Behind The Recording Of 'Dookie' by Green Day
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Green Day have become synonymous with a brand of melodic punk delivered with great energy, great songs and unusually for any type of punk band, big hits! Dookie was their first major label release packing in 5 hit singles, Longview, Welcome TO Paradise, Basket Case, When I Come Around and SHe.
This is the story of how it was recorded and the techniques and equipment used.
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Was never a big fan of Green Day my friends loved them. I was into more aggressive punk. 30 years later and I just gave dookie another shot. Great fucking album. Just really fucking good.
You were the most annoying kind of friend.
Love this type of honesty. I myself have made this same mistake for several other albums over the years
Their best music was 30 years ago, pre Dookie
Everything up to Insomniac was really good
Trust me, no one ever cares what you don't like.
All hail to Jerry Finn, who was responsible for the sound of so many pop-punk records in this second wave, rip ♥️
Dookie is just the perfect album
songs are too short. great album though
Dookie was the very 1st CD I ever owned
same
same here.
Same .. well cassette lol!! First real album I ever got.. 1994, and I was 9 years old..they were def the gateway to my love of hardcore punk and metal
@@clstilesame first cassette I’ve owned
Same I bought dookie and nevermind at the same time.
the impact this album had in music history can not be put into words honestly. this album and Enema of the State.
This album is so much better though
Neither would have had the impact they did without Jerry Finn!
@@bfluker85 you are absolutely right
I'm a hip hop head, and I have over 500 vinyl records in my collection. Dookie is my one and only non-rap record that I own. Fucking awesome album. I even got my 14 year old daughter into them, and now that's her favorite band.
Their keen interest in learning Beatles songs at such a young age is a great insight into how they became such capable songwriters. The descending line in “Help” is just about the last thing you’d expect a young punk band to be obsessing on in the early 90s…but it perfectly exemplifies their status as a world class crossover artist. Studying other genres, drawing inspiration from the greats and using every available resource is something that you find in a large number of highly successful musicians.
Went back recently and listened to Dookie. It’s been several years and I couldn’t believe how much I loved it still and how well it’s aged. Coming clean is such a special song that really stood out to me.
I bought the Dookie CD as soon as it came out when I was 16, and still have it here today on top of my old ass stereo! I never would have guessed that the piece of plastic I was holding was gonna sell 20,000,000 copies!
So did you hear of em from the radio or had you already heard 1,000 and Kerplunk too? Just curious.
First thing I ever heard from them was Longview. Then I was roaming through my older bros CD’s one day and found 2 Green Day CD’s!!! But no ‘Longview’ lol. I played the shit out of their first two albums till I finally got Dookie few weeks later. I remember Welcome To Paradise being my favorite song off Kerplunk, when I finally got Dookie I couldn’t BELIEVE how much better Welcome to Paradise was/is on the Dookie album. Till
This day actually lol.
That was long ha had some fun going back into those memories.
My first CD as a kid. Still one of my absolute favorites. Thank you for this great look into the actual recording of the record and the gear, techniques, and personnel involved. I LOVE this content.
Thank you! 😃
fav series on the entire platform
It's become less and less of a coincidence that so many of my favorite recorded drum sounds employed m49's as room mics.
Hell yea this the mic Michale Jackson engineer used for back ground vocals on all his albums and drums but mainly vocals I think so yea it’s everybody
1:27 i never noticed the 409 in the coffee maker in this photo before
And, yes, I was at that Berkeley Square show…
I remember Longview getting 24/7 constant play on MTV.
Can we get this explanation for Nimrod? What a great sounding record!
It is, I'll look into for sure!
That would be great tho fr@@mixingmasteringonline
I enjoyed this video alot but the green day nerd in me has to say that Blue is not an RST-50, it is an RST-80, you can differentiate them both from the exaggerated curve by the back of the headstock, and there are slight bevels on the front, there has been photos of the inside of Blue which have RST-80 markings from the factory.
Great video! However I do want to make one correction. When Green Day tracked Dookie, they played in the live room at the same time complete with a scratch vocal, kept the drums that were recorded off the floor (if you listen to the official isolated tracks, you can hear guitar and bass bleed), kept the live rhythm guitar, rerecorded bass, added some more guitar overdubs, and then rerecorded vocals. This is what Rob Cavallo confirmed, and the Sound on Sound article even says this as well.
Rob Cavallo in an interview with Billboard:
“Well, we’re gonna set you guys up and get a really great drum sound and a great bass sound and a great guitar sound, and we’re gonna have you play live. We want it to sound like you guys. Then once the drums are really cooking, then we might overdub the bass and the guitars over those drums, so that you guys can sound really tight to what you originally played. And then we’ll just put some vocals on it.”
