2009.06.10 Post-Gazette Pavilion, Burgettstown, PA

[hydro]

heres the link for the post gazette,which I just realized is Starlake ive seen alot of shows there,so today is the big day for us northeasterners
hope to meet alot of you there!!
http://www.livenation.com/edp/eventId/404895

[hydro]

got my tix.......GA PIT!!!!whoohoo $110.00 a ticket

[Mike]

I'll be there.

[andrew]

I'm in the pit too. Woo!

[faerieb]

:Brabo:
I'm so excited!!!!!

[mothra665]

See ya there!

[Mike]

It looks like we'll have a nice group from here there.
I expect at least a couple more that are signed up here will be there too.

Yo Paints?

[faerieb]

EIGHT DAYS AND I'M FREAKIN' OUT!!!

[Mike]

Reunion takes Jane's Addiction, Nine Inch Nails to PG Pavilion

Sunday, June 07, 2009
By Scott Mervis, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The last time Jane's Addiction and Nine Inch Nails toured together, in 1991, the concept of alternative rock was being propelled to the hungry masses with the initiation of Lollapalooza.

While it was a launching point for Trent Reznor's Nine Inch Nails, it was the end of the line for the 6-year-old Jane's Addiction, an L.A. foursome that specialized in flamboyant Zeppelin-sized rock but didn't excel in getting along with each other.

After two records, frontman Perry Farrell -- who personified the era's sinister, druggy blend of punk and metal -- ventured off to become the steward of Lollapalooza and, initially, form Porno for Pyros with drummer Stephen Perkins, while guitar blazer Dave Navarro did a stint with the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

The various reunions in 1997 and 2001 didn't lure bassist Eric Avery, who was replaced at times by the likes of Flea and Chris Chaney, for the 2003 comeback album "Strays." But, apparently, when you're offered something called the Godlike Genius Award, it's hard to resist, because in April 2008, Avery showed up to jam with his old mates at a ceremony held by British mag NME.

"It was cool," Perkins says in a phone interview, "because [in the '80s and '90s] that magazine was always tough on American bands. It was always great to get a good review in NME. They gave us an award, and that brought us together, and that experience was so wonderful for our friends and family in L.A. The ceremony was all very silly, but it brought us together, and the friendships started to feel real and genuine."

Later in the year, Jane's expanded on its mini-set at the NME awards with a few secret club shows in L.A., and the next thing we knew, Reznor was announcing the NIN/JA tour that brings both bands to the Post-Gazette Pavilion on Wednesday.

Perkins says he loves playing with Avery -- "it's like you're on this solid boat, but you can tell the boat is rocking up and down" -- and respects him for not jumping on the last tours, but he thinks the time finally was right.

"To be honest, we all love the music and forever will be attached to each other for the songs. It's only three records that we made, but they live on, they're timeless. We didn't sell many records, but we sold records to the right people -- to the artists of the future. We didn't sell millions of records to people who didn't care much about music. The people who bought our records, they care about art and music. And so do we. And we feel it's time to play these songs if we can honestly get along with each other and not fake it."

The tour coincides with a Rhino box set, "A Cabinet of Curiosities," that features demos, live recordings, a DVD and an odd assortment of covers, including a Doors medley, The Stooges' "1970" and the Grateful Dead's "Ripple."

"Basically," says the 41-year-old Perkins, "I've kept every recording and almost every poster and flier from back in the day, from rehearsals to cassette versions of the shows to proper recordings on reel to reel. So I'm always the go-to guy to find the stuff and when it came down to sitting down and listening to what we needed to put out, I thought it was good to go deep into the demos. And then there's fun stuff I've always liked to play for our friends, like us doing 'Whole Lotta Love' and 'LA Woman' and some X tunes."

What has not emerged from the reunion is new material and, in fact, a studio session with Reznor reportedly brought out some of the old animosity among the Jane's members.

"That's what a true Jane's Addiction situation is: It's fragile," Perkins says. "We're not four of the same kind of guys. We like different things, we have different record collections, we like different types of art. We hang out with different groups of people. That's made the sound so eclectic back in the '80s and that's what makes it eclectic now. We can't agree on everything at all times, but that's OK."

Perkins says that if a fourth Jane's Addiction album ever sees the light of day, it will have to happen more naturally.

