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.
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