Dig! (2004)

[bunniefuu]

MAN: Dig it.

Hey, wait. Bring that thing out here, man.
Let the kids dig this.

You getting that okay? Dig.

Bring that back here.

Now listen to this.

-I'll just say what I gotta say.
-Damn right!

I'm here to destroy this f*cked up system.
I will do it. That's why I got the job.

I said, "Let it be me.
Use my hands. I'll use our strength."

Let's f*cking burn it to the ground.

, this is the year I met Anton Newcombe

and his band, the Brian Jonestown m*ssacre.

Anton was by far the craziest
and most talented musician I had ever met.

I'm Courtney Taylor from the Dandy Warhols.

Anton was my friend and my enemy,

the greatest inspiration
and, ultimately, the greatest regret.

This is the story of us and our bands

over seven years.

# ...up because here I come

# With a gift for everyone.... #

You guys took forever to get down here.

-Wait till I get the amps and just move in.
-Our car broke....

-Hi, I've been waiting to meet you.
-Ondi.

-Pleased to meet you.
-Hi.

-Where do you want to go play tonight?
-Right f*cking here.

I guess we ought to take the sh*t back
to the practice space anyways.

No, let's go somewhere and play.

No, we gotta have a revolution, man.
We just got to usher the sh*t in.

If somebody wants to distribute our records
and allow us absolute freedom,

then I'm not opposed to
people making money.

It's just it's a mafia.

Until they can write the letter I'm writing,
they're the postman and I'm the letter-writer.

Period. End of discussion.

We got a party to go to tonight.
We got a party to play.

-Good to know.
-You're gonna play a party?

Waller Street.

Hi. Hello. Hello. You guys ready?

Ladies and gentlemen, I want to introduce
a band that knows where I live,

the Brian Jonestown m*ssacre.

(CROWD CHEERING)

# What she wants is she wants me to go-go

# Got turned off
'cause she's going too slow-slow

# I know what you want

# So just reach out and grab it

# I thought of a tune to write her

# Go #

ERlC: What's different about Jonestown?
It's real.

It's the band that you love to hate,
and the band that you hate to love.

Live performances are infamous for them.

-It's about the twelfth time I've seen....
-Brian Jonestown.

-Twelve.
-Within six months.

I was completely blown away.
I had never seen anything like that.

It was, like, so retro and so the future.

It was mayhem on stage.

Three guitar players, a tambourine player,
an insane singer, the music was fantastic.

I'd never seen anything like it.

The only band I've made the effort to go see
in the last three years is Brian Jonestown.

Anton, to me, is the best ' s revivalist

there has been since the ' s.

What made it so interesting
was that it was not an act of invention.

It was not based off of any pretence
of crafting something new.

It was a thoroughly post-modern music.
It was a pastiche of everything.

Musically, he's a genius.

Oh, I think he has an incredible ear for music

and for reinterpreting the past
and putting it in the future.

It's American heritage reinterpreted.

Anton created this kind of scene
and everyone else has built upon it.

This is one of my friend's bands that us....

Between us and a couple of other bands,
we're gonna kick off a full musical revolution

so forget about the other bands.

This is a whole other level of the American
underground that I'm gonna help expose.

So, tell me right now you've never ever heard
the Dandy Warhols before.

-INTERVIEWER: Never heard them before.
-Let's see what they sound like.

ANTON: So get ready for a massive
concussion of rock and roll

with the Dandy Warhols.

# Yeah.... #

We write our kinds of music together.
We're really good friends.

-INTERVIEWER: Really?
-We've got a full-scale revolution going on.

(SINGING ALONG)

-Really bitching.
-Are they in Portland?

Yeah, we're neighbours.
We're building a studio.

-Is that rad?
-You know where you're building a studio?

Yeah, we're getting down.
We're gonna take over the world.

Yeah.

And we're gonna show you how to do it, too.

-How to take over the world in five steps?
-f*ck, yeah. On your movie.

We actually got a tape of Anton's, like,
about the same time we formed the band.

And then a year later we went down
to San Francisco to play some parties and...

sure enough, Anton walked in
and we definitely recognised him instantly.

It could be nobody else.

We're playing and these two guys walk in

just like Mr Cool in their black-leather
junky jackets and all this stuff,

and we're like, "All right, who's that?"

They just looked amazing.

They had the f*cking coolest hair
and they were styled out, like so hip....

It kind of intimidated us.
We were like, "Oh, my God!" you know.

This is kind of what we expected
from a big city. It's like, "Oh, sh*t."

And then, we just like, hung out all night
and just got f*cking loaded.

Yes, won't you.... Won't you join us?

God, that E just wore off
in a hot second, man.

COURTNEY: It was awesome,
we had, like, the best time.

Right on, brother.

-I swear they're the best band in America.
-INTERVIEWER: Wow.

They're so f*cking amazing.

No label will touch them. They are so crazy.

I've never seen them eat. All I've seen
them do is drink liquor and snort drugs.

That's like.... That's all they do, you know.

That's funny.

Joel, do you want some more?

Yes, please.

Oh, my God.

This is a very strange gathering.

I suppose it's time for a costume change.

God.

They're just our buddies.
They're our alter egos in some way,

inspiring each other
to create and be successful.

COURTNEY: Our bands played together a lot
over the next couple of years,

and it was rock.

# 'Cause I
I believe it in my soul #

People will always say, "Well, what music
do you like at the moment?"

and I would say Brian Jonestown m*ssacre
and the Dandy Warhols.

Jonestown and the Dandys
have a window of opportunity.

They can relate to suburban people,
drug people,

and they can also relate to literary people,

and also to people who have some
real knowledge of how music developed.

COURTNEY: In , my band,
the Dandy Warhols,

were in a studio in our hometown
of Portland, Oregon,

recording our first album
for Capitol Records.

Now, unlike the Brian Jonestown m*ssacre,
we had just signed with a major label,

and, of course, they thought
we were gonna be the next big thing.

They have the potential to be a very big band

because they have created a world
of their own. It's a Dandy Warhols world.

And they don't therefore belong
to any particular trend.

COURTNEY: Our first record for Capitol
took two tries.

The first time it got rejected, they had
the gall to tell me that there was no songs.

It just really pissed me off
and I got all...uppity about it

and, "Who are you to tell me what a song is,
you who have written so many songs?

"How many? None?
Between the two of you, ever?"

So then, I think, I ended that by saying,
"I sneeze and hits come out."

To which Perry said,

"Well, then, if that's the case,

"I'm sure Capitol will have no problem

"finding the funds
to finance your handkerchiefs."

I think it's like something.... Like to %
of all records made never recoup,

which doesn't mean to say
you really succeed, all you do is recoup.

So the odds are that the Dandy Warhols,
like everybody else, will fail.

Today, I mixed songs.
I started at : am, was done by : .

Found a drummer, taught him all the tunes,
didn't do anything else on my birthday.

In , the Brian Jonestown m*ssacre
had a record out.

They were on a lot of A&R hot lists.

They were in hit magazines as one of
the bands that was the most courted.

It's a fabulous record.

People are jealous of our sheer ambition
that we have

and the fact that we're the most
prolific people, albeit in North America.

COURTNEY: The Brian Jonestown m*ssacre
had released three full-length albums

in just that year,

Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request,
Take It From The Man!

and Thank God for Mental Illness.

INTERVIEWER: When he tells me
he doesn't wanna sign with major labels,

is he serious he wouldn't go that route?

He always talks about doing it, though.

-Yeah, I mean, that's the plan.
-That's why we came down here.

-That's why we came here.
-He wants to rip them off in some way....

He doesn't want them
to take advantage of him.

But in order not to get taken advantage of,
he wants to take advantage of everyone else,

and then you're just as corrupt as the system
that you're trying not to be corrupted by.

Five, six, seven. It's magic.

The guy does not....
He doesn't know how to support himself.

He's been homeless for five years or so.

Matt Hollywood was Anton's, like,
cranky little brother who...

probably wanted to be Anton,
knew he wasn't quite as talented as Anton.

Erm, still wrote some really,
really great songs, and sang them well,

but Anton never really let him
have the spotlight

the way that he could have or should have
or needed to.

(PLAYING INDIAN STYLE MUSIC)

I think Anton understands
that what he's doing

is part of a continuum of rock music,

almost like he is someone from the ' s
who just happens to be living here and now

and is totally lost and doesn't really
understand the ways that people do things.

I'm just saying don't f*cking f*ck with me.

I'm not f*cking with you,
I'm trying to explain things to you.

If you don't wanna listen to
the way people feel,

if you don't want to listen to other people's
opinions, then go off and do it yourself

and be loved by your f*cking self
and nobody will love you

because you don't want to
deal with other people.

-Cool, I won't have any headaches, either.
-Great.

I don't do anything wrong,
that's why I don't say sorry.

You do. That's the first step in being human,
realising that you do and making 'em better.

You guys are f*cking cracked, man.
I don't f*cking worry about....

I don't even f*cking worry about this sh*t.

I don't do it f*cking wrong.
I'm just telling you a fact.

-You know, every religion makes people....
-I hate religion

because that's what f*cked up your mind.

Every f*cking spiritual belief,
you burn in hell for pretending to be God

and not being able to back it up.

I don't like being robbed from.
It's highly against the law,

-stealing from people.
-INTERVIEWER: How have you been robbed?

Well, we'll see, won't we?

Seymour Stein told me,
"Sign them right away.

"With a name like that, you can't go wrong.
You have my blessings. Go, girl."

And.... But I had to convince
a couple of other people from the company,

and I took my boss, Nancy Jeffries,
who was the head of the A&R department,

to a show in Los Angeles
that we set up especially for her,

so she could witness them
and make up her own opinion

and see if we wanted to put mega dollars
behind them.

