Finally!!! I've been saying it for years! I've been a " Hired gun" bassist for the better part of 2 decades and I play a white p bass and from trying to play like Eric ive got touring gigs for LINK WRAY, MARKY RAMONE BAND,TOXIC HOLOCAUST ,EVERCLEAR (JUST to name. Few)
Apparently Casey Niccoli was not only responsible for creating the "atmosphere" of the early shows with candles, incense and her amazing art but she designed both of the two last album covers- Nothings Shocking & Ritual De Lo Habitual - she never gets any credit from the band for it though even though it's hard to imagine the band without her influence
The fifth member, she is incredibly artistic. Her outside vision for what the band could be was amazing. Also creating the cult classic "The Gift". To us true Jane's Addiction fans, Cassey is "Our" Classic Girl! ... Instant mashed potatoes.
I love what he said Eric Avery did with those late 80’s/early 90’s bass lines that just roll off like waves on the ocean almost like a trance; such as “Summer Time Rolls”! Dave Navarro on his Ibanez was my guitar guy! The 3 bands that influenced me were Jane’s Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers, & Alice and Chains! 87’-91’ High School vibes with girls, skateboarding, & my Ibanez RG 570!#🎼💥🎸🛹🤘🏻
Great history lesson on Jane's Addiction, such an amazing band. 3 Days is one of the greatest songs of all time, always felt it would take me on the same type of ride as stairway to heaven.
I still play Three Days at least once or twice a month on my guitar, just to revisit each part, and take the ride. Sometimes I play along with the record, sometimes I can find a drummer and bassist, who can get through most of it, without me having to teach them the whole song, but usually I play it by myself. I don’t play Stairway anymore. I learned it when I was first learning songs, then the leads when I was first learning leads. I’ll take Three Days over Stairway. The major scales Navarro plays on that song, are part of what makes it a ride, from moody and dreamy, climbing up a mountain, to flying across the sky, and back to earth, sliding down the other side of that mountain.
Great video! As a 22 year old I will take all the info I can get on this perfect band. Not many people my age are aware of Janes and how magical they are. John Frusciante said Janes were Da Vinci level art and that is true as fuck.
Yes I used to have some bootlegs. Otherworldly. There have been incredible bands, life changers in fact. Bad Brains, Sabbath, Zeppelin, Soundgarden, even Mr. Bungle. But Jane’s Addiction was from another planet it seemed, but they weren’t, and that’s the most beautiful part.
I was more than a little late to the party when I discovered Jane's Addiction. It was back in 2000, I was barely 21, but this band literally changed my life, everything from my taste in music genres to my fashion sense, to my very worldview. When I look back, I distictively see my life in two parts: BJA (Before the discovery of Jane's) and AJA (After the discovery). That said, I thoroughly enjoyed this video and you sharing your obvious love and passion for this band, and the perspective of someone who was actually there for their glory days. I can only wish I'd been born in the right generation to be able to witness their rise to rock n roll legend, but following you down memory lane will more than suffice. This band just doesn't get discussed enough in the alternative music conversation, if you ask me. It's always Nirvana Nirvana Nirvana, when really, there would be no Nirvana without the path that Jane's paved the way for. Good on you for putting this much needed reminder out there. You've got a sub in me.
@@louidivine3140 Yes I do, and I am good friends with Richard, Truls, Oskar and Axel. My band URAN GBG played with them a lot and I have lots of photos and videos of them. Great guys. My channel actually have a few live clips with Graveyard. There are a lot of great bands from Gothenburg. Like Anticimex, Union Carbide Productions, Mustasch, At the gates, The Exorcist GBG, The Leathernun, Fontän and Cortex to name a few. I know them all privately more or less and we have a great music scene here. Some of them contemporary with Jane´s Addiction. I am just a humble musician and a music lover.
thank you for this insight into Jane's Addiction. When I first heard them in the late 80s I was blown away and I went to see them live at a bar in Portland. They were on another level, their show was other worldly and it changed my life, my perspective and outlook on life. I saw them again with the Pixies and Primus and also at the first Lollapalooza in Seattle 1991. When Ritual de lo Habitual came out my friend bought it on vinyl and played it over and over again. I had dropped acid that night and tripped out listening to that album all night. So sublime
Ahhh, the acid. Nothing like dropping a couple hits back in the day, pulling the T-tops off my car and soaking up the beautiful summer sun listening to “Summer Time Rolls”. Driving nowhere in particular. Just enjoying great times and great music with a girl I loved. I wished it could’ve lasted forever.
With Dave Navarro I hear a ton of Jimmy Page licks that Page played live and Hendrix. He seems to have many of the same Slash influences but more psychedelic than Slash. That’s what I hear anyway. He’s underrated for sure - we talk about Slash forever but I think Navarro is at the same level IMHO
@@jamescone6359 Navarro says that Page and Hendrix were his two main influences and I think you can hear Page in his playing. Lots of pentatonic major/minor runs. Like the solo in Been Caught Stealing sounds like Page to me, I dunno.
Slash is a Dave Navarro knock off. Axel wanted him in GNR but he declined so slash was their back up plan. Can't stand that GNR is bigger, yet JA is sooo much better.
