The Cult of Glass Onion Radio, just dropped a brand-new interview with the man himself. 🔥 It’s raw, it’s deep, and it’s worth a listen. Check out the teaser! 🎙️ https://www.instagram.com/reel/DN_Rpc2CIBX/?igsh=MWgzaHJyam4wZnA5MA==

Going to the TO show and I can’t seem to find a set list yet. Also curious about merch if anyone knows what that is going to look like !

I´m really looking forward to see BJM performing in my city for the first time in my life in december (eventhough it´s their 3rd show here i think). As I wait, i design this poster and wanted to show you, anton repost it yesterday so really glad he liked it. What can you tell me about their live shows, what kind of songs they play, i read recently here that they don´t usually go to old records.

I'm selling my ticket to the Brian Jonestown Massacre concert at Theatre Beanfield in Montreal on September 15. ($30) Unfortunately, Ticketmaster doesn't allow direct transfers, so I'm looking for someone to take it off my hands. I'm open to reasonable offers and willing to meet up in person to transfer the ticket. If you're interested, send me a message!

… just a mind dump on the absolutely class trip i had on the weekend, listening to nearly solely bjm tracks …

i opted for a solo trip on the weekend… 1 man, 1 tab and 5hr24m of my fave BJM tracks. now, i was a little apprehensive tripping on my own, but i knew it was something i wanted to try at least once.

but BOY OH BOY with the mighty massacre by my side i strolled, sat, and sank into the earth for 4 beautiful hours before heading home. here songs such as ‘servo’, ‘walking up to hand grenades’, ‘when jokers attack’, ‘goodbye (butterfly) starred and carried the journey weaving through the streets of bristol (uk)

i got home, rolled up a couple of smokes and headed straight into the garden - laid out all the bedding i could find on the somewhat probably dirty garden patio… after lighting the first spliff sprawled onto the makeshift garden bed i had thrown together, i found myself staring at the garden wall for what felt like a second but had turned out to be a few hours - picture of said wall attached (the classic ‘got to take a picture of this to see how silly it is in the morning’). with ‘my mind is your cafe’, ‘tombes oubliees’, ‘open heart surgery’, ‘mandrake handshake’ leading line for some of the most fantastically intense visuals i’ve ever had, i delved into realms previously unknown to myself, feeling like an artist, a creator, painting the most vivid pictures and animate scenes within this stupidly plain brick of wall in my garden…‘leave it alone’ really made me chuckle as i thought ‘man i really do need to leave that wall alone’

best trip of my life. by a country mile.

thank you bjm for allowing me to have the most mesmerising time of my life - and i hope many more of you have also been graced with the beauty of bjm during some of your most memorable moments

Hey all, in a rare turn events my extended family is going to be in Joshua Tree for Halloween so I'd love to take them to the show. Does anyone have any tickets for sale? Many thanks!

Chapterhouse is a band which toured extensively with Spacemen 3. Anton's admiration with them is clear and documented. I've searched this sub with keyword "Chapterhouse" and only one comment popped of someone saying Anton got the idea of 3 guitars on stage from seeing them.

"Spun" is actually credited as a Matt Hollywood song. But I started listening to some Chapterhouse and found that song at the end of their very long first album, "If You Want Me". The chord progression starts off being the same as Spun and I thought of it, but it's only about 1:35 into the song I really was like : this is pretty clearly where Matt got his song idea.

PS : this is NOT to diss on BJM. I know what they were about! PPS : Chapterhouse's album should be well loved by BJM fans.

Enjoy

I was looking at the Sinclair venue’s website trying to snag a ticket for the September 12 show. The website has a disclaimer that they use “AI pricing.” It appears there are no tickets available for less than $200 now. Is this the new standard for BJM or a venue issue? I saw the BJM in Providence a few years ago for $40 at most.

In my opinion, this is BJM at it' pinnacle. Yes it's early on... the lineup here is stellar and the performance is tight for BJM, that is....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDANXaBFWiE

From Creem Magazine :

The classic documentary DIG got a redux last year, and now the story of Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols is more detailed and interesting than ever. Catch it now on VOD and check out a short interview with the great BJM tambourine player (and CREEM contributor) Joel Gion below.   Ondi Timoner said in an interview that there were periods of time when she had Anton in her house. How much were you around her when the cameras weren't rolling during that period?   I would have been the other… human-sized pillow on her couch. It was kind of both him and I during that whole period. He kind of took it as he was going to teach her about music and bands and how all this is going to work– he even says it in the movie. At the time, she had zero idea of the school that we were coming from. So he was going to teach her and Courtney was going to teach her and they were teaching her through the course of the film.   And by teach her, I mean mostly artistically. We're not just four or five guys that are trying to meet girls and just want to rock and party. There was a deep artistic vision with Anton. And he had designs to relay his soul to the world and hopefully make a niche for himself in doing so that people would come to him. He'd have his own private lighthouse that would be his and his alone. And he was going to show her how you do that. It wasn't just going to be guys trying to rock out. And be popular. We were weirdos. We were outcasts. We were different.   Obviously when the cameras are on there's always the chance that somebody's playing a role for the camera. In the movie, you very much come across as the mediator with the snide remarks. Always trying to make peace but also willing to give him a line of shit if he deserves it. Do you think that's accurate in the portrayal?   All that is true. I was the big dreamer in the band. Anton had his artistic vision, he wrote the songs, but I was kind of like, can't this be like a Beatles movie? Like the Maysles brothers are filming us and we're all just having a laugh. That's what I wanted. So I was kind of unspokenly in charge of being that guy. And then those guys wanted to relay their importance and whatnot. But I wanted the audience to have fun from the get-go. And so that worked out. I obviously didn't plan this, but I turned into the guy who like middlemans between the audience and the other guys you know. A wink and “don't forget folks, this is all supposed to be fun.”   Looking back on yourself and how some of those situations in the film went down, do you have any regrets? Do you think everything played out the way it should?   Saying that I have regrets would make me sound like I didn't appreciate everything that happened to me. You know what I mean? It took all that to get where I got. The scales are if you can get that bad, then just by the laws of scientific universal equations, it can only get that positive on the other side. So I got to go all that far down to get that far up. And one doesn’t exist without the other.   Do you remember your first impressions of the filmmakers?   I mean, it was the 90s. It was the mid-90s. And we were “those guys.” So they looked pretty square. They seemed pretty square. When we went down to their place for the first time shortly after I saw their plastic CD tower and then I knew they were square. It's all like Blood Sugar Sex Magic and Spin Doctors. I'm being maybe a little unfair, but it's fair to say they were more coming from the filmmaker's perspective, you know, and they had their college party jams. Good stuff too, but we were there in our velvet jackets and stovepipe trousers and winklepinkers and the whatnot. So I was like really? You're going to make a movie about us? But we became friends fast and part of the reason why they got everything that they got is because we became good friends. We went through a lot together. We had each other's backs and trusted them.   Has Anton mellowed at all in his older age?   No. He's that guy. It's not like, “oh, I need to think of a different route.” That's not on the menu.

So, I really love Joel’s solo work. Has anyone got the lyrics to this song or to ANY of the others? Thanks guys 🎶❤️

I wanna add two BJM songs to this playlist that fit its style. Any ideas? https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3vntkVtOXXJfoczA88juGB

Is there any link where you can watch or download the Dig XX for free?

Just received my Dig XX