And it was the biggest disaster
I had ever witnessed.

(CROWD CHEERING)

Hell, yeah.

ANTON: These songs we're playing tonight,
we have a lot of records.

We put out six full-length albums this year,

and that's why we're gonna get
the biggest record deal in history.

Because we're smart.

-Are we ready?
-Ready?

COURTNEY: Now, if Anton thought
that anyone screwed up during a song,

he would immediately correct them.

# Shine like the sun

# Set me free #

f*ck you. You don't tell me to "f*ck you".
I'm in your band.

Hey, f*ck that. Nobody's gonna say
"f*ck you" to me on my stage with my band.

f*ck you. Get off my stage
'cause you don't have the band.

So what was that fourth song?
I am Love? What?

(CROWD JEERING)

COURTNEY: This guy wasn't long
for the Brian Jonestown m*ssacre.

ANTON: Okay, I need a f*cking drink.
I'm not getting paid.

Send a waitress up here right now,
or else we're f*cking leaving.

We already played
for these people that stayed for us.

I'm working harder than you, m*therf*cker!

All right, this next song is about love,
and it's called, well, Love.

Hey, quit....
I'm gonna have the bouncers beat you up

if you don't stop stepping on their mikes.
They don't like that. Pick that sh*t up.

-Bring it on!
-Pick that f*cking sh*t up, and quit....

Hey, you f*cking as*h*le, you get off....
You get out of here, too.

I'll play by myself and you go have a drink.
Bye. Watch.

Pick that f*cking sh*t up!

Stand the f*ck back, m*therf*cker!

WOMAN: All right! Stop!

(CROWD HOOTING)

MAN: What the f*ck's going on here?

Get me some flavour here.

(CROWD CHEERING)

He f*cking broke my sitar, m*therf*cker.

-INTERVIEWER: You okay, man?
-Yeah, I'm okay.

-Did you get hurt? Is that blood on you?
-Yeah.

-From where? Your hands.
-From people's faces.

He wants to be a rebel,
he doesn't want to conform, he doesn't....

He wants to be successful in one part,
but he doesn't....

He can't admit that to himself,

so he completely sabotaged that showcase.
He knew what was at stake.

He knew he could have gotten
a million dollar deal if he had played it right.

I think my running total is official quits...

of the band.

INTERVIEWER: After last night,
are you still in the band?

I don't know.
Nobody punched me, so I guess I'm clear.

Most band conflicts I've seen, usually
it's because two or three guys in the band

can't get along together
because of some girlfriend,

or because they both wanna write songs....
It's some kind of typical situation like that.

This is not a personality conflict,
it's a vision of the world.

Sometimes, people go past
the boundaries of good and evil

or whatever boundaries of common sense
we all operate under

into another realm,
and we call these people prophets.

Jesus Christ was a person like this,
so was Charles Manson.

They transcend the normal world
and they set their own....

-MAN: Adolph Hitler.
-Yeah, exactly, standards.

-Yeah, megalomaniacs.
-Anton sees himself in that mould.

That's where his problem comes,

trying to integrate his mystical vision
with his messed up personality.

And it's really heart-wrenching to see it.
He's not just a jerk, you know.

He's almost like one of these people

who stumbles out of the desert,
screaming, "I've seen God!" you know.

"We understand we are
your backup musicians

"and take musical direction from you.

"You, on the other hand, understand
that we are human beings

"and don't want to be treated like sh*t."

-Something like that.
-Yeah, okay.

In his mind, no one can play the music
as well as he could, you know.

If Anton had his way, he would clone himself

and he'd have six other Antons
or five other Antons,

and they'd all be playing the instruments.

Anton on drums, Anton on bass,
Anton on all the guitars, and whatever.

He's his own worst enemy
because he thinks success and credibility

are mutually exclusive terms,
which is an easy baggage to inherit,

but a very difficult one to
haul through every decision of your career

because, as a musician, you want to reach
the biggest possible audience,

and, as an artist, you want to impact culture
in the deepest way possible.

I'm not for sale.
Do you understand? I'm not for sale.

-Nobody says that.
-What are you trying to do, then?

I'm f*cking.... Love.

Do you understand what I'm saying?
The Beatles were for sale. I give it away.

It cost me $ . I paid for this record, right?

-I used the money...
-INTERVIEWER: It cost you bucks?

bucks to make
Thank God for Mental Illness.

No sh*t, and I'm gonna show you
because we're gonna go up to Oregon.

I'm gonna record a bunch more records
and you can see.

COURTNEY: Anton had been threatening
to move to Portland for months,

but when he finally showed up
with all of his belongings,

we realised that he had intended
to move in with us.

We couldn't really take him in.

I'm in Portland now. It's been a rough trip.

-INTERVIEWER: It was a rough trip?
-Yes.

Going up. Top floor.

Pantyhose, ill*gal drugs and cigarettes.

You're supposed to push "stop".
Oh, well. My hairspray.

MAN: Protect your....

An after-rinse for that hold
for weather you just can't count on.

Hello, darling. I'm home. What's for tea?

INTERVIEWER: Do you find Portland
creatively inspiring, Anton?

No, I find it dismal.

It was a terrible mistake to come here,
but we did it,

and now that we're here,
there's nothing we can say, huh?

INTERVIEWER: Do you feel
like you're in exile here?

(SNICKERING) Baby, baby!

JOEL: I've gotten on with him.

It's really been good for my hopeless,
isolated, life-is-sh*t kind of vibe.

INTERVIEWER: Did anybody in the band
invite Anton to move up here, or....

Well....

Or suggest it would be a good place
for Anton to move, or anything?

I don't know, it's like inviting Anton
to your house. This is a small town.

I don't know.

Maybe he expected to stay with us.

-We weren't gonna have him stay with us.
-And make a record with him and....

Yeah, and we went on with our lives
because we actually had stuff to do.

We had to get that record done.
We had to get it out.

-We....
-Yeah, we were being productive.

-Happy New Year.
-Happy New Year.

COURTNEY: We played a New Year's show
that year,

and Joel, of course, came to party.

I didn't notice at the time,
but Anton didn't show.

Any resolutions this year, Courtney?

Any revolutions for this year, Courtney?

Yeah, I'm gonna get this....
Like a tattoo of this here.

I like this 'cause it
makes me feel like Amadeus.

Hence my theory the Dandy Warhols
are nothing but a bunch of f*gs.

Six, five, four, three, two, one.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year.

Quiet, the artist needs quiet.

The artist is gonna create a sound
for his concise purpose,

using a modular synthesising apparatus
from RadioShack.

(SYNTHESIZED MUSIC PLAYING)

One, two, three, four.

# Ooh

# Say goodbye to Mum and Dad

# The two best friends I never had...

(RECORDED VERSION CUTS IN)
# ...to be knowing where I'm going

# How about you? #

Tony was raised in a very affluent society.

He had every advantage
a child could possibly have.

I mean, he had a lot of disadvantages.

He was raised by a single parent.
He didn't have a father.

Well, that was my fault.
Being an alcoholic, I left the family

when he was about a year,
a year and a half old.

I had shown symptoms of schizophrenia.
I drank every day.

You have to look at....
Here's a very, very superiorly intelligent child

who knows what the curfew is,

who knows that Newport Beach
strongly enforces the curfew,

who has been arrested times for it
and yet continues to do it.

So when they called me at work and said,
"You need to come and pick him up,"

when I went to the Newport Beach jail,
I said, "I'm not taking him.

"I'm not picking him up.
I'm tired of doing this."

And they said, "But you have to."
I said, "No, I don't have to."

"What are you going to do?
'Cause I'm not picking him up."

I told him the last time,
"Next time I won't come get you."

So he was taken to the adolescent unit
by the police, not by me.

I signed the papers as his guardian,
but he was taken there by the police.

I hate to see him repeat his life like myself.

Two divorces and...

and not getting a chance to raise your kid.

There was times when Tony appeared
under the influence.

There was times when he was growing pot

and I was the first one to call the police
and have them come here and get it.

And I guess I sort of thought
eventually he'd get over all this nonsense,

and he'd grow up, and he'd get a real job,
but he never has.

He feels starved for affection, I think. Love.

As a father, you know,
I probably failed immensely,

you know, and I feel guilty about that.

If he has abandonment issues,
they're as much my responsibility as his.

I know this is the album he gave me,
Thank God for Mental Illness.

It's sad, isn't it?

-INTERVIEWER: Extremely sad.
-They are the best two friends I never had.

He has no.... Really, as near as I can tell,
doesn't have any family he can fall back on.

He doesn't have any money,
doesn't have a home.

It's enough to drive anybody crazy. I think
he's a little bit on the edge besides that,

but, you know, it's amazing he has....

He can be as sane as he usually is.

Actually, he has nobody.

You know, he gets help
because some people are with him.

We are all with him. But I don't think his
family has ever been very helpful for him.

When we got together, we all realised
our parents were all still married,

and we were like, "We're the most
well-adjusted band in America."

We're the most well-adjusted band
in America.

COURTNEY: The BJM returned to LA.

Anton promised Greg Shaw of
Bomp! Records, his next album

in exchange for the money to rent a house
in Los Angeles.

He and Joel invited the rest of the BJM
to take rooms in the house,

so they could make the big industry push.

Even Jeff Davies, Anton's genius guitarist,

who'd battled heroin addiction,
returned from rehab, full of hope.

JEFF: I've been on couches and floors
for so damn long,

I am very digging the idea
of having a door that you can close.

-Where's Anton at?
-He's taken Courtney to the airport.

COURTNEY: I'd been meeting with Capitol
as I was finishing the record.

I wanted Anton's opinion on a song
everyone expected to be a massive hit.

