Conference napalm::heavy_metal

I went and saw Jane's Addiction at T.T. the Bears in Cambridge (MA)
recently. They played there at the beginning of December. At the
time they were touted as the 'next big thing' out of LA, but I was
pretty disappointed. Lousy sound mix, little stage presence, and
fairly mediocre performance turned me right off.

The do have one thing going for them - they are pretty decent and 
original songwriters, and aren't afraid to experiment. But that makes
the record better than the live show.

cat

    All I know about Jane's Addiction is that they're another band
    from L.A.
    
    I will check them out, though.
    
    And another band out of L.A. that I heard about on WHJY last
    night (and this is no joke!) 
    was Killer Pussy, and WHJY was going to play their song
    "Teenage Nympho Enema Nurses in Bondage" at 8:30.
    
    I missed it.
    
    /Motorbreath

    
    	Re  .2
    
    				    Awesome.
    

    Actually, I remember hearing about (not hearing...) Killer Pussy
    at least four years ago.  I was living in Las Vegas at the time,
    and we heard about a lotta the SoCal bands there.
    
    gh

    I heard about them in October, but have yet to find an EP or
    single...anyone know where all us interested parties can get one
    to check out????? I heard they were pretty decent, and would like
    to judge for myself.
    
    -re2>

    I saw the LP in a chain record store just last night.  I didn't
    buy it, but you should be able to find it just about anywhere if
    it's here in Co. Springs already.
    
    gh

    I HEARD THEM, THEY'RE GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREAT!
    
    A definite must for one's musical collection, they even were nominated
    for a grammy!!!
    
    JANE'S ADDICTION, LIVE AT CITI ,LANDSDOWN ST., BOSTON,
    
              * * *  MARCH 1st  * * *
    
    Cool.
    
    -renee>

    3rd and final attempt at a reply;
    
    I love Jane's Addiction, but from the ngernal consensus, people
    seem to love them or hate them.  They're a combonation of my two
    favorite musical styles (ala The Cult's LOVE album) and I think
    it's great stuff.
    
    I like all the songs on the new disc, with The Mountain Song (which
    happens to be the single) as my least favorite.
    
    I'm there March 1st, how 'bout you Renee?
    
    
    Dilly

    You betcha I'll be there!!! No doubt in my basic black attire! See
    you there???
    
    Absolutely!! Jane is DEFINETLY a heavy Cult! One of MY fav albums
    from them too!!! Cool.....
    
    -renee>

Warning!!!

As I said in .1, I don't think Jane's Addiction was vry good live.
Although I loved the album, the live show was not very good. Part of it
may have been the setting, so maybe Citi will be better. But I dunno....

cat

    Oooh!  There's a wonderful piccy of the singer in RAW with his trousers
    falling down and a *very* small X covering him up!!!!!
    
    ;^)
    
    
    Flip

    
    Does that mean that you can see his privates because its only a
    small X or does it mean that has doesn't have much to cover so he
    only needs a small X ??
     
    ?

    It means that you can see *everything*!  The X was a waste of time!!!
    
    ;^)
    
    
    Flip
    

    So *anyway*....
    
    What are you going to be wearing tonite there, Dilly???
    
    I'm most probably wearing the outfit I wore Saturday, but I have
    a -ah- different color hair, sort of Magenta, haven't seen alot
    of people with it in there hair, but it'll probably be all over
    the club tonite. Oh and instead of a dog collar a Sid Vicious-type
    chain with a little lock on it...;')
    
    Do you know who's backing them up? I know they're not going on 
    until 9:00pm, but the show starts/opens at 7:00...
    
    
    Ciao-ciao>
    

    Renee,
    
    All this stuff came up and I couldn't go!!!!
    
    It was 6:30pm before I even remembered it!  The SO had this *all
    important* doctor's appointment and I stayed out of work to
    take him.
    
    I am soooooo bummed.  I am sitting here listening to Nothing Shocking
    on my walkperson, and I bet they were great, huh?
    
    Tell me all about it.  You can, it's in the "proper file"
    
    Dilly_who_if_she_had_gone_would_have_also_had_magenta_hair_(partially,
    at least)

    Oh BUM!!!
    
    That sux sooo bad...They were *totally* incredible!! Me and my friend
    walked around the whole place I don't know HOW many times. At one
    point we saw Peter Wolf and some dude from A-smith....another time
    some guy comes after us walking around and asks if he can take our
    picture, he took like 5! How embarassing!!! Our heads will probably
    end up superimposed on some cheap, fat, naked chick!!! :'0 Gawd
    I hope not!!
    
    They did all the tunes on the album, except for like, 'Whore' and
    stuff...He was incredible, he came out in red dreds, a black plastic
    buckle up corsett with straps, yellow polka dot spandex, with black
    plastic thigh high something, and green Sears galoshes....WICKED!!
    
