2009.05.26 Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre, Englewood, CO

[hydro]

I still can't look past what Navarro and Perkins did. but oh well.

what happened? did I miss something

Cant wait to see your Pics!!!!Glad to hear ya had a great time!

[Mike]

I still can't look past what Navarro and Perkins did. but oh well.

what happened? did I miss something

Cant wait to see your Pics!!!!Glad to hear ya had a great time!

I'm fairly certain I know what subculture is referring to but I'll let him speak for himself.

I will say that it seems to me that these guys have put their differences aside.
That's good enough for me.

[hydro]

I still can't look past what Navarro and Perkins did. but oh well.

what happened? did I miss something

Cant wait to see your Pics!!!!Glad to hear ya had a great time!

I'm fairly certain I know what subculture is referring to but I'll let him speak for himself.

I will say that it seems to me that these guys have put their differences aside.
That's good enough for me.

they must have kissed

[subculture]

It's all good.
Perry is a bigger man than I.

I still can't look past what Navarro and Perkins did. but oh well.

what happened? did I miss something

Cant wait to see your Pics!!!!Glad to hear ya had a great time!

I'm fairly certain I know what subculture is referring to but I'll let him speak for himself.

I will say that it seems to me that these guys have put their differences aside.
That's good enough for me.

[subculture]

One funny thing.
Someone threw a Porno For Pyros shirt up on the stage.
Perry says somthing like,. Hey Dave, a Porno for Pyros shirt... I'll bet they stole it.

then went into Been Caught Stealin.

[subculture]

Here's a start.
Jennie did great with a lil point N shoot!!


http://s558.photobucket.com/albums/ss22/ullambana/

[heathen]

Does anyone know if any good quality audio has surface yet?

[Mike]

Does anyone know if any good quality audio has surface yet?

I haven't seen any recording pop for this show yet except for the youtube clips.
Hard to believe that it wasn't recorded considering the open taping policy.
Hopefully a recording will surface at some point in time.

[Mike]

Live review: Jane’s Addiction, Nine Inch Nails @ Fiddler’s Green

by Jason Blevins on May 28, 2009



Jane’s Addiction, featuring Dave Navarro (left) and Perry Farrell, wiped the floor with a sulky, boring Nine Inch Nails at Fiddler’s Green on Tuesday. Photos by Tina Hagerling.

A black sea of NIN’ers flooded Fiddlers Green on Tuesday, surging for a final farewell to their dark lord Trent Reznor. What the amply pierced and scowling got was a largely flat, uninspired display from Reznor’s Nine Inch Nails. With the smoke machine cranked to 11, Reznor led his tight company through a setlist that, on paper, delivered. There were the legends: “Wish,” “March of Pigs,” “Mr. Self Destruct” and “The Day The World Went Away.”

But Reznor’s obvious displeasure with his role as rock god — he made sure to announce this was his final, last-ever, never-coming-back tour, just like he did at Red Rocks last summer — spilled into the performance. Something somewhere just didn’t click.

Maybe it was the early start — 7:30 p.m. sharp. Maybe more of the crowd was there for Jane’s Addiction. A few heads nodded but fewer danced. Reznor’s trademark delivery — singing as if he’s just sprinted a mile to the mic — was too blatantly emotive, especially during the anthemic “Something I Can Never Have.”

With a smoking hot fiancée and buckets of money, the angst and boiling-over anger Reznor conjured early in his career has faded into schtick. Maybe that’s why this was the “Wave Goodbye” tour.
Robin Finck, his dread-mulleted and speedy-fingered guitarist, commandeered the show at several points, including a piercing rendition of Joy Division’s “Dead Souls.” But even Finck couldn’t float Reznor’s listing boat.

There’s no question Reznor is adored. His epic “Hurt,” truly one of the prettiest, most intense heroin songs ever, marked a high-point of his 19-song set, culling head-bowed reverence from the blackened green. “The Hand That Feeds” and “Head Like a Hole” furthered that brief buoyancy but sadly, marked the end of Reznor’s show.

Reznor could use some of the vigor offered by the tour’s opener, Street Sweeper Social Club. Fronted by the politically-charged funk-rapper Boots Riley and former Rage ripper Tom Morello, the new SSSC kicks out Rage-esque fight tunes, but with more emphasis on the tune than the rage. Think of it as Rage Lite. Add a dash of Lenny Kravitz, remove the fiery gravitas of Zach de la Rocha and preserve Morello’s vicious guitar, and you’ve got the SSSC. A new album debuts mid-June and watch it sweep the streets.

Perry Farrell, in poured-on pants, took the reins for the second half of the NINJA tour show. And Farrell, with explosive energy, grabbed the sulking Reznor-razored mass by their tattered tees and forced more than an angry shuffle. His impeccable delivery — one of the few rock singers out there whose falsetto hasn’t faded an iota over the past 25 years of howling — shook Fiddler’s.

Inky-chested and ring-nippled guitarist Dave Navarro — who apparently doesn’t own shirts that button — sent ricocheting blasts through the venue. Offering almost the exact by-the-book set they’ve played all tour, the original Janes line-up leaned mightily and precisely on their earliest work.

There was little improv and the setlist mirrors those from the early ’90s, when Jane’s forged the shock rock that passes for Top 40 today. These guys were the original shockers — wasted high, androgynous, angry and amped. And they predicted many would follow their lead and now, alas, nothing is shocking.

But behind Janes’ look-at-us-we’re-freaks presence is beautifully-sculpted music. From the rowdy “Whores” to the bouncy “Been Caught Stealing,” Ferrell and Navarro built monster melodies at Fiddlers. “Ted Just Admit It,” a resonant and violent trophy from the seminal “Nothing’s Shocking,” went downright fiendish. Well, as fiendish as you can get while dwarfed by business offices and an ever-looming curfew.

Chugging from a bottle of red wine, Ferrell’s “Ocean Size” reached a crushing apex with his utterly flawless voice sounding just as it did back in the late ’80s, when Janes’ began its on-off ride. A clamorous “Stop” trickled into an acoustic “Jane Says” — yee haw another heroin song! — with a steel drum accompany that lent an ephemeral quality to the finale of the final, end-of-the-road, never-again night. Until next summer.

Jason Blevins is a strange dancer, but that has never stopped him.

Tina Hagerling is a Denver-based freelance photographer and web designer. See more of her work here.

http://blogs.denverpost.com/reverb/2009 ... ers-green/

More great pics can be found at the link above.