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Janes Addiction, do they still have it?

hrd2imgnhrd2imgn Southwest Burbs of Chicago Posts: 4,902
edited June 2009 in Other Music
So I am debating Lolla for the 90 minute set of Jane's.

Anyone see them with NIN? DO they still have it, or is it not worth the money. I want to see a good show, not go for the sake of saying I saw Jane's Addiction (who's music I love)

So if you saw them this summer already pipe in and help me out

thanks ahead of time
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  • LotteryWinnerLotteryWinner Posts: 119
    I saw them a week ago in Charlotte as part of the NINJA tour and I was not overly fond of their performance. Keep in mind I am not a fan from way back, I just started digging their stuff when I saw they were playing with NIN. The JAs fans in attendance did seem to really love the show though. The one girl in front of me was going apeshit the whole show, much like I did for NIN.

    Eric Avery came out for Head Like a Hole with NIN and totally rocked out! Navarro and Ferrell are just to "different" for me. Perkins came out and helped with SSSC, and I thought he was going crazy on the drums during JA's set.

    Here are my photos from the show if that helps you make your decision.
    http://picasaweb.google.com/tiggy.pop/NIN2009#

    Hope the info helps.
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    I saw them in 1988 in London. They were a support band for Fields of The Nephilim at Brixton Academy. I was in the front row, dead centre. The first support act had just been booed and spat off stage. I didn't know who Janes Addiction were - I didn't know their name or anything. I just remember that before they began there was a problem with their equipment and Perry apologised about it. I thought "Here we go, another crappy American support band".
    Anyway, they were fucking amazing. I'd never seen anything like them before. It was like a banshee wailing in a thunderstorm or something. Just fucking electric.
    I turned around and asked someone behind me afterwards what the bands name was and then bought Nothings Shocking a few days later.

    Anyway, I saw them again a few times over the next few years. About 5 times in all. And they were great every time.

    I saw them again in 2004 and they were very good, but something seemed to be missing. They seemed just a bit too clean. A certain rawness had been polished off. I'd still recommend seeing them, but I'm not sure they could ever match those early performances again.
  • JOEJOEJOEJOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,711
    They are worth watching....nice to see Eric Avery back in the band.

    Don't expect to understand any of the fucking gibberish that comes out of Perry's mouth....seems as if he says stuff to be weird!
  • jecicajecica Posts: 954
    So worth it even if you see them for just a few minutes. But I am a huge Dave N. fan so I maybe biased. They also took really good care of their fans. I was on the rail both shows I went to and got some great pictures.

    If you are not a killers fan, I would see Jane's.
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  • TheEvolutionTheEvolution Posts: 143
    I saw them in Pittsburgh and thought they were great. Perry took some time to get warmed up but his stage presence was amazing. Dave ripped the whole night and Perkins was great as usual. The big payoff for me was seeing Avery on bass. Being a long time fan and a bass player i was excited to say the least. So yes go see them they still got it
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  • dustinparduedustinpardue Las Vegas, NV Posts: 1,829
    they never had it. a collection of really really annoying songs
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  • PJRock75PJRock75 Posts: 869
    They never lost it!! Yes, they are rockin' hard still 8-)
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  • mensanemensane Posts: 912
    i saw them 4 times on the NIN/JA tour....and yes, they still have it. i have been following NIN for awhile, and was initially confused as to why they were playing before Jane's...but after seeing the shows, it made perfect sense for Jane's to close.

    Each member of Jane's performed at the top of their game. and seeing Avery back with the band was worth the price of the ticket...he really brings the whole band up to a higher level.

    and i imagine their Lollapalooza performance will be something special since that is Perry's baby.
  • CJMST3KCJMST3K Posts: 9,722
    i saw JA just last weekend doing a solo ja show in virginia. they were really good! worth seeing. i also saw them in 97 at the halloween show at the hammerstein ballroom. their talent is still there. Perry is a really good showman with his humorous poses etc. the crowd in virginia was ok whereas in nyc it was awesome. id say see janes addiction!
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  • hrd2imgnhrd2imgn Southwest Burbs of Chicago Posts: 4,902
    thank you!

