Throughout the band’s 32-year life span, Anton has remained the only consistent member. Following up with album ’21’, ‘The Future is Your Past’ releases this October. The BJM released 8 albums in their first 5 years alone and released their 20th (yes 20th) studio album, titled ‘Fire Doesn’t Grow on Trees’ this June. Hailing from San Francisco and starting as pioneers in the shoegaze genre, they eventually morphed into one of the mainstays of the 90s psychedelic rock revival scene. True to the preservationist style and desire for total tonal perfection, all of his equipment amps, guitars, everything, is all period. He eats, sleeps, and breathes the art he creates. A man who’s stumbled out of the desert screaming “I’ve seen God!”.
It’s as if he’s been frozen in time and taken the energy of 1960s Haight Ashbury with him wherever he goes. Almost.Īnton Alfred Newcombe is a purist. With enough past members to fill up an NFL football team, an absurdly lengthy name, and a frontman who preps himself for the stage by drinking a cocktail of his own creation handsomely titled “the skinny bitch”, the stories and lore of Anton and his pack of wild hippie goons are almost as good as the music itself. Just a little pretext: The BJM, quite simply put, are the stuff of legend. For Anton Newcombe and his band the Brian Jonestown Massacre, they dipped the wheel in acid and lit it on fire. Every so often, there’s an artist that transcends the conventions of their medium and completely reinvents the wheel. “Going, going, Gion: Joel Gion of the Brian Jonestown Massacre talks “Dig!”, the death of rock ‘n’ roll, and the time he accidentally broke up Oasis” | Flying Tambourines, Strange Russian Candies, And Rock Star Hugs: A Brian Jonestown Massacre Odyssey by Zach White The term “creative genius” is a brashly overused statement, often thrown around like rice at a wedding.
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