    I love the guitartist! He was great...THE WHOLE SHOW WAS GREAT!!
    WHAT MORE CAN I SAY?? They did 2 encores...
    
    Incidentally, for those who doubted that it was really them doing
    that jazz jam, it is, they did it last night....
    
    -thankyou boize...>

    A friend leant me a cassette of Jane's Addiction (I may keep it),
    and I was wondering if this is their first album or what?
    If so, does anyone know the name of the album, or any of the songs
    on it?
    
    It's a killer album... different, but killer!

    
    I don't think it's their first album, but I saw at least one other
    by them at Tower Records in Boston, if that's any help.
    
    Dilly

    REALLY???
    
    What's the name, I want it!!
    
    -Vampirella>

    Yo Vamp
    
    Don't know the name, but I remember when I went to pick up
    Nothing Shocking I carried another JA tape around before I
    realized it wasn't the newest one...
    
    Check Tower.
    
    Dilly

    
    	Well, now I'm severely depressed that I didn't see this
    band March 1st.
    	I finally got the tape (wanted it for a loooong time)
    and in a day I played it about 15 times.
    	Very creative, very interesting, very "artsy", and parts of
    this album remind me of a lot of influences.
    Yeah, the Cult, and I was reminded of the Cure a couple times, too!
    
    Thank You Boys cracks me up.
    
    /Motorbreath...don't suppose they'll be back for a while, do ya?

    I know, Thank You Boys sounds like Doc Severinson on Johnny Carson!
    
    Jane's Addiction is addictive, I think most people who've gotten
    the tape play it over and over, you hear more every time.
    
    I like Summertime and of course, like I've said a thousand times
    Jane Says...
    
    Dilly

    
    Yeah, so roses ARE red...
    
    I can't pick a fave track off the album.. though I love 
    screaming along to Mountain Song and Idiots Rule.
    
    /Motorbreath...love the video for "Mountain Song" as well....but
    never see it anymore

    Killer Band!
    
    My body goes into strange convultions when ever I hear Mountain
    Song!  My SO starts saying, "Steve, are you OK?"  And so I thrash
    about like a fish on Hot Pavement.
    
    "Everybody has their owwwwn opinion.."
    
    Steve O

    I made up the rest....
    
    Yo!  A Jane's Convention...decent! Aren't they the ballz, mike?
    I love they're style, Perry is an artist, that probably has alot
    to do with the creativity of the band..
    
    Hey, have any of you seen their Jane's Addiction vid yet? It has
    Mountain Song on it and the rest of the tape is like a home movie
    taped by the band, it is a must for Jane's fans.....
    
    Janes Says....WICKED TUNE! I'm done with Sergio....
    
    Aww, now I'll have to go home and take it out again an overplay
    it!!! ;'0, Oh, NEVER can you overplay jane, typical addict...:')
    
    -vamperdiction>

    Okay, for you SERIOUS Jane's fans.
    
    Strawberries of Lowell surprised these two Jane's Addiction addicts,
    by supplying their FIRST album. On it is the LIVE version of Pigs
    in Zen and Jane Says...also included on this album is Whores...which
    is often played on 'Nasty Habits', WERS 88.9 a couple weeks/months
    back. Listening to it for the first time, the tune 'Whores' sounded
    much like 'Mountain Song'. 
    
    The entire album shows the bands abstract creativity and their ability
    to show punk art through music, while still telling a story...
    
    -Vamp>

    
    Well, I'm hoping that NeWbuRy ComIX has it in Framingham..
    along with the video!
    
    /Motorbreath...hopes to have first screening of Jane vid on his
    recently-fixed VCR!!!

    Tower Records in Boston has lots of both!
    
    Steve O

    I really think JA is a great album just recently picked it up and
    can't stop listening to it the more you listen to it the better
    it gets. Good Stuff love the bass lines...
    Patla
    

    
    	Yeah, the album is great.
    
    I bought the video a few weeks back. It's pretty funny,
    actually.
    	The Mountain Song video it contains is uncut and uncensored.
    We're talking nudity here kiddies. It's a very interesting 
    video.
    	The rest is basically a home movie type of deal.
    A book report by Eric, while he's sitting on the toilet.
    A look at Dave's eel, and apartment, and a trick by Dave's eel.
    Stephen Perkins eating fruit, and playing drums on pans and a water
    bottle.
    Perry drinking a green malt, shooting a bottle rocket off in his
    bedroom, with his girlfriend, and pet rooster.
    Perry doing rockandroll aerobics in his underwear on his bed with
    his girlfriend.
    A little ditty called "City" performed by Perry and Dave.
    