Anton, this is gonna be....
This is like such a ridiculous, like,

-super f*cking thing.
-I can't.... Bring it up.

-I'm ready to get silly.
-Yeah.

(NOT IF YOU WERE THE LAST JUNKIE
ON EARTH PLAYING)

COURTNEY: Anton didn't react at all.

It kind of bummed me out,
but I think I knew why.

Anton inspired Courtney to go
much farther than he's ever gone before.

It was definitely both of them
kind of wanting to be the other person.

I know Courtney's always wanted
that mad genius thing

but is unable or unwilling
to let himself go that far.

Anton and Courtney,
love-hate relationship, I guess.

I think they feel they're on the same level
in many ways, with creative ability.

They challenge each other.
They fuel each other's fire.

COURTNEY: I didn't have time to reflect
on Anton's lack of interest in my new song

'cause mega-celebrity fashion photographer,
David LaChapelle, agreed to do our video.

Capitol threw down $ ,
to make this happen.

Suddenly, it felt like
we were going to be big time.

# I never thought you'd be a junkie
because heroin is so passé #

-Big money.
-Turn around and look at that thing.

I didn't know it was going to be
a deaf advertisement.

Yeah, the ' s angle.

-The ' s angle?
-Yeah, it was a real ' s angle.

I'm not going to really collaborate.

You know, if it's great,
I'm gonna think you're f*cking great.

If it's not,
I'm gonna be really pissed off at you.

Courtney's having second thoughts
about the entire video.

If we could reshoot just the band stuff
once my hair grows out.

Okay, redo it, but we have to redo it
'cause of the hair....

-I think they drove out....
-To the Junkie video sh**t.

I'm sure we told them about it.

-"Come on over and eat some free food. "
-Steal some vitamins.

ADAM: What a wonderful waste of money
before they've sold a product.

Just on one video,
they were in $ , or more.

I think I'm beginning to
grasp the concept here.

The theme is.... Am I wrong?

Passé things. Things that are passé.

The whole thing.

Wow, look at this. Is this all for the Dandys?

INTERVIEWER: Yeah. You should have
seen them performing on that stage.

-Wow.
-Yeah.

Is it gonna happen for us?

(CREW CLAPPING AND CHEERING)

COURTNEY: Brian Jonestown m*ssacre
left our video sh**t convinced

that we had blown way off course.

I'm sober. I dig everything.
Hello, Mr Policeman.

COURTNEY: The guys
in the Brian Jonestown m*ssacre

actually did the drugs
we were singing about,

and, still,
they seemed to miss the irony in the song.

Whereas some members were able
to use dope and be somewhat functional,

it seemed to bring out
a really dark side of Anton.

Why don't you just f*cking take her out
of here? She's crazy or something.

f*ck, I asked her just to leave me alone
for a f*cking minute.

-Now she wants to like....
-ZIA: She just wants love.

-SOPHIE: Just love me.
-Of course not.

-She just woke up.
-Go to sleep. It's two o'clock in the morning.

f*ck this! Leave.

I wasn't gonna do dope with you every day.

-You're so f*cking....
-Leave me alone.

COURTNEY: Sophie left Anton
and never returned.

She actually joined the band the Minstrels,
fell in love with George, the lead singer,

and together they moved to Tahiti.

Back at the house, the band was preparing
for a new record and a summer tour.

# Time is a handle

# Lifeless on your wall

# Turn, turning

# They got lost #

We should have a f*cking party here.

COURTNEY: The Brian Jonestown
had a party

to show us their new house
and their cool scene.

Apparently, it was a pretty good party.
In fact, that's Harry Dean Stanton right there.

(SINGING INDISTINCTLY)

But we couldn't make it over
because we were hanging in the hot tub

and partying with David LaChapelle
and his entourage.

There they are.
All right, bring the film crew in.

Nice hat.

-Hello.
-Hi.

-Take it.
-Look at the fingers.

# Get you out of my life #

COURTNEY: I decided that the BJM house,
the day after they threw a party,

would be the perfect location
for a Dandy Warhols photo sh**t.

What I want to do is I wanna go out
to this really, really f*cked household.

COURTNEY: Yeah, well,
I didn't bother to warn the guys.

ZIA: When we did the photo sh**t
in their house, I just could not believe it.

They had no furniture, hardly.

Everything was on the floor.
It was like a squat, a hovel.

How do you guys live like this?

There was dish soap on the kitchen table
and maybe an empty ouncer

and some guitar amps and stuff
in the living room.

INTERVIEWER: Matt Hollywood, there's a lot
of people walking into your house right now.

There's a whole photo sh**t
about to happen. And your house is trashed.

You guys partied last night.

I think that it's a good idea,
having the photo sh**t here

so that they can pretend
that they had a big party.

They've come for our minds.

This is great.

You guys, we have to do this other one
because there's like....

It's tiny and there's two mirrors
that face like this

so we can get the total shot
with a bunch of reflections.

-You're the kitty-cat. You're the cat.
-Give me five, baby.

Yeah.

(LAUGHING)

Is he looking weirder?

Good. Good. Okay.

They're comping our whole gig.
We have to live there, baby.

Oh, no, we're certainly not gonna say
it's our house. It'll be like....

No, but you're not gonna say
it's our house, either, now are you?

-Yeah, we are. We're gonna say....
-Really?

-We should be in the background.
-Every day, the Dandy Warhols wake up

together in the home of a different band.
Today, it's the Brian Jonestown m*ssacre.

And how much do we get paid?

-I know, all we're talking about....
-Yo, baby.

Where's the dough? Where's the dough?
Where's the dough?

Now if we take pictures in our own house,

people are gonna accuse us
of ripping you guys off.

In our own house!

COURTNEY: I guess the Brian Jonestown
m*ssacre wanted revenge,

so when they scammed some time
at a local studio, they wrote us a song.

ANTON: Not If You're
The Last f*cking Dandy on Earth.

That's the name of our song. She looks
like she's about ready to rock to me.

"I want those f*cking b*stards dead,
they're jeopardising the Dandy's career!"

Pretty hot, huh? In fact, I'll put it on.

It's so f*cking funny.

Move on over, Dandy.

COURTNEY: They scammed a week to record
from an A&R rep who believed in them,

so, as usual, Anton moved into the studio,
had a bunch of his friends over,

and squeezed out an entire album called
Give it back.

# And we like what you say

# You got things we should learn

# And we like what you're doing

# Do it more, baby, yeah

# You got speed to burn

# Pass it over here #

(SINGING INDISTINCTLY)

MARK: You guys were just f*cking crazy
at the Viper Room.

-Oh, you saw that?
-Holy mackerel.

That's a f*cking three-ring circus
if I ever saw one.

But now I put pipe organs, doesn't sound
so f*cking psychotic. It's all....

(HUMMING)

Full speed ahead, Captain.

(HOOTING)

All the sounds I can make with my voice
or my mouth.

A day at the studio with The BJM.

That's teamwork.

It's such an interesting case study.
What, in the end, will yield people success?

We're like, "sh*t, man,
what if it doesn't happen?"

This is why you love me.
It's recorded already.

Two steps or notches above that
so that it blows up their speakers with a....

# I heard you say #

Okay, so that song dies out
and then it's immediately....

(JOEL HUMMING)

No, the sound will just kind of like....

COURTNEY: The band finished the record
and prepared to hit the road next morning

on their first national tour.
They'd never before tried to pull this off.

They were sure they'd finally get signed
so long as Anton could hold it together.

# And I tried to find

# Why you love.... #

We're rolling out of town at : pm.

In Raleigh, me and Joel are walking
down the street

and this truck pulls up, drives by next to us,
and I hear this,

"There's two d*ck suckers there."
(CHUCKLES)

It was just like, "Whatever, man.

"Laugh all you want, redneck,
I'm on my way to your girlfriend's house."

It was kind of embarrassing, though,
'cause we were....

We were sucking each other's dicks
at the time.

So I'm really happy that everybody came.

This is our first time through America.

Un, dos, tres, cuatro.

COURTNEY: Under the local
Communist Party's headquarters,

the band played for an audience of ten
and performed for almost as many hours.

One, two, three, four.

(LAUGHING)

(MEOWING)

I got some p*ssy now.

I've listened to it. I can't listen to this.

-Play f*cking video games.
-I don't....

I can play f*cking computer games.
I can f*cking escape into a fantasy world.

I can get you to Chicago
and also leave you here, you f*cking turd.

And now you have us
and you have a f*cking life.

No, you don't give me any life, man.

-You're not life, you're just f*cked up death.
-I've gotta go.

I've been busting my a*s
for you pussies for so long

and I get your f*cking mouth
and I get your sh*t.

I will f*cking k*ll you.

COURTNEY: Matt and Peter left,
intending to walk back to California.

We're gonna go on no matter what.

INTERVIEWER: Not without Matt and Peter,
to New York.

It's going to go on no matter what.

Not this trip.

This trip's going on no matter what.
I'm going to New York

with or without these people,
whether they play or don't play.

Well....

I'll turn it into a vacation if I have to.
I ain't out here for nothing, man.

Basically the guys walked off,
away from our whole camp,

in the middle of the night, drunk as hell.

And Peter, being this young, immature
f*cking stupid.... Here comes a cop.

...hippie f*cking dumbass that he's being,
went with him,

and they walked away
from my scene completely.

And we've been up
the alleyways back and forth.

Here comes the sun. It's the next day.
We've been looking forever.

And they're not here.

I'm sober, and I drank a lot more
than they did, and I'm sober now.

They haven't come back,
therefore, what do we do?

Choice one, we leave Peter and Matt
in Chicago forevermore

and never see them again.

DAVE: We finally found them,
but we were miserable.

