DaisyJonesAndTheSix pays tribute to a number of iconic Los Angeles locations. “We took the Sunset Strip and brought it back to the ’70s. We shot at the Whiskey. We shot at the Viper Room.”
“Some people, you bathe them in those lights and they disappear. But some people, they glow.” ―FromCasting Billy Dunne, the frontman who struggles with addiction and art, the tension between life at home and life on the road, was difficult. “We saw so many great people and everybody checked like three of the four boxes, but no one checked every box. And then we met Sam,” says Scott Neustadter.
He’d been asked to prepare a ’70s rock song for his audition. Having grown up with a metalhead father controlling the radio dial, leading to some gaps in Claflin’s classic-rock knowledge, he googled and somehow landed on’s “Your Song” as his sample. “It wasn’t long before the music producer came in like, ‘Right, okay. We’re gonna try a different thing because this isn’t quite rock and roll. Have you heard this song?’” Claflin says, before singing,”’Come together, right now.
“This is the most fun part for me,” Scott Neustadter says of creating the songs for the show, a mix of originals and those using lyrics supplied in Reid’s book. The team wanted songs that felt of the era, but not like an imitation of any specific group. They landed onas collaborators and lead songwriters for the show, eventually building a playlist that numbers more than 25 tracks over the season.Joni Mitchell,Lacey Terrell/Prime Video.
“We would just watch them perform and we were the biggest fans,” Lauren says of finally, finally getting on set and hearing the cast play together. And, of course, it wouldn’t be the ’70s without ’70s fashion and the distinct setting of Los Angeles. Lauren says that huge amounts of the show were shot on location, including a jaw-dropping makeover of the Sunset Strip. “We took the Sunset Strip and brought it back to the ’70s,” she says. “It was really a dream come true. That was a huge undertaking and pretty magnificent. We shot at the Whiskey. We shot at the Viper Room.
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