    All in all, very entertaining!! I thought it was a riot myself!
    
    Check it out, it's ten bucks.
    
    /Motorsiskelandebert

                are these  guys  thrash,  or  another sleeze rock
                band?
                
                - rob who may have a misconception -
                

    Played the mountain song for the southerners down here, they seemed
    to enjoy it, most people I play the tape for look at me funny and
    say "you listen to that ?!?!?!?"      
    
    Rob, I think they are punk/thrash/metal   ?!?!   can't find a
    'category'for them...
    
    CJ

    Not punk/thrash or metal.
    
    Some punk influences, maybe.
    Maybe 'punk art' more accurately describes their style. ?
    
    Like Perry says "We're kinda a cross between Duke Ellington...
    and Bad Brains."
    
    ha ha ha!!
    
            
    /Motorbreath

    I just picked up their first album on cd from xxx records it is
    a very good recording and the live versions of all these songs are
    very good. Jane Sez is great live can't stop listening to it you
    might say its addicting :-Q
    
    pat
    

    	For anyone who saw them at TT's, you have to excuse them.  They
    were all pretty strung out on heroin, and Perry had a broken leg.  They
    did a whole mellow set with the Mountain Song as their most upbeat.  
    	At the Citi, they just ripped.  The band was great, and the whole
    crowd was going off.  Except for the fact that they didn't go on until
    11 for a 7:00 show, and the opening band blew, the show was great!
    	Ocean Size is the best on Nothing's Shocking.  That's just such a
    good tune.  Trip Away is the best on the first album.  
    	As far as classifying them: don't try.  You can't really.  They're
    just good and weird.  Bisexuals on heroin.  Makes for a good album.
    
    				Steve -The Gang and the Government:
    				       No difference
    

    Hey,
    	I finally found Jane's Addiction's first album.
    It's great, of course.
    	I have to agree with ya Steve, Trip Away is a great tune.
    I like the additional lines in Pigs in Zen, and love the 
    lyrics for 1%.
    	Overall, I like the whole album, it's recorded live in L.A.
    (where they were "bread and spread") with two covers...
    Rock and Roll by Lou Reed (handled in cool fashion I might add)
    and Sympathy by the Stones.
    
    Also think I Would for You is great...
    
    If this is how Jane sounds live, I can't WAIT to see them live!!!
    
    /Motorbreath...I belong out there walkin, nobody's stopping to bother
    me.

    Good call!
    
    It really is a killer album.  It goes from really hard to really heavy
    and moody.  They really are an all-around killer band.  Good versions
    of Sympathy and Rock and Roll.  They add an interesting twist, and not 
    your typical covers, I might add.
    
    When they come around again, make sure that everyone sees them, because
    they were the ultimate.  I heard from a friend of a friend that his
    friend was working on the art for the t-shirts for the new tour...SO,
    that only means we'll be seeing something new soon.
    
    Keep listening!
    Steve

    BTW, how about Chip Away, the last song on the album?
    What a funky trip, huh?

    
    Yeah, Chip Away IS a trip...
    
    I think Rock and Roll is a great cover, they do Reed justice
    on that tune, bigtime.
    
    My friend is just starting to listen to Jane's Addiction,
    checked out the live tape, and was blown away by their
    weirdness, thinks they're great!
    
    Anybody hear about a new video that's available that is a 
    recording of their homecoming L.A. show at the end of their tour?
    
    /Motorbreath

    MOTORBREATH!!!!
    
    Rumor has it J.A. is playing at the Citi soon.  I haven't been able to
    find anything about it, though.  Have you heard??
    
    This is one show NOBODY should miss.
    
    Steve

    WHAT?!?!??!?!?!!!!!
    
    Why are they touring again?
    I was under the impression that they finished the tour for
    Nothing's Shocking with a gig in L.A., and were headed back
    to the studio.
    
    Any news on new material from Jane's Addiction???
    
    If they are coming to Citi...it will sell out immediately, and 
    I WILL get tickets!!!
    
    /Motorbreath...what a coincidence, just popped in Nothing's Shocking
    as I next unseened to that reply... ooooOOOOHHH scary stuff kids.

    /Breath-
    
    If I remember rightly, they finished up their tour with about a week of
    shows in LA in April.
    
    The album should be on the way.....  :-) x100 or so
    
    Steve

    I just called Ticketmaster.
    
    The woman who had a tough time with her command of the English language
    said that there were NO listings she had at the Citi or elsewhere for
    Jane's Addiction in the near future.
    
