Sound Off with Matt Pinfield

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Sound Off with Matt Pinfield

Episode Number: 413

Episode Title: Perry Farrell

Description: Alt rock pioneer Perry Farrell swings by Sound Off to discuss the Lollapalooza festival, his time with Jane's Addiction, and his new band, Satellite Party.



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WELCOME TO SOUND OFF, I'M MATT PINFIELD TODAY'S GUEST IS ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL FIGURES IN THE HISTORY OF ALTERNATIVE ROCK. HE CREATED THE LOLLAPALOOZA FESTIVAL FRONTED THE SEMINAL ROCK BAND JANE'S ADDICTION AND PORNO FOR PYROS AND IS NOW THE FRONT MAN OF SATELLITE PARTY SOUND OFF IS PROUD TO WELCOME PERRY FARRELL PERRY GREAT TO HAVE YOU HERE ON SOUND OFF IT'S GREAT TO BE WITH YOU MATT. -ALWAYS GOOD TO SEE YOU I'M REALLY EXCITED YOU CAME TO DO THE SHOW, YOU'VE GOT A LOT OF GREAT THINGS GOING ON, I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO TALK TO YOU ON THE SHOW BECAUSE THERE'S SUCH AN INCREDIBLE HISTORY AND SPEAKING OF HISTORY, I'D LOVE TO GO BACK AND TALK ABOUT YOU WERE BORN HERE IN NEW YORK RIGHT? I WAS BORN IN QUEENS, FLUSHING QUEENS BUT I WORKED IN THE CITY I SAY I WORKED BUT I DID I WENT TO WORK AROUND 3-4 YEARS OLD WITH MY DAD ON 47TH STREET I WAS HIS LITTLE SALESMAN HE WAS A JEWELER? RIGHT? HE WAS A DESIGNER AND REPAIRMAN, HE WASN'T THE GUY WITH THE TIE HE WAS THE GUY IN THE NEXT BOOTH OVER WITH THE BLACK FINGERS AND THE BLACK NOSTRILS FROM INHALING ALL THE ROUGE AND THE BUFF AND WORKING ON THIS STUFF YOU KNOW YOU GOT A REAL EDUCATION AT A YOUNG AGE WHEN YOU COME TO THE CITY AND YOU SEE A LOT I MEAN THAT'S A REALLY YOUNG AGE RIGHT? I USED TO SEE THE HOOKERS AND I WOULD LIKE BUT WOW, DAD WHAT'S GOING ON? HE GOES KEEP WALKING, KEEP WALKING AND ESPECIALLY THOSE YEARS -I LIKE BIG BOOBS EVEN BACK THEN EXACTLY AND WHO DOESN'T? -WHO DOESN'T SO I THINK IT WAS AN INCREDIBLE TIME ESPECIALLY BACK THEN WHEN IT WAS REALLY VIBRANT, IT WASN'T YOU KNOW THE VERY CLEAN AND DISNEY SCENE THAT'S ON 42ND NOW I MEAN IT WAS ALIVE WITH PORNO THEATERS THE PROSTITUTES, DRUGS, PIMPS, A LOT OF MADNESS BUT A LOT OF GREAT MUSIC CAME OUT OF THAT, YOU TALK ABOUT PEOPLE WHO WALKED AROUND YOU'D HEAR ABOUT BANDS, I REMEMBER AEROSMITH SAYING WHO THEY WROTE WALK THIS WAY BECAUSE THEY WALKED UP THE STREET AND HEARD ALL THE PIMPS TALKING PRETTY INCREDIBLE STUFF, AND THEN YOU MOVED, YOU LIVED IN FLORIDA FOR A WHILE AFTER THAT YEAH YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED IS YOU KNOW THE MIGRATION THAT THE NEW YORKERS MIGRATED DOWN TO MIAMI IN THE EARLY 70S RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 70S YOU KNOW LOOKING FOR A BETTER LIFE, WARMER WEATHER THEY THOUGHT THAT THEY COULD TRANSPLANT THEIR BUSINESS' DOWN THERE SO MY FAMILY DID THE SAME THING, WE WENT DOWN TO MIAMI BEACH JUST BEFORE, THIS WAS BEFORE SOUTH BEACH I'M TALKING ABOUT LIKE SOUTH BEACH WAS OLD PEOPLE THAT WENT THERE TO KIND OF DIE IT WAS A BONE YARD -IT WASN'T LIKE THE (INDISCERNIBLE) WITH ALL THE COOL, HIP PLACES NO IT WASN'T BUT IT WAS FUN, ANYWAYS THIS WAS DURING THE TIME OF SCARFACE SO THAT'S WHEN I LIVED IN MIAMI WHEN THINGS WERE REALLY, THE DRUG TRADE.. THEY WERE WILD AND THERE WAS DISCO AND THERE WAS ALSO GREAT SOUTHERN ROCK YOU KNOW LIKE GROUPS THAT WOULD COME BY LIKE THE MARSHALL TUCKER BAND YOU REMEMBER THAT ERA YEAH ABSOLUTELY WITH THEM AND SKYNARD, THE OUTLAWS, YEAH ABSOLUTELY FREEBIRD, YOU REMEMBER FREEBIRD THAT WAS LIKE IF YOU COULD PLAY FREEBIRD IN MY HIGH SCHOOL MAN EVERYBODY