high strung and Brian Jonestown Massacre

ON THIS ROAD AND BEYOND
The High Strung continue to open ears across the country, making a mockery of James Brown and his boast as the hardest working man in Showbiz with their relentless touring schedule.They will also be playing a few in-store appearances so come get up close and personal at Criminal Records on Sat the 13th in Atlanta at 4pm and at Shangri-La in Memphis on Wednesday the 17th at 5:30pm. The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The High Strung will then be joining up and hitting the road for a whole slew of dates beginning September 29th in San Diego. This tour will trek across the country to New York for the CMJ Music Marathon and then traverse the hemisphere and spread the good gospel to all the fine folks in Europe.Both bands will also be stopping by a number of record stores along the way for more special in-store performances. Details will soon follow. The Brian Jonestown Massacre's "…and this is our music" is due to hit all fine retail establishments on October the 7th.

YOU SHOULD START TRAINING NOW
The annual CMJ College Music Marathon will be held October 23rd through the 25th. In collaboration with Rubric Records and the newly formed Rubric Label Group, we will be featuring two showcases. The "soft" night will be held Saturday the 25th at Piano's (158 Ludlow St.) and will feature performances by Brian Jonestown Massacre, The High Strung, Mary Lou Lord, and Gingersol. The "heavy" night will take place Thursday the 23rd at Southpaw and beatings will be administered by High on Fire, Drunk Horse, The Cherry Valence, and the first ever performance on U.S. soil by Denmark's On Trial. Other additions will follow. We will also be hosting a day party on Friday the 24th from 12-5pm at Piano's. Booze and foodstuffs will be complemented with fine heavy music from On Trial and other possible invitees. Ambulances will be made available upon request.

MORE MASSACRE FOR THE MASSES
In correlation with "…and this is our music", Tee Pee will also be re-issuing a few pieces from The Brian Jonestown Massacre's back catalogue. "Their Satanic Majesties Second Request", "Take it From the Man", and "Give it Back" will all be re-issued on vinyl only. Show your turntable some love and pick up one or all of these. You know it gets sick of that damned Fine Young Cannibals LP.

Originally posted by SPARX:

Originally posted by walkman:
The High Dials are great. And from Canada.

Anton just signed them to his "committee to keep music evil" label.I think the release may be live.

If so, I'd be all over it.

The Mojo is located here

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Oh, wait a minute! Now I think I get it. Did the Tattoo change it's name to Mojo? In the meantime, I was wondering where the heck this place was. :roll:

yes there was a name change the mojo is more befiitting the places vibe

From: Anton Newcombe <antonnewcombe@y…>
Date: Thu Sep 11, 2003 2:49 pm
Subject: Re: Interview for Houston





> 1. Tell me a bit about Brian Jonestown Massacre.
> What do you shoot to convey
> (if anything) in your music?

i started the brian jonestown massacre in 1990 because
i wanted to be in a great band.i have always loved
psychedelic music.by that i mean to say "mind
expanding" music.my friends and i have tried to
explore our own creativity,talents and imaginations
and at the same time entertain others.i think we have
been a great success.

>
> 2. What do consider to be your main musical
> influences?

god,my god more specifically.as i understand him to
be.i also enjoy so many types of music,so many great
records and artists where could i ever hope to
begain?fuck it here goes nothing :
enrique carrouso,the la's,the zombies,joy
divission,primal scream,the doors,howlin wolf,rahsaan
roland kirk,stan getz and friends,jesus and
marychain,dead meadow,beatles,kinks,jimi
rogers,nusurat fateh ali kahn,kraftwork,faust,neu',the
high dials,lightning hopkins,anup jolota,rolling
stones,scott walker,hank williams sr.,i'm all over the
map really.i like everything except
metal,rap-rock,most urban contemperarry culture etc.i
don't need it.it says nothing to me,does nothing for
me,infact it wasn't even created with me in mind.

