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They could never blow me away now because of the corner they painted themselves into; they've only made two albums over the past 22 years...and I've heard the original band's work a MILLION times. It's only natural that hardcore fans are eventually going to feel a little unsatisfied. Don't get me wrong, I still had a great time (I just take it for what it is). They're never going to be a band like Pearl Jam--playing 3 hour sets with rarities, b-sides, numerous covers, wildly different setlist every night. Jane's made certain detrimental decisions during different points in their career and over the past 10 years, we have begun to see the results.
I had a blast at the show; but concert experiences are totally subjective. I was in good company, drinking free booze, leaning over Dave's monitor. It's just not 1990 anymore. The mythic danger is gone; it's now a good "show".
BTW, I chatted a little with some guy beside me before Jane's came on. He had never seen Jane's before...BUT he had seen Dave play with The Panic Channel when they opened for Supernova. This guy was telling me the best live band in the world is Motley Crue.
I had a blast at the show; but concert experiences are totally subjective. I was in good company, drinking free booze, leaning over Dave's monitor. It's just not 1990 anymore. The mythic danger is gone; it's now a good "show".
BTW, I chatted a little with some guy beside me before Jane's came on. He had never seen Jane's before...BUT he had seen Dave play with The Panic Channel when they opened for Supernova. This guy was telling me the best live band in the world is Motley Crue.
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The only thing that I think could blow us away is Perry performing like he should. That is, singing properly and not delivering cringe-worthy banter onstage.
He can't do that anymore. So they'll never blow us away.
He can't do that anymore. So they'll never blow us away.
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Yes, but I think I've said a few times that it's just really obvious that as a band they should have worked on all the songs they still want to perform to make it so that his voice isn't blown out by the third song, and so that we don't to listen to that horrible screeching noise that is less banshee and more grandma.Larry B. wrote:The only thing that I think could blow us away is Perry performing like he should. That is, singing properly and not delivering cringe-worthy banter onstage.
He can't do that anymore. So they'll never blow us away.
Doing more stripped down versions of songs, not in a lounge-act way, and not in fucking D or C tuning, necessarily, but just rearranged, so there's more chance to be melodic in a good way than scream-singing, or attempting Bono-esque bullshit.
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Adurentibus Spina wrote:Yes, but I think I've said a few times that it's just really obvious that as a band they should have worked on all the songs they still want to perform to make it so that his voice isn't blown out by the third song, and so that we don't to listen to that horrible screeching noise that is less banshee and more grandma.Larry B. wrote:The only thing that I think could blow us away is Perry performing like he should. That is, singing properly and not delivering cringe-worthy banter onstage.
He can't do that anymore. So they'll never blow us away.
Doing more stripped down versions of songs, not in a lounge-act way, and not in fucking D or C tuning, necessarily, but just rearranged, so there's more chance to be melodic in a good way than scream-singing, or attempting Bono-esque bullshit.
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and there you go....Tyler Durden wrote:BTW, I chatted a little with some guy beside me before Jane's came on. He had never seen Jane's before...BUT he had seen Dave play with The Panic Channel when they opened for Supernova. This guy was telling me the best live band in the world is Motley Crue.
Because we all know "girls girls girls" is a classic!
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I wish they'd add "Splash" to the set list. I think, despite it being relatively low tempo, it would fit the set well. Underground is a great opener and fits well. IF fit well. Despite being an album fav, Twisted really falls flat live and hurts the show's momentum.
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http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/J/Jan ... 34581.html
But the distractions were many, including nonsensical talk from a potty-mouthed Farrell, who swigged from a bottle of red wine - “tonight we all get circumcisions!”
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1. What stupid thing(s) did you say to deserve it?LJF wrote:hokahey wrote:Apparently they do considering no one has been "blown away." I guess my point was I'm not sure they could blow us away at this point, both because of their age and our bitterness.Romeo wrote:I don't think they need to do much.
I joined sonny's site a few weeks before it all went up in flames. But enough time to be called just about everything by six7six7,
2. What stupid thing(s) did I say to you in reply? I don't remember you.
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Artemis you hit on what I felt at the show. The sound was extremely muddy. Oh well, the sound guy seemed more preoccupied with the Lakers score than the sound, oh and his Lakers Hawaiian shirt, and Lakers satin jacket.
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[quote="farrellgirl99"]i think bman might have had the right idea by avoiding everyone on this site until the show
im not saying i dont believe you guys, but it's disheartening to go in knowing it's not working so well.[/quote
like others have said, your concert experience is truly your own. please don't feel disheartened.
i have been to MANY shows over the years, so it takes a lot to wow me. the show was far from horrible, it just didn't knock my support hose off.
here is one more review i found:
http://exclaim.ca/Reviews/Concerts/jane ... ebruary_27
im not saying i dont believe you guys, but it's disheartening to go in knowing it's not working so well.[/quote
like others have said, your concert experience is truly your own. please don't feel disheartened.
i have been to MANY shows over the years, so it takes a lot to wow me. the show was far from horrible, it just didn't knock my support hose off.
here is one more review i found:
http://exclaim.ca/Reviews/Concerts/jane ... ebruary_27
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Screechy Classic Girl eeeeew. :cona:
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I'm still looking forward to the show Sunday. At Irving I had a marvelous time, but because I was front row and so excited to be so close to them, the whole show is a wonderful blur.