    Oh well, another victim of a vicious rumour.  I'm still checking
    though.  Never trust a woman who can't speak English, I always say.  Of
    course I always say never trust a woman who can speak at all, for that
    matter.  :-)
    
    Steve

    I just saw Soul Kiss and I almost puked someone should have warmed
    me about the band members kissing each other at the end.  I have
    both of ther albums play the heck out of them and I am reall sorry
    I ever watched the end of the Video....Pat
    

    re.last
    yah, I was like "hmm.. interesting, that chick looks just like
    Perry!! dum da dum... oh wait... OOOOH BOGUS!!! IT IS PERRY!!!"
    
    Should have an empty stomach for that part... I like when he lights
    the bottle rocket off in his bedroom.. ha ha ha.
    How about the marshmallow running down the breasts part... pretty
    interesting, huh?
    
    /Motorbreath... I love Fluff!!!

    I liked the marshmellow, the bottle rocket, I liked the "well I
    started to smoke because I wanted to be cool , and I thought a pipe
    wouldn't have gone over that big", the kissing was gross, please
    convince me they had the kiss for shock factor and because it was
    called soul kiss not because he is homo, I LOVE that album too much
    to feel weird about playing it....
    
    Pat (who_needs_J_A_justified_to_be_cool)
    
    

    Pat,
    	Ahhh who cares... they are totally weird. My impression was
    that it was there as a crack.. ya know? I mean, some people would
    be turned off by this 6 foot 125 pound dude with dredlocks 
    doing heroin addict aerobics with his girlfriend, or two nude
    people laying in a coffin-type-thing... they're whacked, so ya 
    take the kiss for what it's worth... 
    	I still LOVE the music/video. I wish they'd make more videos.
    
    Anyone know why they didn't??
    
    /Motorbreath

    Ok I guess I just have to go home and get...
    
    

    Actually, the kissing wasn't for shock factor.  I'm not sure which ones
    are, but some of them anyway are bisexual.  Perry used to be a bisexual
    prostitute.  They're still a killer band, though.  Just a LOT
    different.
    
    They aren't into videos and stuff like that.  They also won't play
    arenas.  They did (I think) when they were with Iggy Pop, but they said
    they wouldn't do it anymore.
    
    Steve_who_is_ANXIOUSLY_awaiting_album_3

    Does anyone know if and when these guys are coming out with a new album
    I can't wait to see what it sounds like, I still listen to their first
    live album and Nothings Shocking quite often I guess I'm addicted and
    want a new album..

    
    From what I've heard recently, they are done recording it and are now
    mixing it.  Should be out in 1-2 months...
    
    Steve (who also can't wait!)
    

    FWIW I just called 1-800-CD-INFO1 and they said the new disc which the
    person on the other line couldn't pronounce (he said it looks spanish)
    will be released on May 29th
    
    Pmp

    Warner Bros new release is called "Ritual De Lo Habitul"
    

    So, what do we think about the new single?
    
    -Scott

    I heard it while in a semi-conscious state...
    I remember liking it though, it was definitely JANE'S ADDICTION

    Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual
    
    No so shocking about the expectations you go with here.  With 
    Perry Farrell's overblown art project - Jane's Addiction - the 
    psychadelic fuse for a generation of post-metallers embraced by 
    every constituent of Heavy Metal Republicanism.  You'd figure the 
    follow up to 88's breathtaking "Nothing Shocking" to be something 
    less inspired.  A formularic repeat of the last album's binding 
    Halen/Zep/Sabbath-on-angel dust intuition, perhaps.

    Not so, in fact. RDLH rates as a pretty rapturous trick bag of found 
    object spatter as sex-harnessed garbage pickers Farrell and Co have 
    gone foraging miles beyond the scurrilous guitar scraping of NS.  
    Less a work of Metallic velocity, the mood here is lucid and dream 
    like, an eerie Chinese puzzle that moves with ease from eerie, 
    orchestral semantics to skewed, Arabic configurations.  The closest 
    it gets to the retro-worship of Mountain song comes with No One's 
    Leaving. 

    Halved in classic fast/slow sides respectively, only in odd side one 
    moments does RDLH refract images of it's predecessor.  Actually, it's 
    more.  More direct (Stop).  More absurd (Sex & Drugs).  More 
    challenging on guitar-whizz Dave Navarro (Obvious) and the devastating 
    Avery/Perkins rhythmic tag team (Ain't no Right).  A broad, multi-
    coloured swathe of sound and genuine vision, the White Album 
    comparisons seem especially on target.

    If anything, side two bears a slight semblance to the Velvet 
    Underground and Nico, Then She Did smacking of VU's Femme Fatale and 
    Sunday Morning.

    3 Days, RDLH 13 minute tour de force of mood and motion, rates as the 
    band's finest composition to date.  Heady and driving, immense and 
    instant, they could have dragged the damn thing out the length of a 
    full side and it would've still seemed too short.

