Every Time You Lose Your Mind: A Film About Failure | movie | 2025 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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00:00That perfect moment between the 80s and the aughts.

00:11That perfect moment that people call the 90s.

00:14There was a groundswell of independent labels,

00:17and they were selling enough records to generate real money,

00:20and so they were investing more into bands and their recording budgets.

00:24The 90s was really the last time that it was controlled by record labels and radio.

00:30When I came to L.A., like, my whole mission was a fantasy.

00:33Nothing could get in the way of the dream.

00:35Because most of the stuff around L.A. at that point was very kind of formulaic,

00:39and failure just seemed to cut right off through the middle.

00:41They were just kind of their own unique presence.

00:43I just wanted to make the music that made me feel the way I wanted the music to make me feel.

00:49They were embracing that darkness. They were embracing dissonance.

00:52They were, like, ahead of their time as far as all that goes.

00:55It sounds pretentious, but they are an important band.

00:58There are a number of bands that are just important, and they're one of them.

01:01I'd never really heard anything like that.

01:04It changed how I thought about music,

01:07and it kind of just made me more than ever want to be in a band.

01:10I'm 17 years old. I've got kilos of cocaine in the trunk.

01:23That's what was happening then. What party are we going to, and what drug are we taking?

01:28I was on a steady routine of uppers and downers spinning around the spine of the heroin addiction.

01:37Art and addiction are interchangeable at times.

01:41Do you want to be a band that's respected by other bands, or do you want to be a band that's commercially accepted?

01:47If there's money and f***ing a pig, and you go down there and you f*** a pig, well, whatever, you f*** a pig. That's your business.

01:52And just as I was going down the stairs, shots rang out and started going in the wall above my head.

01:58And you feel like you're a part of something that's really incredible.

02:01When that ends, it turns out to be more devastating than you realize.

02:05There's no way you could go through brutal life experiences and not have it affect your creative output.