[kj] Watch Jane's Addiction Reunion NOW

[Karen Weil]

Having seen Jane's Addiction back in the beginning, I sincerely hope they've 
improved; but great band, musically.

k.w.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "T.B." <Partyslammer at socal.rr.com>
To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" 
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Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: [kj] Watch Jane's Addiction Reunion NOW



> "sade1" wrote:

>

>> 11:32PM P.S.T.

>>

>>  Has Jane's played yet?

>

> You missed it.  They appear to be re-running the program but it's a pretty 

> painful 2 hours to sit through to get to the good stuff.

>

> Basically what it turned out to be, was all four original members onstage 

> together for the first time since late '91.  They all said short speeches 

> about (the crappy) NME magazine, then played two songs, Stop and Mountain 

> Song.  The broadcast cut as it appeared they were going to play a 3rd 

> tune.

>

> There's definately still issues between Perry and Eric clearly visible in 

> the body language of both guys, especially when one had to walk near or 

> around the other during the speeches. At first, I was seriously thinking I 

> was going to see a total trainwreck like when David Lee Roth came out with 

> Van Halen for the '96 MTV award thing, started hamming it up and the other 

> guys looked ike they accidently rescued a rabid dog they have to ride home 

> in a car with.

>

> But the deal is, put the instruments on these guys and get 'em playing on 

> the stage and it still works to a degree.

>

> It was rough, it was under rehearsed, no one was in top form (especially 

> Perry who sounds weak these days) and the sound mix was beyond terrible 

> (you couldn't hear the guitar) but by Mountain Song, they were rocking 

> like fuckin' Kings despite it all. I've never heard Avery's bass sound so 

> massive and the guy now looks like a cross between Mel Gibson and some 

> bodybuilder. He used to be the scrawny surfer kid in the 80's.  Not any 

> more.

>

> The awards show itself was the most slipshod, poorly produced thing I've 

> ever seen.  Tons of z list nobodies, old and shloshed Mick Jones of The 

> Clash looked like Ray Harryhausen, too bad he couldn't animate the shitty 

> obnoxiously drunk audience with his performance.

>

> If this is the only time Jane's is going to play with the original lineup, 

> it's a very, very bittersweet way to wrap up their legacy.

>

> T.B.

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