So I'm actually excited to be going to the show with seats where I can see everything without fear of being crushed and just enjoy it in a totally different way.
So I'm actually excited to be going to the show with seats where I can see everything without fear of being crushed and just enjoy it in a totally different way.
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Another review from The Globe and Mail...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/art ... le2352605/
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/art ... le2352605/
It was sex, red wine and rock ’n’ roll, and I don’t need to know what went on backstage. On stage it was spectacle – loud, lewd spectacle – from Jane’s Addiction and Perry Farrell, that prowling, high-whiney-voiced showman all in black. “Tonight we all get circumcisions,” he said at one point. And indeed, that was just the tip of things.( )
Did we see what we thought we saw, even before the show began? A nonchalant roadie leading camera-clutching female fans across the stage, linked together by a chain? I think so.
When the lights went down – not all the lights; the seriously red ones stayed on – the house speakers were booming epic Pink Floyd music: “Welcome my son, welcome to the machine. Where have you been? It's all right, we know where you've been.”
Actually, we didn’t know where these guys had been. The best we could hope for is that they had washed their hands with soap before they got here.
The stage show in support of the on-again/off-again alt-rock kingpins’ first album of new material in eight years began with a pair of ladies perched on high-hanging swings, wearing impractically long white gowns that billowed 10 feet or so below them. They swung to the first track off last year’s The Great Escape Artist, which was Underground, a thick-riffed rocker with all hands – guitarist Dave Navarro, drummer Stephen Perkins and bassist Chris Chaney – on deck.
Mountain Song was unstoppable, muscular guitar rock. A gigantic sculpture of two nude women towered in the background.
Navarro, the pretty one in leather pants, had his shirt off for 2003’s Just Because, a Grammy-winning single that sounded like a tougher Achtung Baby-era U2. I recall that the original video for Just Because featured a buff-looking Navarro; looks like the tattooed dude kept up his health-club membership.
The audience, made up of folks easily old enough to have attended the first Farrell-founded Lollapalooza festival in 1991, were on their feet for all of the concert’s ecstatic, electric hour-and-a-half. Clearly they knew the words to 1990’s Been Caught Stealing, an ode to kleptomania that’s put on some weight over the years, and, in doing so, lost some of its funk.
There’s much sexual oomph to what Jane’s Addiction does – in its look, in its lean and upbeat locomotion, in its manly guitar solos, in its lascivious energy and in its tight, grimy rhythms. On Ted, Just Admit It…, which picked up speed as it went, Farrell sang about images that were no longer shocking and about how “sex is violent,” as vintage S&M porn footage flickered on a pair of screens above him.
Bondage-happy burlesque girls in black leather on a bench up high happened. There was a guy in a rooster outfit, and a man all in white who hung himself. A mid-set slowdown happened when the band reconfigured in front of a giant stuffed trophy bear and a tasselled lamp.
On the acoustic-strummed Jane Says, the time-keeping Perkins manned the steel drum. Farrell kept slugging his Bordeaux straight from the bottle.
The night ended with a two-tune encore: Words Right Out of My Mouth, a fast-chugging Slash-y new one, and Ocean Size, from the band’s 1988 debut Nothing’s Shocking. It’s a song about large waves which crash again and again against the shore, seemingly to no effect. “I only care about what you think,” said Farrell, a pleaser, to his fans. “And that’s why I’m miserable.”
Despondent, this generous entertainer? Surely Farrell must now by know that in his own way he moves mountains. But if he can’t see the changes, rest assured, others do.
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Did we finally get to him?Artemis wrote:Another review from The Globe and Mail...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/art ... le2352605/
“I only care about what you think,” said Farrell, a pleaser, to his fans. “And that’s why I’m miserable.”
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I'm starting to like Underground.
Sounds pretty good live.
Sounds pretty good live.
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I love the Globe...
... Just like the fans!The audience, made up of folks easily old enough to have attended the first Farrell-founded Lollapalooza festival in 1991, were on their feet for all of the concert’s ecstatic, electric hour-and-a-half. Clearly they knew the words to 1990’s Been Caught Stealing, an ode to kleptomania that’s put on some weight over the years, and, in doing so, lost some of its funk.
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Mescal wrote:I'm starting to like Underground.
Sounds pretty good live.
I was really happy with how it fit in with the rest of the set. Didn't seem out of place. I remember thinking the same about True Nature back in 2003. Both songs come across well live.
