Watch Gun Outfit Perform New Song “Teardrops (Classic Hell on Earth)” Live at the Getty

Gun Outfit have shared their first new track since acclaimed 2017 release Out of Range. Check out the dreamy, lavender-steeped 16mm film of their live performance in LA at the Getty, directed by Mike Stoltz, with sound by Chris Cohen (and Kayla Cohen of Itasca on bass). Thanks to Aquarium Drunkard for the premiere, and for noting the band’s “spirit of unfurling discovery and spiritual vastness.”

Catch their US tour, running April 10th through May 13th, including dates with Steve Gunn and Lavender Country. 

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We shot this performance on 1600′ of twenty year-old Fuji 8652 color negative 16mm film (some artifacts of this expired stock are visible in the image). The camera used was an Aaton Super 16 camera with a 25mm lens. The sound was taken directly from the board mix and synced during post-production. 

There were a lot of unknowns with this performance, so the approach taken with the camera was one of surprise. I was seeing and hearing these versions for the first time through the camera on my shoulder, a cyclops stumbling upon this performance in a manicured non-space tucked away amidst opulence and beauty. Daniel scripted narrative events that would take place in the audience throughout the set, one of which you see here in this excerpt. 

Shortly after their performance at the Getty Gun Outfit christened their new tape machine setup, and I wanted to be there to capture it on film. The band’s core and I set up in their home studio under artificial lighting.  

The combined imagery you see represents two ends of the document perspective – the curious camera trying to capture bits and pieces of a confident, well-practiced expanded version of the band juxtaposed with a tightly composed scene of the musicians experimenting with a piece of recording equipment for the very first time.

– Mike Stoltz

Gun Outfit Tour Dates

4/16 with Lavender Country
4/17 with Hotline TNT, Groove Domestic Product and Waveless
4/20 with Rodeola and the Shack Ups
4/25 with VLADRM and Proud/Father
4/18 – 5/4 with Steve Gunn with the exception of 4/20 and 4/25