In The Jingle Jangle Jungle: Keeping Time With The Brian Jonestown Massacre arrives in February.
American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Joel Gion has announced the release of a memoir.
In The Jingle Jangle Jungle: Keeping Time With The Brian Jonestown Massacre is scheduled for release in February through UK publishing imprint White Rabbit Books and recounts the first ten years of Gion’s role as the tambourine player for prolific and singular San Francisco psychedelic rock outfit The Brian Jonestown Massacre. The memoir will be presented in hardback, paperback, audio and e-book editions and feature a foreword from Gion’s longstanding musical cohort and founder of The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Anton Newcombe. Physical editions of the publication purchased from select retailers will be signed by Gion and include additional memorabilia such as postcards and signed Dig! flyers.
Of his forthcoming work Gion states
“This is the band’s story from my own angle, from our early San Francisco nickle-and-DIYn’ days to another entire movie’s worth of equally out-there ’missing scenes’ from the documentary period. I’m not just telling the story, readers will be inside of it with me through scene and voice and, in that sense, I think of it less as a music memoir and more a personal memoir written by someone who happens to be a musician.”
Lee Brackstone of White Rabbit Books states
“If ever a fin-de-siecle band were deserving of an intimate insider portrait, psychedelic warts and all, Brian Jonestown Massacre are it. Clearly all those years of keeping time with the BJM have given Joel a natural sense of rhythm because In the Jingle Jangle Jungle moves with the same effortless, swaggering storytelling verve that will be so familiar to fans of the cosmic counter-culture of west coast America. To imagine, that 20 years ago, when I first saw the band and watched “DIG!” [a documentary about the band] I would be publishing this book is truly mind-blowing.”
In The Jingle Jangle Jungle releases on February 29th via White Rabbit Books. Pre-order signed editions of the book here.
Words by Sam Wilkinson.
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