WOULD COME TO THE PARTY TO WATCH YOU PLAY THAT'S ONE OF THOSE SONGS THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE CUT THEIR TEETH ON RIGHT? YEAH, YEAH SO TELL ME ABOUT YOUR EARLIEST INTEREST IN MUSIC, TELL ME ABOUT THE FIRST THINGS YOU FIND YOURSELF DRIVEN TO I TELL YOU WHAT BECAUSE I WAS A NEW YORKER AND I HAD A BIG BROTHER AND A BIG SISTER I'M TALKING MURRAY THE K YEAH THE LEGEND -COUSIN BRUCEY TWO OF THE GREATEST DJ'S EVER THAT'S HOW FAR BACK I GO EVEN THOUGH I WAS YOU KNOW 3-4 YEARS OLD MY BIG BROTHER AND MY BIG SISTER WERE TUNED IN WE HAD A 45 RECORD PLAYER WE'D SIT ON THE PORCH IN QUEENS AND PLAY ALL OUR 45S AND I'M TALKING ABOUT LIKE MILLEY SMALL AND MY BOY LOLLIPOP WHICH WAS THE FIRST SKA HIT IN AMERICA, YOU KNOW IT WAS AMAZING SMASH RECORDS YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN INCREDIBLE STUFF YOU GOT IT MAN -WITH THE RED LABEL GREAT STUFF AND OF COURSE COUSIN BRUCEY IS SUCH A LEGEND AT WABC HERE, MURRAY THE K WAS COUSIN BRU-CEY THAT'S HOW G I AM MAN AND YOU LISTENED TO ALL THOSE GREAT 45S IN THE 60S THOSE THINGS YOU WERE LISTENING TO AS I SAY WE USED TO RUN AROUND, DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN GOOD LOVIN WAS ON BY THE LOVIN SPOONFUL I'M TALKING.. -YOUNG RASCALS YOUNG RASCALS? YEAH IT WAS YOUNG RASCALS SUMMER IN THE CITY YEAH HOT TIME SUMMER IN THE CITY -BUT AT THE SAME TIME MY HOUSE WOULD EXPLODE MAN I'M TALKING LIKE THE DOG WOULD BE BARKING WE WOULD TURN THE RADIO UP TO FULL BLAST AND EVERYBODY WOULD BE SINGING THAT SONG IT WAS AMAZING IT WAS A NEW YORK ROCK SONG BECAUSE IT WAS 1, 2, 3 GOOD LOVE! -IT'S GREAT IT'S A CLASSIC YOUNG RASCALS ARE SO GREAT WHAT AN AMAZING, AMAZING BAND NOW WAS JOHNSON BASHEN IN THAT GROUP? HE WAS IN LOVIN SPOONFUL AND THEY WERE ALSO GREAT AND THEY WERE ALSO A NEW YORK BAND WHICH WAS VERY COOL BUT THEY LIKE YOU ENDED UP MIGRATING TO CALIFORNIA LIKE WHEN THE WHOLE FOLK THING STARTED TO PICK UP LIKE THE MAMAS AND THE PAPAS WENT OUT THERE LOVIN SPOONFUL DID THE SAME THING AND THE BIRDS SO TELL ME ABOUT YOUR MIGRATION TO CALIFORNIA, HOW OLD WERE YOU? THERE WAS THIS KID, HIS NAME WAS ROBERT YANOVER I ALWAYS HAVE TO PRAISE HIM BECAUSE HE BROUGHT ME INTO THE EXTREME SPORTS BUT ROBERT YANOVER YOU KNOW HE GOT ME INTO SMOKING WEED AND SURFING AND EVERYTHING ELSE AND SO I LEARNED TO SURF AND I WAS ALWAYS AN ARTIST BY 1974 THERE REALLY WASN'T MUCH LEFT FOR ME IN MIAMI AND I HAD SEEN THIS BEAUTIFUL DREAM THE CALIFORNIA LIFESTYLE AND I'VE SEEN WHAT THE KIDS WERE DOING IN CALIFORNIA SURFING AND SKATEBOARDING AND WE WERE REALLY INTO SKATEBOARDING YOU KNOW WE WOULD GO AND RIP OFF WOOD FROM ALL THE HOUSES THAT WERE BEING BUILT IN MIAMI AND BUILD THESE SKATE BERMS AND SKATE RAMPS AND STUFF BUT I WANTED TO GET RIGHT INTO IT WITH THE REAL GUYS AND SO I TOOK A GREYHOUND BUS BY MYSELF OUT TO CALIFORNIA AROUND 1972 AND I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO BE DOWN BY THE COAST BUT I ENDED UP IN THIS PLACE CALLED HEMET WHICH IS THE HIGH DESERT BUT IT'S THIS FAR FROM THE BEACH IF YOU LOOK AT IT ON A MAP SO I THOUGHT I WAS RIGHT CLOSE TO THE BEACH, ACTUALLY I WAS PROBABLY A GOOD FOUR HOURS OFF THE COAST AND THERE I WAS I HAD TO EARN A LIVING AND EVERYTHING ELSE AND BELIEVE IT OR NOT I STARTED POUNDING NAILS AND CARRYING WOOD AND I WAS ACTUALLY A CARPENTER AND A FRAMER RIGHT? THAT'S AMAZING AND I STAYED OUT THERE UNTIL I COULDN'T STAND IT ANYMORE YOU KNOW THIS PLACE IS LIKE A TOWN AWAY FROM COACHELLA WHERE OF COURSE YOU KNOW THEY HAVE THE GREAT COACHELLA MUSIC FESTIVAL THAT HAPPENS EVERY YEAR