“Playing Guitars”
by Jim White
Background:
After working together on the Sage of the Wittled Hodag, Jim contacted me about making a music video for a song off his new album Waffles, Triangles & Jesus. I’d been a big Jim White fan since seeing him in Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, one of my favorite documentaries. Impressed with my editing abilities on the Hodag project, he thought making a video built around clips of himself and others playing guitar would be fun and apropos of a song called “Playing Guitars.” This celebration of strumming was then sprinkled with cartoonish clips of found footage.
The finished video is a frolicking, fast-paced feast of professional and amateur guitar players hamming it up for the camera. It took a few days to get all the clips to play off one another and a few weeks before I could get the infectious song out of my mind.
Released in 2018