plasticbasket: January 2013

Friday, January 25, 2013

And, being a completely independent film, no one told us how or what to do! Me and my crew of under 20 people did it OUR way. It was like a keg party with a camera. WE got to tell the story of a place we all held so dear. WE wanted to do it justice. And I think we did.

Dave

The film is an exhilarating exploration of the creative process. Grohl has secured exceptional access to musicians normally secretive about their working methods. The biggest coup was a session with Paul McCartney. Describing his entry to the studio, the film’s cinematographer Kenny Stoff said, “there was a tangible electricity in the air and it was all I could do not to just freak out. Here I was in the same room as Nirvana and The Beatles. Heavy!”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/live-music-reviews/9821370/Dave-Grohls-Sound-City-Players-Sundance-Film-Festival-review.html

Sound City is a studio rat’s wet dream, devoting ecstatic passages to the studio’s analog funk and the richness of its drum sound, and especially its custom Neve recording console; it’s the first movie I’ve ever seen devote beauty shots to a sound board.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/documentaries-on-pussy-riot-fame-studios-and-sound,91539/

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Friday, January 4, 2013

Along with Gaillard's date of birth, his family lineage and place of birth are disputed. One account is that he was born in Santa Clara, Cuba of a Greek father and an Afro-Cuban mother;^[2]another is that he was born in Pensacola, Floridato a German father and an African-American mother.^[3] Adding to the confusion, the 1920 U.S. Census lists a 19-month-old boy named "Beuler Gillard" in Pensacola, but born in Alabama.^[4] He grew up in Detroit and moved to New York City in the 1930s.

According to the obituaries in leading newspapers, Gaillard's childhood in Cuba was spent cuttingsugar-cane and picking bananas, as well as occasionally going to sea with his father. However, at the age of 12, he accompanied his father on a world voyage and was accidentally left behind on the island of Crete. After working on the island for a while, he made his home in Detroit. In America, Gaillard worked in an abattoir, trained as a mortician and also had been employed atFord's Motor Works.^{[citation needed]}