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by Pandemonium » Sun Aug 16, 2020 11:47 am
At lot of what Diabolik and KV said factors into my arc with Janes.
With me, I was already losing my passion for the band once it was public they were breaking up after the Lollapalooza tour in '91. Add to that, I thought that last V1.0 show I caught at Irvine Meadows really wasn't great compared to the 1990 Palladium or '89 JA Ford Theater shows I had previously seen. Although my opinion of Deconstruction has greatly improved over the years, when it was first released, I did not like it at all, mostly due to Eric's vox. I probably listened to the 3 JA studio albums half a dozen times between '93-'97. They just fell completely off my radar. To be fair, this period was when I finally settled down, was working 2 jobs, got married and we had our son so there was a lot of other stuff going on during the mid-90's and my interest in rock music in general was at a nadir.
The Relapse/Enit show in '97 in San Francisco greatly rekindled my feelings that there was a lot left in the tank but that quickly faded when nothing came of it. The 2001 Hollywood Bowl show with Hole opening really killed my hardcore interest in the band - aside from the cool opening bit with Kettle Whistle and the P4P/Perry solo stuff, the show was meh. After that, Janes was in the category of "Bands I'll see if it's convenient" like The Cult, Guns n' Roses, Pretenders, etc.
I probably would have skipped the NYE show in 2002 at The Wiltern but I wanted to do *something* for NYE and that was the logical choice. And yeah, like KV says, that was a mostly lame show with Vegas Perry in full bloom. I was shocked how stick-in-the-mud boring Cheney was on bass. I initially liked Strays but it was a mostly generic "rawk" album that didn't hold my attention. I didn't bother to see them again until the run of Hollywood club shows in '08/'09 and the '09 NINJA tour which I thought was a mostly mediocre show with Eric already in sullen "I Want Out" mode.
I haven't bothered to see them again since 2012.