#Brian Jonestown massacre

[chroniclesofnadia111]

I think I know how I feel 💫

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Omega Radio for March 12, 2022; #300.

Ty Segall: “Don’t Lie”

Habibi: “Nice”

New Pornographers: “Mary”

Waveless: “Cicadas Sing”

Big Brave & The Body: “Once I Had A Sweetheart”

Shilpa Ray: “I’m Not An Effigy”

Christine & The Queens: “Freedom”

Dirty Projectors: Death Of An Heir Of Sorrows"

Vaults: “Poison”

Marissa Paternoster: “White Dove”

Ruah: “Dead Friends”

No Swoon: “Gold He Said”

Brian Jonestown Massacre: “Fact 67”

Hazel English: “Nine Stories”

Holy Motors: “Trouble”

Wren Kitz: “Shrouds”

Cryogeyser: “Sonic Peace”

Sault: “Trap Life”

Khruangbin & Leon Bridges: “B-Side”

Los Bitchos: “Las Panteras”

Spice: “Everyone Gets In”

Laura Jane Grace & The Devouring Mothers: “This Year”

Soft Pack: “Gagdad”

Ducks Ltd.: “How Lonely Are You?”

Cuffed Up: “Canaries”

Vallens: “Occurred”

Broadcast #300.

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[lavendercoatedangels]

My favorite song from an album that, if I were to name the classics from it, I’d just be reading you the tracklist.

[ferylcheryl]

Playlist for whatever the fuck the opposite of Hot Christian Girl Autumn is.

[todays-just-a-daydream]

You guys supported Oasis back in ‘94.

Yeah?

There’s a rumor of you almost breaking up the band and spawning the whole ‘Talk Tonight’ song origin story, in which Noel goes off to San Francisco and writes a song about his time with a girl who essentially prevented him from giving up music forever. Is that true?

Well, like all the best stories in the world musicians love to fucking folklore themselves up the wazoo, about the ins and outs and what have you’s of their lives, but oftentimes those tend to be absolute BS and oftentimes they can be somewhere in between.

In between?

The deal with Oasis on that night was we had played with Sonic Boom and Spectrum the night before in Santa Barbara, which is adjacent to Los Angeles California. And we did the gig and drove back to San Francisco, which is a 6-7 hour drive. And we showed up at the club, it was one of our home team clubs called Bottom of the Hill and played for Oasis. And the way that this came to be is that I worked at Reckless Records, even before the Chicago store opened, there was one in San Francisco, and I worked there.

That’s cool considering that the London store is on Berwick Street where they shot the ‘(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?’ cover!

Exactly! And originally, they had a store in San Francisco and that’s where I worked. This is ‘94. This is when all the shit’s coming out, before it was the shit! There was no such term as Britpop at the time. So I see this stack of new releases come down from DudeBro who has to pass down all the new releases, and on top of it is a CD single. And it’s this band Oasis. And y’know, if you look at the single cover of Oasis they don’t look that cool. They’re kinda frumpy.

So what happened that night?

This is going to be a longer interview than you thought man. Cause I love buildups. So I listen to the single ‘Supersonic’, that was the one on the stack, and that one didn’t really do it for me, it wasn’t all vintagey and cool, the amp sounds sounded kind of like a Tom Petty record. That wasn’t it. But the B side was ‘Columbia’.

‘Columbia’ is great. Beast of a song.

Well yes, ‘Columbia’ is where all the cocaine comes from. Hence the title. And I was a huge speed freak in the 90’s because in the 90’s, uppers were serving the same purpose as they were in the 60’s with Andy Warhol, or cocaine was in the flapper period. So I got that. What they were trying to say, I dug that. You with me?

I’m with you.

Do you even care? How many pages do you get for this?

However many pages you want.

Well, I’m probably more interesting than a lot of the jive ass – psych fucking crap that has to get printed these days. I’ve been around a bit. So then the ‘Shakermaker’ single came out a couple of months later. You know, ‘Shakermaker’, “shake along with me”, et cetera et cetera. I currently was shaking along to the Brian Jonestown Massacre on Maracas, and I thought “oh well that’s kind of cool!” and I kind of related to that. Then ‘Live Forever’ came out. I was in, then I loved the band. Then the first album came out and then the advertisement came out that they were playing at our local haunt Bottom of the Hill. So I got our manager to get us a gig there to open for them and we played the gig with Oasis.

Did you know they were going to be big?

Absolutely! Well they already kind of were because ‘Definitely, Maybe’ had come out two weeks before, but they’re playing this theatre which is a 250 person club, when they could be playing to fuckin’ 10,000!

A couple of years later they were at Knebworth, then Glasto, then Wembley. The list goes on. Pretty Meteoric. Anyway, back to your story.

I’m out of my mind on the most righteous methamphetamine that’s ever been bequeathed by the science of man, and we pulled up to the club to do soundcheck. And sure enough, there’s their big ass fuckin bus, we had never been on a big ass fucking bus, we didn’t know what that was about. I’m thinking to myself, “Alright ‘Shakermakers’, let’s hit the road and go to ‘Columbia’” And the first thing I did was go and knock on the door of the bus. Noel Gallagher opens the door. And I say to him, “Hey man, I’ve got the most righteous fucking speed you’re ever going to do in your life”

(Joel in a very poor British accent) “No thanks man we only do coke”

And he shuts the door. And I’m looking at my own reflection like “what!?” Fast forward an hour later, and the girl that I scored speed for ran into Liam coming out of the soundcheck. And she’s like “hey do you wanna do any?” and Liam’s “Mr mad fer it” guy, so he does it, then he gives it to Bonehead, then he gives it to the whole fuckin band and the whole goddamn crew, and they’re playing the gig that night, and all the jaws are just working like old fashioned train crankshafts, and they had never heard nor seen nor felt anything like that, but that is what I was doing every day. It was, as they called it, “Ninja Speed”.

Interview with Joel Gion from The Brian Jonestown Massacre on Oasis at the Whisky 1994

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Zia McCabe from the Dandy Warhols onstage in a BJM shirt.

Photo: Simon Law.

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Currently Reading:

[dagwolf]

Brian Jones town Massacre. Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request. 1996, but vinyl not issued until 2007.

[wrapped-up-in-a-dream]

Feel us, feelers

Touch us, ooh

See us, see us

Free us, ooh

[donttalktomeorillkillyou]

Father

[dinosaursr66]

No Anton on vocals, but one of their best moments on video. In my humble opinion.

SONG OF THE DAY - Monday, April 29, 2024

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Brian Jonestown Massacre, Buenos Aires, 2023

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