Brian Jonestown Massacre - 2002 Interview Part 1

[anogramatic]

4:46 listen to Jeff shred that solo!

[DoeDonDoe]

Opening track is still relevant today.

[imita01]

And, it's hilarious.... And, anton's not even high.. just drinking straight from the bottle.. haaa

[Howzyemama]

These guys are fucking morons. Just listen to how they know everything about everything.

[antonfjordson]

@Howzyemama i rebuke thee vile internet satan.

[imita01]

@Howzyemama Yeahh... but, everyone thinks they know everything when they are this talented... nothing new...

[navbir1]

jeffrey davies is a beautiful soul. he shall rise again.

[SethHesio]

Canada is so much nicer than the USA

[glitchesandglitter]

i love that music in the background

!!

[SethHesio]

@glitchesandglitter It's awesome... it sounds like the music at the beginning of LA Story.

[HalSamuel]

"I don't want to get into astral-physics, but..."

[musimundos2008]

Jeff davies where are you??

[assaglioli]

sans anton...rien

[evancasto]

Why can't Jeff Davies be with BJM anymore? I miss you :(

[kidsareoverrated]

i love at the end how he keeps reaching for the bottle and anton keeps pulling it away

[samueldu]

hear see emily play, pink floyd

[jakep34]

Hahaha, fuck that shit.. Anton, you're a genius, and you ripping into the youtoobers is hilarious. I miss Davies....

[414203]

the whole "gov. made crack for the ghetto" was something you hear and believe in highschool....i didn't think these grown men actually believe that hippy conspiacy bull....

[bayislove]

@414203

they didn't "make" crack for the ghetto... they simply facilitated the general direction of crack straight into the heart of the ghetto. And if you think that is some far out conspiracy theory you've got a lot to learn. This shit is happening right here right now and its not stopping

[darkmoon786]

@bayislove It's the truth. Look into the FBI and other US secret services' secret during the 1950s.

[slctdmbntwrx]

Hahaha they're listening to Django Reinhardt, man I love BJM....

[deloresfaun]

me too mushroom_leg :) like a lot x

[anogramatic]

i love jeff's rant in this!

[Device357]

Sounds like Django Reinhardt in the background?

[mushroomleg]

love the backround music during that interview.

[oldmancoatsie]

I love 'm.

[chado53]

you fucks think that if someone's not doing something "normal" like making certain type of music drug free, then you're the one who's fucked. there's room for every type of person in the world.

[diamondeye91]

this is true, they are intellectual, Anton is a musical genius, I hate the valley girl accent.

[democratusnostradams]

i think its called "drunk-ese"

[jandean61]

THIS IS 7 YRS AGO..........They are all alive and well. So I dont think they are the drunks drugies everyone says they are.

[johnmickle]

Not everyone who drinks or does drugs dies when theyre 27

[jandean61]

Anton looked pretty alright to me in Austin,Texas just 3 months ago.

[reficul66]

Who Cares if they took drugs idiots... Drugs open your mind and your soul... And this guys makes music, and this band its gonna be after many years a band to remember, their not gonna be forgoten like many others bands. This is an original band, this guys are the rock & roll, Anton is rock & roll. So whi cares if they take heroine, or cocaine, or ketamine, or shit. Toy stupid morons dont know a shit about music, about the message of this guys in their sound.

[greeneups]

AWSOME SOLO!!! I wish that was on the recording! But..... the recording is still AWSOME

[vegastr0n]

At the 4:01 mark, Anton looks as if he is going to kill Jeff.

I love'em both and they're "ideals" as some of you loser-fucks call it, are CORRECT.

Anton For Ever.

[gauchebag]

"they're" "ideals"

[shovman]

say what ever you want, but these guys kept rocknroll alive and still do. just besause you can see their rough side when they talk you think you're somehow above them, but you are wrong. anton writes wicked tunes and he's done what he had to, and done it right by his mind so but out if you're just looking to knock them down a notch.

[mt1221]

"I don't want to get too like, astrophysics but I believe in like, the power of greatness, the gravity of great things, and then, the lack of that pole. That's my philosophy."

.....It takes a junkie to come up with quotes like that and you think he's interesting?

I should do some fucking research on this loser? If these idiots do a lot more heroin and die can we call it even?

[televisedvision]

did you fucking notice the half empty bttle of jim he is holding...tat might hae something to do with his left wing ideals...he is fucking drunk!

he was clean from heroin at this point...you fucking smug fuck!

