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If you’re from California, you KNOW about Tower Records (aka. Tower). I grew up with a Tower Records in my town. It was the only place for me to buy concert tickets – lining up outside the building to buy from Ticketmaster! This was also my place to buy CDs. I went nuts about once a month and binge-bought CDs from Tower. By 2000 came around, Tower was fading and I was buying CDs from other places like Best Buy, Target and Amazon. Then suddenly, all the stores were closing. It seemed like such a fast fall.
A few weeks ago, The Wife and my friend Jen attended the All Things Must Pass screening and Q & A with director Colin Hanks. Yah. That guy who was in Roswell! Not the alien. Hanks, his co-producer Sean Stuart and Tower Records founder Russ Solomon fielded questions from the audience and shared their insights about making the documentary and Tower in general.
In classic Friday Five fashion, I’ve asked The Wife to tell me five things he learned and/or what he thought of the documentary. Here we go.
Friday Five: All Things Must Pass – The Wife Version
5. Tower Records stores are still open in Japan! There are about a dozen of them there. I regret not going into the one in Shibuya when we were there in 2006. [Ed note: Well, I guess it’s time to save our pennies to travel to Tokyo again!]
4. The Sunset Store is/was even more historic than I thought. That’s where the celebrities and musicians would buy their records. For example, Elton John used to go to the store every Tuesday! The store would open early for him and he’d buy three copies of each record – one for each of his homes.
3. This documentary is perfect for people like us who grew up with a Tower Records. Our generation – ie. 30s and 40s; people who shopped there at its peak. If you knew about Tower Records and love music, you should watch this.
2. Colin Hanks wanted to do this documentary because he grew up in Sacramento. Sac-town! [Ed note: WHUT.] This is where Tower Records first started (… in a drugstore!). I thought he grew up with his dad in Hollywood. No, he was a regular at Tower – in Sacramento.
and the number one most entertaining fact that that I found out:
1. Dave Grohl used to work at Tower.
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Yep, that’s his number one that he wanted to share with y’all. Fair enough. Dave Grohl is pretty f-ing cool. He deserves to be number one.
All Things Must Pass is still in theaters so hurry the F up and go watch it! Here’s the trailer.
Disclosure: Post contains affiliate links. We were provided complimentary tickets to the documentary. All opinions are The Wife’s own. I am just typing them out.