WHICH IS INSPIRED BY THE FESTIVAL YOU STARTED LOLLAPALOOZA AND IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE WHEN WE DRIVE OUT WE DO COACHELLA EVERY YEAR, YOU'VE ACTUALLY PERFORMED IN EVERY SINGLE COACHELLA YEAH, YEAH -VERY COOL I'M REALLY PROUD OF THAT BUT ON THE WAY OUT I ALWAYS TRIP I THINK ABOUT GOING WOW, AND I START TO TELL MY WIFE AND I TELL HER ABOUT THOSE DAYS AND WHAT I HAD TO DO TO KIND OF SURVIVE AND GET BY WELL IT'S AN INCREDIBLE STORY NOW WHEN WAS THE FIRST THING YOU STARTED PLAYING I MEAN PSI COM CAME OBVIOUS A LOT LATER, WHAT WAS THE FIRST BAND YOU STARTED WHILE YOU WERE OUT THERE? THE FIRST BAND I GOT INTO WAS, SEE WHAT HAPPENED WAS SO I STARTED MOVING UP CLOSER AND CLOSER TO LOS ANGELES FROM THERE CARDIFF WAS A GREAT SPOT BUT IT WAS A LITTLE SLOW AND I WANTED SOME ACTION SO I STARTED MOVING UP CLOSER AND CLOSER I MOVED UP TO ORANGE COUNTY AND I LIVED IN NEWPORT BEACH FOR A SHORT TIME. I WAS WORKING AT THIS PRIVATE NIGHTCLUB CALLED THE BALBOA YACHT CLUB I DON'T KNOW IF IT STILL EXISTS BUT IT WAS KIND OF A AN EXCLUSIVE AND DODGY SPOT WHERE THEY WERE RUNNING MODELS AND ESCORTS AND WE WERE DOING WHAT I TOLD THE LADY THAT WAS RUNNING THIS NIGHTCLUB, I SAID YOU KNOW I'M A MODEL AND I'M AN ACTOR AND I'M A SINGER YOU SHOULD HAVE ME DO SOME FRIDAY NIGHT PERFORMANCES OF COURSE IT WAS ALL A LIE BUT I BLUFFED MY WAY IN THERE AND I STARTED TO DO PERFORMANCES ON FRIDAY NIGHTS IMPERSONATING BOWIE AND MICK JAGGER AND FRANK SINATRA ALL THE SKINNY ONES I COULD DO A GOOD SKINNY IMITATION SO I STARTED IMITATING THEM AND GIRLS STARTED FLOCKING INTO THE CLUBS SO I SAID YOU KNOW, I SAID SH# T I OUGHT TO KEEP THIS THING GOING MAN THIS FELLA WHO WAS A MANAGER BUT HE WAS A VERY FLAMBOYANT MANAGER WANTED TO PERSONALLY MANAGE ME AND INVITED ME TO COME LIVE WITH HIM UP IN LOS ANGELES I HAD NOTHING BETTER GOING AND HE WAS PROMISING ME YOU KNOW THE PROMISE LAND UP THERE IN L.A. SO I WENT UP THERE AND I LIVED WITH HIM FOR A LITTLE WHILE BUT IT WAS A KIND OF CRAMPED SITUATION LIVING WITH HIM IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN AND I WASN'T QUITE INTO IT SO I JUST HAULED OFF AND ENDED UP LIVING IN THE HILLS UP IN LAUREL CANYON AND GETTING IN WITH THE PUNK ROCK KIDS THESE WERE YOU KNOW THE SERIOUS PUNK ROCK GUYS THIS WAS POST GERMS BUT THERE WAS STILL X AND BLACK FLAG, AND ALL THESE CATS WERE CIRCLING AND THE MINUTEMEN AND CIRCLE JERKS ALL THOSE GUYS WERE HAPPENING AND SO BELIEVE IT OR NOT THERE WAS A GIRL, HER NAME WAS CAREN CAREN I KNEW FROM THE CARDIFF DAYS SHE WAS ALSO A JEWELRY DESIGNER AND SHE WAS A TRANSPLANT SHE HAD MOVED UP TO HOLLYWOOD AND WAS CUTTING ALL THE PUNK ROCK KIDS' HAIR IN THOSE DAYS THE PUNK ROCK KIDS MADE MONEY BY BEING AN EXTRA SO YOU REMEMBER ALL THESE T.V. SHOWS HAD ALL THESE PUNK ROCK KIDS AND THEY WERE ALL EXTRAS YEAH LIKE CHIPS AND EVERYTHING EVERY TELEVISION SHOW HAD PUNK ROCK EXTRAS AND THEY WERE ALWAYS BAD GUYS AND YOU KNOW AND THEN THEY CHANGED THEIR LIFESTYLE AND EVERYTHING WAS FINE I JUST REMEMBER CHIPS IT WAS SO FUNNY BECAUSE THE GUY WENT FROM THEIR PUNK ROCKING AND HE GETS UP AND SINGS CELEBRATION ERIC ESTRADA I WAS ONE OF THOSE EXTRAS, THAT WAS WHAT I DID FOR A TIME, AND CARAN WE WERE ALL REALLY ON SPEED AND COKE AND HEROIN AND EVERYTHING ELSE BUT CARAN CUT EVERYBODY'S HAIR AND AND DEALT SPEED AND HEROIN AND COKE AND EVERYTHING ELSE BUT WE ALL GOT TOGETHER AND WE ALSO WERE MUSICIANS YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THE PUNK ROCK WORLD IN THOSE DAYS WAS ABOUT YOU KNOW YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO