The Brian Jonestown Massacre
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The Brian Jonestown Massacre (BJM) is a neo-psychedelic rock band. The group was founded by Anton Newcombe, Matt Hollywood, Ricky Maymi, Patrick Straczek and Travis Threlkel in the early 1990s in San Francisco, California.
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Name origin
The band name is a portmanteau of deceased Rolling Stones founder and guitarist Brian Jones – a key figure in introducing Eastern influences into Western rock in the late Sixties – and the 1978 incident at cult leader Jim Jones’ self-dubbed ‘Jonestown’ settlement in Guyana where over 900 of his followers died in a mass murder-suicide known as the Jonestown Massacre.
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