Dave Grohl performs with Them Crooked Vultures at the 2010 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. (File Photo)
I just had a thought that I wanted run by fellow Coachella festival fans out there–could the Sound City Players be a wild all-star group on the Coachella 2013 lineup?
Sound City movie poster (Contributed Image)
“Sound City” is the documentary that Dave Grohl is the mastermind behind about the legendary Sound City studios in Van Nuys. The film is going to be shown at the Sundance Film Festival and Grohl is set to debut the Sound City Players there for a live performance.
The Sound City Players should include some famous faces, but they’re not revealing who’s performing at Sundance just yet.
The first song on the film’s soundtrack “Real to Reel” is “Cut Me Some Slack,” which features former Nirvana members Grohl, Pat Smear and Krist Novoselic, plus a guy you might have heard of named Paul McCartney. They performed it live at the 12-12-12 concert and on “Saturday Night Live.”
Since playing the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2009, McCartney has been a regular at the fest, showing up as a fan and watching performances. One of Grohl’s many projects–another supergroup–Them Crooked Vultures, played the fest’s main stage in 2010.
Other artists who collaborated for the album include Stevie Nicks, Trent Reznor, Rick Springfield, Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk of Rage Against The Machine, Joshua Homme of Queens of the Stone Age, Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick, Lee Ving of Fear, Corey Taylor of Slipknot and Stone Sour and Robert Levon Been and Peter Hayes of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.
Rick Springfield performs at Stewart Park in Beaumont in 2011 for the city’s summer concert series. (Rodrigo Pena/City of Beaumont)
I don’t know about you, but I really want to have a reason to see Rick Springfield take the stage at the Empire Polo Club.
I think Homme is a given if they’re on the bill, because he’s a Palm Desert native and a fan of the festival who attends even when he’s not performing. (Seriously, I think I saw him even more than I saw the Hoff last year). He was there with Grohl in 2010 for the Them Crooked Vultures set.
Also, on a personal note I want Lee Ving to be there, not only because Fear is rad, but because “Clue” is one of my favorite movies of all time and he played Mr. Boddy.
What do you think? Are the Sound City Players a viable Coachella option? Let me know in the comments below.
Previous Coachella 2013 picks from the Audio File and readers:
Dec. 31, 2012: Alex Clare, Lucero, Alabama Shakes, Beach House
Dec. 28, 2012: Hot Chip, Warpaint, Father John Misty, Cloud Nothings
Dec. 26, 2012: Muse, No Doubt and Alt-J
Dec. 20, 2012: Aesop Rock
Dec. 19, 2012: Daft Punk, The Rolling Stones, Phoenix, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Dec. 14, 2012: The Rolling Stones
Dec. 12, 2012: Airborne Toxic Event
Nov. 30, 2012: Bjork
Nov. 28, 2012: Nick Cave, Tegan and Sara, Converge
Nov. 14, 2012: Sigur Ros, Pearl Jam
Nov. 9, 2012: Paul Kalkbrenner, Kill the Noise
Nov. 9, 2012: Passion Pit, Nine Inch Nails/How to Destroy Angels, Queens of the Stone Age, Run DMC, Rocket from the Crypt
Oct. 19, 2012: Mumford & Sons, Deadmau5, Local Natives, Blur
Want more Coachella goodness? I tag all of my Coachella prediction posts Coachellaology. The iGuide also has a Coachella section that has interviews, articles, photos from previous years and more. Consequence of Sound also has an excellent running tally of Coachella possibilities and confirmations. You can email me at vfranko@pe.com.