The first Green Day song I ever heard was All By Myself. I was hooked. ahha
Though I was much older than Green Day's average fan, I enjoyed Dookie, quite a a bit. They were too accomplished to be punk, although from a image/business perspective it made sense to label themselves that way. To me they had more in common with power pop bands like The Kinks, The Who, and even The Beatles. Songs with melody will ALWAYS be king. Their sense of humor was punky. Thanks once again MMO.
Thank you! You’re right, they were very accomplished musicians, listening to the stems for the some of the songs was really interesting.
Awesome album. I have to wonder how it would sound if it were recorded "live" by Steve Albini
Fantastic album, still sounds great today
It really does!
That album was huge!
"Dookie" dropped when I was 16. I was first person turn on my High school to them and KoRn/Deftones in 94. My Sr yr, I turned 17 June1994.
1994 was a killer year for music, especially in the UK
That's the good thing about major labels, you have a killer console, very good engineers and tons of high quality gear at your disposal. Bands like Crimpshrine and others were just as good, it's just that they didn't always have the right production quality. I'm all about DIY punk ethics as well, but I'm also about not stifling creativity. Now with DAW's and bedroom producing, there's a lot more that can be done which is amazing.
dookie is the only album i purchased on all platforms (cassette, vinyl, cd, itunes, etc) this album taught me how to play drums 🤘🏻🤘🏻
I named my son after this album and my daughter after the previous one.
Say hello to Dookie and Kerplunk for me.
Looking forward to that video on Highly Suspect!
i appreciate you mentioning details like what kind of neve it was
This and Offspring's "Smash" were my first two albums. It's been all downhill since then.
Maybe you should listen again, Saviors is rather good!
can you do deftones Around The Fur? they did a lot of interesting techniques to record vocals that id love for you to break down.
Great vid thanks. How about one on The Offspring's Smash?
Just another perfect example of Jerry Finn being the hero we needed but didn’t deserve.
7:00 Pretty sure Basket Case wasn’t released as a single til a week prior to Woodstock.
Green Day was already booked for Woodstock by then.
I met green day back in the early 90s when they'd play out clubs and bars in Philly. Crazy guys but super friendly. Much prefer their first two albums, 1039 Slappy Hours and Kerplunk. Rookie was good but thought it lost their edge.
For many years I wondered if I like Dookie purely for nostalgia reasons or if it's just a great album. Final conclusion: it's just a great album
Dookie" album FUELED our debauchery filled nights my Sr Yr in High School 1994-95. So did Weezer Blue Album. Pearl Jam Vitalogy. Nirvana Unplugged NY. Mad Season Above. Great Hip Hop everywhere. Hole Live Through This. Bush16Stone...sooo many other great albums came out 94&95
Fernandes is a Japanese brand, not Mexican. Thanks for making this video!
Thank you! I thought they were Japanese, I should have double checked..
Great videos as always. Love all the research that went into this. Any way you can do Bon Jovi Keep the Faith? It was produced by Bob Rock in Vancouver. There’s really nothing out there in terms of gear or techniques used.
Cheers, I’ll look into it.
By far their best album. Not even close
Fernandes never made guitars in Mexico, it was made in Japan.
is that original mix available anywhere? I would love to hear the King lofi punk version
One of my favorite albums. Thanks so much.
Great video sir, but why does no one ever discuss which speakers were used in the guitar cabs? The most important part of the guitar sound is totally ignored.
When I can get the information then I always include it.
Because in the 90’s we just used whatever cab was around
@@Ottophil Im aware sir, I was there. But that doesn't mean we cant figure it out now.
@@djtripnosys Probably either V30s (which were in the Woodstock cab) or G12T75s (which are in the current live cabs since AFAIK the RevRad tour).
@@WheelBirbz In a 4x12, T75s would mean it's a 300 watt cab, no?
Dookie was such a good record.
IS. Dookie is such a good record. 😊
Yeah, it was a really good one! The Rancid album And Out Come The Wolves was even better :)
Pretty sure Mike Dirnt played his Gibson grabber in the studio recording Dookie, not a P Bass.
I thought so too but Dirnt said otherwise. This is his full quote,
“I played an active P-Bass that I rented from SIR, because my basses were broken and thrashed from touring. That bass had P/J pickups, but the way I had it set, it might as well have just been a P-Bass. It went through an Éclair Engineering Evil Twin tube DI, and then my 6x10, and an Ampeg SVT. I had the Ampeg for the low end and the extra sub-lows, and then the 6x10 for that classic punch."
Wow, all this time I thought that unique punchy bass tone was because of the Gibson. I guess it has more to do with the amps. I wonder what he used on Insomniac.
@2:34 To exit full screen, press "ESC"
Missed that 😂
my friend drew the album cover !
Wow, very cool!
