Mar 7 - Waterbury, CT at Palace Theater

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Mar 7 - Waterbury, CT at Palace Theater

#1 Post by Hokahey » Thu Mar 08, 2012 12:00 pm

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Re: Mar 7 - Waterbury, CT at Palace Theater

#2 Post by Leto » Thu Mar 08, 2012 12:56 pm

The media has been giving consistently good reviews for this tour.

A 90-Minute Uncut Blast Of Jane's Addiction
By Jack Coraggio Special to the Courant

Here’s a misnomer: Theatre of the Escapists.

Maybe it’s a less misleading tour title when applied to elsewhere venues. But at the narrow Palace Theater in Waterbury, there was simply no escape from the tremendous sound of distinctively alternative rock that enveloped the hall and smothered the crowd when Jane’s Addiction crashed there Wednesday.

It was a very concentrated 90-minute blast of uncut and unruly alt aimed without arc, if blunted at all it was only by a few moments of sonically lopsided nostalgia.

The Los Angeles act, still boyish and rambunctious, is again reunited and supporting its first new release in nearly a decade. And the show opened that way, with “Underground” off that latest effort, “The Great Escape Artist.”

It’s a stout little tune, performed in unmistakable Jane’s Addiction style with singer Perry Farrell’s high vocals juxtaposed to Chris Chaney’s low bass notes, but it wasn’t as fetching as the stage performance beyond them. A recurring theme throughout the evening: a twisted but static performance on high, reminiscent of Cirque du Soleil by sadists and masochists.

Then the rumbling intro of “Mountain Song” had the crowd immediately erupt with excitement, a feeling exacerbated by the band’s volcanic showing of this early alternative treasure turned beer commercial.

It may have been because the music was so notably forceful - even if guitarist and everyday ham Dave Navarro came across uncharacteristically subdued compared to the physically frenetic front man - but the 52-year-old Farrell’s voice seemed to have trouble keeping pace with his manic antics.

When the band broke into the familiar ode to petty theft, “Been Caught Stealing,” Farrell clearly started measures to preserve his pipes. It was only the fourth song in, and there were 11 more to get through.

Figure it was a welcome break for him when halfway through the show the band huddled up for an acoustic performance of the warm sea breeze alt ballad “Classic Girl.” That was followed up with a comparatively unceremonious but Caribbean-tinged, with steel drums and everything, version of signature tune “Jane Says.”

The subsequent “Chip Away” brought the show back to its intended frenzy, as all members but Farrell banged out a voodoo curse on three sets of toms. And before the actual end, an encore that included “Words Right Out of My Mouth” and “Ocean Size,” a most aggressive version of “Stop!” again demonstrated the delight of misnomers with its ceaselessness sensory assault.

from
http://www.courant.com/entertainment/mu ... 6183.story

also preshow photos
http://truthaboutmusic.com/truthaboutmu ... e-theater/

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