We knew the whole time the Dandys were
out there somewhere living the highlife.

(EVERY DAY SHOULD BE A HOLlDAY)

# Summertime
If I was getting paid

# For getting drunk and getting laid

# I'd grab a phone and call.... #

COURTNEY: We came back to Los Angeles
to discover that Capitol

had not been promoting our choice
for a second single, Boys Better,

because our first single Junkie
hadn't broken the top on US radio.

I called the label but couldn't get
anyone to assume responsibility.

I'd really love to have a successful single.
I'd like to have, you know....

Yeah.

You haven't scheduled any time
like a week or whatever to do radio?

As early as possible would probably really
be good for my band at least.

You're saying that you don't carry
a lot of weight around Capitol?

MAN: (ON PHONE) I'm just telling you that
it's not up to me, really.

COURTNEY: Everybody says
it's not up to them around there.

The suits were disappointed that we hadn't
turned out to be an overnight sensation.

Apparently, the Junkie video
had been put on hold

because Capitol repoed
the footage from LaChapelle.

I thought they'd put too much
make-up on me.

Take my name off of it.
I talked to Courtney last night.

He doesn't want any close-ups in it.
He wants it to be a performance spectacle.

He wrote me this smoochy-coochy letter.
"You, Salvador...."

Compared me to Salvador Dali and Man Ray.

And, "You do whatever you want,"
and this and that.

As soon as I'm done with the video,
he thinks he can just start screaming at me

at the top of his f*cking lungs
and acting like a huge spoiled Baby Huey.

He's not like an alternative rock star.
He's a pop star.

I mean, he's like an R&B act or something.

You know, I'm "obsessed with the face",
how they look.

I said to him, you know,
"This is how you look.

"This isn't some weird, you know,
sort of special-effecty video

"where, you know, this is like
pretty diffused light on you, and you look....

"You know, Zia looks like how Zia looks.

"The dancers looked how they looked,
and you look how you look,

"and that's how you look.

-"This is you."
-INTERVIEWER: What did he say?

He started screaming
that he's done thousands of videos.

He used the word "thousands".

"I've done thousands of videos
and I know how I look."

COURTNEY: Dealing with
diva fashion photographers

and evasive record label executives
was starting to really get me down.

Seemed the only inspiration
I found at the label

was looking through the pictures of
the sh**t we staged at the Jonestown house.

Didn't we have fun
at the Brian Jonestown house?

COURTNEY: So I found
one of those drive-away car deals,

caught up with
the Brian Jonestown m*ssacre in Detroit

and found out that Anton had written
a couple of songs for me.

# Courtney Taylor

# You're a hell of a guy, don't you know

# I met you in there after the show #

Okay, this song is called
Not If You Were The Last Dandy on Earth.

Ready?

(NOT IF YOU WERE THE LAST
DANDY ON EARTH PLAYING)

-It's psychotic art.
-Dude, that's so good.

I will personally tolerate
more shenanigans from that f*cking Anton

than I will anyone else,
just because he makes and has made

such unbelievably
powerful and important records.

(SINGING INDISTINCTLY)

# And the good times all ended

# When the money was spent.... #

f*ck that. I'd enjoy the concert much more
without any sh*t from you!

I work f*cking hard. I work f*cking hard.

COURTNEY: Well, they didn't know what to
call this one. A newspaper called it a riot.

The audience had attacked the film crew
for filming the band

and then jumped the band.
I thought it was fantastic.

I could've hit you in the f*cking face!
You hit, you f*ck with our people!

I love this. This is great.
This doesn't happen to my band.

Not to my band. This is cool.

Yeah, that was funny.

It's pretty amazing that those guys
make it through any gig without fighting.

There's this great sense of expectation
and anticipation

when one goes and sees
Brian Jonestown m*ssacre

about exactly what could go down.
Will there be a knife fight?

Will one of the band members
decide they hate the other person so much

they're going to slam them in the head?

Will they dissipate
and fall apart after one song?

Or will someone antagonise the audience
so much that you'll end up in a brawl?

I mean, you just never quite know
what's going to happen.

Or will they even make the show?

You go and see a show,
you talk to A&R people and say,

"Oh, by the way, I flew down there and I saw
them and they're insane. They can't do it."

Too bad. We love them. We wish them
good luck but can't work with them.

Are you gonna be a big waste of money?

They dump all this money, you make
a record and then somebody kills....

You guys k*ll each other
or split up or whatever?

MATT: We've been driving since Detroit.
It's been quite a while.

Been driving with
Dean and Anton in this car,

trying to stay awake
and smoking a lot of grass

and doing a lot of dope,
snorting China White.

-INTERVIEWER: How far are we going today?
-All the way, baby.

Yeah, this is kind of nutty, you know.
Like, this is how bands break up.

If they didn't know that.
Ours almost did, you know.

Oh, gee.

You get a pack of
f*cking junkies on the road,

not eating much, drinking a lot,
doing dope and not sleeping,

is anybody gonna get grumpy and irritable
and start fighting with each other at all?

No, probably not.

It's not my tour
so I'm just having a good time.

Can I get some reverb in the house?

All right.

I saw Dylan at Gertie's in .

You know, I've been listening to this
for the last years.

These guys, whoever it is,
these guys have it. What's the name again?

-Brian Jones.... ?
-Town m*ssacre.

I saw this record, Satanic Majesties,
and I went home and listened to that record,

probably about times in a row,
and I was totally obsessed with it,

and I didn't know
what the Brian Jonestown m*ssacre was.

I didn't know if it was a new band
or an old band.

I didn't know if it was one person
or people.

I just loved this record and then saw in the
paper that they were playing three shows.

(WHOOPING AND CHEERING)

You guys are great, man!

And I went to all three shows.

I'm having the greatest time of my life.
The first time I've ever been to New York.

ADAM: On the third one I asked Peter Hayes,
who's now in Black Rebel Motorcycle Club,

who was in the band at the time,
if he could introduce me to Anton.

I wanted to give Anton my number
so he could call me

and I didn't have anything to write on
except for this card that I had in my wallet

of all my important phone numbers.

I crossed out all my numbers. I wrote down
my number on there and gave it to him.

I was like, "You're the only person
I need to talk to now."

# ...inside

# Won't beg you

# Step inside

# Let me take you down

# To the place I'm going

# More than treasures found

# It's just knowing you.... #

I didn't know anything about their reputation

and I was like,
"Anyone who's making music this good

"deserves to have a record deal
and deserves to be signed."

Hey, listen. Hey, Dennis.

When people like you and Dave
that know us and are hanging out

and f*cking drunk guys
are hassling Matt in the front,

you grab Matt or you grab a bouncer
or you grab the f*cking drunk guy.

I don't want no hassles out of people
like these leeches behind me

that f*cking hang out
and don't do sh*t when you need it.

I quit.
Anton is a great songwriter and an arranger,

but he is so horrible in so many ways.

I mean, we can talk about truths about me,
but luckily I'm not on trial and he is.

-I won't. Who's on trial?
-Anton.

-With who?
-That thing.

He'll fire Dave on Easter Day.

I've been sitting out here
in this damn van all day.

I've been looking at all these penthouses
and all these gutters

going eenie-meenie-minie-mo.

It's really....

Is Anton gonna be able to work something
out, get you guys back on the road?

We're having the time of our life,

the shows are getting better and better
and people are really going nuts.

He's gonna totally try and negotiate
an immediate one-off record

and, if he can advance us the money,
I'd go, "Cool."

If I can get a third up front,
we'll buy a f*cking van.

Taxi!

COURTNEY: The Brian Jonestown
left New York the next morning

to play a round of shows in the South,
but only got as far as Homer, Georgia.

How you doing?

-Can I see your licence and insurance?
-Okay, it's hers.

Okay. Well, need to see your licence anyway.

-It got stolen.
-Huh?

It got stolen in California. I'm on tour.

-We're just gonna pick up a van....
-I have my licence, sir.

She has all of her stuff.
We're making a documentary.

Okay.

-What's your full name, son?
-My name's Anton.

All right, pull over there
and let me run your licence.

-Sure. Whereabouts?
-Just right over there anywhere.

By this gentleman?

How you doing today?

Don't have anything ill*gal?
Any g*ns or drugs?

No. You're welcome....
You can search the car right now.

Okay. You don't have any problems
with a search?

No. In fact, I'll wave that right right now.

-All right, would you step out of the vehicle?
-Sure.

All the way, you know, from California,
Oklahoma, Minnesota, all that.

This is, Georgia,
is the most beautiful state, I'd say.

Really?

Georgia.

We're in Georgia.

-Yeah, Banks....
-We're in Banks County?

INTERVIEWER: And when's the gig tonight?

-When's the gig tonight?
-I don't know.

I'm starting to figure
I shouldn't have come along for this ride.

What I heard was, they searched the car
and there's weed and they get taken to jail.

-I'm gonna advise you each of your rights.
-It's my own fault, whatever happens to me.

But I consented to have a car search.

COURTNEY: Anton was eventually bailed out
by Bomp! Records' Greg Shaw,

but the band broke up that night.

Anton played solo
all the way back to Los Angeles.

The rest of The Warhols met up
with me in New York

to play MTV and a few club shows.

Weak album sales and an industry showcase
gone awry were kind of stressing us out.

It was the EMD Convention,
which is the distributors.

All the retailers were there
from Europe, Japan, everything.

We just sucked.
We just sounded like sh*t and I was just like,

"Look, I'm not going to lie about it,
pretend we're rocking, man, feeling it."

So I was like, "This sucks. This sounds like
f*cking sh*t up here, you guys.

"Can you just be patient for a minute?"

Meanwhile, Girsh is in the back freaking out.

"This is the f*cking last time
they embarrass me, m*therf*ckers!"

