Sundance: Charles Manson “Considered” For ‘Sound City’ Documentary, Says Dave Grohl
Dave Grohl announced today at the Sundance Film Festival that he almost put Charles Manson in his Sound City documentary. “Manson recorded at Sound City and at one point we considered talking to him about music because how f***ing insane would that be,” said first time director Grohl Tuesday. “But we decided not to because we didn’t want it to take over the beautiful message of the movie but we considered it.” The murderous cult leader recorded some demos in the late Sixties at the famed San Fernando Valley recording studio that’s the subject of the Foo Fighters’ frontman’s directorial debut. Found guilty of the murder of Sharon Tate and others in 1970, Manson has been in prison ever since. He has repeatedly been denied parole. “He was a musician before he got busted. He was friends with Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys and Dennis Wilson said ‘here go record some demos, I’ll pay for it, there’s this place called Sound City,” Grohl explained. A number of bands have covered Manson’s songs over the years. As the Sound City documentary shows, former band Nirvana also recorded at Sound City, as did Guns’N’Roses, Rick Springfield, Metallica, Fleetwood Mac, Cheap Trick, Neil Young, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and many more. A star studded Sound City concert in Park City followed the film’s premiere on January 18. Even before the Festival even began, Gravitas Ventures acquired worldwide VOD to Sound City. Grohl was appearing this morning with Prince Avalanche director David Gordon Green at Sundance’s Cinema Café