Making videos can be hard, as there’s a lot of shit that can go wrong at any given moment. With this in mind, Great Grandpa planned for everything, apparently, in the making of their latest video for “Teen Challenge.” The Seattle grunge-pop band, who played our SWSX party a few years back, premiered the clip via Uproxx this week, where director Hugh Sherman Donkin explained his vision behind the visual: “I had really wanted to do a project that contained multiple looks, and so we shot half of the video digitally, and the other half on Kodak Super 8 50T / 500T and Tri-X reversal film. When I got the footage back I couldn’t stop watching it. There’s something about the home movie aesthetics of film that I love, it’s dirty, it’s light leaky, but that gives it such a genuine character.” That the shit flies off the rails midway through gives it another complexity entirely, and shows just how dangerous this rock and roll business can be. There are benefits to the biz, however, and one of them finds Great Grandpa on tour this spring with The Spook School and Diet Cig, and that fanfuckintasic bill comes to Brighton Music Hall in Allston on March 2. Full dates after the jump. Featured image via video screengrab.