BE A GREAT MUSICIAN, YOU JUST HAD TO HAVE HOOTZPAH YOU HAD BALLS YOU HAD TO HAVE A STORY, YOU HAD TO HAVE COURAGE AND THEN YOU WERE ACCEPTED AND SO I GOT IN WITH THOSE GUYS AND I STARTED SINGING FOR THIS GROUP PSI COM WE FORMED THIS GROUP PSI COM AND WE WERE VERY INTO JOY DIVISION AND THE CURE AND ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN ALL THE POST PUNK STUFF, SLIGHTLY GOTH BUT I WAS IN THAT GROUP FOR A WHILE BUT YOU KNOW THE PRESSING SONGS THAT I WAS WRITING AND THE PRESSING SOUNDS AND THE DEPRESSING LOOK DIDN'T LAST LONG BECAUSE I WAS HAVING TOO GOOD OF A TIME SO I HAD TO DO SOMETHING NEW AND GET OUT OF THIS DEPRESSION AND I FORMED JANE'S ADDICTION FROM THERE, THAT WAS AROUND 1984-1985 AND YOU MET ERIC AVERY AND YOU STARTED IT TOGETHER THE BASS PLAYER -YEAH ERIC AUDITIONED PSI COM HAD ALL KIND OF TROUBLES BECAUSE AS I SAY IT WAS DOOMED FROM THE START BECAUSE IT WAS DEPRESSIVE AND IT HAD RELIGIOUS PEOPLE IN THE GROUP WEREN'T THOSE PEOPLE WHO JOINED CULTS AFTER THEY LEFT THE BAND NO, THEY WERE ALREADY IN CULTS I HAD A GUY WHO WAS A KRISHNA DEVOTEE BUT HE WAS ALSO RUNNING GUNS AND AMMUNITION INTO THE PHILIPPINES STRANGE JUXTAPOSITION BUT HE WOULD SIT THERE AND HE WOULD PRAY TO KRISHNA ALL DAY LONG AND HE WOULDN'T HAVE SEX WITH GIRLS AND THAT WAS WHERE WE BRANCHED OFF SO I FELT LIKE YOU KNOW WHAT I'M GOING TO GET INTO BLACK MAGIC THEN IF THAT'S YOUR THING, I'M GOING TO GET INTO BLACK MAGIC AND THAT'S WHEN I STARTED STUDYING ALL THE BLACK MAGIC BOOKS AND I WAS STUDYING THAT JUST TO PISS THIS GUY OFF WHO WAS THIS PRUDISH KIND OF HINDU GUY THAT WAS IN THE GROUP ACTUALLY A VERY NICE GUY HE WAS JUST, I FELT, CONFUSED HE HAD LEFT HIS WIFE, HIM AND HIS WIFE HAD BROKEN UP AND YOU KNOW HOW IT GOES MAN SOMETIMES WHEN YOU BREAK UP WITH YOUR WIFE YOU GO INTO A TAILSPIN YEAH ABSOLUTELY, I'VE BEEN THERE I'VE BEEN DIVORCED BEFORE SO I KNOW WHAT THAT'S ALL ABOUT YOU KNOW GOD BLESS HIM, I WISH HIM ALL THE BEST BUT ANYWAY JUST TO BE A PUNK THAT'S WHAT I STARTED GETTING INTO AND I SAID YOU KNOW LET'S GET SOMETHING EXCITING AND ENTHUSIASTIC HERE SO I STARTED JANE'S ADDICTION AND I WAS INSPIRED BY AT THE TIME THE CHILI PEPPERS WE'RE HANGING OUT IN OUR SCENE AND I JUST SAW THEY WERE HAVING SO MUCH FUN I SAID YOU KNOW HELL MAN LET ME IN AND THEN I KNOW IT WAS COOL BECAUSE DAVID STEVEN CAME FROM THAT OTHER SIDE AS WELL DAVE WAS ON THE SHOW AND HE TALKED ABOUT THE FACT THAT HE SAID ON THE SHOW ABOUT A YEAR AGO HE THOUGHT WHAT WAS SO COOL ABOUT IT WAS THE FACT THAT YOU GUYS WERE ALL COMING MUSICALLY FROM DIFFERENT PLACES IS WHAT MADE JANE SPECIAL HE WAS COMING FROM THE METAL, -THAT'S WHAT HE SAID SPEED MENTAL, THEY HAD A GROUP CALLED DISASTER AND THEY WERE ALL ABOUT LIKE RED AND WHITE STRIPES AND BANDANAS YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN THEY WERE ALL COMING OUT OF THE GAZARRI'S THING BUT I SAW THIS RAW TALENT IN THEM AND I THOUGHT YOU KNOW WHAT IT'D BE ALMOST BETTER TO HAVE SOME CATS WHO DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS SCENE BECAUSE I'VE ALWAYS SAID IT DOESN'T TAKE A LOT TO CHANGE OR ALTER MUSIC OR ART IT ONLY TAKES A LITTLE BUT IT TAKES A LITTLE AND SO WHAT YOU DO IS YOU BRING IN, YOU INFUSE THINGS YOU KNOW AND THEREFORE YOU CREATE A HYBRID OF IT YOU KNOW PEOPLE LIKE FAMILIARITY BUT IF YOU THROW JUST SOMETHING THAT THEY HAVEN'T EXPECTED OR IT COULD BE SOMETHING THAT THEY KNOW OF BUT THEY WOULD NEVER HAVE THOUGHT THAT IT WOULD APPEAR THERE YOU HAVE THEIR BEGINNINGS OF A REVOLUTION AND A NEW SOUND AND THAT'S WHAT JANE'S ADDICTION