Let There Be Drums! (Greenwich Entertainment), a forthcoming documentary directed by Justin Kreutzmann (son of Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann), options the final filmed interview with late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins. In a trailer that was launched yesterday, there’s a clip of Hawkins saying that the “second I sat on the drums, it was like a bolt of lightning went through my body and I’ll never forget that day.”
The documentary encompasses a who’s who of legendary beat makers. In addition to the elder Kreutzmann and fellow Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart, individuals embrace Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Ringo Starr, Stewart Copeland (the Police), Stephen Perkins (Jane’s Addiction), Matt Sorum (ex-Guns N’ Roses), Adrian Young (No Doubt), Green Day (Tré Cool) and Jay Lane (Primus).
Let There Be Drums! can be launched on Oct. 28.
The movie, from Greenwich Entertainment, was directed by Justin Kreutzmann, son of Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann, and encompasses a who’s who of legendary beat makers. In addition to the elder Kreutzmann and fellow Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart, individuals embrace Chad Smith of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ringo Starr, Stewart Copeland of the Police, Jane’s Addiction’s Stephen Perkins, ex-Guns N Roses drummer Matt Sorum, No Doubt’s Adrian Young, Tre Cool of Green Day and Primus’ Jay Lane, amongst others.
The documentary goals to be an “examination into the essential role drumming plays in great bands and how music passes from generation to generation,” utilizing a mixed 70 years of examples.
In addition to interviews, producers have gathered a group of uncommon footage, together with Keith Moon in outtakes from The Kids Are Alright, the Who’s documentary from 1979 in addition to late Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham on the roles of fatherhood amid being a musician (his son Jason now sits in for him on the equipment for varied events with the surviving members of the band). There are additionally snapshots of the abilities earlier than they made it large, like Ringo Starr posing along with his drum equipment as a young person and No Doubt’s Young doing a basement present earlier than that band went on to be a Top 40 hitmaker.
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