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#1 Post by bman » Wed May 06, 2020 5:57 am

So Etty had an Instagram Live chat last night with Perry. Pretty entertaining and included many highlights that people here would find amusing! A couple of things gleaned though is that Perry is releasing a box set of his non Janes solo material. So I guess that's SYTBS, Kind Heaven and Satellite Party?? He said he's working on a remix track as well. It will also include a booklet that he's writing. It's kind of odd. Does he owe a label any more records?
Someone asked if they go to xiola.org! Perry commented on that and said how a lot of fans wanted him to remain like his Nothing Shocking/Ritual self but he wanted to change and have a family etc. He sang a tiny bit of Ring of Fire.

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#2 Post by Tyler Durden » Wed May 06, 2020 11:07 am

A box set? Who's going to buy it? It's not like his solo career was a huge success. In 2020...even a box set of an artist with a successful legacy wouldn't necessarily move that many physical copies. Seems like a very odd decision.

In all seriousness, there's more money to be made repressing JA's Triple X debut on vinyl than there would be in a Perry Farrell solo box set. Despite what people think, Jane's is still a highly (relatively speaking here) marketable product that can generate some cash. Financially, it would make more sense finally releasing those "deluxe" versions of the Warner albums if they're looking for any kind of financial gain off music sales.

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#3 Post by Hype » Wed May 06, 2020 11:20 am

Perry commented on that and said how a lot of fans wanted him to remain like his Nothing Shocking/Ritual self but he wanted to change and have a family etc.
15-20 years ago people on these boards were definitely saying stuff like that he should do more drugs, and similar stuff. But since the NINJA Tour? No. I think most of us don't care that he's a different person who has a family. The music he makes just isn't good. I like SYTBS a lot. A ton of people who didn't even like Jane's Addiction loved Porno For Pyros. But the ridiculous lyrics and derivative music since 2008 or so? It's embarrassing to even tell people you're a fan of the earlier work now. You have to qualify it: no, no, he was a different kind of space cadet back then and the music makes up for it. We don't want the old space cadet back, and frankly I don't even want good music from Perry anymore. I want him to enjoy life with his family and, maybe try not to make such awful music -- but I don't really care about that as much as I might have 10 years ago.

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#4 Post by Hokahey » Wed May 06, 2020 11:55 am

bman wrote:
Wed May 06, 2020 5:57 am
So Etty had an Instagram Live chat last night with Perry. Pretty entertaining and included many highlights that people here would find amusing! A couple of things gleaned though is that Perry is releasing a box set of his non Janes solo material. So I guess that's SYTBS, Kind Heaven and Satellite Party?? He said he's working on a remix track as well. It will also include a booklet that he's writing. It's kind of odd. Does he owe a label any more records?
Someone asked if they go to xiola.org! Perry commented on that and said how a lot of fans wanted him to remain like his Nothing Shocking/Ritual self but he wanted to change and have a family etc. He sang a tiny bit of Ring of Fire.
They're both morons. Few people ever suggested he forever be the same person. All anyone asked is that he have some taste and not tarnish the legacy of something that was special to a lot of people.

Also, no one wants a Perry Farrell box set. They could still make some coin releasing the treasure trove of classic JA stuff people actually want, but nope.

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#5 Post by bman » Wed May 06, 2020 3:03 pm

Yeah I think his timeline was off anyway when he was referring to the Xiola.org fight. That was in 2004/2005 when they broke up and a team Perry vs team Dave fan on fan crime spree began. That's when Etty came in and started posting, and then Perry came in to defend her I believe, and then Perry and Sonny had an issue. I think that was how it all went down. Man that was a long time ago. Anyway, the Live IG thing was pretty funny for a lot reasons. It was cool to see Perry though. That guy still has like a kid's energy. It's clear who is in charge of that house though! I'll tune in if there's another one for sure.

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#6 Post by Hokahey » Wed May 06, 2020 4:30 pm

bman wrote:
Wed May 06, 2020 3:03 pm
I'll tune in if there's another one for sure.
We know Bman. We know.

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#7 Post by bman » Wed May 06, 2020 4:53 pm

Lol. Just to report the news of course.

