State of Jane's Addiction AD 2021?
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2021 5:00 am
So where are we with the band at this point? Will they ever play again? Will they record? Do we even care at this point?
My take: I have seriously lost interest in Jane's and I've even soured on them and their previous work based on their less than graceful aging and decline in recent years. So many bands have been showing that you can grow old in style and with class, which has increasingly put Jane's in bad light by comparison, if you consider their subpar output over the years.
My biggest gripe is with Perry, obviously. I can't recognize the guy I used to idolize when I see him now. It’s like he is a different human being. Right now, Perry is embarrassing. He looks like an old woman with the atrocious fake teeth and face surgery. Hard to look at. Friends have made remarks to this effect over the past several years, making fun of my admiration of the guy during years past. I think there is nothing wrong having an Asian sex-toy wife. Hey, I’d want one too! But it's really messed up if the sex-toy has giant ego, faux stardom ambitions and proceeds to take over your life etc. In other words, they guy wanted a tight little Asian girl and instead got a control-freak toxic whore of a wife who has greatly accelerated his decline. Or maybe someone who would order him around is what he actually wanted in the fist place? You know, with all this griping about lack of structure etc.
Dave, on the other hand, seems to be on some weird trip lately. He's been doing this drug (hallucinogenic) fueled self discovery thing. Good for him, but I think he has seriously let himself go in certain ways. Now he wears red Aladdin pants like Van Halen have in the early 1990s and has stopped coloring his hair jet black. I mean, sure it's the natural course of life, but the guy aged like 15 years in 2 years time, at least visually. He's also very skinny lately. At least he’s been playing a lot lately, getting into projects etc. But this doesn’t look like it will lead to anything concrete, as in: new albums.
My last connection to Jane's outside of this forum has been the radio presence of Dave and his friends, so the end of Dark Matter - and recently the end of the show that Todd Newman used to have with Dave's guitar tech - has really left me without any source of Jane’s related news. The very fact that they all sort of separated and no longer do things together also seems strange and sad.
Obviously the whole Covid situation hasn't really helped, but assuming we get out of this thing in the summer, do you honestly think anything will change? With Dave being in such a weird place and Perry circling the drain of aging has-been minor-stardom, I don't see anything positive coming out of the JA camp ever again.
Thoughts?
Ps: Sorry if I'm breaking any informal rules here, getting back to the account after several years and creating a new post as a low post count user, but from the current amount of activity here I'm guessing it doesn't really matter anymore anyway.
My take: I have seriously lost interest in Jane's and I've even soured on them and their previous work based on their less than graceful aging and decline in recent years. So many bands have been showing that you can grow old in style and with class, which has increasingly put Jane's in bad light by comparison, if you consider their subpar output over the years.
My biggest gripe is with Perry, obviously. I can't recognize the guy I used to idolize when I see him now. It’s like he is a different human being. Right now, Perry is embarrassing. He looks like an old woman with the atrocious fake teeth and face surgery. Hard to look at. Friends have made remarks to this effect over the past several years, making fun of my admiration of the guy during years past. I think there is nothing wrong having an Asian sex-toy wife. Hey, I’d want one too! But it's really messed up if the sex-toy has giant ego, faux stardom ambitions and proceeds to take over your life etc. In other words, they guy wanted a tight little Asian girl and instead got a control-freak toxic whore of a wife who has greatly accelerated his decline. Or maybe someone who would order him around is what he actually wanted in the fist place? You know, with all this griping about lack of structure etc.
Dave, on the other hand, seems to be on some weird trip lately. He's been doing this drug (hallucinogenic) fueled self discovery thing. Good for him, but I think he has seriously let himself go in certain ways. Now he wears red Aladdin pants like Van Halen have in the early 1990s and has stopped coloring his hair jet black. I mean, sure it's the natural course of life, but the guy aged like 15 years in 2 years time, at least visually. He's also very skinny lately. At least he’s been playing a lot lately, getting into projects etc. But this doesn’t look like it will lead to anything concrete, as in: new albums.
My last connection to Jane's outside of this forum has been the radio presence of Dave and his friends, so the end of Dark Matter - and recently the end of the show that Todd Newman used to have with Dave's guitar tech - has really left me without any source of Jane’s related news. The very fact that they all sort of separated and no longer do things together also seems strange and sad.
Obviously the whole Covid situation hasn't really helped, but assuming we get out of this thing in the summer, do you honestly think anything will change? With Dave being in such a weird place and Perry circling the drain of aging has-been minor-stardom, I don't see anything positive coming out of the JA camp ever again.
Thoughts?
Ps: Sorry if I'm breaking any informal rules here, getting back to the account after several years and creating a new post as a low post count user, but from the current amount of activity here I'm guessing it doesn't really matter anymore anyway.
