.

I know it will pay off in the

end.

It will all be worth it.

I hope that all of my little

family is doing fine and not

working too hard.

Moving right along, I just want

to say that I certainly do miss

you all and wish you could be

here to hear some of this stuff.

Lindsey may go down in history

as one of the greats in guitar

playing.

It really is quite amazing.

Well, no more news as of yet.

So much love to you all, and

hold good thoughts about this

thing.

I love you. Stevie".

I think it really is a

testament to how many people

actually did love Sound City and

do love that Neve console and

want to be part of history.

I was bragging to everybody.

"Guess who I'm calling tonight?

Rick f***ing Springfield".

I've always just been a big

believer in the power of the song.

To me, the highest I ever feel

is in the middle of writing a

song that I think I've hooked

into something, you know?

I had an idea.

I don't know if it would work.

But would you want to try

something?

So, if we played over the riff,

it goes...

That'd be really cool.

Let's try it from the top and

see how that sounds.

Yeah. I think it's a great part.

It's got "Rick Springfield"

written all over it.

It's awesome.

I love it.

It's got that stress rock.

I like that.

I just want to go hang out in

the studio.

I just like the process.

I love doing things on the fly

and in the studio...

I'm just trying to think what

would be nice to - if we - to

get back into that section.

...And just kind of play

arrangements in a repetitive

fashion over and over and over

until some little change

happened.

What did you just do?

You did something kind of cool.

"D", "A".

A little happy accident or

whatever, and it's like,

everyone, "Oh, what was that

that just happened?"

That's part of the arrangement

now.

Oh, that'd be so great, and

then right out of there, you

just f***ing go, "Aah!"

It's the perfect pair of

pants.

It really is.

But the good thing about

learning while you're recording,

what you sometimes accidentally

get is something good if you

don't have any idea what you're

doing.

And the sense of discovery,

like, is a big part of it.

Everybody gets it all at

once, and that's the first time

you ever played it, and it's got

everything new for the first

time.

It's like your first anything.

And that's the cherry of all

time.

What if we tried doing the

Rick part as a pre-chorus?

Yes! Ha!

That's so good!

'Cause then it goes into the

chorus.

That's awesome!

Better be good now, Pat.

I know.

I can't say that I like her

manner

I can't say that I like her

face

I'm carved up on a silver

platter

Serve warm

She's a real head case

I won't wait for an

invitation

I can't stand for the

sacrifice

I won't die as an unknown

soldier

I won't even try

We came in, we practiced the

song, played it a few times -

kind of a bunch of times - and

we did it live.

How special was that?

Just like the man that

never was

Just like

Just like the man that never

was

Just like the man that never

was

All the elements of it - the

playing, the writing - it's

something that will pull you out

of bed every morning and make

you resist going to bed at

night, 'cause you want to keep

working on it.

Music's been that for me.

I am the man that never was

Great. Thanks.

There's darkness in you, boy.

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