I hope you'll reconsider and continue to compile the setlists.Mudget wrote:Oi!
Thanks, man.
I think I'll quit trying to update the JA set list the night of the show. The NIN one is always correct, but I seem to be fucking up the Jane's set every time. Better to just wait until the next day instead of relying on Tweeters who often miss something.
http://www.mv-voice.com/news/show_story.php?id=1550Police find missing patrol car
by Casey Weiss
Mountain View Voice Staff
Mountain View police found a patrol car on Sunday that was stolen from a Shoreline Amphitheatre concert on Friday night.
Residents of an apartment building at 950 High School Way had seen the car in their complex's parking lot and called police on Sunday afternoon after seeing news reports about the missing vehicle. Police say the vehicle, numbered 3006, was unharmed and it appeared that no one had tampered with the shotgun inside the car, which was loaded with bean bags.
So far police have no suspects and will be searching the car for evidence that could lead to his identity.
The vehicle was taken after a Mountain View police officer responded to a call for assistance during the Jane's Addiction/Nine Inch Nails concert on Friday at 11:15 p.m., and left the keys in the ignition, police say. An amphitheatre employee said he thought he saw a teenage male driving the car up and down Shoreline Boulevard, but was not sure, according to police spokesperson Liz Wylie.
"We have never had this happen before -- at least that we can remember," Wylie said.
Anyone with information is encouraged to call the Mountain View Police at 650-903-6344. Police are accepting anonymous calls.
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12442483? ... st_emailedCar 3006, where were you? In a parking garage after a joy ride!
By Joe Rodriguez and Sharon Noguchi
Mercury News
Posted: 05/24/2009 01:39:01 PM PDT
Updated: 05/24/2009 06:41:22 PM PDT
Car 3006, where were you?
When somebody stole the Mountain View police car at a concert Friday night at Shoreline Amphitheatre, the brass called in a helicopter and had officers scour the streets looking for the black-and-white cruiser with a shotgun inside.
Nothing.
Then they asked neighboring police departments to look out for the cruiser and sent up the 'copter again Saturday afternoon.
"A cop car stands out from a helicopter,"officer Liz Wylie said during the search. "It has a white roof."
Again, nada.
On Sunday morning, Wylie took an educated guess as to where Car 3006 could be found.
"Probably in a garage. Whoever took it is probably asking himself, 'Heck, now what?'"
She was right.
A few hours later, at approximately 1:35 p.m., a resident of an apartment complex on High School Way spotted Car 3006 parked in the garage and called police. Officers found it unlocked and undamaged, but the keys were gone — and so was the car thief.
And the shotgun? Still there, locked in place. In police lingo, it was a "less-lethal" gun that fires beanbags, not shotgun pellets.
Wylie said police will look for evidence that they hope will lead them to the culprit.
The unusual drama began during a concert by the groups Nine Inch Nails and Janes Addiction.
Police believe a teenager or young adult stole the cruiser after its driver, an unnamed officer, inadvertently left the keys in the car when he went to assist another officer. He returned minutes later at 11:15 p.m. and found the black-and-white car missing.
Soon after, a Shoreline concert employee reported seeing a police cruiser "showboating" on Shoreline Boulevard. The driver gunned the engine and was speeding.
Police set up checkpoints on streets near the amphitheater. They called in the San Jose Police Department's helicopter. Initially, they hoped the Ford Crown Victoria cruiser would be spotted quickly.
Although police believe the patrol car was stolen for a misguided joy ride, they were worried that the thief could have driven recklessly through traffic with the flashing lights on. Worse, Car 3006 could have fallen later into really wrong hands.
"This is post-911 America,"Wylie said before it turned up. "We have to be concerned about someone using it to impersonate an officer."
And no, the cruiser wasn't equipped with a GPS device that would have divulged its location.
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/200 ... _addic.phpFriday Night: NIN and Jane's Addiction at Shoreline
By Sam Prestianni in Last Night - Monday, May. 25 2009 @ 9:53AM
Jane's Addiction, Nine Inch Nails
May 22, 2009
Shoreline Amphitheater
Review by Sam Prestianni
Photos by Christopher Victorio
Better Than: Junkie karaoke... barely.
Friday night, as I made my way into the Shoreline, I interviewed dozens of fellow concertgoers, asking who they were there to see: Jane's Addiction or Nine Inch Nails? Overwhelmingly, NIN got the thumbs up. So I figured Trent Reznor's industrial rock project, which enjoyed its heyday in the early '90s but has continued to sporadically crank out new albums, would be the headliner. I was wrong.
