All hail to Jerry Finn, who was responsible for the sound of so many pop-punk records in this second wave, rip ♥️

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.

Dookie was the very 1st CD I ever owned

1:27 i never noticed the 409 in the coffee maker in this photo before

Dookie is just the perfect album

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.

the impact this album had in music history can not be put into words honestly. this album and Enema of the State.

The first Green Day song I ever heard was All By Myself. I was hooked. ahha

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.

It's become less and less of a coincidence that so many of my favorite recorded drum sounds employed m49's as room mics.

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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.”

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.

Gosh this has just been uploaded as I'm going to bed but I can't wait to watch it in the morning!

Just another perfect example of Jerry Finn being the hero we needed but didn’t deserve.

And, yes, I was at that Berkeley Square show…

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!

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.

That album was huge!

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.

Fantastic album, still sounds great today

1994 was a killer year for music, especially in the UK

Looking forward to that video on Highly Suspect!

Can we get this explanation for Nimrod? What a great sounding record!

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.

Fernandes never made guitars in Mexico, it was made in Japan.

dookie is the only album i purchased on all platforms (cassette, vinyl, cd, itunes, etc) this album taught me how to play drums 🤘🏻🤘🏻

This and Offspring's "Smash" were my first two albums. It's been all downhill since then.

Awesome album. I have to wonder how it would sound if it were recorded "live" by Steve Albini

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?

One of my favorite albums. Thanks so much.

I named my son after this album and my daughter after the previous one.

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.

Fernandes is a Japanese brand, not Mexican. Thanks for making this video!

I still love dookie. Liked "insomniac" and never listened to them again, aside from what is on the radio.

I thought they were pretty hardcore back in the day. My mum listens to them now though so they are basically dead to me 😂

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.

Dookie was such a good record.

Pretty sure Mike Dirnt played his Gibson grabber in the studio recording Dookie, not a P Bass.

my friend drew the album cover !

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.

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what brand tape machines were they recorded on StuderA800 Series?

4:00 It was a PJ precision jazz bass

What was the vocal mic Billie sang through?

It didn't mention the vocal setup.

they used a wrecking crew...

They never did anything as good as Dookie. Not even near.

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

No Elton John ?

Really doubt Tre played to a click for Dookie

Actually Billy Joe was tackled.

She was not a single

Perfect Album and horrible mix

ANYONE ELSE HAVE THAT ONE CASSETTE COPY THAT YOU GOT FROM A FRIEND, LISTENING TO, AND GAVE TO A FRIEND? 😂