Cool video. Technically Kerplunk came out in 1991. Where did you hear/read about that Beatles Rob Cavallo thing, specifically the descending line in Help? Not sure I ever heard that.
Cheers! It was from this article, www.billboard.com/music/rock/green-day-dookie-producer-rob-cavallo-interview-8496050/
@@mixingmasteringonline Rad that's really cool.
I still love dookie. Liked "insomniac" and never listened to them again, aside from what is on the radio.
They never did anything as good as Dookie. Not even near.
🔥🔥🥀🥀🌹🥀🥀🔥🔥
The first time I saw Green Day was at Woodstock '94. I had been fairly close until the mud started going and then I moved WAY back. I remember seeing the first person to throw mud that hit Billy's guitar and the look he gave to the crowd. I saw so many great performances at Woodstock, including being front row for NIN. That being said...I left with pneumonia, all my clothes being stolen except the clothes on my back, traumatized by some of the horrific things that I saw and how truly awful (and stupid) people can be, and had to hitchhike back to Hudson because the promoters had no plans in place to get the people they bused in back OUT from the show.
Sound horrendous! I just recently watched the documentary on it. Seemed doomed from the start.
@@mixingmasteringonline That's definitely an understatement! I was 20 yrs old at the time and went by myself from Colorado. No one would go with me so I decided to go alone. It was one of the craziest things I ever did.
Wow, that is crazy!
4:00 It was a PJ precision jazz bass
It's still called a Precision bass
@@lakselv3768 It's called Precision Jazz active bass
I thought they were pretty hardcore back in the day. My mum listens to them now though so they are basically dead to me 😂
It didn't mention the vocal setup.
Good point! It was mainly a Beyerdynamic 201 and Neuman U87.
What was the vocal mic Billie sang through?
It was a Beyer 201 and U87.
924 Gilman, not 94 Gilman
That's not true about radio songs not wavering in tempo. Welcome to Paradise has a tempo change
they used a wrecking crew...
What was the vocal chain
The main mic was a Beyer 201 and also a Neumann U87.
what brand tape machines were they recorded on StuderA800 Series?
Also what about the vocal mic? 67? 87?
Not sure on the tape but the vocal mics we’re Beyer 201 and U87
No Elton John ?
It’s coming, I’ve been working on Goodbye yellow brick road 👍
@@mixingmasteringonline yes !!!! thank you appreciate it
@@YY-bv3ik Out Tomorrow!
@@mixingmasteringonline thank you ! im so intrigued ! can't wait for the drop
Billy Joel’s career strikes me as what would happen if Kurt Cobain had lived and kept doing music. He eventually would’ve gave into the machine and started intentionally writing hits. Not judging, just pointing out that music is a business and most of the time the talented ones give into peer pressure especially when they employ numerous ppl who count the band to keep touring and what not
this might be one of the dumbest comments I have ever read for more than one reason
I disagree. Kurt was the real deal, I know it sounds cheesy but he was a true artist. He could paint, draw, sculpt, he could do it all. Billy Joel is cut from the same cloth as Dave Grohl
I think you’re probably right. The people disagreeing with you just have him on a pedestal. None of his contemporaries had signed for major labels they were all underground. Nirvana where the band that broke the mould and opened the floodgates. He must have wanted to be a pop star/famous on some level
Really doubt Tre played to a click for Dookie
Green Day have become synonymous with shilling for the establishment, how very punk rock🤣
Actually Billy Joe was tackled.
"she"
After Dookie, it was all downhill. Cannot stand this band. If there ever were poster children for sell outs…the picture of these 3 is right next to the definition…they are anything but punk.
She was not a single
It was a promotional single yes.
It was not a single only Longview when I come around basket case and welcome to paradise
"She" is a song by the American rock band Green Day. It is the eighth track on their third album, Dookie and was released as Green Day's first promotional single in their discography. The song was written by frontman Billie Joe Armstrong about a former girlfriend who showed him a feminist poem with an identical title.[5] In return, Armstrong wrote the lyrics of "She" and showed them to her.[5] She later dumped him and moved to Ecuador, prompting Armstrong to put "She" on the album. The same ex-girlfriend is the topic of the songs "Sassafras Roots" and "Chump".[5] It is one of the few Green Day singles that did not have a music video.
Promotional single is still a single.
So She was a single.
@@lakselv3768 lol 😂 not a single my guy
@@threwanade Jesus christ... It is you troll
Perfect Album and horrible mix
Yeah the mix is so unbelievably horrible that people have been trying to replicate the sound since it was first released....
Gosh this has just been uploaded as I'm going to bed but I can't wait to watch it in the morning!
Thanks for sharing
ANYONE ELSE HAVE THAT ONE CASSETTE COPY THAT YOU GOT FROM A FRIEND, LISTENING TO, AND GAVE TO A FRIEND? 😂