I watched this one and it was an eye opener. The success of the documentary seemed to rest on the pettiness of the artists involved, and the peripheral people who supported them (managers and a&r reps). Really I haven't given either the Dandies or Brian Jonestown Massacre much of a listen, but this doesn't seem to make me want to run out and buy either of their stuff. The Dandies seem obsessed with becoming rock stars, and Brian Jonestown act like deranged imbeciles. It made for a great documentary, with many lol moments.



Has anyone else watched this? what's your take on it?

Really a great doc. Really captures the scene. What really makes it great is that the director, I forget her name, followed them around for so many years and just so happened to stumble into the tragicomic world of Anton Newcombe...his slight rise and dramatic fall. She could just have easily latched on to some band who really didn't go anywhere....you know...not much of a story line. But this...this was gold.

i actually saw about half of it without sound on friday night. i should probably watch it properly sometime, but i did think it had a good mix of interviews and live footage to work well.

Good documentary, but rather too sad for me. I don't get it: Anton comes across as the most honest, straight-up guy who has genuine talent with writing and performing, yet he didn't like his portrayal in the film.

Is that what we were watching?

Never listened to either band before I saw this last summer.

Dandies- Your average trendy, wicker park hipsters. hated their fucking guts, sound like a 60's cover band and dont have a memorable song. the only decent tracks are when they steal riffs. Whiny fucking twats, who weren't greatful for their moment in the spotlight. blame evrybody for their lack of sucess, the reason the major label dropped them is because their music sounds dated and sucks.

BJTM- Some good music, but that dude is really pathetic. Being a homeless junkie isn't cool, it's sad. Well it's not really sad when you think it's cool like that asshole did. I like some of the tracks they had even though some of it was very self-indulgent.

The Movie- I like it, I really dont watch many movies but most of them are documentaries. Their completly different, but 'DIG' is much better then that boring ass Wilco doc but it's nowhere near as good as 'Murderball'.

One of my favorite musical docs of all time. I loved it. Didn't know anything about either band going in but Anton's "character" sucked me right in. Great stuff. Ended updigging their tunes too. The Warhols not so much.

The non-fictional, indie rock Spinal Tap. Brilliant stuff on several levels, one of my favorite movies of the decade, easy.

OTM! so is the Metallica doc, too. without the indierock, of course

no love for "bohemian like you" or "get off"?


yeah, for awhile. i thought it was a terrible choice for the event, but it's also not why people go, so it slides by.

I thought Anton came across as a fruit loop, just missing toucan sam. The scene's with the band fist fighting were great. Anton kicking a fan in the face while live and on stage had me in the back of the crowd during the BJM show I went to soon after. Anton never really did it for me, whereas Matt Hollywood seems to be the reason Brian Jonestown was really good. If you listen to the new album you will see how much is lacking in his absence.

Great movie nonetheless, although it is nowhere close to "Those Fearless Flying Freaks". I am also very excited to see Michael Franti's new documentary about his travels through the mid east called "I know Im not Alone", Ive heard its incredible.

Excellent excellent movie. one of the best docs i've ever seen. Murderball is truly inspirational

Ondi Timoner is her name. She gives a pretty good commentary from what I can remember. It did seem like she got lucky with a lot of the stuff. But I guess you are bound to get lucky following some people around for 7 years. I guess Anton posted a nasty letter about her on his website, but I guess he is not so mad anymore since he got a little exposure.

According to IMDB she is doing a doc on Jamaican music now. I can't wait to see the "anton newcombe" of rastas.

I mentioned this here before, but the doc reminded me of the movie Amadeus, with Anton as the inspired, talented (and very rude & unstable) "Mozart" to Courtney Taylor-Taylor's business-friendly, but somewhat mediocre "Salieri" - even to the point that the Salieri character narrates the film, and at heart is a fan of his nemesis.

I actually enjoy both bands, for different reasons. The movie's a real hoot, though - even if you hate the bands.

yeah, I'm surprised he had the tact to even pick up on how he was portrayed in the film after the fact.

but I agree with rocks and blows that the hipsters in both groups did really remind me of the wicker park/chicago breed. But I guess they are the same everywhere, right?

OK, that is an entirely different opinion than the one I possess.

