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  • Keep Music Evil: The Brian Jonestown Massacre Story

  • By: Jesse Valencia
  • Narrated by: Jesse Valencia
  • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)

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Summary

Fifteen years after Ondi Timoner’s film Dig! shot The Brian Jonestown Massacre to international fame comes the first ever book on the controversial band and their leader, Anton Newcombe, who together have been at the forefront of the resurgence of psychedelic rock in recent decades — and become one of the most infamous and controversial bands around in the process.

Drawing on years of extensive research and personal interviews with over 125 people connected to the band — including former and current members Joel Gion, Matt Hollywood, Jeff Davies, Rick Maymi, and Frankie Emerson, as well as The Dandy Warhols, Miranda Lee Richards, Dave Deresinski, and Ondi Timoner — Keep Music Evil: The Brian Jonestown Massacre Story digs a little deeper into the history of the band and the making of the film.

Written as a personal narrative that evokes the New Journalism of Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson, Keep Music Evil sets the record straight, once and for all, providing close insights into the band’s origins in early 1990s San Francisco, their record-making process, and the full, unexpurgated tale of Dig! Featuring rare, candid photographs of the band from throughout their career, this is the first comprehensive study of one of modern rock ’n’ roll’s most enduring sagas.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2019 Jawbone Press (P)2021 Jesse Valencia
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Good Story, no edits

Great oral history of the Brian Jonestown Massacre. Only problem is that there was no edit, a lot of repeated words, reader start g to read again

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Perfectly Read and Professionally Written

If you're a fan of real music you'll be a fan of this book.

Historically accurate and so well written, had such a great time reading this.

Take acid now and come read the Brian Jonestown Massacre book. You won't regret it.

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Good story badly read and edited

Jesse is clearly passionate about the band and the stories and detail are good. The downside was the actual narration which is relentless, with hardly a breath between sentences. At that speed I sometimes found it hard to take in. The editing is also a problem which sees several sentences being repeated and one chapter which seems to glitch and jump.

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