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#8 Post by Larry B. » Wed May 06, 2020 4:59 pm

It seems like Perry was always one to be kind of motivated by "the haters". Back then, it was the government, the status quo, society. Now, it's like 5 or 10 people from the JA forums. Oh yeah, we are a high-level threat who are trying to bring you down, Perry!

It's ridiculous, but not surprising. He's a clever businessman, but not a person who is highly connected to reality. He's just made bad music for over a decade. Bad music that an extremely limited number of people would want to hear. I've just checked Spotify and he was around 48,000 monthly listeners. There's a band from Baltimore that I like, called Beach House, and they have almost 2.5 million monthly listeners. There is an Uruguayan murga called Agarrate Catalina, which is very niche and hardly known outside Uruguay, Chile and Argentina. They have 55,000 monthly listeners. Perry Farrell promoted the launch of the lyric video for Pirate Punk Politician in every social media outlet he had access to, and even made the launch a YouTube Live event. The event had less than 10 participants and weeks went by with the video having less than 10,000 views.

No significant mass of people like what Perry does. That is a fact. I think Perry has been confusing Facebook followers and retweets with 'fans.'

I'm sure Perry is thinking about releasing a boxset, an autobiography, a photography book, a compendium of Hanukkah recipes, another autobiography written in poetry form, seventeen animated gifs and twelve Jane's Addiction albums. It's not going to happen. None of that is going to happen. There are no distributors that would take his rubbish products, and no investors that would back him anymore. Even less after this economical downturn and how uncertain the future looks.

I wish Perry and his family health and happiness, for sure. And I hope Perry can see that his artistic prowess for the last two decades has laid in business, not in creating music. Selling his festivals. He is happy doing that. Just do that. Promote bands who have an edge. Make money whilst doing it. And enjoy it. Stop going into radio shows promoting Kind Heaven and telling how you were Xiola's cousin and drug-dealer, for fucks sake. Use that space to promote bands that have an edge and then have them in your festivals. And get a cut from that.

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#9 Post by bman » Wed May 06, 2020 6:56 pm

I've heard some Beach House songs that I like. What's a good place to start with them?

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#10 Post by Hokahey » Wed May 06, 2020 7:00 pm

Love me some Beach House.

Also, I just realized that Perry gets to blame Covid-19 for Kind Heaven Vegas failing, if he ever mentions it again.

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#11 Post by Tyler Durden » Thu May 07, 2020 8:15 am

Larry B. wrote:
Wed May 06, 2020 4:59 pm

I'm sure Perry is thinking about releasing a boxset, an autobiography, a photography book, a compendium of Hanukkah recipes, another autobiography written in poetry form, seventeen animated gifs and twelve Jane's Addiction albums. It's not going to happen. None of that is going to happen. There are no distributors that would take his rubbish products, and no investors that would back him anymore. Even less after this economical downturn and how uncertain the future looks.
Perry owes his "champagne wishes and caviar dreams" lifestyle to the success of Lollapalooza, for certain. But Lolla aside...Jane's is where the money is. For argument's sake, if this virus had us in a strict lockdown for 5 years, Perry's best chance at making money would be to resurrect Chaney's Addiction or make a phone call to Eric Avery...make some new music remotely or something. I'm totally speaking hypothetically. My point is just that...outside of the xiola/ANR bubble, there are tons of dormant Jane's fans...and during concert season, they awake from their slumber to show up at amphitheatres, etc whenever the band tours.

Think about it this way, Cleopatra Records just put out a new Danzig album and is prepping for a new Ministry album. Jane's is more popular than both of these artists. Just saying.

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#12 Post by mockbee » Thu May 07, 2020 9:24 am

Tyler Durden wrote:
Thu May 07, 2020 8:15 am


Think about it this way, Cleopatra Records just put out a new Danzig album and is prepping for a new Ministry album. Jane's is more popular than both of these artists. Just saying.

I don't know about that. :noclue:

Ministry is (was....?) touring in July/August and earlier this year upgraded venues in SF from Regency Ballroom (cap 1000) to the Warfield (cap 2,300) and sold out immediately. Warfield is the largest music venue in bay area (outside of Bill Graham Presents, The Masonic and various sheds/sports stadiums) .....Sold out everywhere else as well.

Couldn't see Janes doing that, standing on their own. No way.