In the movie I saw, dude came off as the biggest asshole pretty much humanly possible.

There was nothing quite as amusing as James Hetfield going through therapy and Lars reacting to the big baby Hetfield became.

I'm curious if anyone was a fan of BJM or the Dandies before watching this, and after were a little off-put by either group's personality, and did it affect the way you listened to their music. A rockumentary can be a great expose of the personalities involved within the group, and how it works.

I just got done watching the new Luna documentary, and they came off as relatively stable people. Polar opposite of Dig!, but still entertaining nonetheless.

Yes, one of my favirotes of all-time. I'm by no standards to masculine to cry at a movie but I never really had, and I cried twice during that movie.

I think he mentioned it in the movie, but I don't remember. Anton has almost everything he's ever released for free download on his website. http://www.brianjonestownmassacre.com/mp3.html. So if you haven't listened to them before you can now.

Before the movie all I knew from the dandies was that bohemian like me song. I had no idea they were actually popular overseas though.

I had never heard one second of bjm before the movie. I checked them out a little bit afterwards, but it wasn't really my thing. Plus, I don't like guys who can play 100 instruments.

I was a fan of both bands - even saw BJM once - before I saw Dig. Funny thing is that they both were pretty much the way I expected (if a bit exaggerated).

Overall, a very entertaining documentary. I wasn't a huge fan of either band, but the constant conflicts made for pretty riveting viewing.

The only thing that bugged the hell out of me was that talentless hipster tambourine player in BJM. I really got tired of hearing that guy talk! Did anyone else have that reaction to him?

this is nice, but it doesn't create very entertaining documentaries.

the live performances which are well performed and beautifully shot make the movie worthwhile overall. But if you don't like the band you won't like the movie, I suppose. There isn't any 'action' (riots or heroin references)

no, hes the only part that made me laugh through the whole thing. also, hes fucking awesome on the gilmore girls.

first time i saw this movie it made me so uncomfortable because its just so exactly how you (i) imagine these bands to be, that i just couldnt stand it. i felt so awful and out of place watching it. i dont know. apparently i am the only one who feels that way.

Yeah, I liked that guy. He had a sense of humor when Anton was so fucking serious.

BTW, did anyone see the Gilmore Girls episode entitled "he's slippin' 'em bread, dig?". Well, that guy makes a cameo. The whole episode is kind of an homage to the doc "Dig", including a meltdown at an A & R showcase.

I hated that wolverine-looking hipster fuck!

Maybe he has knives for hands and he can only play the tambourine. You are so anti-mutant.

anton is really crazy in real life. he stole my friend's girlfriend and she freaked out at him or somtehing like all girls that meet him apparently do. but whatever, he's a genius at what he does. he makes some of my favorite records and that documentary is sad/entertaining to watch. in the long run, people are going to be more interested in what was shown in the documentary and the whole mystique of anton newcombe '95-97 rather than actually listen to those fucking great records.

Still one of the best analogies ever.

I love this movie. After I saw it I was like "Fuck I'm totally going to learn how to play guitar and just get a van and quit school TOUR CONSTANTLY." Never really panned out.

I've read interviews with Newcombe done post-Dig!, and he claims that the filmmaker completely took his actions out of context, edited the footage to create a character that isn't him at all, blahblahblah. Yet in each interview, he comes across as exactly the way he was portrayed in Dig!

Also, Matt Hollywood is like, my alter-ego, even though word on the street is he's kind of a fatty now.

Great film. Top twenty of all time for me, at the very least. Ridiculously quotable, too. It really presents the BJM as the most underrated overrated band ever.

And the Dandys are such fucking tools. It's awesome when Zia McCabe talks. She's so fucking stupid! Yep.

The people in this movie remind me of my friends. I loved it and hated it at the same time for that reason.

Anton is a big time fuckhead and I'm glad he never became a sucess. BJM fucking suck.

Who Killed Sgt Pepper?

Just starting my first listen to this, and it is fucking impressive.

The return of Anton to relevancy.

anybody heard this gem?

Are you being serious? Record is absolute garbage...lyrics are awful, production is grossly clean, and Joel should never open his mouth unless its cracking one liners on stage with BJM.

this is a great track.