>
> 3. It's reported that some 40 different members have
> worked their ways
> through your band since its inception. Are you a
> slavedriver or what?
> (that's a joke) How do you feel about other
> relatively new bands like Black
> Rebel Motorcycle Club and The Warlocks that seem to
> be influenced by your
> band (and many others) gaining popularity in the
> mainstream today?

i'm not a slave driver.i have a vission of what i want
to accomplish at any givi=en moment.what it is i do
and do not want.people come and go as their need and
those of my own sort of hook up and travel the same
dirrection and speed.
as far as the warlocks or the b.r.m.c. are
concerned,i wish them all the luck in the world.i will
say this,i have soundscan and those bands are not
mainstream.they are a drop of piss in a very big pond
indeed.don't be fooled by the clever ways of the
publicist,the influence of money and marketing.outkast
is mainstream.those bands will be the guilatine that
severs the head of the major lable machine.

>
> 4. What is the one description that you hate to hear
> about your music?

i don't hate nothing but hatred.it does however irk me
a bit when people decribe us as all things "rolling
stones"when people ,journalists,write that crap i know
they have never even heard our music.the stones were
very much a blues based band.they owe everything to
black music.the only thing i owe the black man is
respect.just like everyone else,line,single file - no
cuts.

>
> 5. What's your take on the state of the music
> industry today?

if you would have asked me last year,i would have said
"somebody call a doctor".now i sugest we unplug the
patient and say our farewells.i know there will always
be a "music buisness",but the time has really arrived
to rethink and reinvent the thing.it lacks
leedership.plain and simple.vission,guts,taste,ball if
you will.i think the lawyer just bent it over and
sodomised it.sickest thing is how many bands just
can't wait to jump right in.fact is most bands have no
buisness ever being on a major lable.

>
> 6. Obviously, since you have all of the Brian
> Jonestown Massacre albums
> available as MP3s on your website you aren't against
> the MP3 "revolution."
> What prompted you to give the fans access to all of
> your releases as MP3s?
> What other ways are you using the internet as a tool
> to market your band?

even as we speak,young people all over the world are
decieding how they should best interact with not only
new technology,but with all of the digitised
information that exists.there are more young people
right now out there swaping mp3's,that don't buy
cd's,than there were rock fans in the sixties.i own my
music,we still sell more records than ever before.i
refuse to believe it hurts anything.it helps.i will
continue to use every tool to exicute my plan.every
medium,every fan.
>
> 7. If you could have any band/musician cover one of
> your songs, what song
> would it be and what band or musician?
>
i'll be clever,i think i would do a medley.have 50
cent and britany spears duet,have the neptunes and
death and veagas remix it.i would take all of the
millions of dollars i would make,and do something
productive and meaningfull with my life.
it is my sincere hope that many of my songs will
enter the popular lexicon as folk music,and that
people will make them better.


> 8. Complete this phrase any way you want: "If love
> is a drug,

i already did on one of my ep's,
"if love is a drug,then i want to od."
yep,i love that song.you should go to
www.brianjonestownmassacre.com and check it out.

> _______________."
> Richard Ashcroft once sang "the drugs don't
> work"–do you agree? Why or why
> not?
>
who gives a fuck what he thinks about drugs.i read
that something like 65% percent of the brittish
population between the ages of 20 and 35 are fucked up
off of their asses on extacy every single weekend.i
was just over there and it is truley amazing.i think
he is just talking more or less about his
experiances,hanging out with shitheads like robbie
williams back stage at glastonbury,watching people
have heart attacks on blow or pissing your pants on
e.but that's what you get.he is the idiot that thought
he wanted to be a rock star.

> 9. What's next for Brian Jonestown Massacre?

more questions.more answeres.more tours.more
records.more airplanes.more bars.more hotels.more
memories.death.
>
> 10. What is in your CD player right now? (Rather,
> what are YOU listening
> to?)

funny you should ask.our new album ofcoarse…but
then,i listen to vinyl at home so let me see….david
sylvian - secrets of the beehive.
>
>
> I really appreciate you taking the time to
respond.no problem.it's my pleasure.let me know if you
need any sort of follow-up.
anton alfred newcombe
p.s.i wish you would include our mp3 site adress.

