Jane"s Addiction Tour With Nine Inch Nails
Well, Jane's Addiction's original personnel are together again for this tour with Nine Inch Nails.
Rock on! Yeah, that means Eric Avery on the bass! Jane's has seen several cool, talented bass players come and go, but Eric was the one who created the chemistry.
And in a band named after addiction, chemistry is very important! Eric and Perk together make for one thunderous, seamless rhythm machine (if ever two were one, then surely they), and that allows Dave to just rip over top and show us the power of his amps to match that of his abs, while Perry wails like a black cat that isn't getting any.
Right now, Jane's and NIN are hammering out creative differences in the studio together.
That means their sounds are going to blend seamlessly on this tour and it's just going to kick it.
Yeah, they're still going to be worlds apart in some ways, with NIN delivering the industrial slamma jamma stuff and Jane's Addiction rocking alternatively without much in the way of genre other than full bore, eccentric post-metal hard rock.
It's so good to see Dave Navarro in love with music and, apparently, life again.
After the heroin addiction, the depression, the failed (thankfully) suicide, the Red Hot thing (just like one of them Red Hot things named Flea used to play bass for Jane's after the great collapse of '91)...
he did his board advisory time on those Rock Star shows and now he just seems juiced! Dave's always been an artist and wanted the music and live performances to mean everything, to be emotionally driving and inspirational.
And speaking of being rejuvenated, how about that wailing front guy Perry Farrell? He's 50, people! But he doesn't look or act it.
Yeah, the shaman lives on, and this time around it seems like he and Navarro aren't going to turn a live concert into a mixed martial arts match right before our very eyes.
"Music keeps you young.
Singing and dancing, that's the fountain of youth," Farrell recently said in an interview the day after the band's Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival show on this tour at the Cricket Wireless Amphitheater.
Yeah, okay, so Jane's Addiction hasn't written any new material since 1990, when they essentially invented the 1990s with 'Ritual de lo Habitual' (and the Lollapalooza Festival the very next year).
(No, we don't count that trashy get-radio-play attempt from 2003 as Jane's Addiction!) So what? Finally, the boys from 1990 are back together, and maybe this time they'll actually want to stay together.
"I don't have to give you 10 new songs you won't listen to.
I'll give you one that you will listen to, and that's musical currency.
We have three album to choose from, and we can play anything.
After 20-plus odd years of working with these guys, we kind of like each other a little more than we ever have.
But we're all very different and have four different opinions on any subject.
I do my best to keep the group together at any cost.
When we hit the stage, we blast, we're all alive and it's a great thing [for the original band to be back together].
It's rare.
So, we'll see how long we can do it before somebody becomes ill--or a monk," says Farrell.
Speaking of becoming ill, Farrell did injure himself only a couple of shows into this tour, as we probably know by now--but he ignored his doctors and sang and danced the shaman dance anyway the next night.
I guess that's what Jane's Addiction is about--playing through pain.
Rock on! Yeah, that means Eric Avery on the bass! Jane's has seen several cool, talented bass players come and go, but Eric was the one who created the chemistry.
And in a band named after addiction, chemistry is very important! Eric and Perk together make for one thunderous, seamless rhythm machine (if ever two were one, then surely they), and that allows Dave to just rip over top and show us the power of his amps to match that of his abs, while Perry wails like a black cat that isn't getting any.
Right now, Jane's and NIN are hammering out creative differences in the studio together.
That means their sounds are going to blend seamlessly on this tour and it's just going to kick it.
Yeah, they're still going to be worlds apart in some ways, with NIN delivering the industrial slamma jamma stuff and Jane's Addiction rocking alternatively without much in the way of genre other than full bore, eccentric post-metal hard rock.
It's so good to see Dave Navarro in love with music and, apparently, life again.
After the heroin addiction, the depression, the failed (thankfully) suicide, the Red Hot thing (just like one of them Red Hot things named Flea used to play bass for Jane's after the great collapse of '91)...
he did his board advisory time on those Rock Star shows and now he just seems juiced! Dave's always been an artist and wanted the music and live performances to mean everything, to be emotionally driving and inspirational.
And speaking of being rejuvenated, how about that wailing front guy Perry Farrell? He's 50, people! But he doesn't look or act it.
Yeah, the shaman lives on, and this time around it seems like he and Navarro aren't going to turn a live concert into a mixed martial arts match right before our very eyes.
"Music keeps you young.
Singing and dancing, that's the fountain of youth," Farrell recently said in an interview the day after the band's Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival show on this tour at the Cricket Wireless Amphitheater.
Yeah, okay, so Jane's Addiction hasn't written any new material since 1990, when they essentially invented the 1990s with 'Ritual de lo Habitual' (and the Lollapalooza Festival the very next year).
(No, we don't count that trashy get-radio-play attempt from 2003 as Jane's Addiction!) So what? Finally, the boys from 1990 are back together, and maybe this time they'll actually want to stay together.
"I don't have to give you 10 new songs you won't listen to.
I'll give you one that you will listen to, and that's musical currency.
We have three album to choose from, and we can play anything.
After 20-plus odd years of working with these guys, we kind of like each other a little more than we ever have.
But we're all very different and have four different opinions on any subject.
I do my best to keep the group together at any cost.
When we hit the stage, we blast, we're all alive and it's a great thing [for the original band to be back together].
It's rare.
So, we'll see how long we can do it before somebody becomes ill--or a monk," says Farrell.
Speaking of becoming ill, Farrell did injure himself only a couple of shows into this tour, as we probably know by now--but he ignored his doctors and sang and danced the shaman dance anyway the next night.
I guess that's what Jane's Addiction is about--playing through pain.