    With Farrell swearing up and down that RDLH could very well be his 
    exit from the Bowie-resurrection/androgyny guru business, it's a 
    credible as hell note to go out on.  Then again, he could be telling 
    a lie.

    F*cking artists.

    Copied from Kerrang without permission


    Flip

    
    
    	Friday's show was excellent!  I haven't seen the Orpheum that "up"
    for a show in a long time.  Only complaints were the rather short set
    at ~75 minutes and they didn't play "Had a Dad".  No biggie, they still
    kicked!
    
    	/Mike heard some guy say he paid $80 for his ticket.
    
    
    Paul

    
    So how was the gig, Paul?
    
    Flip

    
    I give up....
    
    

    
    	Me three!

    I just pulled out Jane's Addiction - Nothings Shocking from the local
    CD library and was very impressed with it.  It has a unique style to it
    and yet seems also to draw on influences from a wide variety of
    sources, from Pink Floyd to Sex Pistols.
    
    Hard to say which tracks I prefer as they all stand by themselves, but
    I guess Standing In The Shower, Summertime Rolls, Mountain Song and
    Idiot's Rule take some beating, especially as they are in sequence. 
    Pigs in Zen is a great finisher too.
    
    This is the first time I have heard this band, so I would be interested
    if someone out there could give me a Discography.  Also is this their
    best album or is there any others to be recommended?
    
    
    
    GAZ

>    This is the first time I have heard this band, so I would be interested
>    if someone out there could give me a Discography.  Also is this their
>    best album or is there any others to be recommended?

Their new CD is out. It's called "Ritual De Lo Habitual"

It's supposed to be completely crazy.
 
I think it's only their second album.

Includes :

Stop/No one's leaving/Ain't no right/Obvious/been caught
Stealing/Three days/The she did/Of course/classic girl

And it's only released on CD and cassette.

Didier

    Thanks Didier, will try and find it.  I just can't get enough of
    Nothings Shocking and will probably end up overplaying it.
    
    
    GAZ>

    For those interested, there is an interview with the guitarist from
    Janes Addiction in this months Guitar World.
    
    gh

    I will pick that up.  I love this band they are so different.
    
    
    GAZ

    Dat album kicks major @ss!!! It was so frick'in good dat I didn't get
    any sleep on the plane for the first 2 hours of the flight

    He was also in last month's GFTPM.
    
    Mike

    
     No.1 song on the WFNX New Years top 101 countdown:
    
      JANES ADDICTION - Been Caught Stealin'

    
    	I should have known better when I thought I could get tickets at
    	door for their show at TT's (Cambridge) which wasn't too long
    	after the release of Nothing Shocking.  I sadly missed their
    	recent Orpheum show.
    
    	It's great to hear them on College, FNXish, BCNish and AAFish
    	(always changing dials) type radio stations.  The fact that they appeal
    	to such a wide listening audience is great.  Sometimes you hear
    	how a band that doesn't fit into a neat little pigeon hole has
    	trouble but I think it has definately had the opposite affect
    	with them.
    
    	It's even great that there's such a range of music within
    	themselves, i.e. "Jane Says" hardly sounds anything like
    	"Been Caught 'Stealin".
    
    	- Jim

    Dave N. is in this month's Guitar World mag.

    
      Just picked up Ritual do la habitual, and it really is as good as
    Nothings Shocking!  I say as good as because I thing both albums are
    equally good, neither surpassing the other in quality.  I have only
    listened to Ritual once through but it is immediately impressive. 
    There are very few albums that I have been able to say that about.
    
    I wonder if these guys could get round to producing a concept album, as
    their music is varied enough to support that.
    
    
    
    GAZ

Re: last few notes

"Nothing's Shocking" and "Ritual De Lo Habitual" do KICK...

Also, Noteworthy lists 3 CDs, the above 2 and (as listed)
Jane's Addiction [1st Recording]. (haven't heard it).

Larry

    
    
    	The first one (forgot the name) is mostly (or all) live stuff
    and has two (or three) songs that ended up on "Nothing's Shocking".
    
    
    
    Paul

    	Partial extraction from RAD_RAD (BOMBE::) 276.12...

    ...
    Back to Jane's Addiction:
    
    They are a band out of L.A.  Their first album is live with a version
    of SYMPATHY for the Devil and Lou Reed's Rock and Roll.  Released on
    Triple X Records.
    
    ...
    
    They also have a videotape - "Soul Kiss"  Check that out for some
    really weird people.  
    
    Lead singer Perry Farrel describes them as a cross between Harry Ellis
    and Bad Brains.  Check this album out.  
    ...

                                        
    
    	Taken from the Globe w/o permission which was taken from Interview
    magazine probably w/ permission.
    
    	
    	About the name Jane's Addiction, Perry says...
    
