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Dave Sitek to help write on new record
Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 8:10 am
by hydro
Dave Sitek joins Jane's Addiction for new album
TV On The Radio man replaces Duff McKagan on four-string duties
January 4, 2011
TV On The Radio mainman and producer Dave Sitek is to help write and play bass on 's new album.
Sitek replaces former Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan, the band confirmed to Spinner. McKagan had been due to play on the follow up to 2003's 'Strays'. He left during the early stages of recording, citing "creative differences".
It seems unlikely that Sitek will tour with the band, however. When Jane's Addiction played a New Year's Eve show in Aspen, Colorado, Chris Chaney, a former full-time member of the band, played bass.
Aside from the revolving doors of potential bass players, little is known about the forthcoming Jane's Addiction album. The only comment about the record from frontman Perry Farrell has been to say that he and his bandmates are "fully immersed in the process of making modern music. It has been a great experience thus far, and the results have so much potential".
Muse and Glasvegas producer Rich Costey has been confirmed to produce the album.
Sitek has produced albums for Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Liars and most recently Holly Miranda. He is also a founding member of TV On The Radio, and released his own solo album under the Maximum Balloon name last September.
http://www.nme.com/news/janes-addiction/54423
Re: Dave Sitek confirmed bassist
Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 3:06 pm
by mothra665
thanks [HYDRO], atleast we are getting updates
Re: Dave Sitek confirmed bassist
Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 8:32 am
by hydro
Hey mothra
hope you and your lady had a nice holiday!!
Dave posted on his facebook that he wanted to clarify that Sitek has not joined JA is only writing with them.I understood that from the reports but just makes me wonder who would tour on bass??
and its also pretty awesome JA posted a link to our site on their fb page
http://www.facebook.com/notes/janes-add ... 1955826535
Re: Dave Sitek confirmed bassist
Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 5:17 pm
by superhuman
I wonder if anything Duff did will show up on there or if they pretty much started over in regards to the material he had contributed.
Re: Dave Sitek confirmed bassist
Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 5:25 pm
by helicine
superhuman wrote:I wonder if anything Duff did will show up on there or if they pretty much started over in regards to the material he had contributed.
In the 11/25 episode of Dark Matter (around the 52min mark), Dave said they basically restarted after Duff left.
Re: Dave Sitek confirmed bassist
Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 8:21 pm
by Hidefumi
Mr Sitek is no Eric Avery. Maybe he is good? Time will tell.
Re: Dave Sitek confirmed bassist
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 11:26 am
by TrevorAyer
yeah but eric avery isn't eric avery anymore than perry is still perry .. there is no going back .. still there are some pretty good signs that the janes camp is setting the bar at least higher than the past decade or so of output .. scrapping the duff demos, dave's constant acknowledgement of the critique .. i don't think we will get another ggu or rdlh .. but i think there is a good chance there will be a couple of great songs in there.
Re: Dave Sitek confirmed bassist
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 11:41 am
by helicine
TrevorAyer wrote:yeah but eric avery isn't eric avery anymore than perry is still perry .. there is no going back .. still there are some pretty good signs that the janes camp is setting the bar at least higher than the past decade or so of output .. scrapping the duff demos, dave's constant acknowledgement of the critique .. i don't think we will get another ggu or rdlh .. but i think there is a good chance there will be a couple of great songs in there.
Re: Dave Sitek confirmed bassist
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 9:48 pm
by Lance
I really like a group Sitek produced. Its called Celebration. Check em out
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Re: Dave Sitek confirmed bassist
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 12:24 am
by Jasper
I posted this vid a while back when we first heard about Sitek's involvement. Not here, but on xiola. I really like Celebration. I don't think they've made a perfect album yet, but their albums have some great stuff. This acoustic stuff was done as a promo for the album which the songs (full, electric studio versions) are on. I like the acoustic versions better, and it kind of highlights a problem I have with their albums, and that is lack of diversity. I feel like they really need to stretch out and experiment with different approaches and instrumentation. There's no reason why they couldn't have done a few songs on their albums in the style we see above, or in other interesting ways.