It’s week 2 of Rockville CA but that doesn’t mean the party’s slowing down!
Josh Schwartz spoke to the Village Voice blog with some more insight about how he came up with the music web series.
VV: Rockville is set entirely at The Echoplex and the Echo in Silverlake. Many music fans can remember a period in their lives when everything revolved around concerts and what bands they’re going to see, and where, and with whom. Was that part of the feeling you were looking to evoke?
JS: That was the idea. This is these characters’ home, and this is their lives. Some of them work more directly with bands in the music business, either in A&R or because they work at the clubs. Some of them are just like Hunter, who works in online music marketing, which, he doesn’t even know what that means, necessarily.
VV: But was it also because you really missed The O.C.’s Bait Shop?
JS: It wasn’t so much about missing the Bait Shop as it was about me being nostalgic for the time in my life, in my early twenties, when I was able to go to shows all the time and hang out with a group of people who lived that life. This was a chance to recapture that.
So basically, Schwartz is feeling old and wants to be Seth Cohen again. We get it, Josh. We’re getting old, too. But we’ll always have new episodes of Rockville CA to enjoy every Tuesday to help us feel young again.