DID BECAUSE AT THAT POINT NOBODY HAD INFUSED A HARDER EDGE OF HARD ROCK AND METAL JUST THAT EDGINESS TO IT AND EVEN YOUR VOCAL STYLE WHICH PEOPLE HAD SAID REMINDED THEM A BIT OF ROBERT PLANT AND EVEN MORE AND I THINK THAT WAS REALLY COOL HE'S GREAT, I KNOW YOU'RE A BIG ZEPPELIN FAN AND IT WAS JUST SO COOL CAUSE WHEN YOU FIRST HEARD JANE'S WHAT WAS IT THE TRIPLE X RECORD AND THEN OF COURSE WHEN THE REST OF THE WORLD GOT TO HEAR YOU GUYS IT WAS NOTHING SHOCKING, IT REALLY BLEW PEOPLE AWAY AND YOU GUYS MADE IMMEDIATE FANS AND YOU DIVIDED PEOPLE WHICH I THINK ALL GREAT BANDS DO THE RAMONES DID IT, YOU KNOW SO MANY PEOPLE HEY I'M TELLING YOU RIGHT NOW IF YOU CAN'T HAVE AN OBJECTIVE HATRED FROM SOME PEOPLE YOU DIDN'T DO IT YEAH, YOUR RIGHT IF YOU WERE JUST OKAY GOOD, YOUR NEVER GOING TO BE REMEMBERED HONESTLY I THINK ABOUT WHAT JANE'S ADDICTION DID AND HOW THINGS EXPLODED, AND NOTHING SHOCKING WHAT AN INCREDIBLE RECORD, I MEAN WE CAN TALK ABOUT THE FIRST RECORD TWO AND IT HAD THE LIVE VERSIONS OF ROCK AND ROLL, PIGS AND ZEN STARTED OUT ON THERE BUT SONGS LIKE JANE SAYS WHICH WAS ACTUALLY BASED ON YOUR FRIEND JANE YEAH, YOU KNOW SHE CAME UP TO ME ONE TIME YEARS AGO SHE SAYS HEY MATT I'M JANE, I'M THE GIRL THAT JANE SAYS WAS WRITTEN ABOUT SHE WAS SUPER NICE -YEAH SHE'S A WONDERFUL PERSON SHE IS KIND OF LIKE UM, (LAUGHS) YOU'LL APPRECIATE THIS, SHE'S KIND OF HAS AN ARISTOCRATIC FAMILY A LOT OF TIMES THOSE ARISTOCRATS ARE THE MOST TWISTED PEOPLE, IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN, IN THE WORLD AND JANE IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THIS SHE IS VERY WELL VERSED AND HAS A GREAT DEAL OF KNOWLEDGE IN ART AND LITERATURE HOWEVER, SHE LOVED TO HANG OUT WITH 14 YEAR OLD ILLEGAL ALIEN DRUG DEALERS AND HAVE BRIE AND WINE ON SUNDAYS SO THERE WAS THAT REAL KIND OF JUXTAPOSITION IT'S A STRANGE ONE AND SHE'LL LAUGH ABOUT IT YOU KNOW YOU BRING IT UP LIKE HEY JANE YOU REMEMBER THE TIME AND SHE WILL LAUGH ABOUT IT BUT SHE IS DEFINITELY A FEMME FATAL SPEAKING OF -BUT I LOVE YOU JANE IT REMINDS ME OF EDIE SEDRICK A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE OF THAT BACKGROUND AND KIND OF THAT WAY, GETTING INVOLVED WITH THE FACTORY PEOPLE COMING FROM THAT KIND OF PRIVILEGED BACKGROUND WHICH IS PRETTY INCREDIBLE AND YOU BRING UP FEMME FATALE GREAT VELVET UNDERGROUND SONG RIGHT? ONE OF THE TRUE GREATS NOW YOU IMMORTALIZED HER IN THAT SONG, TO ME IT'S A ROCK CLASSIC, NO QUESTION ABOUT IT OTHER SONGS ON THAT RECORD LIKE HAD A DAD, AND MOUNTAIN SONG WHICH IS JUST ONE OF THOSE POWERFUL TRACKS I JUST PLAYED MOUNTAIN SONG AT SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST WITH TOM MORELLO, SLASH, WAYNE CRAMER AND WHO ELSE WAS THERE LES CLAYPOOL WHAT A GREAT BILL OF PEOPLE IT'S ON YOU TUBE YOU GOTTA CHECK IT OUT I WILL DEFINITELY CHECK IT OUT, I WAS WORKING THE WHOLE TIME I DIDN'T GET TO COME AND SEE ANYTHING BECAUSE I WAS SITTING IN THAT BOOTH WORKING WHICH BUMMED ME OUT, I HAD A GREAT TIME WORKING THERE BUT I MISSED THAT SET, BUT IT WAS A GREAT TIME AND I HEARD YOU DID STOP WITH SATELLITE PARTY I'M TEACHING THEM ALL, LOOK, WHY NOT IT'S A PARTY, SATELLITE PARTY IS A PARTY AND IF I KNOW A TUNE, I WANT TO SING IT, SO I'M TEACHING THEM ALL THE ONES I FEEL LIKE SIGNING WHICH IS INCREDIBLE NOW THE JANE'S ADDICTION STUFF, OF COURSE AFTER THAT RITUAL DE LA HABITUAL WHICH ONCE AGAIN I LOVED THE FACT THAT YOU GOTTA PUSH THE ENVELOPE AND YOU ALWAYS DID WHETHER IT WAS THE MOVIE THE GIFT OR THAT ALBUM COVER WHICH OF COURSE GOT BANNED WHICH I LOVED THE FACT