Monotonix

Before I Pass Away

With no money available for a music video, director Julien Nitzberg ("The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia") put out a call for Monotonix friends and fans to bring any manner camera or iPhone to document this show from their farewell tour.

The Monotonix later described this as the most chaotic, violent show they ever played. Because the band always insisted on playing in the crowd not on the stage, one camera and an iPhone were accidentally destroyed when crowd members, surging to get close to the band, knocked over the camera operators.

The crew were- DIRECTOR: Julien Nitzberg. EDITOR: Sugarpie Jones. CAMERA: Sadie Strangio, Sugarpie Jones, Michael Reich, Paul Koudounaris, Julie Hermelin, Preston Olson, Samson Mullinax, Phil Hoelting, Christopher Rendon, Jeff Feuerzeig, EDITORIAL ADVISORS: Courtney Winfree, Michael Mees. Shot at the Echoplex, Los Angeles.

The sound in the video is the actual live sound from the performance. The studio version of this song appears on the record “Not Yet” on Drag City Records. The studio version was recorded by Steve Albini. The Monotonix were Ami Shalev, Yonatan Gat, Haggai Fershtman.