That second Nirvana album never would have hit the way it did if Jane's Addiction had not cleared the runway first. And they were a much better band at that...absolutely unique. I've been banging that drum since my senior year in high school. Not to mention what a wonderful time that was to be alive.
Nothings shocking came out in my graduation year of 88’ great record..I always said that too,janes paved they was for 90’s alternative to become popular…was outta high school 3 years when nevermind changed the world… grunge/alternative was so cool when it got more mainstream cause we were kinda sick of the hey baby baby 80’s hairmetal..good guitarists but it was played out in 88 to be honest by 91 it was deader than dead…now grunge is considered complaint rock…..I loved being a 18-21 year old kid in 88-91 was the best time man 😊
That's still an insanely short sighted view of it too. Nrivana would have never landed period, if Mudhoney hadn't made them possible. Hell, Perry Ferrell let a significant portion of the Post Hardcore scene crash on his couch in L.A. when they toured.
I think you're overlooking how much The PIxies's Loud/ Quiet style simply and absolutely made the Nirvana sound. Nirvana lacked the originality and definitely the humor of the Pixies.
Saw them in 1988, it was so magical. Heavy and somehow ethereal at the same time. And I definitely agree that the original 4 all brought something that is irreplaceable.
Eric is the man in this band as far as I'm concerned. I can Instantly recognize Eric's bass lines for just one or two notes, you can't say that about a lot of bassists. Steven and Eric make this band hit hard.
Ritual has better sound in my opinion, but the songs are more complex. They had many of the Ritual songs, when Nothing’s Shocking was released. Even when XXX was released, but Perry was saving what he and at least some band members thought were the best songs.
@@CorbCorbin I get it. I’m a nothings shocking guy, but I get it. That album is soooo crazy which is what they are. Not just crazy but beautiful and with Perry’s lyrics are always great.
Man thank you so much for making this. I’m 33 years old and when I started learning guitar at 13 I had a cassette tape of “Nothing’s Shocking” that my Aunt Rose left with my mom. I was instantly hooked by Perry’s amazing vocal range and lyrics, the groovy bass lines that held it all together, Stephen’s incredible drumming and of course the insane guitar work of Dave Navarro that blew me away. “Three Days” is my favorite Jane’s Song ever but “Nothing’s Shocking” is my album because of that incredible guitar tone. So cool to see someone else who loves them too. It sucks being a guitar player and never having met another musician in real life.
I remember the very first time I heard of Jane. The dude who introduced me to the band's music said that they were a cross between Pink Floyd and the Sex Pistols. Totally inaccurate description, but I was intrigued. Borrowed the Nothing's Shocking cassette from him and I almost wore it out in two days. Saw the very first Lollapalloza ('91), and though they were upstaged by NIN, Jane were magnificent. And yes, Eric Avery was the musical and conceptual center of that band. Artistically speaking, when he left they became a spent force.
The intro to this video is amazing mate, it captures the smooth and heavy sound of Jane's. I first heard navarro play on the one hot minute album and fell in love with his playing instantly, after hearing that and finding out he was in a band before that and enjoying Jane's first three records my jaw dropped (i also love the deconstuction album). So i am from Scotland and during the time i fell in love with Dave/Janes music i was about 20 years old and i traveled down south to manchester to watch them live (2014) and i was honestly blown away.When i returned i said to my younger brother one day i will take you to see dave play guitar, fast forward to 2024 i am 30 and my brother is about to turn 18 and we are going to see the original line up of Janes this may in glasgow...... LIFE IS WONDERFUL
Great band mucker as a fellow Scotsman I've loved this band since they dropped the Jane's Addiction live album. Jane's Addiction and The Red Hot Chlli Peppers were the most unique bands from the states at the tail end of the 80's. Pixies and Nirvana to. But for me Jane's Addiction are untouchable.
I’m a bassist songwriter with a small underground metal/rock band called White Wizzard. Eric Avery was a huge influence and I think you are right on point. I always equate him to Simon Gallup of the Cure. The bass lines are the main hook in the songs. Even though my band is much more Maiden/Rush/Sabbath….I always cite Janes and Eric as a huge inspiration. I’ll never forget the first time I heard Nothings Shocking late one night summer 1990 standing at Vista Point by the GG Bridge after a show at the Stone. My friends boom box blasting Up the Beach….and a few months after seeing them at the SF Civic on the Ritual Tour Dec 1990. In 1990 they peaked and I thought they were gonna take over the world. They set up what Nirvana knocked down the next year (with AIC as a Segway) Nirvana ended up being the band that took over the world….But Janes set it in motion. They should have been that but their star burned too bright too fast.
Greatly appreciated, kind sir. Gives anyone who wasn't there to witness their iconic rise to prominence a real feeling of what it was like to be there first hand. Their importance to alternative music culture should never be allowed to diminish in the sands of time. The music is timeless & will last forever, but man if only I had a time machine to go back & experience those early shows... Legendary stuff
I used to play drums in a Jane's Addiction cover band in the 90's. Our lead singer's name was Jon, so we were called Jon's Addiction lol. We sucked, but we were drunk, playing parties and bars and in college, so it was cool. I got laid a bunch from it - good enough. We should have started our own festival called Suck-apalooza
You are what is called "a success in life". If you can play crappy drums and get laid from it, you are doing better than the other 99% that are trying to get degrees and scholarships and going home alone.
