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Brian Jonestown Massacre mainstay and longtime partner in musical crime with BJM’s visionary leader Anton Newcombe, Joel Gion still lives in the city where his famous band was born, San Francisco (the band now records in Berlin, where Newcombe lives). In between musical projects, Gion is working on his writing, telling tales and sharing his memories. Crispin Kott caught up with him recently for PKM
It was little known that the American literary icon was also a painter. Even less, that his paintings are kept by two Swiss collectors.
Examine how beatniks, Haight-Ashbury, Andy Warhol, Timothy Leary, hippies, Woodstock and Hell's Angels became counter-cultural foundations that still resonate...
Was this an evolution from one to the other? >> just the older ones. see i'm 46 years old, these kids are 18. the beat generation was a generation of the attitude and pleasure in life and tenderness. i believe in order and piety. >> here's the progenitor really of the counterculture kind of disowning his own babies and try to make sense of a decade, the '60s, that he didn't feel parry to. >> apparently, some kind of dionysian movement in which i did not intend. this was pure in my heart. >> all sorts of people have been writing various articles about the hippies, usually about the hippies as i...
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