=====

Brian Jonestown Massacre @ Trees
March 13, 2003
For the past two years, Brian Jonestown Massacre
mastermind Anton Newcombe has thumbed his nose at
SXSW. Why? For not booking them in adequate venues.
Two years ago, the conference planners placed BJM at a
club too far away from the hoopla, so he told them to
fuck off;. Last year they tried to make amends by
booking the band at the unpleasantly un-hip Hard Rock
Café, and Anton had ditto to say to the Austin-ites.
Thankfully, His Majesty was pleased was this years
placement, so he loaded his newest lineup into a
Winnebago, headed east, and stopped in Dallas on a
Thursday night to catch the attention of the
ever-present but slightly diminishing throng of BJM
fanatics in town.

True to form, the Massacre played a long set well over
25 songs. There weren’t too many attitudes to deal
with as in days of yore; Anton kept his cool for the
most part as a very young, very new lineup did their
best to keep up with the wisecracking front man. Older
fans were amused to watch him quietly lambaste the
musicians for watching the audience instead of him,
while newer fans looked on in a state of confusion and
slight discomfort. Kiddos, that’s just the way the
band works. I can remember back to when there would be
screaming fights onstage between members. (No man, YOU
PLAYED MY SONG WRONG!; Why don’t you cool it? You’re
killing my vibe.; Fuck you.; No. Fuck you.; Slam.
Bang. Pow. You get the drift) So it seems that at the
age of 35, Mr. Newcombe has mellowed. This review
really doesn’t intend on rehashing the past, but its
crazy to see just how much they’ve dare I say it?
Matured over the past few years. I guess Anton finally
recognized the importance of his whole Talk Action =
Shit credo.

Moments the BJM fans felt the best: Satellite;,
Fucker;, This Is Why You Love Me;, Servo;, Whoever You
Are; (which had the just about the best beer-raising
opening effect on the crowd I saw all weekend), Going
To Hell;, and David Bowie I’ve Loved You Since I Was
Six;.

Moments BJM fans felt the worst: when other fans
starting shrieking and booing as Anton had a laugh
over the SRV guitar incident at 2002s SXSW. Dudes,
lighten up. You kinda killed my vibe. Irreverence is
actually pretty funny sometimes. And it was just a
guitar. Do you honestly expect Anton Alfred Newcombe
to bow down to Stevie?

Hopefully the next time the BJM Chateaux rumbles
through town, people will remember just how much they
used to like them and hit the clubs again. It was kind
of sad to see Trees with so much open space in the
audience. Then again, it was SXSW time. Its just a
shame that so many people had to miss the band on such
a good night. For as many times as I’ve seen one
incarnation of BJM or another, this was honestly among
the best.

– Christina Comley

Originally posted by Anton Newcombe:

As for BJM albums, they are all rather good, if sometimes a little hard to crack. All the albums can be downloaded from the bjm site though. Strung out in heaven is a good place to start.

Glad for the recommendation. Someone was selling this on Amazon's used site for 18 cents for some reason, making the total cost with shipping at around $2.60.

There was another used one on there for a similar amount.

Originally posted by Relaxer:
[Strung out in heaven is a good place to start.
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Glad for the recommendation. Someone was selling this on Amazon's used site for 18 cents for some reason, making the total cost with shipping at around $2.60.

[/QB] TVT was unloading their stock of SOIH,since they are no longer on that label.Should be tons of copies in the dollar bin.Spun is probably my fave from that release.

Found Give it Back, SOIH, and Bravery, Repitition & Noise in the dollar rack at the CD Exchange over the past year or so. They seem to have a very healthy stock of SOIH in particular. It's excellent, but I think I like Give it Back the best.

Originally posted by walkman:
Found Give it Back, SOIH, and Bravery, Repitition &amp; Noise in the dollar rack at the CD Exchange over the past year or so. They seem to have a very healthy stock of SOIH in particular. It's excellent, but I think I like Give it Back the best.

For me personally,I think the reissue of Spacegirl with bonus tracks is my fave hands down!Their next release,due Oct.7th will be on Teepee records and not a Bomp release.