[RhysAneurin]

To not like a band because of their music is fair enough, but don't discriminate just because of what drugs they've taken...that's just plain stupidity

x

[Outpost206]

plus, that quote is brilliant.

[jakeaction81]

if the views of a " junkie and an idiot" are not interesting why are you watching this video. Beside the guys are clean.

[jandean61]

Both of them(Jeff,Anton) are alive and well to some degree. If they're junkies then why are they still living ?.......Im sick and tired of people giving Anton,Pete Dohetry, Amy Winehouse etc... all this crap when they even haven't OD at all. Yes, they have issues but they wake up in the morning and drink a cup of coffee just like we all do !

[mt1221]

Sorry, the views of a junkie and idiot are not interesting at all. This loser would do the world a favor if he blew off his own head.

[pcduck7]

Now that's not a very nice thing to say, is it ? Have you heard They're music, anton in particular. If you don't think it's great, great... your probably not the smartest guy.

[televisedvision]

hey man...when u can write better music than anton... then you have a right to comment...until then, keep your comments to yoursef you smug fuck.

[mt1221]

I can write better music in my sleep than this loser can when he shoots up, which is what he needs to write these shit tunes. Go figure.

Why follow a bunch of drug addicts? So you can be associated with them?

[televisedvision]

jeff went to rehab back in 96/97...therefore, he has done what he can to stay clean from that point on.

also anton has been clean from heroin for many years...if you take the time to do some fucking research, you would find he does not advocate drug use...he has stated numerous times the demise of drugs!

i have met antons friends...they are the most pure people! why follow these people? because they have made some of the powerful music of all time!

get some fucking facts!

[mt1221]

Chemical intake above average even for junkies but they are the most pure people?

Brian Jonestown Massacre is genuine?

A bunch of little fags in tights.

[rickelmonoggin]

It's interesting how 'conservative' their political views are: They see the value in 'old' pieces of culture and they worry about the government having too much power in their lives.

[Nicholasmegalis]

One of the best bands ever. Ever. And you know what? It's one of those bands that people will suddenly wake up and say "Wait...holy shit they're amazing!" when they're long gone.

Just, fuckin wow.

[sonicjay007]

WHO NEEDS 'toast'when you have this wonderful delight of a band!

[bobbyfadel]

"Boys Talk 'Bout The Way It Is Like It were Though It Aint, I'm a Saint! Yeah! Yeah! I'm a fucking Saint! Yeah!! 'Cause, 'cause, Oh Shit! They Are Not Like Me! We're all Under The Thumb of the Dream State State!" Anton Boy

[PAULLONDEN]

Wished they took a little bit

of the glamour of Brian Jones....

THEN they could be perfect.

Citadel music,with Majesties imagery.

It's 2ØØØ....Máán.

It could be done.... [in a cøøøl way]./

[pcduck7]

True !

[darwinator12932112]

whats that song at 4 50 ish

[Sk8routier]

That girl Suicide

[sonicjay007]

as i said before best and underated group in the u.s. right now!!

[factory76]

truly, thank god for mental illness otherwise i could be listening to some truly crap music, god forbid. bjm are one band you cannot ignore. arctic monkeys and michael bolton... different story (cocksuckers).

[mooneymayhem]

FUCKIN YEEEEAHHHH!

[grodinvanbeethoven]

Great band- but they shouldn't talk- people have known crack is bad since day one.

[dreamlucid07]

Your post is unclear. Are you saying they're on crack (obviously they aren't, if you know anything about drugs) or challenging Jeff's suggestion that the government had a role in steering crack into the ghettos?

Whether you believe the latter or not, research the CIA and Oliver North's involvement in Cocaine smuggling from South America during the Reagan administration. It's a pretty well-established fact that the government has a hand in the distribution of illegal drugs.

[grodinvanbeethoven]

That MAY very well be true- but that doesn't mean people in the ghetto should smoke it - or were forced to. All governments do nasty things sometimes- Thats why I think gov should have limited power no matter what- because that will limit the negative things that you don't agree with- of course that also means less money for inner city schools and other social programs- but that is the trade off.

[dreamlucid07]

Yeah, I don't think anyone exactly authorized the US Government to distribute illegal narcotics dude...That's why it's done secretly and illicitly. And of course people "shouldn't" smoke crack (though that's a moral judgment you're making, actually) but learn some sociology and you'll realize that social patterns are dictated by more than moral choices....

