Because it wouldn't be a complete week unless I posted something about Dave Grohl. Here's a little from the article in Spin where, holy crap- Dave Grohl can do anything. Stevie Nicks was there too?!
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So, this happened: Stevie Nicks, microphone in hand, accompanied by Dave Grohl on acoustic guitar, performs "Landslide" to a packed house in Park City, Utah, while snow banks pile up against the building's outward-facing walls, as if stretching to see inside, only to wither into water at Nicks' heart-melting voice.
In honor of his Sound City documentary on the Van Nuys, California recording studio of the same name, first-time director, former Nirvana drummer, and full-time Foo Fighter Dave Grohl had called forth, on this brisk night, his incredibly star-studded new band the Sound City Players — including everyone from Stevie Nicks to Rick Springfield to Slipknot's Corey Taylor. In honor of the Sundance Film Festival, they played for three-and-a-half hours straight, with Grohl onstage the entire time, usually backed by the Foos.
"Can you imagine?" gushes Grohl the next morning in the guts of the Park City Library, where his film is presently screening. "Never in my wildest dreams did I think that in one evening I'd play Creedence Clearwater Revival's 'Proud Mary' with John Fogerty, Fear's 'Beef Bologna' with Lee Ving, and Masters of Reality's 'Blue Garden' with Chris Goss. It was like my ultimate mixtape." Pause. "Live." Pause, now quickly: "And I'm in the band."
In most cases, the concept of "living the dream" has been reduced to a garishly tawdry, ubiquitous vision — a Cribs episode, a Mötley Crüe memoir, a sex tape. But Grohl's dream is still flush with the cheek fat of youth, imbued with the bong water of a thousand high-school rips while others were doing homework, light on excess (sex, drugs), heavy on awesome (loud music), and built around a music geek's teenage bucket list. It's basically a rock'n'roll fantasy camp.
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Feel free to see Dave and Stevie do something that makes me pee my pants below:
