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Joel Gion was born in 1970, “the year that because of math killed ‘the 60s’.” So begins the first chapter in Gion’s knockabout memoir In The Jingle Jangle Jungle: Keeping Time with the Brian Jonestown Massacre.

Moments later, we learn that his mother attended an Ike and Tina Turner concert in the late stages of her pregnancy with Gion. Several pages on, he remarks that the first Brian Jonestown Massacre flier he saw, before he was a member of the band, read “TAKE ACID NOW.” An obsession with the...