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🗓️ 4 November 2015
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Colin Hanks shares his lengthy journey of documenting the rise and fall of Tower Records in All Things Must Pass.
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0:34.1 | The movie All Things Must Pass is multi-generational story of music, greed, lust, power. |
0:42.5 | It's not empire. It's the story of Tower Records. And it's director who should have been on the show a long time ago. |
0:50.4 | Let's finally join me here. Colin Hanks. First of all, thanks so much for being here, Colin. Thanks me, it's nice to see you. But it is a, finally, it's a multi-generational story about |
0:58.3 | shifts in pop culture. Yeah, I mean, you know, Tower, for lack of a better phrase, really does |
1:06.1 | represent the music industry or the retail industry as we knew it. It was there at the beginning, |
1:13.6 | and it was sort of the first visual casualty that common people saw and went, oh, wow, yeah, |
1:21.0 | okay, things are changing now. Things really are different. And Russ Solomon and the people that worked at Tower, they were there |
1:30.3 | for the whole thing, the whole ride. So it's, it's multi-generational for music. It's multi-generational for |
1:36.3 | the family of Tower. And it most definitely was a family. Because it really starts with the founder's |
1:42.9 | father having a pharmacy where they started |
1:46.2 | to sell used records. And that was in Sacramento. That was the moment when I had the light bulb |
1:52.0 | moment of this is a documentary because I found that out probably a week or so before the stores |
1:58.3 | were closing. I was having dinner with an old family |
2:01.4 | friend of mine from Sacramento. And you used to go to the Sacramento stores. Yeah, I mean, I grew up in |
2:06.6 | Sacramento. I spent all my money in Tower Records. I bought my first concert ticket at Tower Records. |
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