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farrellgirl99 wrote:I'm still looking forward to the show Sunday. At Irving I had a marvelous time, but because I was front row and so excited to be so close to them, the whole show is a wonderful blur.
So I'm actually excited to be going to the show with seats where I can see everything without fear of being crushed and just enjoy it in a totally different way.
wait, the Paramount has seats?
I might have 2 extras if anyone is interested, my work day on monday is shaping up to be a disaster (being a responsible adults sucks), so a Sunday night show might not be a great idea, still not sure. But pm me if interested
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yea, Paramount is part pit, part seats
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One more review from the Toronto Star. I think this will conclude the T.O. reviews.
The show was actually Monday night...I should send an email to make a correction.
http://www.toronto.com/blog/post/714910 ... -the-highs
The show was actually Monday night...I should send an email to make a correction.
http://www.toronto.com/blog/post/714910 ... -the-highs
It seems like Jane’s is addicted to the past.
On Tuesday night, from the moment stagehands unveiled the twin gigantic nude female statues in a mirror pose; lifted the two comely dancers on swings high above the Massey Hall stage, and the birdman-like creature who swayed beneath one of them, turned on the three video screens and started the dazzling array of spotlights, you knew you were in for a good 70-minutes of Jane’s Addiction escapism.
But whether there were any real surprises for the faithful who have seen the L.A. band in full regalia on previous occasions is another matter altogether.
There certainly was the security of knowing what you’re getting, and singer Perry Farrell and the crew lived up to the billing, delivering occasional moments of spontaneity in a hit-and-miss affair that packed a powerful, potent punch when it clicked, and fell begrudgingly flat when it didn’t.
There’s no denying that the quirky Farrell is a fascinating frontman: charismatic and unpredictable - someone who will explode into a leap when you’re least expecting it, or suddenly break out into a weird march or dance that will be totally out of step from the searing alternative rock that’s swirling around him, only to recover and sing on cue without missing a beat.
From the opening strains of “Underground,” taken from the band’s latest album The Great Escape Artist, you couldn’t take your eyes off him, as he danced madly around the stage, blowing air kisses to the crowd, and repeatedly serenaded front-row occupants throughout the evening, even allowing one frisky woman to grope his legs as he stopped to survey the audience.
But Farrell’s only one contributor to Jane’s Addiction, and the remaining band members made a strong case for how much mood, melody and general atmospherics is generated solely by guitarist Dave Navarro.
And he could only succeed with the solid support demonstrated by drummer Stephen Perkins and bass-player-du-jour Chris Chaney.
There were a few sublime moments where Navarro executed mesmerizing solos that heightened the actual musicality of the show, especially during “Three Days” or “Twisted Tales,” before those numbers curtly ended and Jane’s Addiction moved onto the next.
But there were low points, especially during the intimate “acoustic” set of “Classic Girl” and “Jane Says,” the monotonous two-chord signature riff that’s one of the more boring songs in the JA canon.
Listening to the band reach into Nothing’s Shocking and Ritual De Lo Habitual is one thing, but using many of the same visual devices from previous tours led to an unfortunate sense of déjà vu.
It was one old hat Jane’s Addiction didn’t need to wear.
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It was maybe a week or so before it got shut down. My first post was just questioning why there was so much hate/anger towards the band that everyone liked now or at one point. Also if people weren't interested in what the band was doing currently then why listen. You weren't the only one that jumped all over me, but you had the best things to say. So I was a prick right back & that really started things going. There were a few others that joined in at the same time and really pissed off the regulars. It really was the regulars vs the new guys type thing. I think the whole thing was in a downward spiral, a lot of anger going on. I was enjoying it, I alway enjoy shit like that.Six7Six7 wrote:1. What stupid thing(s) did you say to deserve it?LJF wrote:hokahey wrote:Apparently they do considering no one has been "blown away." I guess my point was I'm not sure they could blow us away at this point, both because of their age and our bitterness.Romeo wrote:I don't think they need to do much.
I joined sonny's site a few weeks before it all went up in flames. But enough time to be called just about everything by six7six7,
2. What stupid thing(s) did I say to you in reply? I don't remember you.
I wasn't trying to piss all over people, but that is how it was taken.
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seems like the shows have been finishing early. i was home by 11:30!tcrock wrote:farrellgirl99 wrote:I'm still looking forward to the show Sunday. At Irving I had a marvelous time, but because I was front row and so excited to be so close to them, the whole show is a wonderful blur.
So I'm actually excited to be going to the show with seats where I can see everything without fear of being crushed and just enjoy it in a totally different way.
wait, the Paramount has seats?
I might have 2 extras if anyone is interested, my work day on monday is shaping up to be a disaster (being a responsible adults sucks), so a Sunday night show might not be a great idea, still not sure. But pm me if interested
you should be okay...just don't get all liquored up.