You know, how about, "f*ck you, man."
How about you get up on stage

and f*cking pull your pants down, you know.

INTERVIEWER: But who was there?
Was it just like....

Industry, f*cking huge industry.

Everybody that Girsh
and those guys had said,

"This is the Great White Hope.
This is the next huge band.

"These guys are f*cking amazing,
you know?"

So, now, Japan's like, "Well, I don't know."

Japanese guys are like,
"Maybe we'll put it out. Maybe we won't."

The Dandy Warhols were
a very big popular band among A&R people.

I kept pulling up their SoundScans, too,
and I guess, you know,

the A&R people were,
like, the only ones buying the record.

The record's SoundScan, first week,
at, what, below ,

and has been dropping
for the two weeks since.

The Dandy Warhols are the reason
why people get laid off of record labels.

I think that people spend
so much money on these bands,

and they were making ridiculous videos,

and, when it doesn't all pan out,
somebody's gotta pay for it, right?

When you sign with a major label,
they always tell you things like,

"You know, we're into careers, not hits."

And you go,
"Wow, that's got a nice ring to it."

Yet if you don't produce a hit,

they don't really give a f*ck
about your career, you know?

ADAM: Radio promotion costs
are ridiculously out of hand.

Video costs are Ret*rded.

Executive salaries, expense accounts.

The music industry
is supposed to be this middleman

between the artist and the consumer

so that people can buy
the records that they like,

but somehow the music industry
turned itself into this, like, evil beast

that tries to screw the artists
and tries to screw the fans,

and it's really obvious.

I have no respect for anyone working
for any major label

in any capacity whatsoever in the executive.

They're all liars.
They're all mediocre people with no talent.

They don't know talent.

They don't understand or like music
in any way whatsoever.

I dread to think what they're like in bed
trying to have sex

because, you know,
their mind and body are not connected.

It's a fool's game to spend your life
blaming the record company.

Every label can break a band,
every label can't....

Ultimately it's in the band's hands,

so anybody who thinks, like,
"Oh, now we've got a major deal.

"We're home. We're safe.
We're gonna succeed." It's just bullshit.

Record companies screw up virtually
everything they possibly can screw up,

not because they intend to, but that's just....

It's probably the nature
of all corporate organisations.

Major labels lose money
on nine out of ten records,

and they have one record out of ten

that makes enough money
to cover everything,

and I don't think
there's another business in the world

where you can have a % failure rate,
and still say you're successful.

It's crazy. You should be able to make money
off every record.

You just have to spend accordingly.

lndie rock happened because of this.

You know, because of what
we have experienced being on a major label.

What every major label says
won't happen to you.

They won't tell you what single to put out.
They won't pick your, like, pop song.

I mean, that's just bad advertising
for the band, you know? f*cking clowns.

If I had only been just a little bit smarter,
you know?

I mean, we're at a level where people
are getting to know it and acquire the music.

That hasn't been done from being signed.

That hasn't been done
through your Buzz Bin video or anything.

That's been done all on our own.
You're on the cover of magazines,

not because of some suit is backing it
with his bread like everybody else.

We're there because
we get there on our own,

and that is the vibe we exist on.

I've been trying to talk Perry
into signing them for a long time.

Like, look, this is the last real
rock'n'roll band,

and they're f*cking awesome.
They make great records, you know?

You couldn't do anything, you know,

like trying to control what happens
or anything like that.

But just give them money.
They'll make great records,

put them out on the road,
and they'll do great.

COURTNEY: Before their first American tour
went south literally,

the Brian Jonestown m*ssacre
had managed to attract

quite a bit of industry attention on the road.

Capitol may have finally listened to me
as they offered Anton a modest record deal.

He asked Michael Dutcher
to represent him at the meeting,

but Anton blew the deal within an hour.

I thought he was more together
when I first met him.

He gave that illusion for a period of a week.

I think, Anton, if he could really focus,

could be in that elite group of people

with, you know,
Lennon, McCartney, you know, Bob Dylan.

COURTNEY: Meanwhile, Adam Shore
convinced TVT Records,

the largest indie label in America,

that the Jonestown m*ssacre
was the best band in the country.

Michael Dutcher feared that Anton's
manic behaviour would again blow the deal,

so he sent Joel to New York in his place.

I've arrived in New York City.
I'm going to swanksville here.

The gutter boy.

-Did you meet Joel?
-Yeah.

Anton's got an ear infection,
and, this morning, we had to switch them up.

He was just, he was not feeling like himself,
and the doctors were a little worried.

I don't know, he said,
at one point or another,

he got in some kind of accident
with his ears.

COURTNEY: The TVT execs seemed to buy
Dutcher's story about Anton's earache,

and Joel charmed them over dinner.

Now, I'm gonna show you
four places to sign.

(DIAL TONE BUZZING)

-Just like the Declaration of Independence.
-Exactly, put your...your Joel Gion.

(DIAL TONE BUZZING)

-My briefcase, it's around here....
-MAN: I don't get it.

Not bad. Not bad.

(PAPER RIPPING)

ALL: Whoa!

-Two points off.
-Is that bad?

It'll still be enforceable, so now....

ANTON: (ON PHONE) I wanna say
that I'm making a personal commitment

not to screw with anybody's head,
like, in a bad way, you know what I mean?

-Only in a good way.
-Push drugs on little kids.

And I'm not gonna promote
fascism in any way. I'll promote....

Oh, come on.

I love making music, so I don't think
we're gonna have any problems.

Okay, Anton, I'm going to pick up the phone,
and then Steve's leaving.

Thank you, Steve, for your time,
and I'll talk to you as soon as possible.

Take care, man. I'll talk to you later.

-Thank you.
-Okay.

ADAM: One thing that we're absolutely
% sure of,

the Brian Jonestown m*ssacre
can make records.

They've made five records in two years,
and more and more and more.

You almost have to stop them from making
records. They're making so many.

We're a record company,
so all we have to do is put out their records.

Elektra and Sire and Apple
and all these labels,

I'm like, "What's their problem?"

You know, it's like, I like this band.
I brought the band and the CDs to my boss.

He really liked it,
and within three weeks we had a deal.

You know, it's done. It's so easy.

Like, why is everybody so scared?
What's the problem?

-That is your first signing?
-Yes. Yes.

You know what? It's very easy.
Everyone should try it.

Hi.

You guys have no idea
who I just became yesterday.

-Who?
-I'm very big. Very big.

What?

They don't want just Anton.
They want Anton, and myself, and yourself.

And that's all right, you know? That's
a whole different gig, you know, by contract.

Adam's really scared about what the f*ck
is this between you guys and the Dandys?

Yeah, I tried to explain it to him.
The history and whatnot.

He's like, "I can't believe you're playing,
like, the Beatles versus the Stones gig

"when you guys are, like,
so much better than them

"and you're gonna totally transcend them
like lickety-split."

And it's like, well, you know,
yeah, you know they're target number one,

and then we'll move on, and from there
we'll go to Oasis, you know, whatever.

They're just the first in the line, you know,

that's kind of the whole gig,
you know what I mean?

I keep hearing little things in the press.

There's just little mentions that....
You know, they'd be dissing us,

and it's just like, why?

Just didn't understand

that, supposedly, it was a rivalry
that they were trying to start up to get press,

but they didn't tell us that,
so it was just sort of insulting.

Well, this is a special little present
from our dear friend Anton.

We were in San Francisco, and we're playing
a show at the Purple Onion,

and he just drove by in a truck,

and I just happened to be outside,
and he said, "Here, here's a present for you.

"I'll see you in a month. I'm going to lndia."

There's a whole bunch of fun stuff in here.

This lovely bar of soap
came attached to this nice little card

with a little message, "Clean up your act!"

"Courtney Taylor, surrender!"

I was with Eric and we each found
these little things in here

with individual names on them.

Well, they're shotgun shells.

Mark Eiger had a restraining order
taken out against Anton.

He's stalking us now.

Making phone calls to Courtney's room...

-Did you hear that, Bob...
-...in the morning.

...Mike, and Heather
are trying to get them off the CMJ show.

INTERVIEWER:
Do you get tired of driving around?

Yeah, I don't.... I mean, I feel bad
for everybody else in the band,

but it's like,
I can't have Anton the insane guy....

I will not have him anywhere near me again
as much as I can avoid it.

I will not share dressing rooms
with him or back-stages. Anything.

I'll still buy their albums, though.

COURTNEY: Our management had thrown

the Brian Jonestown m*ssacre
off our bill at CMJ,

but Anton showed up on the TVT records
dime to distribute his ode to us anyway.

INTERVIEWER: What exactly is the adventure
tonight, Greg?

We're going down to this stupid club

to hang out in front of the place
and annoy people

to show them just how lame we think
CMJ and the entire music industry is.

You mean.... I can't possibly know that....

(NOT IF YOU'RE
THE LAST DANDY ON EARTH PLAYING)

Taxi!

Hey. Go in back seat or the trunk, man.

Whoa!

In the trunk, thank you.

Whoa, that was dumb.

-If you have a stamp, you can get in.
-All right.

I want him out of the building....
with the furry hat. Yes, he's not getting in.

# Yeah, in a slumber
I'm sawing lumber

# I saw my baby dance a Latin number #

-Ready?
-I'm ready.

-Take that for me. Excuse me?
-Thank you.

Sir? Capitol?

-Ready? Are you from Capitol?
-Er, no.

Take this anyways.

Not If You're the Last Dandy on Earth.
You two will never meet.

Take it anyways.

How did you get Jason Cropper's badge?

-Because you know what?
-He loves you?

No, I'm the Son of God.
I take whatever I need.

That's how you got it there?

-Hey, Jackie.
-Fine.

