The Brian Jonestown Massacre's Joel Gion talks Anton, Performing Live with BJM & Percussion Injuries

[@lazarusmv1973]

".......No drama anymore." 4 months later Anton has a meltdown of some sort at every show.

[@storkonstage]

The way he plays the tambourine is amazing. I've got a big heart for this guy. And BJM has become my favourite band. The fighting on stage, well, it's a bit sad. Because it takes down the nobility, these guys are golden, away.

[@jonathanreddish8590]

pure gold.

[@AnonymousAccount514]

The worlds most famous tambourine player

[@MarwanAbdElghany]

man Joel is so kind of guy i wanna hang out with him

[@ryanjonestownmassaker5943]

Yo Marwan!

[@guideme1503]

Great interview.... i love to hear you’re still together. He needed you more than a wife, maybe you do. You are a delight. God bless you.

[@markashlock3752]

My friend took me to go see Brian jonestown live and then I watched the video on them and it is great and Joel is one wild guy and it boy be fun to party with him oh Joel has to do is come to town and a smile and it's on..

[@tastemaker_87]

Joel's persussion playing on the song "super fucked" is out of this world

[@catchofthedave8681]

The tambourine is much more than people think. I will play it for 2 or 3 songs and then be glad to pick the guitar or bass back up. If you rap it against your other palm or hand, it only takes a song or so to hurt and its bruised in the morning. If you hit it against your hip or thigh, also bruised the next day. Id say i get worse bruised from the tambourine than playing a whole show with a much heavier guitar which gets swung into your hip from time to time. Dont sleep on the tambourine, the thing is ruthless

[@tastemaker_87]

Wish this was longer, good interview though

[@BillSkinton]

i walked past him on the day they played brighton, wish id said hi :( and i was also at bimm, but didnt really appreciate who they are until now sadly

[@crystinamarie1]

I saw him on Dig! I was intrigued 😍

[@ashamazon2262]

A different energy than the Dig days.

[@bobsbigboy_]

thankfully, otherwise they'd be dead

[@faunoram]

Maese Joel !!

[@whatarefriends4]

He’s the best tambourine player that ever walked the face of Earth

[@christiananderson6761]

The coolest man in modern psych. His book is great too

[@crackthefoundation_]

Can we please see the whole thing?!??

[@BIMMMusicInstitute]

Unfortunately we're not able post full masterclass videos online, but Joel also did a podcast with us where he covered a lot of the same things as in the masterclass in detail: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ome2nqmufphmnMk

[@crackthefoundation_]

@@BIMMMusicInstitute nice ty

[@theyearoftherat]

what's the secret? just typically be together when you get called up to hit a tambourine. and age. bjm appears to almost be a anton solo project with a live band to go on the road.

[@beataspiewakjonsson1749]

❤

[@thecreamyone3606]

The Brian Jonestown Mascot

[@arricammarques1955]

New album SIDEBURNS 2022

[@thecreamyone3606]

@@arricammarques1955 The B sides- Chops

[@ajaj3196]

What's the song playing in the intro?

[@BIMMMusicInstitute]

It's 'Smile' by Joel Gion

[@NewDawnFadesX]

What’s the name of the song at the beginning?

[@BIMMMusicInstitute]

It's 'Smile' from Joel's first album!

[@NewDawnFadesX]

BIMM thanks.

[@user-gw2pr7ey4n]

Trickydicky: Joel sounds so much like Anton: could be twins!

[@idance4catpower]

nice

[@losttango]

Got a bit of a Jack Nicholson / Cuckoo's Nest thing going on there...

[@whatarefriends4]

Absolutely

[@WhiteNacho]

Is that Rachel Levine??

[@loucat2779]

I wonder if he still has his checking account, for the backpacks full of money they were raking in.

[@steverice7546]

Like every other poser who listens to BJM, I discovered them by watching DIG!, and after a rewatch or two, and listening to their later tunes, I honestly appreciate Joel more than Anton. (Yeah, whatever. That’s my take on it. Suck it.) More than the sum of their parts…..U can’t have one without the other. IMO.

[@arricammarques1955]

Secret? Art of letting go...

[@dharmageddonnow]

Tambourine looks exhausting to play every night!

[@saturatedneowax]

he sounds and looks like a chunkier version of my uncle lol

[@roastbeef441]

Joe is too cool.

[@marck1726]

Tambourine is so dangerous man, bit me on the bum once man, not kidding man, yeah...

[@revolutionday1]

Get'chu some gloves, hommie! Shit.....

[@joshboncoeur6985]

The Drama's back lol...

[@dharmageddonnow]

I wouldn't want to play tambourine two hours a night!

[@MidwestFarmToys]

That's why they fight every other show so they have an excuse to only play 40 minutes 😂

[@teddnagurski5583]

"Every night is just playing until the audience no longer exists and I am just meditating mmm with the repetitiveness of what I'm doing." He bangs on a tambourine. He's not Jimi Hendrix. What a 🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@chiefcrowtheflatearthworms3259]

I like him more when he's coked out with hair spray.

[@klausrain111]

Just don't get it. At least they stopped talking before he went into the "Anton's a genius" routine, 'cause he's not.

[@pawpaw__]

Nice take, dweeb. Your opinion will go down in history as the word of god. All Hail Richie B lol

[@CB-rv9kb]

Yeah but he's REALLY good

[@Gramercy_Stiffs]

Dig was a bunch of self proclaimed geniuses, calling other people geniuses, which made none of them geniuses.

[@JerryBarclaw]

This is like a tim and eric skit

[@PeterSokol-bl5vz]

Does not even know how to pronounce drama….joke band plays the same song…over and over and over…masterclass my ass.