Nirvana bassist talks about Cobain & Jane's Addiction

[dentists]

http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/reverb/krist_novoselic/

[Mike]

Thanks for the link dentists.
I never get tired of reading what some of Jane's contemporaries think of them.

[Mike]

I never get tired of reading what some of Jane's contemporaries think of them.

The nerd in me also loves this kind of stuff.

On November 17, 1988, I went to KISW's "Rising Star" show at the Paramount Theatre, an event that featured a band that was in heavy rotation on the station's Sunday-night show of "different" bands spun by DJs Scott Vanderpool or Damian Stewart. The rising stars at the top of the bill were a band called Jane's Addiction. The openers were a group of guys I'd seen around town a bunch--also on the rise--called Soundgarden.

I was going through some personal changes in my life and needed a little rock therapy. And when Jane's came on, they rocked. I got so into the show that I became lost in the mosh-pit action in front of the stage. The band slowed things down a little with an acoustic set, and I can remember drummer Stephen Perkins playing rhythms on a drum case.

Tickets were a whopping $4.00
http://janesaddiction.org/tour/tour_det ... tourID=353

The bass-heavy tune "Been Caught Stealing," off their third album, 1990's Ritual de lo Habitual, was all over the radio. Jane's was a big band now. I don't know why we were in Portland, Oregon, but Kurt Cobain and I caught their show at some university's auditorium. It wasn't like being at a theater--more like an "arena rock" experience. We sat way in the back, up high in the bleachers. I recall us being a little disconcerted. Perhaps we were sensing our own destiny and place in such a venue?

December 11, 1990 - Chiles Center, University of Portland, Portland, OR
http://janesaddiction.org/tour/tour_det ... tourID=272

[dentists]

Didn't Jane's break up before Nirvana became famous?
I guess they would still be contemporaries...
I remember hearing that Chili Peppers played with Nirvana during live & loud in late 93/early 94 & Dave Navarro needed a guitar to borrow & Kurt lended him one of his jag-stangs. I could be wrong.

[Mike]

Didn't Jane's break up before Nirvana became famous?
I guess they would still be contemporaries...
I remember hearing that Chili Peppers played with Nirvana during live & loud in late 93/early 94 & Dave Navarro needed a guitar to borrow & Kurt lended him one of his jag-stangs. I could be wrong.

Well Nirvana had been around a while before they got really big and what took them there was Nevermind.
I'm sure they had a following prior to Nevermind and what they did before it is what got them on a major.
Smells Like Teen Spirit is what put them on the map and it was released on September 10, 1991 per wiki.
So I guess they were on their way to the top just as Jane's were getting off the ride.

As far as Kurt's guitar Dave just said on Dark Matter recently that he stil has one of them.
I'm not sure if it's the one you're talking about or not.

[LizardWiz]

Didn't Jane's break up before Nirvana became famous?
I guess they would still be contemporaries...
I remember hearing that Chili Peppers played with Nirvana during live & loud in late 93/early 94 & Dave Navarro needed a guitar to borrow & Kurt lended him one of his jag-stangs. I could be wrong.

I am pretty sure I saw RHCP with Nirvana/Pearl Jam in 1991 or so as well...

[pyro99]

Didn't Jane's break up before Nirvana became famous?
I guess they would still be contemporaries...
I remember hearing that Chili Peppers played with Nirvana during live & loud in late 93/early 94 & Dave Navarro needed a guitar to borrow & Kurt lended him one of his jag-stangs. I could be wrong.

I am pretty sure I saw RHCP with Nirvana/Pearl Jam in 1991.

i saw that same show at the Sports Arena in Los angeles. Flea suspended from the rafters playing the Star Spangled Banner on the trumpet.. Priceless.

[shadow]

Didn't Jane's break up before Nirvana became famous?

of course! Just few minutes before Nirvana became famous. Jane's Addiction toured in italy during the spring of 1990 and then disbanded at the end of the summer. The name of Nirvana became most popular between autumn of 1990 and early winter of the 1991 through the Smells like teen spirit video and the live filming of their second concert in Italy at the same location of the first time, named Bloom! In this club also played Primus, Screaming Trees, Tad and others. The first time Nirvana played at Bloom was in the 1988, the second in 1990 with Tad as support band. Video Music, a less commercial version of your mtv often sent this concert and Jane's concert at City Square here in Milan to. Nirvana was good but Jane's Addiction and Primus told to me everything there was to know about alternative metal/rock.

[shadow]

My mistake!! Both video and concert filming of Nirvana was on the air by old italian videomusic between autumn 1991 and winter 1992...Nevermind gone out in 1991 and was during that period the only great contender of Metallica Black Album gone out some months before...anyway when i think to ninenties i think to Perry Farrell and Jane's Addiction. I think it's right considered him a guru of alternative rock! Bye