[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Janes Addiction (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 1/6/2006 4:15:04 PM EDT
| Blew the dust off some cd's today...forgot how much I like 'em...anyone else dig 'em? |
I got an Ipod not too long ago and loaded all of my old cd's on it. I keep it on Random and damn if I don't turn it up every time a Jane's Addiction song comes on.  The live version of Jane Says with the xyzlophone (spelling???) - or is it steel drums? intro rocks! |
1/2 Janes Addiction (Perry Ferrel & Stephen Perkins) + Peter DiStefano + Martyn Le Noble = Porno for Pyros Ocean Size and Jane Says are two of my favorite cuts off Nothing's Shocking. www.janesaddiction.com/ |
+1 groundbreaking artists anyone see nthe video of Perry Ferrel pulling an eel from their hotel room aquariam and then beating the shit out of it on the bed? he's one fucked up heroin addict, but he can write a song... (as good or better than Layne Staley and that's hard for me to admit) (then again, it's kind of difficult to name a great song writer that isn't addicted to something) |
I know...it wasn't easy for me to type...fingers kept wanting to seize up. I'm gonna have to listen to "Facelift" and "Kettlewhistle" back to back and make double sure. |
 Then 10 Hail Marys and maybe God will forgive you for what you 
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no doubt about it...one of their finest albums sickman, down in a hole, rooster, junkhead...shit, don't get me started  Facelift and "Man in a Box" was almost singlehandedly responsible for my appreciation of fine music. Hence, the reason I chose it to listen to next to J.A.'s "Kettlewhistle" |
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Jane's Addiction is a great band. I think they hold the record for fastest sold out show at the old Montezuma Hall at SDSU. All the tickets sold out in like 8 minutes. I saw JA live at the first Lolapalooza and saw PFP at the Velodrome at CSU Dominguez Hills. The biggest pits I've ever seen. It was so packed that groups of 100 people would end up falling over like dominos. I always liked their live shows because there was always a lot of eye candy and crazy things going on on the stage. Like lesbians making out in a cage or a chick with her tatas on fire. Just crazy performance art stuff. I haven't really caught much of their "new" stuff though. Perry and Dave are freaks but Stephen Perkins is an incredible drummer. I've got a couple bootleg albums that are much more rocking than their studio stuff. Definitely one of those bands that is much better live than on album. Trivia time - I've heard that back in the day when they were both getting started Janes Addiction and Guns and Roses were on the same bill at some clubs in LA. What shows those must have been! 
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