Tower actually started in your hometown.
Is that part of why youve put so many years into getting this movie made?
Yeah, growing up in Sacramento, Tower was always this point of civic pride.
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It was founded and based there, and never was headquartered anywhere else.
She said I cant believe it all started in that little drug store!
I was like, What are you talking about?
Now hes the frontman for Foo Fighters and a documentarian filmmaker himself.
But you never worked there, right?
To two different Towers in college.
And that was even with a friend of mine who worked there.
We just never gave up.
It s hard to explain, I just wanted to see the movie finished.
I dont know why, I just felt compelled to do it.
So does this mean youre going to make a requiem forBlockbusternext?
Ha, no, I dont have a deep connection to Blockbuster.
But as we were finishing this, RadioShack announced they were closing all their stores.
So I pretty much got a barrage of texts saying, You gonna make the RadioShack documentary now?
[Laughs]
What did making the movie teach you about the music business?
I learned how young it really is.
When you think about it, the music retail business started off with sheet music.
Sometimes those technologies stick, sometimes they dont.
Its not just, Napster killed Tower.
Its not that simple.
Really I think that the greatest thing that I learned was not to overanalyze or over-manage things.
Do you feel like you got a taste for directing now?
[Making a mock serious face] My real passion is directing.
