NAME: Anton Newcombe.

AGE: If Anton is trapped in a time machine, does that mean he’s infinite?

FROM: San Francisco.

OCCUPATION: Shaman, lightworker, spirit guide, capellophile, cicerone, songwriter.

HOBBIES: Voting for McGovern, standing up to the Man, mastering Pong, and fractals, bro!

LAST BOOK YOU READ: How to Win Friends and Influence People.

LAST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Writing a great

song. [Pauses five minutes] Writing another great song.

QUOTE: “You fucking broke my sitar, motherfucker!” or “The only thing you find in the middle of the road are dead animals and dumb Americans.”

PROFILE: All work and no play makes Anton a dull boy. We’re not quite sure how the mastermind behind the Brian Jonestown Massacre can resist an icy-cold Boy Howdy! directly in front of him—but then again, maybe he’s just daydreaming about a harp solo on a forthcoming album. Regardless of his current restraint, Newcomb has never been one to hold back over the past 34 years when it comes to recording and, furthermore, recording absolute heat rocks on several now-classic BJM records. So no matter how you opine with respect to DIG! and his onscreen portrayal in that also-classic documentary about his band, there is no denying that bro has tracks, songs, and chops, both of the guitarability and the extended-sideburns variety.