Inspired by all the fun videos that musicians are putting out (particularly the Goldfinger ones, since they’re a band that’s near and dear to me), I decided to challenge myself to do a similar quasi-live video. Here it is:

Since I’m not the greatest guitar player, I decided to stick to something that I could handle (or at least pass off as “good enough for punk music”). 😎

I went with “One Of My Lies”, off the Green Day album “Kerplunk”, which has always been one of my favorite songs, even though I didn’t know all the lyrics until last week.

In the spirit of capturing a quasi-live band performance, I did these in full takes, without editing. I did about three drum takes before I was happy, maybe a dozen bass takes, and roughly a billion guitar/vocal takes. Haha. I kept fucking up the lyrics (I still did flub a couple tiny things, in the end), but mostly I was just messing up the guitar-playing, which is an impressive feat when you consider that Green Day is not exactly a band covered extensively by Guitar Player magazine.

Anyway, this was a blast to make, and I’m excited to try another one soon! Maybe something even easier on guitar? 😂