    I think I'll take the chance. I won't be near close enough to see their shitty outfits anyhow. SAw Perry rock the shit out of the kids stage and with Satelitte Party last year and his voice seems to have lost a step, but nonetheless I was still mesmerized by his freakishness.

    I appreciate the pics and input

    Mike
  • moses-imoses-i Posts: 138
    i saw them a few years ago MINUS eric avery...but they BLEW me away at the NIN show. I thought NIN was amazing but Jane's just killed them. But i think it depends on whether you're fan...i love jane's and i was super excited to see eric avery-he's my bass god. I highly recommend them.
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  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    dustinpardue wrote:
    they never had it. a collection of really really annoying songs

    If you've only heard Been Caught Stealing and Jane Says, you may have a point.

    but to say they never had it? I take it you've never seen Janes Addiction live? When they played live, it made their studio albums sound like a weak effort.

    I haven't seen them on this tour, but years back I would rate them probably one of the best live performances around....their energy was undeniable. So I am confident that they'd still have that power.

    Two words = KETTLE WHISTLE (live Janes)...buy it, listen...you'll hear what I'm talking about.
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  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    dustinpardue wrote:
    they never had it. a collection of really really annoying songs

    You should have been at the Subterranea in London in 1990.

    I couldn't find the Melody Maker review of the gig that I remember reading back then that described them as the best rock 'n roll band in the world, but I found this one from the same period:


    http://janesaddiction.org/tour/tour_det ... tourID=149
    Jane's Addiction
    Charing Cross Road Marquee

    THERE WERE rumours abounding this morning that Led Zeppelin were going to play a secret gig at the Marquee two days after Jane's Addiction. Had those rumours been true, after tonight, Percy 'n' Pagey would have been left with the pulling power of Bernard Manning's Y-fronts.

    There are times when bands transcend being' merely brilliant and enter realms where chaos and magic collide to make something unutterably awesome. It usually takes a deranged genius to pull it off-like Jimmy Page on 'Physical Graffiti' or Jim Morrison's manic paens to the Lizard King. And tonight, Perry Farrell is that mad messiah.

    Stripped of his previously exotic garb, in stark black and white with a leather cap, he emerges with gleeful abandon. And as the first sinuous notes of 'Up The Beach' rise like spirit wraiths to circle the room and hold its inhabitants in thrall, the excitement just explodes.

    Jane's Addiction roar like the ocean, sing like wild birds, and attack the senses with every kind of sorcery possible tonight. The unearthly, exotic patterns that weave through 'Ritual De Lo Habitual' and 'Nothing's Shocking' only glow with this ferocity when blasted at you live.

    And Perry is completely hyperactive. Proudly he rips off his cap to reveal a severely shorn skull. With his shirt discarded his looks like a cross between Henry Rollins and a whippet.

    "I'm going to infiltrate the skinheads," he announces "and let them know about black people." The ensuing headrush into 'Idiot's Rule' follows like a battle cry for all he stands for - the rubbishing of conventions, and the glory that comes from defying society's constraints.

    Around this whirling, adrenalized form, bassist Eric A. and guitarist David Navarro reap the whirlwind, muscles pulled taut, cascades of hair thrashing the air. Stephen Perkins is a blur behind his drumkit. Then JA pull another masterstroke, the introduction of violinist Morgan, whose eerie, shivering strings add an even more phantasmagoric edge to the heartstopping sound around her.

    Perry thumps his skull through 'Of Course', and exorcises devils on 'Three Days'. But it's a deafening 'Stop!' that starts them plunging towards the abyss; a still more magnificent 'Mountain Song' that sends them hurtling in.

    Jane's Addiction play one encore, the new single 'Been Caught Stealing', the last word in turning "dance" into "holocaust". A few hundred jaws clang open in its wake.

    Jesters, magicians or just musicians? Tonight JA were the masters of the universe.'
  • CJMST3KCJMST3K Posts: 9,722
    Byrnzie wrote:
    "Jesters, magicians or just musicians? Tonight JA were the masters of the universe.'

    ok, but then who was He-Man?

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