“It wasn’t until Taylor Hawkins stopped our interview and said, ‘Maybe this isn’t for this documentary, but what was your home life like?’ I found from then on, I was having a dialogue with these amazing drummers instead of just a Q&A. “It started as a fun little film with all the drummers I’ve gotten to know over years,” he continues.
And obviously growing up around the Grateful Dead, my first movies were the people and the crazy things going on backstage, which leads us to Let There Be Drums!”Įvery Super Bowl Halftime Show, Ranked From Worst to Best
“Since I was young and my dad gave me that first Super-8 camera, filmmaking is all I’ve wanted to do. “Some might say this was ‘the film I was born to make,’ others might call it therapy,” he tells Rolling Stone. Kreutzmann decided to make the film to better understand his dad - and his dad’s instrument - but an interaction with Hawkins made it something bigger. Other featured stickmen include the Police’s Stewart Copeland, Jane’s Addiction’s Stephen Perkins, and former Guns n’ Roses member Matt Sorum. Deadlinereports that the Hawkins segment may be the drummer’s final filmed interview.įilmmaker Justin Kreutzmann, who is the son of the Grateful Dead’s Bill Kreutzmann (also featured in the doc alongside the Dead’s Mickey Hart), helmed the picture, which will come out Oct. A new documentary, Let There Be Drums!, will feature interviews with Ringo Starr, the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith, and late Foo Fighters member Taylor Hawkins.
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