[dreamlucid07]

Finally, to say the government should have "limited power" is a pretty vague statement you make. Any government, by definition, has limited power, and the US Government has more limited power than many. But that obviously doesn't solve the problem of them doing things illegally, against their own lawful limitations.

[vlodigiani]

America, America!!! America is a continent, Canadians ARE americans, say fckn United States. whatever...

[rexdaggers88]

these guys are good

[sK8iZliF3]

these guys conversations prlly suck balls and they shuld go to hell like benoit

[xen300]

So there's Brian Jones and he's a Rolling Stone, right, and he dies, okay, and then there's this Jonestown cult in South America that killed itself in the seventies yeah? Now get this. Jones. Brian. Jonestown. Massacre. Yeah? Far out.

[glitchesandglitter]

who cares?

[gabetvc15]

I dont see anybody buying your tickets, maybe a bunch of drunk canadians, want to see your culture as if your shit does not stink,

stay downthere and stay away from the west!

[servo1056]

you must be fucking jokeing!

[poopoorodriguez]

anton is a true original

[cum2roll]

I think it is ironic as hell, that a bi-polar junkie,who is conceived as a workaholic by virtue of being on coke&amp all the time, is now held up by incredible bands like The Black Angels as influential.People really will buy anything they are told. He spends his life posting propaganda on his MySpace page.Where are these incredible songs?A bunch of 3-chord Oasis on a bad day, b-sides hardly constitute great music.Entertaining movie&at least we got theBlackRebelMotorcycleClub out of Antons ashes

[glitchesandglitter]

he influenced the black angels, plus as well several revivalist bands. 3-chord songs like oasis? listen to the music before you make comments like that. they have had layered guitar in past albums with complex structure and harmonization. yes they make simple pop songs, but they also have a huge catologue. you should check it out, and stop being so cynical about art and people that you dont understand or are not tolerant of.

[xen300]

I LIKE Mr Newcombe and his band(s). I was only having a gentle dig at the name as an affectionate uncle might at his talented but unruly nephew. I only wish I had fans as loyal as you...

[antonfjordson]

@cum2roll you are a fucking nobody dickhead.your screen name says it all...troll

[Tenebrae2347]

Anton=Nugget.

Fuckin dumb cunt can't hold a candle to those he rips off....ie: Spacemen 3, MBV.

I'd never tire of hitting the fey little prick.

[fortedj]

BAHAHAHAHA! Anton is such a dick. watch how jeff davies tries to grab the bottle and gets denied twice. 7:24 and 7:35

[TheBathroomWindow]

The bottle was his and the guy kept trying to steal it.

[CH0CO88]

what a good sound

[WarrenDemontague33]

the cia plot he spoke of is heavily documented online...he may have been trashed but he's got his facts straight

[kookooo1]

i favourited this 6 monthas afuckin go

and i did

[kosser321]

they're so fucked up

[xxoxxsmash]

Drugs and insanity... what's with the 'Jonestown CIA plot' bullshit...dribble

[riverpeople]

jonestown was a cia plot. the cia was interested in mind controll and knew jones was good at it. they payed for him to live in south america

[orangevideo]

Anton just needed an ace manager....

BTW the bottle of  Jim Beam is HIS!!!!!!!

[djnugent]

poor jeff. he wishes he was anton.

[weezkid45]

damn! what is the name of the first song you hear BJM playing in the video?

[batonet666]

This is "That irl Suicides". This song is on the albums Methodrone and Spacegirl. To me the better one is the one wich is on Methodrone.

[potsandpansdan]

Frank Black - the pixies, David Burne - talking heads.

I don't mean other members of the bands are un-important. Its just the vision, the idea the overall picture is what these people have and had and thats the difference. Its genuine music not some pretentious fucking shit noise.

[potsandpansdan]

Fucking goofs

[potsandpansdan]

Man who are you to speak for canada. You wouldn't know what good music is if it shot you. Anton like ian curtis of joy division and ian of echo and the bunnymen and issac brock of modestmouse the list goes on, have all been cunts to their band at some point cause its their bands and they have the vision and they know exactly how it should sound so they reinforce that. Its nessesary for genius's like anton sometimes. Hes alot more than you could ever see in a movie.

[lovelessaxel]

shit does anybody knows if his voice is still fucked up ?

