Movie Details
| Title: | What Drives Us | |
| Director: | Dave Grohl | |
| Year: | 2021 | |
| Genre: | Documentary | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 05.07.21 |
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| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 05.07.21 | Internet | In one of those kismet things, I've spent the last week or so going through old Nirvana videos on youtube... revisiting them and my memories back then... the official channel put up this mtv special they did as well as rehearsal and unedited footage from their unplugged show which led to numerous interviews, 20th anniversary retrospectives, archival footage, and what have you. It naturally segued to Dave Grohl stuff... I'd never seen this 40-minute documentary about a garage tour that they did after their one album recorded in Dave's garage... which got me in the mood to watch his Sonic Highways HBO show. I continue to be a fan of everything about Grohl other than Foo Fighters music, and kinda love that he did a doc about Sound City and this album about a list of cities and their musical history. Then all of a sudden he did a reddit AMA today in support of a shit ton of new content: a book, a new album, a paramount+ thing with his mom, and an amazon prime documentary about bands' early days touring in a van. Perfect! I liked it pretty good. I think there's a certain quality that he gets from his interviews with other musicians where its more of a peer-to-peer thing and the shared experiences allow them to go to more interesting territory. It helps that I watched Grohl's interview and Lars Ulrich's radio show right before-hand, which was conversational in the best possible way so I felt he was acquaintances or real friends with most of the subjects in this film. I half expected the next foo fighters tour to be in a van or from a van or about a van... something van-related, but I guess covid ruined that plan. I'm also kind of glad that this didn't end with foo fighters music like his previous projects so i don't have to qualify my enjoyment to exclude it. (I realize i am still going on and on about it but it's weird! how can i like the guy so much and like nirvana but not respond to the current music AT ALL? anyway...) So yeah, pretty good. |