THAT THOSE COVERS GO BANNED IT DIDN'T STOP US, IT ONLY MADE US GREATER MAN, I TELL YOU WHAT MORE PEOPLE LIKE STEVEN FROM FUSE SAID TODAY, I HAVE RITUAL BUT I HAVE THE ONE WITH THE FIRST AMENDMENT ON IT AND WHAT I HAD TO DO BACK IN THOSE DAYS IS THEY WEREN'T ALLOWING ME TO SHOW BREASTS AND SO IT PISSED ME OFF AND OF COURSE I WAS TRYING TO KIND OF PISS THEM OFF ANYWAYS AND SO WHAT I DID WAS I POSTED WHEREVER I COULD WHATEVER RECORD STORES WOULD RECEIVE THE ALBUM COVER WITH THE AND I'M TALKING ABOUT THIS WAS A SCULPTURE WITH BREASTS, AN INCREDIBLE PIECE OF ART WORK I POSTED THE FIRST AMENDMENT WHICH IS BASICALLY THE RIGHT TO EXPRESS YOURSELF RIDICULOUS STUFF DO YOU THINK I COULD GET AWAY WITH IT TODAY? I DON'T KNOW, I THINK YOU COULD IN SOME PLACES OBVIOUSLY SOME OF THE CHANGE YOU CAN'T BECAUSE YOU CAN'T GET AWAY WITH SOME OF YOUR LYRICS IN SOME OF THE SONGS I THINK IT'S TIME TO INHERIT THE EARTH MAN -I DO TOO I AGREE, I THINK PEOPLE SHOULD BE ABLE TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES FIRST AMENDMENT IS SO IMPORTANT, THAT'S WHAT THIS SHOW IS, NOTHING GETS EDITED OUT OF THIS SHOW WHEN IT COMES TO LIKE LANGUAGE OR SUBJECT MATTER OR ANYTHING, THAT'S WHAT GREAT ABOUT THIS SHOW BECAUSE WE LET ARTISTS BE ARTISTS AND DO WHAT THEY DO NOW LET'S TALK ABOUT LOLLAPALOOZA WHICH IS TO ME NOT SINCE MONTEREY POP FESTIVAL WHERE YOU KNOW JOHN PHILIPS AND LOU ATHER PUT TOGETHER A FESTIVAL WHERE THEY HAD HENDRIX AT THE SAME TIME AS THE WHO AND YOU KNOW ROBBIE SHENKER NOT SINCE THEN HAS THERE BEEN A FESTIVAL WITH MORE DIVERSITY TELL ME ABOUT COMING UP WITH THAT FIRST LOLLAPALOOZA IT WAS INCREDIBLE IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE LAST JANE'S TOUR BUT IT TURNED OUT TO BE THIS THING THAT WENT 91-97 AND IT JUST BECAME THE THING, IT CHANGED REALLY CHANGED THE WAY PEOPLE LOOKED AT ROCK AND ROLL AND THE WAY PEOPLE OPENED THEIR MINDS WHETHER IT BE ICE CUBE OR ICE TEA OR BODY COUNT TALK TO ME ABOUT BOOKING THAT VERY FIRST LOLLAPALOOZA WHAT WAS THAT LIKE WELL YOU KNOW I HAD THE WORLD IN THE PALM OF MY HAND AT THAT TIME I KNOW THAT I WAS LOOKING TO DO A LAST, A VERY LAST SWAN SONG FOR JANE'S ADDICTION AND YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND I PLAY WITH THESE MONEY PEOPLE, THEY WANT THEIR INVESTMENT COMING BACK SO STRONG SO OKAY THEY'RE GOING TO PAY FOR IT, THIS TIME THEY'RE GOING TO GET HENRY RAWLINGS ON THE BILL AND THEY'RE GOING TO GET ICE TEA, 9 INCH NAILS, AND SOUXIE AND THE BANSHEES SHE'S A PIECE OF WORK -SHE'S GREAT I LOVE HER LET'S GET OUT THERE AND HAVE A GOOD TIME AND GUESS WHAT, YOU NEVER WOULD HAVE EXPECTED IT BUT 20-50,000 KIDS THE UNDERBELLY OF YOUR CITY IS JUST WAITING FOR US TO APPEAR AND THEY'RE GOING TO COME OUT AND THEY'RE GOING TO BE WEARING THEIR DOCKS AND THEIR EYE MAKE UP AND THEIR BLACK CLOTHES THIS IS THE DISENFRANCHISE, THESE ARE ALL THE KIDS THAT YOU WALK BY ON THE WAY TO WORK THEY'RE ALL WAITING FOR US TO SHOW UP AND WE LOVE THEM AND THEY LOVE US IT'S AMAZING YOU WENT TO SEE TONY BLAIR ACTUALLY AT 10 DOWNING STREET TO TALK ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING TELL ME ABOUT THAT EXPERIENCE I WENT TO TALK TO THEM ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING AND WE DID WE EACH HAD OUR MOMENT TO SHINE THEY LITERALLY PUT A SOAP BOX ON THE FLOOR AND HAD EACH ONE OF US GET UP AND TALK ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING WHO ELSE WAS THERE? -I HAD THE WORLD'S FOREMOST AUTHORITIES ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE WORLD'S LEADING HEDGE FUND THE MAN GROUP