    	"When I lived in LA originally, I was living in a house with
    between 8 and 13 kids, depending on who broke up with his girlfriend
    and whose band was practicing in the garage at the time.  One day this
    girl Jane appeared... she ended up living in the room next to mine and
    we became close.  When you invite someone like her out, and you come to
    get her and she's dancing in front of the mirror with a wig on, and
    there's nobody there, you gotta name a band after her."
    
    
    Paul

    re.77
    I just read that... haha!!!
    Jane Sez

    Ritual de lo Habitual
    That's all I gotta say, dude!
    'April

    
       Last Friday night Jesse,myself, and my girlfriend were all at a 
    
    bar drinking and the subject of Jane's Addiction came up. We all three
    
    classified them differently. So I have a question for the readers of
    
    Heavy Metal. What kind of music would you say Jane's Addiction plays??
                                    
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    I nearly passed on this, but what the.. I'll have a go:
    
    	Psychedelic/Progressive/Funk metal!!! (^8*.
    
    
    Aww who cares.. It is ggrrrreat.
    
    
    GAZ

    
    
    I hate classifying/labeling.. with some music or people you can't do
    it.
    
    I tell people its combination jazz, metal, punk.
    
    
    Goddess F.

    I would probly say the same thing, Jane's Addiction, is a diverse
    mixture of psychedelic/punk/funk/glam/thrash/rock/metal/jazz/u name it! 
    There are so many sides to their music!!!  I live for my daily "fix" of
    Jane's!!  
    
    'April

    Rumor has it that Perry Farrell, after seeing me in the audience
    at the JA gig in Boston a few weeks back, has shaved his head.
    
    This comes from an Arizona source that saw the band recently
    play at a Phoenix area club.
    
    By the way, they were insane, extremely tight, and brought the
    house down. See 'em if they come your way.
    
    /Mike...

    
    Ummm, yea.

    
    
    	Did anyone listen to the interview on 'FNX the other night?
    
    	I caught the end of it.
    
    	BTW, it wasn't a live show as I heard would be.
    
    
    Paul

    
    re Mike
    
    Definitely Brain Fart!!!
    
    8^)
    
    Flip

    Re: Flip 
    it's true!!!
    Well, it's just a RUMOR that he cut his hair to match mine, but
    he did shave his hair off.

    Got JA's 'Ritual de lo Habitual' on the walkman at the moment, backed
    up to Savatage's 'Gutter Ballet'.  Two greats on one tape!
    
    Favourite tracks from Ritual = Stop, Ain't no right, Classic girl.
    
    Hope this band come up with some new material soon!  Luv their stuff!
    
    
    Ga-ZAZ

    
    They said that RDLH would be their last art project.  I sure hope that
    isn't true.
    
    Flip

    that's a crock, Perry will sell out, they're even playing big
    arenas now...
    
    bah!

    
    wishful thinking

      I thought that I would put a lil note in here. I've had RDLH for a
    couple months now. On first listen I, damn this sux, but lately I have
    been giving it more of a chance.  Now the more I listen to it the more
    I like it. As a matter of fact this is a talented group as others have
    been saying. I guess the point I trying to make is that sometimes you
    have to give an album two, three, four listens before you can really
    appreciate it. I'm glad I hung on to it and it is turning into one of
    my more listened to CD's. BTW my kids, ages 3,2,and 1/2 all get off on
    it; if that means anythings. Just a little rambling note I thought I
    would add.
    					The KER
    

    HEY,
    HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!
     I gotta laugh when I hear this band name because I've heard
    alot about them from various sources.  First,My roommate tells
    me he saw them when they came here and Perry stuck a T*MPON
    in his *ss! Then proceeded to throw the applicator in the crowd
    as the fans went crazy!  Also the guitarist claims in GUITAR 
    WORLD he uses a Dildo,when asked what kind of effects he uses!!
    I guess it would take a real fan of their to understand this
    but I don't!!  Any true to these rumors?
    
                     LATERS,
                    R A G M A N N
    
    P.S. GOT CAUGHT DEALING ONCE WHEN I WAS FIVE!
    

    It's Been Caught Stealing.
    	I doubt Perry stuck a tampon in his as$. I definitely doubt
    that. I heard of a band whose lead singer set off fireworks out of
    his as$, like, had a sparkler in it or something.
    	These guys are strange, but I guess it depends who you're 
    comparing them to.
    	They're great musicians.
    
    /Mike

    I knew it was stealing I was making fun of it!!
    
                 R A G M A N N 
    

    
    
    
    I keep on hearing "been caught stealing" on the radio..
    
    
    Question ??   Do there albums sound anything like this as it's pretty
    cool..,,
    
    
    EWAN .... *^)

    
    Yes, they're well worth buying.
    