[sofealis]

do you know how voices work you retard

[lovelessaxel]

yes...

im a voice coach

you can work it out

by sucking my dick

[maddogmcaleer]

Wtf? Did you post that same comment on all these videos? You have that much time on your hands?

[jumboband]

Who's playing the background music during the interview sections and why,oh why, can't we listen to it instead of these guys babbling!!!!!!?

[riverpeople]

I'm pretty sure the music playing in the backround is something by Django Reinhardt, a crazy gypsy guitar player from the 1930s.

[rubendeleeuw]

It's Django, the violinplayer is Stephen Grappelli.

They recorded so much good songs.

Legends!!!

[matador1974]

Love Antons sneer at Jeff at 3:30

[rudimactavish]

i'm calmer than you are! haha. but you are right, i am a dumbass, that's why i like Mr. Blobby, he also speaks nonsense... anyway, when i said they were gimps, i was referring to the crap they were talking, not the music, although, in my opinion, that was not very impressive either, bring on the metallica!

[rudimactavish]

i listen to the teletubbies soundtrack, steps, s club 7 and s club juniors, east 17, A1, Westlife, Boyzone, Bob the Builder Soundtrack, Mr. Blobby, as well as all good euro pop e.g. bing bang bong - ya dick

[odcatastrophe]

...not Pete Kember (aka Sonic Boom), you are talking about Jason Peirce (aka J Sapceman) :)

[rudimactavish]

what a bunch of gimps!

[antcawdor]

go listen to some u2 man,or maybe some nickleback. you latent clown.

[rudimactavish]

U2 suck, Nickleback have got one song i've heard, and they suck, have you got anymore good advice? maybe you'll advise me to listen to this bunch of no hopers, that would be a great idea if i wanted to waste valuable time

[doornorthern]

what an asshole

[jandean61]

CMRB

[museumbone]

Jonestown as a "CIA mind-control plot"--c'mon, dude.

[dreemgenre]

my son was 15 and it wasn't all ages afterall... but the bjm bass player at the time tried everything to get him into the show...he's a roadie/nephew/niece/alien.... andrew wound up waiting for us at the cafe no se with a fresh copy of bjm's new record...

[kc7fys]

Just saw DiG!, and it's a good little movie, but started to drag after an hour. It also failed to answer: "Why is this bratty snot notable enough for 146 minutes of movie?" Writes nice indie-rock songs. But half-grown snots like this are a dime a dozen. Why the movie?

[antonfjordson]

@kc7fys you are jealous...go bCK IN YOUR CAVE TROLL

[kc7fys]

@antonfjordson: Why on earth would I be jealous of that? Huh? What's there to be jealous of?

From the cave,

Troll in St. Paul, MN

[antonfjordson]

your best thinking is get you living in st. paul and talking smack online...what a fucking looser.

[kc7fys]

@antonfjordson I'm sorry I can't converse with you in your first language. Then we could do this properly. As it is, you're not making much sense.

Best regards, Anton.

[spitfireskater94]

EternalLifeForYou is just an ignorant prick who cant appreciate the differences of others, let alone good music. Don't worry about him everyone, he probably listens to Ashlee Simpson...

[EternalLifeForYou]

Fags and junkies!

[federicortl]

come mierda EternalLifefuckkyou...and yeah keep listening your idiot mtv shit.

[EternalLifeForYou]

Rude little boy! Fuck off niglet!

[federicortl]

jaja...rude little boy!!...nice one EternalDickForYou

[EternalLifeForYou]

Puta!

[federicortl]

uy uy..rude little boy ..que pedo pendejo--jajaja...thats for you eternalickdickforyou.---osea pèndejo con tu mensaje---

[antonfjordson]

@EternalLifeForYou TELL YOUR MOM SHE NEEDS TO SEE A DOCTOR...I THINK SHE GAVE YOU VD.

[jandean61]

People need to stop calling them fags and junkies...keep in mind what happen only 4 days ago. American society is on the breaking point. Words hurt motherfuckers ! If you dont know or ever met them dont call them names.

[EternalLifeForYou]

Bunch of fags.

[rjsaid]

The guy who said spacemen 3 suck but liberally throws around the word genius about Anton... what the fuck? I'm about to disable comments on this. Shit is getting out of hand. Take it easy.

[jandean61]

Anton is a great songwriter but he definitely has Spaceman 3 influence just like The Warlocks. They all do....

