Clutch Hit the Wild West (Sort of) for “A Quick Death in Texas” Video
As a native son of the Garden State, I find it hilarious that Clutch‘s vision for Wild West City led them to Northwestern New Jersey, to a theme park. Hard to mess with that kind of charm. The track comes from Clutch‘s 2015 album, Psychic Warfare (review here), and the video couldn’t suit it better, from the ZZ Top reference in the lyrics to the play around the song’s theme of chasing around the wrong guy’s wife and ending up on the wrong end of various Lone Star furies. “A Quick Death in Texas” offers masterful bounce, one of Psychic Warfare‘s best hooks, and a lighthearted but thick-grooving vibe that’s about as signature Clutch as Clutch gets, all the more so with the nod to Southern rock in Tim Sult‘s guitar.
A couple highlights: the shootout. Two executions. Vocalist Neil Fallon subjected to various physical tortures — gun at his head and knife at his throat, hanged, dragged behind a horse, etc. The can-can girls when they’re playing the hoedown later in the song is an especially nice touch, but really it’s a budget put to excellent use all around, with clever editing that feels like a running theme from their clip for “Psychic Warfare” (posted here), which came out late last year. I guess cleverness is kind of the overarching narrative for Clutch — Sult, Fallon, bassist Dan Maines and drummer Jean-Paul Gaster — in general. Still, they do the cowboy thing well and indeed look like they’re having the blast they apparently were making their new video.
Clutch are on the road this fall along with Zakk Wylde and Kyng. Dates and more info below, courtesy of the PR wire.
Enjoy:
Clutch, “A Quick Death in Texas” official video
Clutch has just released their new video for the song “A Quick Death In Texas”. The video was directed by David Brodsky / MyGoodEye (Papa Roach, In This Moment).
“The video for ‘Quick Death In Texas’ was a lot of fun to make” states frontman Neil Fallon. “Dave Brodsky and his crew did a great job and considering that the whole shoot was done in a single day is astonishing. The cast at Wild West City are a great group of folks. In a world of monster corporate theme parks, Wild West City is a rare gem. (And no… Wild West City is not in Texas. It’s in New Jersey in the shadow of the Poconos.)
“I won’t lie, I had a blast playing cowboy for a day, even if it meant getting repeatedly killed, sometimes by desperados, sometimes by trusted bandmates. Originally, I was going to be drawn-and-quartered, but we didn’t have the budget for four horses. So we opted for a traditional one-horse-dragging. And Lucky, the painted roan, did a fine job of delivering justice.”
Clutch, Zakk Sabbath, Kyng 2016 Tour Dates:
09/28 – Buffalo, NY @ The Town Ballroom
09/30 – Lakewood, NJ @ First Energy Park – Rock Carnival *
10/01 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE
10/02 – Louisville, KY @ Champions Park – Louder Than Life *
10/04 – Lake Buena Vista, FL @ House of Blues
10/05 – Atlanta, GA @ The Buckhead Theatre
10/07 – Raleigh, NC @ Lincoln Theatre Street Stage
10/08 – Columbus, OH @ Express Live
10/10 – Little Rock, AR @ Metroplex
10/11 – Oklahoma City, OK @ Diamond Ballroom
10/12 – Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theater
10/14 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Novo
10/15 – Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl
10/16 – San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom
10/18 – Boulder, CO @ Boulder Theater
10/20 – Kansas City, MO @ Uptown Theater
10/21 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
10/22 – Sioux City, IA @ Anthem at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
10/24 – Columbia, MO @ The Blue Note ** NO Zakk Sabbath
10/25 – Chicago, IL @ House of Blues
10/27 – Madison, WI @ Orpheum Theater
10/28 – Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore
10/29 – Clifton Park, NY @Upstate Concert Hall
10/30 – Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
* festival appearance
CLUTCH:
Neil Fallon – Vocals/Guitar
Tim Sult – Guitar
Dan Maines – Bass
Jean-Paul Gaster – Drums/Percussion
