janes addiction reunion?

[h]

wow, these guys still alive?

i know none of you probably care, but i loved janes addiction at one point in my life so i'm posting anyway ! bwa ha ha

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Reunited Jane's Addiction back in the studio

By JAM! Music

The reunited Jane's Addiction is back in the studio, collaborating with Canadian-born producer Bob Ezrin.

Rolling Stone reports the group is eight songs deep into the new album with Ezrin, whose credits include Pink Floyd ("The Wall"), Aerosmith ("Get Your Wings"), Alice Cooper ("Welcome To My Nightmare") Kiss ("Destroyer") Lou Reed ("Berlin") and ... Liona Boyd and Air Supply?

"We're trying to get (Ezrin) to join the band, and we're trying to get him to dress differently," singer Perry Farrell told Rolling Stone.

The new album will be Jane's first studio release since 1990's "Ritual De Lo Habitual," although the band did undertake a six-week reunion tour last year.

"It's fun to recreate the old stuff in a live situation, but it's so much better to create new music," drummer Stephen Perkins told Rolling Stone.

The group hopes to have the album out by the fall or winter, although they haven't struck a deal with a record company yet. (More on Jane's Addiction)

[Jaimoe]

Better Jane's Addiction than the tepid Farrell-led Porno For Pyros reunion. I always liked Jane's Addiction's energy and aggressiveness. Navarro is a great avant-garde guitarist ( when he wants to play instead of pose ). I can't believe Perry is still alive. I'm kinda sick of their music today, since they haven't had a new release in 12 years, but I'm interested to hear where their music minds are at. Let's hope they don't sell-out. Like 'em or not, they were never a sell-out.

[CharlieDon'tSurf]

I must admit...I'm prone to bark along to 'Caught Stealing'... Mr. Farrell was never one of my favorites though!

[Jaimoe]

I still like " Mountain Song ", even though the main bass riff is a rip-off of Jimi's " In From The Storm ". That's probably why I like the song. Jimi's been ripped-off by so many, especially by Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck

[bradm]

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Originally posted by Jaimoe:

Jimi's been ripped-off by so many, especially by Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck

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I'm a big fan of Hendrix, Page and Beck, and don't think there's a lot of ripoff between any of them. What songs, in particular, are you referring to, especially w.r.t. Beck? (For example, what on "Blow By Blow" and "Wired" [arguably Jeff Beck's best] are ripoffs of Hendrix?)

Aloha,

Brad

[Jaimoe]

I like Page and Beck too. If you listen to the end of " In From The Storm " - from any of Hendrix's live versions, you'll hear Beck's classic, " Rice Pudding " from Beck-Ola. With Page, the most obvious example of Hendrix thievery is in the Zep classic " No Quarter ". The main power-chord melody/riff is lifted from " Machine Gun " the original 1969/70 Band Of Gypsies album. Listen to the middle, slowed-down bridge of " Gun ". It's obvious.

[Moma]

Hey H you are not alone in loving Janes Addiction. It really surprises me that they are back on tour. I bet Perry Farrell looks like the walking dead. Is it all of the original band, including Dave Navaro?

[Northern Wish]

I managed to catch their show before KDTU last October in Toronto.

First of all, they were one of the most influential bands who didn't ever get recognition ala Velvet Underground. Second yes it is all of the original lineup including Rock Star Navarro.

The show was killer IMHO (if not a little short). Full of stage antics such as Perry entering the stage through the floor wearing a huge parachute type dress that had go go dancers underneath it. Unneccesary were the go go dancers wearing only pasties, gyrating on huge stiletto heel shoe stages throughout the night. They did have a small stage set up at the back of the arena, where they played a mini acoustic set of a new Navarro tune, Jane Says and something else.

Go check em out. But don't pay full price, the place was half empty and someone actually GAVE me 4 tickets to that one right in front of the building. Purchased the fifth one for $10, so five of us caught the show for $2 each.

Sean

[Velvet]

Yeah, I'm a big Jane's Addiction fan too. Looking forward to that album. I didn't get Pornos for Pyros though.

By the way, Hendrix ripped off as much as anybody, 'cept it's called influence. And before you naysay me, you have to learn how to replicate to be influenced, and sometimes it comes out sounding the same. Oh well. Most blues songs sound the same in a way, but they're all different.

Does anybody really think that as clever a songwriter as George Harrison really ripped off the Chiffons? Sometimes things just come out sounding like other things.

I'm trying to imagine Jimmy Page saying, "Blast, I'm stuck for a riff for this part...I know, I'll just play Machine Gun and hope nobody notices."

Whatever, yeah Jane's Addiction is good.

[Jaimoe]

Actually Velvet, I do think Page purposely ripped off " Machine Gun ". He did the same with " Dazed And Confused " - a 60's folk tune. I like what Zep does to the songs they are " influenced " by, but Page and Plant ( yes, along with hundreds of blues performers etc... ) don't always admit to their origin.