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Brian Jonestown Massacre's Anton Newcombe Still Saying Crazy Shit

11:17 a.m. · February 25, 2010 · by Andrew Winistorfer

What kind of gets lost in the is it real or not discussion in relation to Ondi Timoner's Dig! documentary is how damned entertaining all the Brian Jonestown members are. They seem oblivious to the fact that they are all nutty, none more so than leader Anton Newcombe. As part of promoting his band's latest album, Who Killed Sgt. Pepper?, Newcombe went off on a variety of topics to Impose Magazine. Here's a sampling. Sorry to fans of DJ Am:

You know who's a fucking joke. DJ AM. Fuck him. Let me just go ahead and assassinate this guy. There is a picture of him in Beverly Hills DJing at Sharon Osbourne's party and everybody is so sad he's gone. He's got one hand on the same Mac as I do. Gee, what a great DJ. We can only hope that in the future we can splice his DNA, so that somebody can figure out how to press play on iTunes again.

 

What are you talking about? Look at Lady Gaga for a fucking god damned second. There is no hypemachine. We were the first to do peer 2 peer browsers publicly. We were the first to be broadcasted live audio and video streaming in San Francisco on the internet, because they were testing the Rolling Stones set up. We just happened to be there doing a show. Consistently, I was the first to put music and social networking together when there was no Myspace. Tom [from Myspace] was in a band with Dean Taylor, my old guitar player. He had less than 200 profiles on Myspace and the rest were fake.

 

[After a long pause] At the end of the day we're not grabbing Afghan children out of the bedroom and executing them right?

No, you don't seem to be doing that.

 

There's some more craziness over here. Either this dude is high, or he is just plain nuts.