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‘We had even more fights than they show in the film’: how we made Dig! with the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols

‘The gig ended with onstage brawls. It was the most incredible thing I’d ever filmed but the bouncer took the tapes. It took me years to get them back’

They were on the verge of getting signed, but had spent all their money on sitars and were taking the record companies off the guest list because they didn’t want to “give away” tickets. Together we’re going to change the record business for ever and you can film us.” Within 10 minutes of meeting Dandy Warhols singer Courtney Taylor-Taylor, he told me: “I sneeze and hits come out.” was intended to be a celebration of scrappy artists socking it to the man, but turned into a film about the Dandys becoming a pop band and living the MTV life while everything fucked up around the Brian Jonestown Massacre.

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