No live music was played, but the Saturday afternoon premiere of Dave Grohl's Sound City documentary ? about the fabled-yet-scuzzy Van Nuys, CA recording studio of the same name where Nirvana, Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac, Rick Springfield, Rage Against the Machine and�Fear recorded landmark albums ? felt like an all-star rock concert. 
Fans stood on street corners near the Marc theater, where the film debuted, offering to purchase tickets from anyone with a spare, and the musical artists who turned out to watch the documentary, included former Creedence Clearwater frontman John Fogerty, Grohl's former Nirvana bandmates Krist Novoselic (pictured on the right) and Pat Smear, Springfield and Stevie Nicks, most or all of whom are expected to play with Grohl in a live show later tonight on Main Street in Park City.
Before the screening, Grohl called the film�"the most important thing I've done artistically," and at the Q&A session that followed the movie, noted that the digital revolution, which transformed music industry (and essentially killed Sound City, which did things the analog way) enabled him to become a filmmaker �and tell the story of the recording studio's rightful place in rock 'n' roll history. "I made a movie. It's shocking, really," Grohl said. "Next, I'll be flying your plane to Dulles."
Grohl and Sound City got an enthusiastic standing ovation at the end, and the people in the audience around me seemed to really be rocking out to a segment that has the surviving members of Nirvana playing with former Beatle Paul McCartney. �The part of the movie that rocked my world, however, �was when Grohl performed the gritty "The Man That Never Was," with Springfield. � Like a number of…
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