“It’s a memorial, not a band promo.” — Jack Grisham
We at No Echo and A Hardcore Conversation are very pleased to premiere the new Jack Grisham and the Life Undone video for “Angel Funeral,” from their new self-titled album. The project finds the California punk legend collaborating with drummer Lars Triesch.
The album came out on October 30 this year: Hell Night. Though, as Jack told me, “Every night was Hell Night!” in his younger days.
“But Lars is solid. If I do something stupid, Lars steps in and straightens it out.”
I then asked Lars where he was 30 or 40 years ago, back when Jack really could’ve used that kind of assistance. Jack immediately replied, “I’ll tell you where he was; he was in a diaper!”
The Life Undone is not TSOL 2.0, but it’s still Jack, and it’s what you need, whether you know it or not. It’s just a fucking great record, whichever way you slice it, and you should definitely check it out, whether you stream it or pick up a vinyl or CD copy.
“Angel Funeral,” from Jack Grisham and the Life Undone, is not a music video, at least not a standard one.
“It’s a memorial, not a band promo,” Jack said in a recent conversation I had with him and Life Undone's Lars Triesch.
The song was written about Jack’s first wife, who sadly passed away from a drug overdose. When they started making a video for the song, he thought about using a photo of her but then decided it would be selfish to include only her. Instead, he opened it up on Instagram, inviting anyone who had lost someone under similar circumstances to send in photos of their friends and family.
The result is an extremely powerful and moving watch.
Jack said, “I’ve been clean and sober for 37 years now and there’s so many people that I’ve watched die, so I put out a thing on Instagram and I said, Hey if you have somebody you want to share with us, why don’t you send us the photo and we’ll put it in and we’ll just turn it into a memorial instead of a video.”
Jack is a true artist, and anything he does is worth at least checking out, whether it’s his latest book (which isn’t for the faint of heart) or this album, which, incidentally, sounds amazing.
And I’m not just talking about the songs. I’m talking about the overall production, a nearly lost art when it comes to albums these days.
And Lars is no slouch either, that’s for sure. He’s definitely not der Schlimmste!
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Jack Grisham and the Life Undone is available now on vinyl and CD via Lost In Berlin Records.
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