-Keep this.
-All right.

-This is the Brian Jonestown m*ssacre.
-Oh, really?

This is the hot new single,
Not If You're the Last Dandy on Earth.

Oh, I was confused.

-INTERVIEWER: What do you think?
-About what?

Of the -inch.

I think it's great.

I read it wrong.
I thought he wanted to k*ll us all,

but he's actually someone else,
some secret alter-ego.

Did you see them, our signed copies?

It's his, like, little ideal. We could get this
whole Blur-Oasis thing going, you know?

Yeah, maybe if both our bands were selling,
like, five million records.

He was like,
"You don't even understand the....

"You don't realise how much money
I've gotten for us."

-Give me my cut.
-"I would never wanna hurt you, Zia.

"If I wanted to k*ll you guys,
I would have already did it."

-Great. All right, then.
-That's good to know.

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

Come in.

-How are you?
-Good. How are you?

-I'm doing dandy. How are you?
-Thank you very much.

"Not If You Were the Last Dandy on Earth."
That's dandy.

-Cheers.
-Thank you.

No problem, sir. Goodnight.

I gave him $ in tips today.

I told her it's $
without tipping anybody in drinks.

If I charged $ in tips
and then plus my drinks,

what do you think they're gonna say?

They're gonna say,
"You're not allowed on our label anymore

"because you charge $ , in tips."

Anton, this is Steve Gottlieb.

-How you doing?
-Anton, good to meet you.

This is Greg Shaw from Bomp!

-Greg Shaw.
-Hi, Greg.

Anton from the Brian Jonestown m*ssacre.

Hey, how you doing?

Hey, guess what?
Can you put them on hold for one second?

I will make you a sh*t-load of money.
You too, mister. You too, all right?

Go right ahead
and make all the money you want.

Okay, you're gonna need a backpack
or a duffle bag to carry this.

All right?

-Accounting?
-Yeah.

You guys handle the numbers?

-Brian?
-Guess what?

You're gonna have to be counting
a lot more money

because I'm gonna be making you a sh*t-load
of money, all right? Are you guys ready?

I'm not trying to, like,
jack you for everything that I can get.

It's quite the opposite, you know?

I turned down bigger things to do this
because I'm hoping that freedom

translates into something better.

I can play instruments,
and I produce the records, right?

-But do you play an accordion?
-Yes, I do.

-You do?
-A didgeridoo?

I play all that stuff.
Weird f*cking Chinese sh*t I play.

There was never another artist on TVT
before or after

that had more excitement inside the label.

The people who worked there
were so excited to work the record,

and they convinced
the music industry at large

that the Brian Jonestown m*ssacre
were the next great thing.

# I walked to New York and back from LA

# I lived on a mountain and once by the bay

# I bought an apartment
and I slept in the hay

# But there's no place that's softer than.... #

Definitely not an act.

If he wasn't playing music,
it's not like he would get another job.

It's not like he's like,
"Okay, this music thing isn't working out,

"I'm gonna go, like, work in an office."
Like, Anton can only do this one thing.

He is for real. What he's doing is for real.

# I prayed to Buddha, to Allah and Jim.

# I turned to Jesus and stayed there with him

# I fell in deep but I learnt how to swim

# Now there's nobody cleaner
than me or than him #

COURTNEY: Unlike America,
European radio actually played our record.

Only days after its release, the album
was topping the charts in several countries.

Eric, our drummer,
had quit the band two weeks before,

so I brought my cousin Brent
to London instead.

Eric had wanted more of my songwriting
royalties, and I had refused.

"I don't think about you, I think about me.
This is a business."

Oh.

Really? I write all the songs.

All the songs. I produce the records.

All the records, you know?

I do everything.

And....

And yet, I'm giving away half
of my songwriting money?

Half of it.

So that the band can pay rent, and have fun,
and enjoy it, you know.

And that's not enough?

Are you f*cking stupid?

He said,
"We're going to Europe in two weeks".

And he says, "Do you think you can learn
all of our songs in two weeks?"

And I said, "Are you going to make me
sing already?" And he stops.

He says, "Yeah, 'cause if you can't sing
there's no real reason for you to be here.

"'Cause, you know, we'll go out
and get a drink if you can't sing."

Stockholm to Madrid.
There's gonna be a bus.

# You were getting older
I was getting wiser.... #

We are not a heavy airplay band, you know,
we don't get the kind of airplay

that Green Day got
or the Spice Girls, you know.

But it's mostly in America because here
in Europe you've got a lot of airplay, mostly.

Do we?

# You get what you got and you
learn how to like it #

You know our record
is number in the UK?

That's pretty incredible.
Our tour was sold out.

Brussels.

Copenhagen. We love it!

Stockholm. Malmö.

Madrid. Barcelona.

Hello, we love it.

It's gone ballistic.

Erm, I've got some press cuttings in my bag
to look at, and it's gone a bit mad.

Everybody suddenly knows
who The Dandy Warhols are.

MAN: Tickets for tonight, buy or sell tickets.

Tickets, Dandy Warhols.

# Darling, you give me a rope

# I'll hang myself

# It doesn't take a genius

# To figure it out #

Including our parents?

WOMAN: Yeah.

-Exactly.
-And in England?

About the same number.

, something.

That's over a year in America,

and that took a little under two weeks
in England.

COURTNEY: Our tour was running
very smoothly

until a surprise visit by the French police.

Yeah.

Courtney, the special box.

For where you smoke cocaine,
your special box.

Cannabis arrest.

I thought he was being real tricky,
like I was going to just fess up, you know....

COURTNEY:
My band got away with paying a fine

equivalent to four Dandy Warhols t-shirts.

And we kept the grass.

We are a lucky band
and they are a not lucky band.

Look what happens they get pulled over
by the police

in Georgia, or wherever it was.

And look what happened when
we got pulled over by the police in France.

That's lucky.

'Cause we could have had,
it could have all ended right there.

Not the band's career, but that tour.

If you were going to be
on the Jerry Springer Show,

what would your topic be?

And who would they invite on to slap you?

What is it? The Brian Jonestown m*ssacre?

"Stop stalking me."

"Write songs about some....
About your own f*cking band."

They'd have that. Would that be the episode?

And then they'd have
The Brian Jonestown m*ssacre on.

And who is it? Who is this guy, now?

They're this band, they're great,
and they're really good friends of ours.

They're just, kind of,
not very well-adjusted people.

They're not right in the head.

It's kind of sad
to see them be so dysfunctional.

'Cause the potential.

Like, they're like The Velvet Underground
of the ' s.

COURTNEY: By this time, Anton had set up
a really impressive home studio

with his recording budget from TVT.

He had his band around him again
and he was excited.

Ready to begin his career as a signed artist.

Instead of renting a studio
and hiring a producer,

something I'm really proud of is
we bought Anton a studio

so he could do it himself.

And not only that, but so he could
continually make music on his own, forever.

-This is a whole studio, right here?
-This is a whole recording studio.

COURTNEY: The TVT deal got Anton
worldwide exposure as well.

We couldn't believe it when we heard

that they had been invited to Tokyo
to play some shows.

There were a bunch of girls,
"Brian Jonestown m*ssacre".

And like, he was talking to them
and they started to cry and stuff.

And then they laughed.

# I may not know how you feel

# Desire

# I hope it's waiting for you

# You should be thinking of you

# You took your plan into town

# I could believe in you

# But baby you're not around

# Now there's nowhere to run #

That was so cool.

Anton jolly good!

-Anton?
-Cool!

-Nice to meet you.
-Anton.

COURTNEY: The feeling of hope

that The Brian Jonestown m*ssacre
had had in Japan

died upon their arrival back in Los Angeles.

Anton started using heroin heavily

as he was supposed to start making his
most important record yet.

Yo, dude, it's going to be interesting
how our record comes out

versus, like, The Dandys' approach
to everything like that.

Like how they did their sh*t.

WOMAN: How did they do their sh*t
versus how you do yours?

They had, you know,

a producer and they went to his studio

and that guy ended up getting more
gear for his studio.

Courtney got whatever, you know.

Tickets to go to Loveline and sh*t.

Didn't you see this?
How we got nominated for

the California music awards
for outstanding independent album.

Look at that, The Brian Jonestown m*ssacre.

The industry's thing's just negative
whenever I'm kind of down, you know?

Like loaded or something.

I take all these bad feelings, and then just...

put it into music, you know?

I let people interpret it how they will.

I regret the fact that I didn't know

how far gone Anton was in the beginning.

You know, I realise now that,

sort of, I walked into a sort of a MASH unit,
you know?

And I'm working in triage.

You know, I had to put as many pieces
together to keep it working as I could.

By December I realised he was
in no shape to make a record.

I mean he couldn't get it done.

And then we had to enlist the help of Muddy.

Yeah, hi.

We need to rent a DA- or a DA-

in the next, you know, five minutes.

Hey, you have Courtney's telephone number,
tell Courtney to call me.

I think Courtney's in Europe.

-Oh, really? He's playing, huh?
-I don't know, I didn't talk to him.

f*ck, I wonder when I'm going to hang out
with that guy? Probably never, huh?

He hates us anyways.
You know that? I'm sure of it now.

We'll never, ever play
with those guys again, I bet.

-Unless it's a part of like....
-MAN: Who?

The Dandy Warhols. Unless it's part of like
such KROQ Christmas f*cking thing.

And he can't get out of it.

(BRITISH ACCENT) "We're f*cking Oasis,

"and we're gonna
f*cking take over the world."

COURTNEY: Spirits were still good in the
backrooms of the house,

as the clock ticked on the
recording process up front.

But it was floundering under the weight
of constant drug abuse and fighting.

Okay, that's it.

