eric avery interview

[Romeo]

trying to find where Dave said he didn't want to tour it but:

Dave Navarro Deconstructs
by James Rotondi
Guitar Player - September 1994

"I was my own worst enemy," shrugs Dave Navarro, chewing vigorously on a stick of gum and musing about his days with Jane's Addiction. Except for a few jabs at Perry Farrell's vocal antics, Navarro--currently recording with the Red Hot Chili Peppers--is hardly resentful about what he calls "the greatest time of my life" and a "hugely growing, learning experience." "Whatever limitations there might have been on me, I set them myself," he says.

Navarro brought relentless high-gain firring, funky rhythm work, and wild solos back into the once jangly world of alternative rock. When Jane's Addiction broke up in 1991, Navarro spent a few months at the Betty Ford Clinic, kicking a heroin addiction and facing the reality of a new life and career. At first he bought home a 8-track, and began experimenting with Jane's bassist Eric Avery and drummer Michael Murphy; the experiments evolved into the band Deconstruction, who've just released their debut--and perhaps swan song--on American Recordings.

"We're not doing the verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-solo-out thing," Navarro told us during the album's production. "We're putting together elements of music that have nothing to do with one another, branching into areas we know nothing about, and combining them with things we do know something about." The album blends samples and drum machines with live drums, pastes raw, tight grooves into elliptical arrangements, and exudes a cool, jaded-poet vibe courtesy of Eric's half-spoken, Iggy Pop-cum-Leonard Cohen-ish vocals. And it, uh, rocks.

"Yeah, the heavy sound is still there," says Dave, whose rig included a Paul Reed Smith, a Telecaster, and a Jazzmaster through a Bogner Ecstasy amp, "but I don't think there's one straight power chord on this album. I'm doing a lot of clean single-note and melodic picking things. And I'm not so much playing regular rock guitar solos, although there are solo-type things. I would just rather play something that complements the music and the words, rather than stand in the spotlight. We're rearranging our thinking, so for us it's a stretch, but I don't think it will be for the listener."

http://www.so-to-speak-if-you-will.com/ ... ep94.shtml

[Mescal]

I tried listening to deconstruction twice.

Really don't understand what the fan fuzz is all about.

[JOEinPHX]

I tried listening to deconstruction twice.

Really don't understand what the fan fuzz is all about.

That's ironic because i've tried reading your posts twice and felt the same way.

[Warped]

I tried listening to deconstruction twice.

Really don't understand what the fan fuzz is all about.

Funny, i feel that way regarding PFP. I tried to get into them but i can't.

[Mescal]

I tried listening to deconstruction twice.

Really don't understand what the fan fuzz is all about.

Funny, i feel that way regarding PFP. I tried to get into them but i can't.

I absolutely love the first album

I fall asleep while listening to their second

De gustibus et coloribus ...

[Larry B.]

I could listen to the ending section of L.A. Song in a continuous loop for 24 hours. It's one of the most beautiful musical moments I've ever heard.

[kv]

I tried listening to deconstruction twice.

Really don't understand what the fan fuzz is all about.

Funny, i feel that way regarding PFP. I tried to get into them but i can't.

yeah never liked decon either even though i love the people in it..just didn't work for me...more then anything shocked by how much it is loved by posters here...same with porno's second...
but i can't see a jane's fan not liking the first porno it's like 1a and 1b to janes

oh well tastes are tastes

[Japhy]

oh well tastes are tastes

Never a truer word said!

On the Porno thing, I love them both but they are such utterly different records. When i was younger (and way more active than i am now), the 1st record was a skate record and the 2nd was more a surf record. I definitely need to be chilled out to listen to GGU.

[Romeo]

I love both Decon & the first PFP because you had all the elements of Jane's but split in two. i loved Decon's dark & edgy feel. And I loved PFP's funky quirky side.

I thought they were both brilliant for different reasons. It's like your Parents divorced & had joint custody and both of them trying to entertain you.

[Warped]

Believe it or not but you people here convinced me to buy the first PFP

[Japhy]

Believe it or not but you people here convinced me to buy the first PFP

You'll be singing Meija at the top of your voice in no time!

[Kajicat]

I like Decon but don't appreciate it as much as most people on this site do. It's pretty cool but I'm not a fan of Eric's vocals so that really turns me off. Meanwhile, P4P and GGU are both incredible to me, with GGU being one of my favorite albums of all time.

[Juana]

Interesting about Decon but that was a great record just musically I have actually made a mix that has no vocals on it which just music is amazing. I'm not a fan of Erics vox either but it doesn't ruin it or anything for me.

I think in listening to Decon and GGU we could have had a VERY interesting follow up to Ritual if they had just taken a hiatus and reconvened in 95 or so.

[Hype]

I really like EA's vocals. He's like a surfer Leonard Cohen.

[zendo]

I love both Decon & the first PFP because you had all the elements of Jane's but split in two. i loved Decon's dark & edgy feel. And I loved PFP's funky quirky side.

I thought they were both brilliant for different reasons. It's like your Parents divorced & had joint custody and both of them trying to entertain you.

[tubro]

Decon never made it for me but i certainly appreciated some of the dark heaviness of it. the vocals never did too much for me and it seemed to have a lot of elements of an unfinished idea to it. but i've always enjoyed the perspective of the people here who love it so. its certainly a very important part of the history of JA's music, and for that reason i bought it when it came out and listen to it a few times a year just to go back to that period.

p4p 1 vs 2 is a very interesting discussion for me. i love GGU but its got some clunkers on it and i think that if i hadn't been seeing them so often during the time they were releasing those albums, i'd have a different view of GGU. i totally get why GGU usually gets less love around here. but the live shows, mainly with Watt, were trippy and wonderful and the great songs on the album (title track in particular) could rock your world as well as anything being played by anyone at that time. listen to GGU (the song) on the halloween l.a. radio show. its seriously incredible live music. primal and lyrical and sad and pure genius. and the sad ballad side of that era (pete's dad) was similarly moving.
but overall, the first album is, in my view, more cohesive.

one thing's for sure from decon and both p4p records - the four of them remained great thru the mid 90s - too bad they didn't do their third studio album then. i doubt it would have had superhero on it. :)