[harshtradamus]

too many of you tards are making it painfully apparent that the only knowledge and appreciation you have of BJM comes from watching Dig.

[rjsaid]

and the "only knowledge and appreciation" you have of the BJM comes from... where? 4 years before dig? Suck it up.

[jetcarjohnny]

That's one awesome outro solo by Jeff there on 'That Girl Suicide'!

[CUJOCORE]

it was his fault to fight in front of the record execs when he was about to get signed.

too bad they couldnt look past it

[h8umuds]

Anton is a genius. Too bad the assholes at the record companies can't see that. They should just give him money, and complete freedom to make important, and original music. Anton's one in a million. The major labels should be kissing his ass, not shunning him for a couple fights on stage. Fuck the corporate assholes!

[glitchesandglitter]

Brian jonestown rules. anton is amazing.... Thank God For Mental Illness indeed!

[stankler]

"crack cocaine".."that you love by the way "ha ha

[zilladog1332]

humans can be really intelligent and then theres antons

[zilladog1332]

i watched dig and i hope anton is no a real person and that was just an act cause im seventeen and i cant put up with his tantrums plus the songs suck go listen the arctic monkeys and through out this brian jonestown garbage

[fuzzyargy]

sorry man but in years to come you will understand... dont take it too personally dude, just enjoy :P

[CUJOCORE]

"put up with his tantrums?" do you even know him? no one is making you listen to them.

fuck the arctic monkeys. BJM does there own thing, but you ever notice that the arctic monkeys sound the exact same as the other euro rock groups?

[jetcarjohnny]

The film 'Dig!' is about The Dandy Warhols and gives a bad name to BJM in some ways. What you see is not always what is really there. And I hope you fucking realise that the only reason The Arctic Monkeys are only "big" because of the record label. They're a whoring record label backed by a band. BJM got to where they are through true talent.

[lamerain]

killer solo

[Tenebrae2347]

tell me you people aren't serious...

This is a pair of brainless drunks narcissists trying to discuss truths they can barely comprehend. Eye of the pyramid? Go listen to real psychedelic bands like the Elevators or Spacemen 3 if you want wisdom. if you want mindless reproduction, stick with what you got. antons a fuckin idiot. Very obvious.

[cgriggsy]

why do people find it so neccesary to criticise in such infantile ways!!?? Oooh, he used some big words, he must be right.

If you like those bands, great, if you think they're better, totally fair enough, but your crticisms are way over the top and just render your points moot.

I know one thing for sure, BJM copy no-one, they are totally genuine organicically developed band.

[Jaxoff]

listen to some george carlin shows, u'll see why. its call America the stupid.

[wardie1010]

antons a creative genius albeit a massive dickhead

stop talking out of your ass

spacemen 3 fucking suck

[CUJOCORE]

nah, man the Spacemen 3 are the shit. so are BJM, though, of course

[CUJOCORE]

"real phycedellic"? what the fuck is that? physcedellic isnt about being "hardcore". its assholes like you that turned punk into the shit that it is

[patcho85]

spell psychedalic dumbass

[CUJOCORE]

you spelled it wrong too, though. i have dyslexia, asshole

the dictionary says-psychedelic

[kerrie1234567890]

hahahahah great comment, i was thinking the same thing.

[riverpeople]

hell yeah!. There are a wide variety of psychedlic experiance, BJM is no less psychelic, or more psychedlic than any other band.. I hate the "i was there first" purists that ruined punk too.

[CUJOCORE]

I totally agree, i use that analogy all the time

[TheEndAsWeKnowIt]

Speaking of Spacemen 3, there's a video of Pete Kember from that band, in which he has his hair almost exactly like Anton's. Freaked me out. They almost look identical.

[skipperthomas]

i love the bjm. i also love how anton says that his music isn't evil, especially when he's the founder of the committee to keep music evil haha!

[CrashHell]

Jeff may have been a little annoying but he stuck with the band as long as he could. He deserved more respect!

[IAmSound7]

BJM is great!

[IAmSound7]

i love the point when jeff reaches out to the bottle anton is holding, but anton doesn't give it to him (7:35). i've got lots of respect for anton, but not on those moments. and when he's on heroin, but everybody has his bad sides.

[frakassor]

Anton president!

[acidflower2]

So great! Leftie politics combined with terrific psych-influenced music.

[DamienBoy13]

Haha, I Feel Right At Home On This Thread.

[parmenides]

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood....

[domsitar90]

anton is a legend