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Dig!, the massively amazing documentary about the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols is out on DVD. Supposed to contain hours of concert footage on a second disc. Region 2 also available.
The Movie's Homepage has more information about all the awards it won. For those who don't know, Ondi Timoner, the filmmaker, started filming these bands a decade ago. Anton Newcombe, singer/songwriter of the BJM, turned her onto the next great band, The Dandy Warhols, in the early nineties.
The two bands played together, shared influences, shared drugs, and in fact put out albums which begin with the identical first thirty seconds. Then things go sour. Anton bites the record exec who is trying to offer him a deal, gets in fistfights with band members on stage during A&R showcases, and generally self destructs in a series of spectacular drug-fueled episodes.
The Dandys, meanwhile, are signed to Capitol. They have David LaChapelle directing their music videos and are the soundtracks to dozens of commercials. They play festivals in europe. They, in a word, succeed.
And the movie traces the compromises the Dandys made along the way, which the BJM couldn't make. And also Anton's increasing total nutter-ness (He sends shotgun shells to the Dandys with their names on them.) and disintegration.
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