My band played with the Brian Jonestown Massacre at a little tiny club called the Mojo room in Baltimore Md in 2003. I first heard Take it from the man in 1999 and by 2003 was a big fan. I walked into the Mojo room early to load our gear in and instantly saw Anton sitting alone at the bar with a drink in front of him by himself. I walked over ordered a drink and sat down next to him and struck up a conversation. He honestly couldn’t have been a nicer guy. Super interesting, present, lucid and stable. Everything that he is not in the press. My band played and then Jonestown played and went through all of their classics to a virtually empty bar. This was a couple of years before Dig had come out and they were pretty much unknown to most people at that time. I walked away that night blown away at just how good the BJM were and how downright cool Anton was. By the way DIG portrayed him you’d think in real life he was a monster.
@@stellarcellar7512 He’s not a really kind person. He’s an abusive drunk who disrespects his wife, his sons and his fans. He had people fooled for years. How banal, rich kid from California who never had to work a day job. Tried for years to convince people he wasn’t the idiot from Dig, only to prove that he always was, right down to the worst. Unemployable now. Time has closed in.
I have friend who introduced me to BJM from a recorded cassette tape in 1998 or 99. Until the film DIG! came out, I thought BJM was a band that existed in the late 1960's. That's how little info I had.
No mention of his incredible string of albums in 2011-2020? It was something of a second Golden Age for the band (and how many bands ever get one of those?)
No, he lost it. It’s all just Anton now and he’s forcing it, not coming naturally. Though to be fair I’d say I’m talking about the latter 2010s. And My bloody underground is the greatest album ever made imo.
I'm a drummer and I don't appreciate how Anton went through drummers like water. He has no respect for the percussive arts. Just used drummers for as cheaply as he could get them, and then dumped them for another. and he kept all of the drum parts they invented in the studio and then had the other drummers copy them. Drummers usually get the short end of the stick. That's why I quit. I was a great drummer but I was tired of being treated like sh%t.
I didn't know about either one of these bands. Guess I hadn't been paying attention to the stuff at that time. This is all very interesting and I'm planning on looking into these two groups. How cool.
In thirty years people will be listening to BJM and no one will remember whatever his critics have to say about his behaviour. He is dedicated to his creative vision in a ruthless way. Thats what makes him special and thats what pisses people off.
BEFORE WATCHING THE FULL VIDEO: I heard the words "The Brian Jonestown massacre" I knew it was about the album I'd heard at randon on a RU-vid channel which uploads lots of the same. Wow, this is going to be interesting.
Who Killed Sgt. Pepper is great but the mixing is terrible. It’s so quiet. Brings to mind Capitol again. Paul’s Boutique is another low volume mix, on the vinyl, CD and digital. Would be easy to fix.
I just love BJM, however I've often imaged running into Anton at the airport and running fast to get away. I don't want my illusions/delusions to be proven otherwise. I would rather just enjoy the music and put my own thoughts into it.
I hung out with Matt Hollywood at Nice N Sleazy in Glasgow. I say hung out, just ended up standing up every 2 minutes to take someone’s phone so I could take a photo of them with Matt.
AFTER WATCHING THE VIDEO: I am going to be honest and say Anton sounds like a moron. HOWEVER, I have to add I don't know him personally and the only things we have in common is addiction and mental illness. I can say, first hand, you get judged or pigeon holed even if you stay sober or have mental health issues. Sounds to me he's both driven by this mental health but also hindered? As for the documentary "Dig"? He's not the first person, or persons, to have been misrepresented. And, "Dig" was made during the mid to late 1990s, a period of documentaries, being scucessful which later have been exposed as being misleading or edited to present a bised perspective (as opposed to being objective). Such as: "Super size me" or several by Michael Moore, which are dubious in their editing. As for his more recent work? Why does an artist have to deliver work which 'fits in' with what has gone before? Bowie and Prince's entire career existed on changing and exploring new genres or concepts. And finally, why does an artist have to be acccessable? Sometimes, how people react to an artist or work, says MORE about the audience than it does the creator. Either way, his story and career are anything but borning. David
Ugh. THAT guy. It's not interesting up close. It's twitchy, and not in a cool way. He can write a catchy melody but so can a few million other people, and all his music is extremely derivative. Yes, he's madcap but not in a Syd Barret way, closer to GG Allin in his emotional (and sometimes physical) treatment of people around him. But on top of that there's a huge synthetic act. There's not much legit about him. He wakes up everyday and asks himself "How can I be weird today?" It's a big fake image on top of a lot of insecurity and bipolarism. He's had a hundred chances to get help and climb out of it, and slapped it all away. It's a lot less cute than it was 20 years ago and it's going to be really sad from here on out. --someone who's seen him in action off stage a bunch of times, seen how he treats people, and been close with people who used to be in his band.
@@DontPissInTheWelll I bet a lot of the people who think "He sounds so cool!" have never actually spent time around someone truly unhinged. There's nothing cool about it.
I used to think that Anton liked his fans until that last tour . Drunk ppl are uninhibited and I heard him say what he really thinks . Im never giving him a dime
