Mike: Alright we’re going to go back to the Jane’s Addiction days for a second here. nexis asks this question. What would it take for you and Eric Avery to make up and become friends again?
Perry: So Eric Avery, great bass player. You know I don’t know. I can’t speak for Eric. I only can speculate why Eric doesn’t want to get involved in things I do. You know we didn’t have an easy time of it. We went definitely, definitely in different directions. During the Jane’s days he got… he had a very different outlook on life. He had a tough time of it for a while and came out of it and just decided to go the clean and sober route. You got to wish him well and let him do his thing.
Mike: Absolutely.
Perry: But I would invite him to join Jane’s and maybe he didn’t want to go through it? You know I still party and I’m not about to stop. I’m sure that being around people that party sometimes can be… especially if you’re not partying… I don’t know it can probably be annoying or whatever and it could be that. Also I do like to have things my way. I’m a sharing guy but I definitely have very strong opinions about things and maybe that has a lot to do with it too. Eric is a very smart guy too and so… probably there’s always a power struggle when you have two strong willed / strong minded guys with strong opinions and he’s an intelligent guy too. It could be that but again like I say I don’t know. You could probably ask Eric and he’ll probably be able to tell you a lot better than me. I always thought that we should continue to play together for a time but I gave up.
Mike: Fair enough. Fair enough.
I'd give EA a little more credit; I think his 17 years of objections have merit, although I did see a topic of "conditional forgiveness" addressed recently that made me think deeper, look closer.hydro wrote:
I think Eric needs to lighten up a lil and have a glass of wine with perry
spot on, nuff saidhydro wrote:I just mean......its just music man.
music is fun,theres enough seriousness in this world..
Yeah it's kind of like CSI JA or NCIS JA.SR wrote:"Inside Temperature" reminds me of a post mortem liver probe thermometer.
In regards to a reformation.SR wrote:Thoughts on a the original 4?
I think we as fans have to believe there's some reason why the four didn't get back together before the NME gig.SR wrote:I say there's only two people on the planet that can make this happen, probably with different agendas.....can they be made to reconcile?
Maybe. It's hard to impugn EA's comments on the subject; I believe them at face value. I think it's what has not been said that needs to be addressed as well. I think one of the many fine qualitites that EA has demonstrated over the years is his ability to be diplomatic and minimize drama. We all have our shit, and PF is no different. I think his treatment of EA was dispicable to the extent that very little credit or decision making power was distributed to his deserved position. Whatever the reasons, however well intended, whatever the success it yielded, it caused damage. What a gift it would be to allocate unreservedly and unconditionally that stolen gem?Nothing's Shocking wrote:I think we as fans have to believe there's some reason why the four didn't get back together before the NME gig.SR wrote:I say there's only two people on the planet that can make this happen, probably with different agendas.....can they be made to reconcile?
What if it's as simple as Eric has said?