    Tell ya what, if I remember I'll bring Ritual De Lo Habitual into work
    with me tomorrow and you can borrow it....that's if I remember to bring
    it.
    
    You're in the PRC aren't you?  Well, I only sit upstairs from you.
    
    Flip

    
    
    Yeah.........,,,,,,,  sure dude ... only if you remmember.8^)
    
    EWAN

    re.-1  Flip is there something you haven't told us (dude):^))))))
    					The KER
    

    
    re KER
    
    Actually, he's not the first one to mistake me for a guy - I remember I
    scared the shit out of BK when I first spoke to him on the phone.  8^)
    
    Flip

"Being caught stealing" is an excellent hit. I like also the rest of "Ritual de
lo habitual" which shows influences from Led Zep to Beatles passing by various
others. I think they are more of a rock band than a heavy metal one.

Sorin

    
    
    	Buck...
    
    
    	Was it you that asked if JA were on Warner/Electra?
    
    	They are.
    
    
    Paul
        

    Paulo,
    
    Twas I.  Yey...they're on WEA...

    Copied from Kerrang! without permission:
    
    JANE SAYS GOODBYE
    
    Farrell to kick his addiction after the tour is complete
    
    Celebrated Californian rockers Jane's Addiction are to split up once
    their current touring commitments are complete.
    
    Mayhem understands that vocalist and band leader Perry Farrell is keen
    to persue other artistic projects, including a film, and feels that the
    band have achieved all they can without repeating themselves.
    
    The band are to release one more album, made up of material that was
    not included on their last two albums, Nothing's Shocking and Ritual de
    lo Habitual, but they do not plan to record or tour together again.
    
    Guitarist Dave Navarro and bassist Eric A will continue to work
    together.  Drummer Steve Perkins' plans are unknown at present.
    
    Farrell is set to continue work on his film project, which is titles
    "Gift".  He has also written material for a solo album, but this is not
    expected to emerge for another couple of years.
    
    Jane's Addiction's current RDLH album has been certified Gold in the
    US, and the band looked set to break through from their current cult
    status into a major attraction.  No official announcement on their
    future has been made as yet.
    
    Flip

    
    
    	MTV showed clips from Farrell's film project, "The Gift", last
    night.  It was "different" but I guess that's not too surprising.
    
    	What I saw was pretty interesting... they had one scene in a drug 
    rehab where Perry was the doctor.  Addicts were sitting around telling 
    their drug stories.  In an interview following the show, Perry said the
    addicts were buds of his from Venice.  No music in this scene.
    	
    	Another scene was Perry and his girlfriend's "wedding ceremony" and
    shots of the two of them hanging out, surfing... whatever.  "Classic Girl" 
    played along with this scene.
    
    	A live video of (I forget the name of the tune... "I am skin and
    bones.....") was shown.
    
    	The other scene/video/whatever was JA playing some tune with Ice-T
    and a guitarist from Ice-T's Syndicate.  The vocals were pretty much
    limited to Perry saying "Don't call me whitey, nigger." and Ice-T
    saying "Don't call ne nigger, whitey."  They then would sing something
    together but I didn't get those lyrics.
                    
    	The whole thing is supposed to be finished within a few months or
    sooner or later. 8^)
    
    
    Paul

    Ok, I gotta put my little bit in here.                

    I got Nothing's Shocking yesterday and have been listening to it pretty
    much constantly ever since.  I bought some other tapes too, but every
    time I go to pop one in I have to go back to the Jane's Addiction.

    I *love* the sound of this band!  So much energy, so much eccentricity. 
    Dave Navarro has an excellent guitar sound as well.  I really like his
    choice of effects (and no effects), there's a big contrast in the
    different sounds, yet a very similar two or three basic tones making
    the basis of it all.  Very understated, but at the same time very
    dominant.  
    
    Guess I should have checked 'em out a long time ago...
    
    gh

      I like to tone of the dog bark.....8*)!
    
            UUGGGGGHHHH!!!
    
                  This catagory brings back bad memories!
    
                       Frizkid
    

    Frizzzzzz
    
    You gotta get HIP, man!  JA, DZ ... des are all way hip bandz, dude!
    ;^)

      
    
          NO!
    
                          Frizkid
    

    
    
    	Anyone ever see the video tape they have out? I thought I was
    	gonna yack.... 8'P
    
    
    	JW=

    I don't care to *look* at 'em, just like listening.
    
    gh

    
    
    	Interesting article on JA in this month's SPIN.
    
        Too lazy to go to the Queensryche note but there's an article on
    them also.
    