Even NINJA, with Eric back, it was --> NIN!!.....oh, yea....ja. People streamed out of shoreline when nin set was over in '09.

When Jane's has played in decent size theaters (1000-2000 cap) in the US in the last 10 years, have they been sold out?
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#13 Post by Tyler Durden » Thu May 07, 2020 10:35 am

mockbee wrote:
Thu May 07, 2020 9:24 am
Tyler Durden wrote:
Thu May 07, 2020 8:15 am


Think about it this way, Cleopatra Records just put out a new Danzig album and is prepping for a new Ministry album. Jane's is more popular than both of these artists. Just saying.

I don't know about that. :noclue:

Ministry is (was....?) touring in July/August and earlier this year upgraded venues in SF from Regency Ballroom (cap 1000) to the Warfield (cap 2,300) and sold out immediately. Warfield is the largest music venue in bay area (outside of Bill Graham Presents, The Masonic and various sheds/sports stadiums) .....Sold out everywhere else as well.

Couldn't see Janes doing that, standing on their own. No way.

Even NINJA, with Eric back, it was --> NIN!!.....oh, yea....ja. People streamed out of shoreline when nin set was over in '09.

When Jane's has played in decent size theaters (1000-2000 cap) in the US in the last 10 years, have they been sold out?
:noclue:
I would argue that Jane's Addiction is marginally more "mainstream"/popular than Ministry. Sure, they're not Pearl Jam or RHCP or something...but their fan base has got to be somewhat bigger than Ministry's...Jane's had some "hits" back in the day that are now part of "classic rock" radio (at least here in Canada). Jane's Addiction (any lineup) could easily sellout a 2,500 seat theatre in Toronto. At the NIN/JA show I was at, people weren't leaving after NIN.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Jane's 2.0 fanboy...but the sentiment on xiola/here that the band has a near nonexistent fan base is a wild exaggeration.

Not that I hold the original Alice In Chains in as high esteem as the original Jane's (though I do love me some Layne Staley)...but I'd say these band's have had vaguely similar trajectories. AIC is still playing decent sized venues.

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#14 Post by Hype » Thu May 07, 2020 10:40 am

Yeah, I'm sorry, Ministry is way bigger worldwide than JA is now.

In 2001, they couldn't *give away* tickets to see JA in Toronto -- I think they only had a few thousand people out of a possible 15,000+ at the Air Canada Centre. And that was nearly 20 years ago, a decade after they first broke up, and people still loved P4P.

Now? Not a chance they could play a stadium in Toronto, or pretty much any other major city. They might sell two nights at a 1500 seat venue, maybe, but even that seems doubtful.

Danzig? Nah. But Ministry are still beloved and have a really large cult following even among younger folks. Not enough to chart very highly or anything like that (rock/guitar music is dead anyway), but still...

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#15 Post by Noonesshocking » Thu May 07, 2020 10:46 am

They could do very well in theaters if they put something together now. They also could probably pretty easily get a slot at an amphitheater packaged tour kind of thing.

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#16 Post by Tyler Durden » Thu May 07, 2020 10:51 am

Hype wrote:
Thu May 07, 2020 10:40 am
Yeah, I'm sorry, Ministry is way bigger worldwide than JA is now.
I'm talking North America.
Hype wrote:
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Now? Not a chance they could play a stadium in Toronto, or pretty much any other major city. They might sell two nights at a 1500 seat venue, maybe, but even that seems doubtful.
We're somewhat in agreement. I never suggested Jane's could play "stadiums" (I think you mean arenas...only a select few artists play stadiums...U2, Coldplay, etc) or arenas. But the idea that they aren't big enough to play a 2,500 seat venue is delusional.
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Danzig? Nah. But Ministry are still beloved and have a really large cult following even among younger folks. Not enough to chart very highly or anything like that (rock/guitar music is dead anyway), but still...
I mentioned Danzig and Ministry within the context of an indie label releasing new material by them...not live shows. However, in North America, Ministry is barely bigger than Danzig. And with the Misfits reunion shows, Danzig easily outsells Ministry.

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#17 Post by Tyler Durden » Thu May 07, 2020 10:51 am

Noonesshocking wrote:
Thu May 07, 2020 10:46 am
They could do very well in theaters if they put something together now. They also could probably pretty easily get a slot at an amphitheater packaged tour kind of thing.
THIS.

