Like performance art, but not

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I'm going to chase down a hard copy of Joel Gion's memoir In The Jingle Jangle Jungle about his days with The Brian Jonestown Massacre. The book is doubtless about other things but for most of us, just that would be enough. The infamous documentary Dig! lands differently now. Anton Newcombe comes across as someone who needs more help than he's getting, and The Dandy Warhols guitarist Peter Holmström's characterisation of his band as "just lucky" doesn't even come close.

In 2005 Gion talked about what it is he does on stage:

When I joined [The Brian Jonestown Massacre] I quickly realized I needed to discover my comfort zone in this at-the-time long disregarded role as a "60s" hand percussion player. I looked for what I could add to The BJM’s particular music and that group of people and what I came up with is still what you see. That’s what I do. It’s not to feign some hopefully contagious excitement, I’m more like a middleman to the audience. It’s like performance art but not. What I do each night on stage is to bring a sense of honest self in a way that’s under the radar. People watching won’t be able to articulate what it is but they will know that it’s there because I am honest in my purpose.