NIN hit the stage shortly before sunset and seemed silly in the sunlight. Wearing a pitch-black, tight T-shirt, jeans, and neatly coiffed dyed hair, Reznor looked like a suburban single dad trying to act cool for his kids. But without the added drama of darkness and disorienting spotlights, his tough-guy posture came across as little more than wannabe-angsty affectation.
The music wasn't much better: a cross between aggressive elevator music and classic rawk parody. Plus, starting out the set with newer songs that people aren't familiar with was a downer that didn't work--unless of course NIN intended to disappoint the audience from the get-go, thereby generating a disaffection that could be redeemed by show's end when the band deigned to humor us with "Head Like a Hole" and "Hurt." By this time, the sky was dark and the stage lights throbbed to the machine beats, deep bass, mangled guitars, and ominous vocals, but it was too late. We'd been beat down by boredom long ago.
Reznor said this would probably be NIN's very last tour. But rather than burning out in a blaze of demonic glory, he was just going through motions that once served him well, but were no longer relevant to him or us. I hoped for more from Jane's Addiction. Sadly, I was wrong again.
Rather than screaming from the mountaintops like in the late '80s and very early '90s, when his band was a ferocious-beautiful force of nature, frontman Perry Farrell is now more into dippy preacher-speak, his brain clearly a fried green tomato or perhaps a plantain.
He told us to "grow wild and be proud" by embracing "freedom, individuality, love, and happiness." Words of wisdom, to be sure, but we were there to trip away and rock our asses off, not endure Farrell's post-therapy dogma. I'm sure truisms like "Don't let the haters get you down with self-disrespect" served the singer well as he was kicking his lifelong heroin habit, but I didn't come for the Dr. Phil routine. Besides, who wants to heed advice from a scarecrow in a corset and Mad a Max body suit?
Thankfully, guitarist Dave Navarro came to tear the house down. Glamour-boy Navarro, who moonlights as co-manager for 21-year-old porn star Sasha Grey, appropriately stripped off his shirt halfway through the set to let us gaze at the awesomeness of his nipple piercings and Hollywood tattoos while he blasted through ocean-size six-string solos in the grand dinosaur-rock tradition of Aerosmith or Led Zeppelin.
The group played the best tunes off of Nothing's Shocking, the single great Jane's Addiction album. But given the limitations of Farrell's addled vocal cords, the audience had to fill in the blanks. So the songs became combinations of what we were hearing, our memories of the recordings, and crowd singalongs--not shocking in the least.
Critic's Notebook
Personal Bias: I was sorry I missed opening act Street Sweeper Social Club, brainchild of Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello and the Coup frontman Boots Riley. When I asked another concertgoer what they sounded like, the guy simply said: "Oh my fucking God, dude!"
Random Detail: The investment in black hair dye by last night's demographic may pull us out of the banking crisis yet.
The Case Of The Missing Squad Car
Posted on Tuesday May 26, 2009 at 11:01 AM
Did you hear the one about the police car stolen at a Jane’s Addiction / Nine Inch Nails show? Although the squad car was recovered, no one has “been caught stealing.”
The caper happened at Friday Night’s gig at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, Calif., after a police officer left the keys in the squad car – a black-and-white Ford Crown Victoria – while working crowd control at the concert.
“A staff member at the concert saw the car sort of speeding and showboating up and down the boulevard, and thought it was a young person at the wheel,” Mountain View police spokeswoman Liz Wylie told the San Francisco Chronicle. “But this staffer couldn’t tell if it was a girl or a boy driving.”
Police searched for the missing patrol car all through the weekend, and finally found it two days later tucked away in an apartment parking garage only a couple of miles from the venue.
“The entire Bay Area was looking for it, so we knew that if it was in Mountain View, it was out of sight,” Wylie said.
Sure ‘nuff, the police car, which contained a shotgun as well as about $50,000 worth of computers and equipment, was recovered from the parking garage Sunday.
According to Wylie, nothing was missing from the vehicle. Wylie also said police were “processing the car for physical evidence” such as fingerprints in hopes of identifying the bandit.
Evidently, whoever swiped the police car didn’t travel very far. According to MapQuest, the distance between the Shoreline Amphitheatre and the parking garage where the car was recovered is a little under three miles.
But then, how far could anyone drive a stolen police car? Especially one that every police force in the San Francisco Bay Area was on the lookout for?
Click here and here for the San Francisco Chronicle’s coverage.
--Jay Smith