WHICH ARE INVESTORS AND PHILANTHROPISTS AND THEY CAME WITH ME BUT I LIKE TO SAY THAT REALLY HOW WE GOT THROUGH THE DOOR WAS WITH THIS SONG THAT I'VE GOT THIS JIM MORRISON TRACK, THIS DOORS TRACK THE ONE ON THE SATELLITE PARTY ALBUM I NEED TO ASK YOU WHERE YOU GOT THAT VOCAL FROM? WAS THAT FROM A BOOTLEG OR WAS THAT ONE OF THE I WAS GRANTED PERMISSION BY THE DOORS TO PRODUCE AND ARRANGE AND COMPOSE ORIGINAL MUSIC CENTERED AROUND JIM MORRISON'S VOICE BUT IT'S A DOORS SONG AND IT WAS RECORDED IN 1970 DAYS BEFORE HE LEFT FOR PARIS ONE OF THE LAST THINGS THAT WAS RECORDED IT MAY HAVE BEEN THE LAST RECORDING IF THERE IS ANOTHER ONE OUT THERE, MAN I CAN'T WAIT TO HEAR IT PORNO FOR PYROS IS ANOTHER THING WE HAVE TO TOUCH ON I REALLY LOVE THE BAND I REALLY DID AND WHEN YOU WHEN JANE SPLIT UP AND YOU MADE THAT RECORD THERE WERE SO MANY GREAT SONGS ON THAT FIRST RECORD TOO I LOVE THE WHOLE CURSED MALE, CURSED FEMALE YOU HAD GOING ON AT THAT TIME AND THINGS LIKE PETS AND OBVIOUSLY SADNESS THERE ARE TWO DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF SADNESS AND BOTH SO GREAT YOU KNOW THAT PERIOD WAS THE ERA OF THE PEOPLE REMEMBER IT MOST FOR THE L.A. RIOTS SO THAT IS WHAT WAS GOING ON IN MY HEAD MAN, THERE WAS CRACK THERE WAS THE L.A. RIOTS AND THERE WAS PORNO FOR PYROS I MEAN IT WAS JUST AN OUTRAGEOUS, OUT OF OUR MINDS DOCUMENTARY SONIC DOCUMENTARY -YEAH IT WAS GREAT AND THEN WHEN IT CAME TO THE NEXT RECORD, GOOD GOD'S URGE YOU MADE THAT TAHITIAN MOON VIDEO WE REALLY WERE SUFFERING AT THAT TIME AND OUR MAN PETE DESTEPHANO'S FATHER HAD DIED AND WE WERE TRYING, WE WERE TRYING TO THINK OF ANY WAY WE COULD TO SAVE HIS DAD'S LIFE AND IF THAT MEANT KIND OF GETTING OUR ACTS TOGETHER AND PRAYING TO GOD AND SAYING GOOD GOD DON'T TAKE AWAY OUR FATHER LET'S TALK ABOUT SATELLITE PARTY BECAUSE THAT IS SUCH A COOL CONCEPT AND A GREAT RECORD NOW YOU GOT SO MANY COOL PEOPLE TO PLAY ON THE RECORD, OBVIOUSLY IT'S GREAT YOU AND NUNO WERE IN IT TELL ME HOW YOU AND NUNO GOT TOGETHER TOM MARILLO INVITED ME TO HIS BIRTHDAY AND ETTY AND I WENT OVER THERE AND ATTENDED AND THEY'RE STANDING BY THEMSELVES BY THE KEG WAS THIS YOU KNOW QUIET KIND OF GUY, GOOD LOOKING GUY BUT I COULD TELL YOU KNOW THIS GUY IS PROBABLY A PLAYER AND TOM SAID TO ME, THIS GUY HERE IS ONE OF THE GREATEST GUITAR PLAYERS YOU'LL EVER HEAR COMING FROM TOM MARILLO, OKAY AND SO I WENT OVER AND INTRODUCED MYSELF TO HIM AND I TOLD HIM I WAS WORKING ON THIS PROJECT, I HAD A BUNCH OF, AT THE TIME I HAD LAID DOWN THEY WERE PROGRAMS YOU KNOW ELECTRONIC PROGRAMS AND SYNTH PROGRAMS AND LOOPS AND THINGS LIKE THAT AND I WAS WORKING ON IT BUT MY WIFE ETTY WAS INSPIRING ME SHE SAID MAN YOU GOTTA BRING A REAL PLAYERS TO THIS PROJECT YOU GOTTA GET OUT THERE AND FRONT THIS AND YOU GOTTA SING SHE DIDN'T WANT ME TO PUT TOGETHER ELECTRONIC MUSIC, SHE WANTED SHE WANTED A REAL ROCK ALBUM RIGHT EXACTLY SO I SAID TOM JUST SAID THIS GUY IS ONE OF THE GREATEST PLAYERS AND SHE WENT WHOA THAT'S NUNO BETTENCOURT I LOVE HIS WORK AND I WENT OKAY IF THE GIRLS SAY IT AND THE GUYS SAY IT, IT'S GOT TO BE SO SO I SAID MAN WHAT ARE YOU DOING TOMORROW, I'VE GOT SOME TRACKS JUST COME OVER AND LISTEN TO EM. SO HE SHOWED UP WITH A LITTLE FENDER, A LITTLE OLD FENDER THIS COULD HAVE BEEN LIKE A 60S MODEL AND HIS GUITAR AND JUST STARTED PUTTING DOWN THESE CONTRA MELODIES YOU KNOW TO MY MELODIES WHICH IS REALLY THE SIGN OF A GREAT PLAYER CAUSE TODAY YOU'LL HEAR A LOT OF THE CRAPPY MUSIC THE REASON IT'S CRAPPY IS BECAUSE EVERYBODY IS ON THE SAME CHORD AND EVERYBODY ON THE SAME BEAT