    
    Paul

Article 1273 of clari.news.music:
Newsgroups: clari.news.music
Subject: Rock singer arrested
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 91 19:10:56 EDT

	SANTA MONICA, Calif. (UPI) -- Perry Bernstein, lead singer of the rock
group Jane's Addiction, was arrested Wednesday at a hotel and booked for
being under the influence of controlled narcotics.
	Bernstein was arrested about 12:40 p.m. after he returned to his room
at the Holiday Inn at 530 Pico Blvd., Sgt. Steve Brackett said.
	Brackett said police were called to the hotel after maids found
narcotics paraphernalia in his room used for ``speedballing'' -- a
combination of heroin and cocaine.
	Brackett said Bernstein -- an outspoken advocate of heroin -- was under
the influence of drugs when he returned to his room and was booked at
the city jail on $1,000 bail.
	His two companions were released because they were not under the
influence, Brackett said.

    RE-1
    
          BAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
    
                        I LOVE IT!
    
               Frizkid
    

    
    
    
    	I can't believe it!! I'm shocked!! I thought they where clean!!!
    
    
    	;')

      
    
          NOTHING'S SHOCKING!!!!
    
                        8)!
    
                                   Frizkid
    

Perry F'd UP!  *8(

black tar!  Man, that's too bad.

    
    He never looked like the kind who'd speedball...
    
    
    Chris

      re-1 
             Ya right!!!!8)
             And old people can't enoy H_M!
         And you hate thrash metal....
                And Scary hates southern rock...
                    And I hate Skid Row!
    
                              Frizkid
    
          

    
    Just throwin' in a question:
    
    Doesn't Bono from U2 look like Perry in the video the FLY
    
    
    
    Chris

    
    	He certainly doesn't look like Bono!

    Heard Perry has formed a new group called"Porno for Pyros".
    Their first gig is a benifit for AIDS.
    
                   Crazy_the_show_might_be_tonite_Al

    Anyone seen or heard if they will be releasing an album?
    

    The only thing I've heard about PfP is that there's a good chance
    they'll be playing on Lallapalooza 2.  
    
    Gh

    I know the "REAL" reason why Jane Addiciton broke up....If anybody
    wants to know...please respond....Otherwise, Im not going to post
    the dirt on the band....Its pretty hostile situation.
    
    Bob
    

    Well, sounds like it migh be interesting to me!!
    
    When you get a chance.
    
    Chris D.

    Yea...do it!
    
               Friz..DIRT Kid
    

    Perry had been sharing needles with Gutiarist Navarro for the past
    year or so. He never told him or anybody that he was tested HIV
    positive about 6 months ago....but he continued to share his needles.
    Navarro became so enraged that he broke into Perry's house and tried
    to kill him...So therefore JA is no more and Perry is destine to die
    young!
    
    :*(    sad story, cause I really liked them
    

You'd think they could afford their own needles...  Sigh

Tim

-1   They obviously could have afforded *NO* needles...

     Droid

     
      My band is doing a benefit gig this coming Sunday for a local
    guitarist that died of aids from the same way (IV drugs). It's a bitch,
    the guy could play a lot of Van Halen (Hot for Teacher, Panama) note
    for note, he just made that fatal mistake. The other bitch is he had
    been clean for a few years before it happened. There are about six
    bands involved, a lot of musicians knew the guy so you know it is gonna
    be a major musician show. Proceeds go to his mother, the only survivor. 
    Until you've seen someone die from something like this ( I have) you'll
    never really understand.
    
      I understand - cuz I've seen it.
    
    								-B()()M-

    So can we presume that Navarro is now also HIV+?
    
>You'd think they could afford their own needles...  Sigh
    
    But Tim, shootin up is a great social activity!
    
    gh

    Not to sound overtly negative, but Navarro mentioned in an interview
    he knew of the risks involved in his 'habit', and although he often
    shared needles, I thought he was bleeching pretty regularly??  It would
    be pretty dumb if he was blowing it off just cuz he was shooting up
    with a fellow band member.

    You'd think if you could afford the drugs you could afford to buy some
    new needles. Might cost more but hey the life you're saving could be
    your own.
    
           Friz
    

    
    I was in a record store this weekend.  They had a "new releases"
    schedule posted, and much to my surprise and elation...
    
    Jane's Addiction was on it.  I don't remember the release date, but it
    was something to the effect of November.
    
    Probably some new unreleased stuff?
    
    Anyone else heard this?
    
    Steve

    live and unreleased stuff...ill check into it.
    
    Bob
    

    Wow, sounds great!
    
    gh

	The disc containing "rare & unreleased" stuff has been available for 
	a while and another live release is forthcoming.

	- Jim

    I read in another conference that Porno for Pyro's debut album will be
    released on March 23rd.  For anyone that doesn't know, this is singer
    Perry Farrell's newest band since J'sA split up.
    
    gh