I know it's a party back here

but I may have to ask you guys
to go outside or go

because there's no way we can record,
you guys are just too loud.

Good God, man, we had no idea
you were recording.

We are recording.

We're going into the house.

It's a great sound of all these

hundreds of instruments,
because that's the beauty of Anton.

He loves music.

He had every possible instrument
you could think about.

He had it there and they were playing it.

But, he walked into the house
and he just felt like death was everywhere.

It was just a smack house.

It was reeking of death.

And I thought that was the last time
I would actually see them.

There's so much of our sh*t
that has to be done now.

Is it really a lot?

Well, a lot of the music
doesn't sound done to me.

COURTNEY: You know, if it weren't for Matt,

this record would have never come out.

Anton wouldn't have been able to write
any more songs.

I'm trying to make this good too, man.

Don't even do that intro, leave
whatever's there, record the rest of the song.

I'll punch it in if it's not right.

I don't care, just like....

Yeah, 'cause we got all sorts of time
to fix punches.

Want to put the controller right here?
I don't understand what the problem is.

That's not where
I want to stick the controller.

Well, Muddy, then go home so I can work.

-Okay, I will.
-Thank you.

Anton f*cking kicking Muddy
out of the recording,

f*cking saying,
"Muddy, maybe you should just leave,"

telling him to go.

Doing f*cking dope again

when Michael Dutcher, our manager,
has told him that if he does it again,

he's going to quit
and not manage us anymore.

Anton is making a decision for all of us
that he wants to fail.

All right, the name of our band
is The Brian Jonestown m*ssacre.

And, the reason why
we haven't been playing out

is because we've been
recording a new album.

It's called Strung Out in Heaven.

# She said I love you

# And I know it can't be wrong

# 'Cause I've waited for so long

# I've waited for you #

Thanks.

I know, it's Matt.
It's cool. He's doing revenge.

Now you know why
they don't let kids do dope.

They don't let kids drink

because f*cking full-grown adults
can't even f*cking deal with booze.

And some adults can't deal with reality.

Now you know why
we don't have any friends.

WOMAN: Play a love song.

WOMAN : Love each other.
WOMAN : Yeah.

Find me some f*cking friends that are
worth loving and I'll sing.

Play your f*cking guitar now, as*h*le.

# Almost fell in a box.... #

(FEEDBACK HOWLING)

COURTNEY:
This was Matt Hollywood's song.

He always sung it.

# You don't hit me

# Now say you believe #

(MUFFLED SINGING)

COURTNEY:
This was Matt Hollywood's last show

with The Brian Jonestown m*ssacre.

Don't break up.

Righteous, brother.

Bombs away.

It's like seeing the dark, dark side....

Of what drugs do.
Well, it's 'cause, like, all those ' s bands

got into drugs and they were famous first.

MATT: There's just too much stress
on my soul.

I just want to be around some people

that aren't hell bent
on destroying themselves.

Hello, this is Matt from
The Brian Jonestown m*ssacre.

Anton completely flipped out on me
last night and attacked me.

I've got a huge bump
on my head and a giant bite mark on my side.

And, uh...y'know,
I just wanted to talk to you about that.

And maybe, like,
what the future of this band's situation

and contract is going to be.

What are you going to do about Matt?

What is Matt going to do about Matt?

I don't babysit f*cking -year-old guys
for a living.

Right? I make great records for a living.

Who's in the band now?

Who f*cking gives a sh*t?
Who was ever in the band?

Whoever I say is in the band.

I don't really know the person that he is now.

I would rather almost just think of him
as if he's dead or something.

It's my f*cking band, I invented it.

These guys quit and join as they feel like it.

And that doesn't matter.

I would never manage another person
like Anton again.

Because you can't have

the hardcore sit-down with him
at times and say,

"Guy, you know,
this is what's really happening in your life.

"You know, the illusion that you want
to build in your head is one thing

"but the reality is this."

I'm really tired, 'cause I've been
doing business for hours

for f*cking months,
I still haven't been off work yet.

And you've missed everything.
You don't even understand how big this is.

They're flying f*cking photographers from
New York and making them do what I want.

You're going to follow me
to a location right now.

We're going to go.
We'll use your lD, your California lD, right?

-You have one?
-No.

And we're gonna go pawn one of my guitars.

Okay? We're getting $ to make this
photo sh**t happen.

And have some scratch,
do you understand that?

-Right.
-So the movie gets better.

So let's go do that.

Invite everybody you know.

Say, "You want to be in a Brian Jonestown
m*ssacre two-page spread in Magnet

"by a pro photographer?

"You want to be in pictures
and record covers and sh*t?

"You want to, like, be there like
a Coca-Cola commercial for all of history?"

I go.... Check this out, ready?

Are you ready for this?

Tell them to wear f*cking white
and come when I call.

-Watch out.
-Very scary.

Anton.

Do you need one of these, Joel?

A scarf?

Yeah.

That guy who walked by,
who ran by with the white shirt on?

Yeah, he was walking beside me
and asked me,

"Excuse me, are you guys members of a cult
or are you just sh**ting a video?"

And I'm, like, um....

"That's a really good question, sir.

"I'm sorry that I can't answer it for you
right now.

"I'm still figuring it out myself."

# I'm heading down to Arkansas

# To bury my old ma and pa #

Cool, have a break.

You happy with it?

Well, I want it to be funny and rad
and a curiosity.

I don't want none of that
pre-packaged bullshit

like the Dandys are getting pumped.

You know what I mean?
We make it up as we go along.

Do you what I mean?

I don't need some guy that lives in,
which building is it?

Capitol?

I don't need some square
in that round building

pre-packaging a f*cking idea for me.

I got more ideas than that whole
f*cking little office of theirs.

Courtney is a troublemaker artist, I'm not.
Do you understand that?

Shot. Beautiful. Hold on, it's beautiful. Shot.

COURTNEY: Upon our return from Europe,
we began recording our next album,

Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia.

We recorded
Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia.

Above a parking garage?

Above a parking garage, all above....

COURTNEY: Recording Thirteen Tales
was probably the best recording experience.

The level of creativity was really intense.

Every single day a lot got done.

And it was really inspiring.
That's the way I work the best.

-You ever done that?
-Yes, I'll say.

Okay, here we go.

# Give it to me

# Ride me, yeah

# Give it to me

# Ride me, yeah #

ZIA: How did I get in, like, the coolest band
on the planet, like, my first try?

Like, I saved up a lot of good karma, I think.

Like, when I paid for all the coke,
and everyone smokes my cigarettes, and....

You know, I'm like, okay,
I'm getting paid back

by being in a really awesome band,
you know.

My good luck comes from all places.

# So what do you do

# Oh yeah I wait tables too

# No I haven't heard your band

# Cause you guys are pretty new #

COURTNEY: We released a psychedelic
rock record during the heyday of boy bands.

So, naturally, radio and our record label
disregarded us completely.

A year and a half later,
a cell phone commercial

put Bohemian Like You
into households all across Europe.

We went there and it was huge.

They are still one of the biggest
and the most famous bands here in Greece.

We heard pieces of different songs of ours
on radio stations here.

# Baby, come on, yeah

# If you have a hard time gettin' there

# Maybe you're gone

# But if you find, you find yourself
Forget yourself

# Hey hey hey #

I've seen them tonight
and I think they are the best ever.

-To the drummer! Fantastic harmonies!
-Hello, it's us again!

Courtney, you've got
the best f*cking voice ever, man.

And it carries well, you're fantastic.

COURTNEY: After feeding our fan base
across Europe,

we returned to the UK
to headline a major festival run

with other highly successful acts.

(PLAYING BOHEMIAN LIKE YOU)

# So what do you do

# Oh yeah I wait tables too

# No I haven't heard your band

# 'Cause you guys are pretty new

# But if you dig on vegan food

# Well come over to my work

# I'll have them cook you something
that you'll really love

# 'Cause I like you, yeah, I like you

# And I'm feelin' so Bohemian like you

# Yeah I like you

# Yeah I like you

# And I feel wahoo, wooo #

You guys sounded great.

I was totally like,
"God, I'm so glad I like them."

'Cause they're nice people.
What if I didn't like them?

-Isn't that the worst?
-Yeah.

-It was great, though, man.
-Thanks

Glad to hear you.

Great set, great set. Really enjoyed it.

COURTNEY: We had hit another peak.
We were playing sold-out shows

and festivals for , to , people.

And we were loving it.

I guess TVT wound up losing a lot of money
on The Brian Jonestown m*ssacre.

At the beginning there was lots of success.
We shipped , records.

We went number three at CMJ.

And then the sales didn't really come up.

There were eight people on the road.

They did, you know, shows,

but I think people wound up going
to the live show

to see if Anton
was going to punch his bass player,

or if Anton was going to walk out
on the show.

-That's f*cking it right there.
-Your f*cking crap.

That ain't your sh*t man,
you don't do that to people's property.

COURTNEY: With disappointment at the label
and strife inside the band,

it seemed like the end of the line
for The Brian Jonestown m*ssacre.

The line up that they put
The Brian Jonestown m*ssacre on the map

dissolved in the coming days.

I have another band. It's not like I....
Like this was my only thing.

-Yeah?
-I feel bad for the people that it was.

I can do it with other people.

Not be a tambourine man or anything,

but just put something together with people,
and share ideas, and....

You know, have a good time.

I can't come to phone right now
because I don't have a life,

and I just wasted four years on....
a total f*cking waste of time.

ANTON (ON STAGE):
That wasn't supposed to be the finale....

What a gyp.

ANSWERING MACHINE: Message four.

JOEL (WHISPERING):
Are you under enemy lines right now?

ANTON (OVER PHONE):
All right, you bunch of turds,

get your asses over here. We're drinking.