AS OPPOSED TO LAYERS AND MOVING THINGS AROUND YOU GO

TO KEEP IT INTERESTING AND MOVING MELODICALLY THAT'S STEREO THOUGHT AND THAT'S WHAT HE WAS DOING SO I GO OKAY I GUESS TOM WAS TELLING ME THE TRUTH IT'S REALLY COOL. -I KEPT WORKING WITH HIM AND WE'VE BECOME A FAMILY NOW AND WE'RE ABOUT READY TO START OUR 10 YEARS RISE WELL WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT IT PERRY WE'LL BE AT THE SHOWS, I'LL SEE YOU AT LOLLAPALOOZA THANKS MATT, IT'S ALWAYS GREAT TO SEE YOU MAN -ALWAYS GREAT TO SEE YOU TOO PERRY ABSOLUTELY I'M REALLY HAPPY YOU CAME TO THE SHOW AND I'M EXCITED ABOUT THE NEW RECORD IT'S A GREAT RECORD -THANKS SOUNDS GREAT AND IT'S SO EXCITING TO SEE YOU GUYS PLAYING LIVE AGAIN WITH EVERYBODY YEAH I CAN'T WAIT -IT'S GOING TO BE AMAZING PERRY THANKS A LOT FOR COMING BY -MY PLEASURE THAT'S PERRY FARRELL ON SOUND OFF, I'M MATT PINFIELD TAKE CARE AND HAVE A GREAT NIGHT

http://www.hd.net/transcript.html?air_master_id=A4773

[StickyFingers]

great! Perry Farrell's oral autobiography in just one chapter!
wow!!!:inspiration: wow!!

you know when it was released?

[Mike]

great! Perry Farrell's oral autobiography in just one chapter!
wow!!!:inspiration: wow!!

you know when it was released?

It aired September 2nd.
I'm not sure exactly when the interview took place.
There's a wealth of info in there and it's well worth taking the time to read it.
I never knew Perry was an extra on the TV show CHIPS.
That's also the most I've heard on the Psi-Com break up.

[hydro]

see if u can spot perry as a punk extra in this chips episode
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeq5YToXT10
i think about 3:00 mins in u can see perry standing middle back in the crowd his hair is shaved on the sides rawkin the hawk and he has looks like red suspenders on another dude walks beside him with bleach blond hair watch it full screen

[hydro]

see if u can spot perry as a punk extra in this chips episode
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeq5YToXT10
i think about 3:00 mins in u can see perry standing middle back in the crowd his hair is shaved on the sides rawkin the hawk and he has looks like red suspenders on another dude walks beside him with bleach blond hair watch it full screen

ok so maybe thats not him from another view it looks like its a chic with boobs hummm wheres perry????

[Mike]

see if u can spot perry as a punk extra in this chips episode
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeq5YToXT10
i think about 3:00 mins in u can see perry standing middle back in the crowd his hair is shaved on the sides rawkin the hawk and he has looks like red suspenders on another dude walks beside him with bleach blond hair watch it full screen

ok so maybe thats not him from another view it looks like its a chic with boobs hummm wheres perry????

I think that's the right episode based on the interview but I don't see Perry.
Here's a link for some info on that episode:
http://www.chips-tv.com/Guide/Episode/516.shtml