Tee Pee Records
2004
Tepid Peppermint Wonderland: A Retrospective
About This Album
Over the years, Anton Newcombe and the Brian Jonestown Massacre have gotten more promotional mileage out of their self-sabotage than they have ink spilled on their shambolic musical blend of the Stones, Velvets, and Summer of Love-derived transcendence. Megalomania, drug abuse, internal strife, aborted tours, and frustrated fans -- it's a checklist for band destruction. And yet the Brian Jonestown Massacre endure. They got a boost outside of their sizable niche in 2003 with the release of a documentary that traced both their contentious relationship with the Dandy Warhols and Newcombe's mercurial antics/genius. Ondi Timoner's Dig! won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, and it proved a captivating depiction of the group's long strange trip. As the film showed, BJM albums can be a long time coming. So Tee Pee Records has capitalized on the exposure with Tepid Peppermint Wonderland, a two-disc, nearly 40 song set of rare, old, unreleased, and live material. Each track is accompanied by recollections from various band participants (there have been over 40 since the group's 1990 inception), and there's a wealth of photos from that same stretch.
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