The Mountain Goats Get Saved By Chavo Guerrero in "The Legend of Chavo Guerrero" Video

The Mountain Goats have shared the video for “The Legend of Chavo Guerrero”, from this year’s Beat the Champ, directed by Scott Jacobson. In it, band leader John Darnielle (who’s styled like former WWE star CM Punk) gets attacked in the ring before the titular Chavo Guerrero runs out to save him. (That’s the both of them, above.) The video also features the band’s Jon Wurster and Peter Hughes, as well as actor Rob Corddry (Hot Tub Time Machine, Childrens Hospital), dressing up as wrestlers and cutting interviews while lip-syncing to the song. Check it out below. 

Darnielle shared a statement about the video:

I consider myself pretty decent with words, but I don’t think I can find the right ones to say what a profound experience it was to hear Chavo say “any time, brother” over the phone from his home in Arizona, and to meet up with him in L.A. and get stories from him about his dad Gory and about the old days at the Olympic, and to finally shoot this video, in which he rescues me from a certain beatdown even though my character’s playing the heel. I don’t wanna stand between you all and and Scott Jacobson’s awesome video much longer, but before you go check it out, please join me in raising a glass to Chavo Guerrero: champion not only in name but in his word and deed, and now a friend. The video features Chavo and me and Rob Corddry and Jon Wurster and Peter Hughes and was the most fun thing to make, as you’ll see, and not telling you all that I had actually met and worked with Chavo Guerrero has been total torture for the past month-plus, so please: enjoy!

Read our Update interview with Darnielle. 

Revisit the Mountain Goats’ “Cemetery Gates” session for Pitchfork.tv:

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