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I'm listening to The Brian Jonestown Massacre play live on UT-Austin's KVRX. A song started, then halted after a few bars. I heard band leader Anton Newcombe heard on-air admonishing the band to play together.

After a member retorted, Anton said, "You go back to Missouri! And you go back to Ohio."
"You're not playing together! Come on now and be a band."

Years ago, I saw BJM play at Tip's Tavern, which was a basement if not an underground club in Norman. My neighbor Casey and I got to the show early and greeted the band in their van with a pint of cheap bourbon and a backpack full of beer. We quickly exhausted the beer, so we decided to get some more beer.

Inside the Sooner Superette, we scanned the cheap beer, and I suggested "Milwaukee's Best Light."

Dismayed by my taste in beer, Anton said, "Why don't we get regular - it doesn't look like anyone here needs to worry about their figure."

To this day, I'm still not sure full-flavor Beast was the ideal choice, but I fondly remember sitting in the driver's seat of the Brian Jonestown Massacre, shooting the breeze about art and music.

I think Anton is the only remaining member from that incarnation of the Brian Jonestown Massacre. I haven't listened to Bravery Repetition and Noise, but Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request is one of my favorite indie rock albums of all time.