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#18 Post by bman » Thu May 07, 2020 11:25 am

I would love to see a small theater tour of Janes/Peter Hook. Or Janes/Jesus and Mary Chain. Or, a larger summer shed co headliner tour of Janes/Pumkins.

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#19 Post by Tyler Durden » Thu May 07, 2020 11:32 am

bman wrote:
Thu May 07, 2020 11:25 am
I would love to see a small theater tour of Janes/Peter Hook. Or Janes/Jesus and Mary Chain. Or, a larger summer shed co headliner tour of Janes/Pumkins.
Yes to all of this. Maybe Jane's and Pumpkins could share their bass player between them...Jack Bates? Eric? Martyn?

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#20 Post by bman » Thu May 07, 2020 2:07 pm

Yeah Yeah Yeahs/Janes tour could be cool too. Of Course, none of this will ever happen.

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#21 Post by kv » Thu May 07, 2020 3:04 pm

:lolol:

Nobody gives a fuck anymore people...the kids have all had their shot at tired old Perry at lolla and Coachella...been caught and Jane's says are 30+ years old novelty hits...they aren't bringing in shit...they torched their legacy...I was one of their biggest fans...I'd never recommend ANYONE see them now...I'm not sharing info..."hey guys Jane's is coming let's go get Tix" NOT

we are their mostly radio silent fanbase...it's over jonny

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#22 Post by SR » Thu May 07, 2020 3:15 pm

I think I have lost count of all the JA shows I have seen. I will say that my least favorite show was NINJA. EA was phoning it in, completely...and I think PF was overdoing the Liberace thing to compensate. I was really disappointed as I was so excited to take my kiddo to the 1.0 lineup.

I did enjoy the NS show at the Sunset Music Fest. I met LizWiz and Skorb at that one, and once they came on I just flipped....right back to my mid 20's self. They weren't the old Jane's but thse songs :yikes: . Plus the environment was great, Sunset Strip shut down and all the bars and restaurants open.

I'd see them again if the conditions were right. But who knows wtf is going to happen to concert/concert going moving forward. The owner of The Troubadour in Hollywood was quoted as saying he has real concerns about becoming a "footnote in history"

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#23 Post by Tyler Durden » Thu May 07, 2020 3:29 pm

kv wrote:
Thu May 07, 2020 3:04 pm
:lolol:

Nobody gives a fuck anymore people...the kids have all had their shot at tired old Perry at lolla and Coachella...been caught and Jane's says are 30+ years old novelty hits...they aren't bringing in shit...they torched their legacy...I was one of their biggest fans...I'd never recommend ANYONE see them now...I'm not sharing info..."hey guys Jane's is coming let's go get Tix" NOT

we are their mostly radio silent fanbase...it's over jonny
Again, I don't care for Jane's 2.0, Chaney's Addiction, or whatever you wanna call them...but your statement above has been reiterated over and over again by people here and on xiola.org for like 15 years. Even when you take NIN/JA out of the equation, the band still manages to attract ticket buyers in halls/theatres...and ampitheatres when they're paired with a marginally popular, washed up band comparable to them (like when they played with Alice In Chains a few years ago). Pair them with STP or Faith No More or The Black Crowes or Bush or some other washed up band from the 90s you're likely to mostly fill ampitheatres for a month or so in the summer. We might not care to see it...but lots of dormant fans would show up.

The point is, once an artist makes it to a certain level of fame, they're kind of "golden" and a market of some kind will always exist. If there was no COVID-19, I'm sure someone would've booked 311, POD, Marcy Playground, and Seven Mary Three to play some summer package tour of some sort. Implying that Jane's can't play a headlining hall/theatre tour is delusional.

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#24 Post by kv » Thu May 07, 2020 5:14 pm

Or is it? They can headline...they can arena they can do it all, except selling the seats... which they are horrible at doing now...even in la where they used to be able to sell out anything...

But sure they can headline half empty spots np...

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#25 Post by Artemis » Thu May 07, 2020 6:34 pm

In the IG Live Etty mentioned that she's working on a Doris Day cover. I was a little surprised by that. I didn't think DD would be Etty's cup of tea.

I think it would be a good song for her.



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