(PHONE RINGING)

WOMAN: Hello.
MAN: Hello.

MAN: This is going to be so cool today.

-sh*t....
-I'll rent the studio Monday, to record....

The first song is just gonna be all....

So, I'm in the middle of working
on my ninth album,

if you can you believe that.

I'm the f*cking world champion.

Fired or kicked half of the people
out of our band and then they got good.

Seemed like a good idea at the time.
But, uh....

It sounds pretty good.
It's pretty rocking, pretty crazy.

MAN: Joel!

Yes, it should be pretty crazy. Joel?

Joel wussed out.

He said, "I don't want to be in band with
any drug-freaking, fighting zeroes anymore. "

If you can imagine that.

(PLAYING THOSE MEMORIES)

# I close my eyes

# And you're there with me

# Your kiss I feel

# Your face I see

# It's not your touch girl

# That's driving me crazy

# It's just those lonesome memories

# Those memories, those memories #

(ISOLATED WHOOPING AND WHISTLING)

Oh, yeah, that's so cool,
you're going to, like, sit here and hide?

Hide in the darkness
and throw f*cking fruit at me?

Seriously, no, don't hide in the back
and throw fruits

when we're trying to play music, okay?

Come on up here in the light
where we can see your f*cking cowardness.

We can see your f*cking shaking little hands.

Or, no, just stand back, and why don't you
throw a f*cking glass or something?

You got a g*n? Why don't you sh**t at us?

What are you f*cking doing?

-I'll just f*cking leave, man.
-AUDlENCE: Play. Play. Play.

Check it out, Jeff.
You threw down my guitar, right?

I'd like to see you get paid for that.

That's cool.

You know what?

I never got paid for all the years
that I got f*cked in the a*s by you.

So why the f*ck am I gonna get paid now?

Whoo!

WOMAN: Biatch!

Anton, just don't die.

Please, just don't.
Like, what's the alternative?

You either get straight or you die.

Oh!

COURTNEY: Up in Portland,
we were wrapping up our fourth record,

Welcome to the Monkey House,

and turning our label's promotional budget

into a Dandy Warhols version of
Andy Warhol's Factory.

The idea of a community of artists

that are not being judged negatively
by what's weird or screwy about them

but being glorified.

He took the video budget
and instead of building sets

and having them torn down,
we had sets built permanently.

And now we'll be able to rehearse
and have our own shows in that room.

That angle looks f*cking great.

# Just remember me when

# We used to be friends

# A long time ago

# We use to be friends #

It's controlled chaos, really. A stage show.

I'm looking forward to seeing him
on the new record. It's different, which I like.

This is Nic Harcourt, your host for
Morning Becomes Eclectic.

Up next, brand new music from
The Dandy Warhols.

(PLAYING YOU WERE THE LAST HIGH)

Always by the time I am ready for it
to change, and to get bigger, it gets bigger.

And hasn't stopped getting bigger yet.

# I am alone but adored

# By a hundred thousand more #

ZIA: We established so early on that we're
going to be big for just being who we are.

And that just saved us so much work, I think.

It's fun on tour.

It's fun in the studio, it's fun at dinner,
it's fun at the bar.

The secret is...

if it's good, it's fun.

And if it's bad, it's funny.

# You were awake and I should have stayed

# But wondered #

We don't want be a dysfunctional family.

We're responsible,
much more responsible people.

Now half the band's married.

I don't know, we all have cars,
and we take our job seriously.

Dave Deresinski was amazed

that all of us managed to keep...what was it?

A job, a car and a house.

Whereas his band never could have all three.

They have one or two, but never all three.

The Dandy Warhols are the greatest cartoon.

That's what I think it takes
to be successful as a pop star.

I don't give a f*ck what they do.

It's not for me.
He's not singing songs for me.

Minnesoter? You know?

You're, like, f*cking "hot-diggity-dog,
all we want to do is get off"?

Go read my f*cking lyrics, man.

He's a joke, but The Dandys rule okay,
you know?

Hey, that's a great record.

COURTNEY:
They were absolutely our favourite band,

and they were the most interesting
and amazing characters.

But it's basically like a pack
of -year-old boys

from a*usive, broken homes...
set loose in the ghetto.

You know what I mean?
That's basically what that felt like.

Like, yeah, let's go hang out with them,
but come on.

You know, these kids are all gonna end up
in prison.

COURTNEY: Last I heard,
Anton had cleaned up,

put together a whole new line-up

and gone on an independent tour
across America.

Though successful financially,
the tour was riddled with fights and anxiety

as Anton heard the news
of the birth of his son.

The last show of the tour
was in Los Angeles.

It's been a tough year.
Let me entertain you, okay?

Let me just do this. 'Cause I am sick.
I don't need to be here.

I don't have a record company.
I am the record company.

Listen to my voice, I am not joking.

I am not for sale, this is a gift for you.

You paid for it, enjoy it.
Don't piss in the f*cking well.

I have a son. Listen.

I want to go meet my son.
I'll take your money,

see my son, and buy him something nice.
Let me entertain you.

Thank you, I love you too.

You may have seen her around town.
Her name is Sara. She's my sister.

She's going play a song for you now.
Sara come up here.

# You were gone

# I felt

# I felt out of place

# Go on #

Just like how a shark has to keep moving
and if they stop they'll die.

I honestly don't know what would happen
to him if he were successful,

and he stopped having things to...

really battle against.

Hey, you're gonna get your head kicked in.
Say it. Come up here.

And say it to my face, right now.

Say it to my face. I don't think that's funny,
I'm not into incest or child molestation.

Come up here, be a man.
Don't hide back there.

MAN: Relax.

Don't talk like that to ladies
when they're entertaining you.

I'll kick your f*cking head in.

Come on back up here.
I'll hit you again, come on.

Holy sh*t. He kicked me in the head.

Hey, I'm gonna beat your f*cking a*s.

Hey, bouncers, bounce this guy
or else I'm gonna k*ll him in your club.

Hear this. Do you guys have him?
I'm stopping this show. Good night.

MAN: (ON RADIO):
Now restraining the lead singer.

He's on his way to you
with three security guards.

The police are coming to him.

Anton.

-They're coming to you.
-That's fine.

-We are taking him back to the green room.
-That's fine.

Have a seat.

-They want me dead. I am not joking around.
-Do you think so?

I know for a fact it's over.

I've already won. My son's here.

I keep the door locked.

Today is a wonderful day to die.

Those guys are gonna k*ll me.

Just put your hands behind your back,
palms together. Face the wall.

-Careful with my fingers.
-You've got it.

Okay, now put your hands behind your back,
palms together.

There you go.
If you want, we can double handcuff him.

Sorry I didn't ever get to see my son,
but that's the breaks.

I didn't do nothing.

Our watch commander's probably going
to advise that we book him for ADW.

as*ault with a deadly weapon.
Anytime you use....

-Anything besides your hands?
-Yes. Yeah.

When you use your feet,

because of the power
you can generate in your legs,

and you kick somebody in the head....

I cannot get out. I'm in till Tuesday
and they're putting me with the bad guys.

Ondi, tell my son I love him. I'm never
going to see him again, d'you hear me?

I'm telling you the truth.

ANTON: So we weren't even
going to play tonight,

but we want to make sure
that everybody knows

we're gonna fight the good fight.

# Three words you have spoken

# You don't think we get old #

He's like, this brilliant monster creator of art

that generally is like three years ahead.
And I always think I'm catching up to him,

and then he comes up with something
that I just can't believe what he just did.

He's just always ahead. He's so amazing.

# Please play by the rules

# Please play by the rules

# If I knew my way out #

There's no way to have a revolution
if you stay underground.

What the f*ck's the point of that?

The whole point was for him
to get above ground as well.

And then he could have his revolution.

ANTON: There has been a revolution.

Do you hear The White Stripes
on the f*cking radio?

There's a big difference.
Because when I started, it was Pearl Jam.

I just think the revolution happened.

How many people
are imitating Pearl Jam right now?

Not that many.
How many imitators do I have?

I played a part in opening that up.

Why don't they tell people
who influenced them?

They don't, because they're self-serving
f*cking b*stards.

Everyone that Anton's ever met
has gone on to make great music.

Peter from Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
used to be in Brian Jonestown m*ssacre

they're signed to Virgin.
Miranda Lee Richards, she signed to Virgin.

The Warlocks gave us

the Beachwood Sparks
and The Tyde and The Lilys,

which is all kind part of Anton's scene.

And he is exactly where he was before.

'Cause Anton was never really interested
in having a professional career.

He just wants to play rock'n'roll.

The f*ck, the bean-counters, the lawyers.

All these assholes, at every label, those are
the people that wreck the music business.

Not Napster, not some college kid
downloading sh*t,

the people without vision.

The music's strong enough that
there probably will be a generation

that discovers them
like this rare, fossilised gem.

And mine it for all it's worth.

PETER: They continue to make good records,
and they continue to inspire us,

even though they're not, maybe,
at the same level.

And they'll be remembered forever.

You know their records will become
collectors' items, when....

And who knows, we might just be forgotten.

# Oh, please, understand

# Oh, please, understand #

(PLAYING THE GODSPELL
ACCORDlNG TO A. A. NEWCOMBE)

# Well I had my share of fistfights

# And some good loving too

# Although I'm getting older

# Oh, I'm sure I am not through

# 'Cause I'm alive

# And I'll survive

# 'Cause I came for you

# I came for you

# I came for you #

-That's pretty much it.
-That's hot.

-That last line.
-"I came for you"?

No. "I had my share of fist fights,
and good loving, too,

"although I'm getting older,
I'm sure that I'm not through."

You know what I mean?

(GODLESS BY THE DANDY WARHOLS
PLAYING)