"If you put us in the studio now with headphones, of course, we'll come out with something, but I think a true Jane's Addiction album will come from us being together for four months and having a good time and bonding. To write new music would be beautiful, but right now we're playing old songs, and these old songs, that's the glue between the four of us: 'Do you remember those three weeks we spent every night writing "Three Days" from midnight till 6 a.m.? Now we're playing it in front of 15,000 people and it's almost 2010.' This is a song we learned in '86, so yeah, it's easy to get along and look at each other like, 'This is beautiful.' "


Scott Mervis can be reached at smervis@post-gazette.com or 412-263-2576.
First published on June 7, 2009 at 12:00 am

Jane's Addiction
•With: Nine Inch Nails and Street Sweeper.
•Where: Post-Gazette Pavilion.
•When: 7 p.m. Wednesday.
•Tickets: $15-$51.50; 877-598-8703.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09158/975126-388.stm

[hydro]

Reunited Jane's Addiction holding it together, singer Perry Farrell says
By Alan Sculley, FOR THE TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Monday, June 8, 2009


Jane's Addiction's highly anticipated reunion tour got off to a rough start for frontman Perry Farrell, when he tore a calf muscle during the first song of the group's set May 10 at Atlanta's Lakewood Amphitheatre.

But, considering he had waited 18 years to tour with the original lineup of his band, Farrell wasn't about to let a little pain get in the way of the group's return.

He didn't miss a show, and in a mid-May phone interview, said he is coping just fine -- with help from the miracles of modern pharmaceuticals.

"(Doctors) actually told me to kind of work through it so the muscles don't knot up," Farrell says. "They told me moving around isn't such a bad thing -- and they gave me some great meds."

Jane's Addiction's current tour (with Nine Inch Nails, no less) is not the first time fans have seen a version of the influential band come back to life. But it's never been the original band until now. The tour comes to the Post-Gazette Pavilion in Burgettstown on Wednesday.

Following the band's split in 1991, Farrell, guitarist Dave Navarro and drummer Stephen Perkins reunited for a reunion tour in 1997, with Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers filling the bass slot that had been held by Eric Avery.

The group then went its separate ways once again until 2001, when a more extensive reunion came together, this time with Martyn Lenoble (who had been in Farrell's first post-Jane's Addiction band, Porno For Pyros) and later Chris Chaney filling in for Avery. The Chaney lineup lasted long enough to make a 2003 studio CD, "Strays," before coming apart in 2004.

Farrell went on to form a new group, Satellite Party, but always held out hope that the original Jane's Addiction would one day get together again.

Finally, an occasion presented itself when word came that Jane's Addiction would be honored with the "Godlike Genius Award" at the first United States NME Awards in April 2008.

The wheels started turning about the possibility of reuniting for that awards show, and, this time, Avery agreed to participate.

For several months, it appeared that would be the extent of the reunion. But then the group played an after-hours show during the South By Southwest Music Conference in March, and then came word of the tour with Nine Inch Nails.

But life in the resurrected Jane's Addiction has not been all smiles and giggles.

Recently, the group entered the studio to record a pair of new songs, with Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor and producer Alan Moulder producing. Farrell says the sessions were marred by the re-emergence of long-standing tensions, and the band didn't finish the two new songs, "Embrace The Darkness" and "I'll Protect You."

Exactly what is responsible for the tensions that exist in Jane's Addiction is something Farrell says he couldn't really explain.

"I wish I could express myself exactly what it was," he says. "But, unfortunately, a lot of it, I'm not really sure what it is because it's not been expressed to me."

But Farrell does have ideas about one source of the problems, and he also knows exactly why he walked away from the band in 1991, after two albums -- 1998's "Nothing's Shocking" and "Ritual de lo Habitual" -- had made Jane's Addiction a leading force in alternative music circles.

"I think a lot of it has to do, let's face it, we're all people that love attention and some of us maybe would love to get more attention," Farrell says. "It could be that, you know what I'm saying. ... But again, this is all conjecture.

"You know, I was the guy who originally in 1991 left the group," he says. "Let me tell you my reasons. I felt that the group wasn't united. We were not friends. We didn't care about each other. We were working against each other, behind each other's backs. That was why I decided (to leave). To make music, as far as I'm concerned, you have to be united and you have to be, it's like a marriage. You have to be in love with each other. (In order) for the other person to make music with you, you have to trust them and everything else, and I felt there was no trust."

Despite the struggles the reunited band had in recording "Embrace The Darkness" and "I'll Protect You," Farrell says he hopes the group will be able to return to the studio and finish those songs before its Lollapalooza show in August. He says the band is getting along well on tour, playing a show that concentrates on the music made by the original lineup.

"Those are the albums that we recorded with Eric Avery," Farrell says. "So out of respect, I suppose, to Eric, we felt it would make him the most comfortable playing those songs."

Still, Farrell is making no promises about Jane's Addiction's future beyond the current tour. He knows the band could come apart at any point.

"Jane's Addiction is together again, so catch it while it's hot," Farrell says. "Catch it while it's here."

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsbu ... 28324.html