Ondi Timoner spent seven years following two bands that started as friends and ended as rivals: The Brian Jonestown Massacre, led by the volatile Anton Newcombe, and The Dandy Warhols, fronted by the more commercially minded Courtney Taylor-Taylor. Shot on hundreds of hours of tour footage, the film catches Newcombe smashing guitars, assaulting his own bandmates on stage, and self-destructing just as major labels start circling, while the Dandy Warhols ride a Vodafone jingle and European chart success into the mainstream he refuses to enter. Taylor-Taylor narrates with the weary affection of someone who has watched a friend choose chaos over a record deal more than once. Recording sessions, backstage arguments, and disastrous gigs pile up into a portrait of two very different definitions of rock and roll success. The parties and drug use are constant background noise rather than the point; the real subject is Newcombe's talent and his apparent determination to sabotage every chance to capitalize on it.