On Wednesday night, I debated checking out the Brian Jonestown Massacre show at Beer City Music Hall on the edge of downtown.
I doubt you’ve ever heard of them, but like most indie music snobs who once had a radio show on 105.3 The Spy, I became familiar with the band’s work – and their infamous frontman Anton Newcombe – from the famed indie music documentary DIG! (available on Tubi), and have always dug their throwback 60s-inspired psychedelia sound.
I ended up skipping the show to stay at home and watch the Thunder torch the Bulls like the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, so I fortunately didn’t get to see Anton lose his cool on an audience member, and say he would blow the motherfucker up like the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.