@@shacktime what have done that was personally enjoyable and half decent, and I am not talking about the enjoyment you get when you're trolling from your mom's basement.
It was the Deadheads in College at Kent State University back 1988 that had the Jane’s CD’s. As artists and writers we embraced Jane’s music like no other, accumulating to Lallapaloza 1 where Jane’s headlined. The soundtrack to my life 1988-1991. No one’s leaving.
When I first heard Jane’s in ‘91 they blew me away. I listened to them over and over. It was the newest and best feeling I have ever had listening to music.
Come the late eighties, I was a pure Genesis and Pink Floyd snob, and nothing could come anywhere close to these bands. Then I acquired a box of tapes in a very illegal way, and Nothing's shocking was among the tapes. Eric's bass intro on summertime rolls and mountain song gripped me, and Jane says, crushed me. So for me, Jane's Addiction really did change music. Since then, alternative music has a massive place in my heart, and it's thanks to Jane's Addiction, but also for fate for placing those tapes in my path.
My favourite band ever, I was and still am obsessed with them!! They were unique, their music style was a mix of rock, metal, funk, pop and more. I never seen and heard a band like them, i'm still waiting. Every band member were supertalented, too bad they didn't last long. Avery was my favourite, he's bass grooves were hypnotic. Great video!!!
@@Tarsus790 No they weren’t. Perry was in Psi Com in 1981-1985, which was a Goth rock band, that had some new wave/post punk, but still a very unique sound. The song Xiola, is as close to Jane’s sound as he got. Jane’s really started when Perry met Eric, looking for a new bass player for Psi Com. Avery played some gigs, but never was a full member, as that band was falling apart. The new band came together at the house, where Perry and Casey Niccoli lived, frequented, etc.(mentioned in the video), and they came up with the name before any band existed. After a few temporary members, Perkins was hired, which lead to Navarro, which was likely the end of 85’ or early 86’. Hair metal was still peaking at that time. In 1987, when I got ahold of the Triple X album, the Christian Hair metal band Stryper, was on the top ten videos on MTV for months. Even bands like Extreme, that were trying to get out of that genre of metal, did ballads to make a hit. More Than Words, is a hair metal ballad, whether they like it or not. They had another acoustic song as well. Guns and Roses’ Appetite for Destruction eventually sold crazy numbers of records, but that album took over a year to get mainstream play, and Jane’s had already went Gold with Nothing’s Shocking, snd were one of the biggest draws, not a hair band in LA. Hit metal became popular in the early 80’s, and was a thing unto itself by 1983.
His lyrics are as good as anyone else's in popular music. Brilliant, profound, poetic lyrics. The sound of the band is incredible too. The vocals and bass are avant garde, post-punk and gothy, while the guitar and drums are totally over the top and metally but in a good way. The dynamics are incredible too, between quiet and loud.
@@francapitanelli9775 have you heard of the early 80s new Zealand band the Swingers ? The singer sounds so much like Perry , I think he must of been an influence .
Another killer video!! I am so envious you got to be there and experience that music scene as it was happening. Those first three records are so good. There is no other band that had what they did or hit the way they did. Thanks for putting this together. As always learned some new things! Fantastic editing!!
I gotta say this…modern culture focuses on Nirvana, but 5 years before, these guys were doing it different. I mean, I was a kid in elementary school when JA were on MTV…when Nirvana hit the scene I was already 15 years old. I don’t know, but I think they deserve a bit more of the sentimental limelight. I mean Perry started Lollapalooza, and was very prominent in the media at the time. I know their style can be polarizing, like RHCP, but you got to admit the doors they opened are still happening today. Would the Seattle scene even have been the same? So much energy and trippy emotional stuff. Three Days, that’s all I’ll say (after all that). Love that song.
The first time I heard them was one of the happiest days of my life. I grew up listening to and playing 70s guitar rock, it was all Stones, Zeppelin and Aerosmith. When that music got pushed aside for New Wave it was like hell, The Cure just wasn’t doing it for me. Then I was at a party and someone put on Ritual and I almost cried. It was heavy guitar and drums with beautiful lyrics sung by a beautiful voice it was so full and dramatic. They are the only band from that era of late 80s to mid 90s that I never got to see. For some reason every time they played somewhere I was at something would interfere. I love Perry
Eric Avery is a phenomenal bassist plus he’s the primary song writer in Jane’s. I got to see them a few times. First time in 88 in Miami second time in 91 with Suicidal Tendencies third time was on Halloween night in NYC with Flea on bass. All amazing shows! Great video!
Quite a heroin commercial. "I wrote whole aaallbums in a night. It was like a secret lover...." and so on. I saw it tons of times, so don't get the wrong idea, but watching it these days, it's an instructional video for cold-coppin and doc shoppin
@@briansmith9455 I wouldn't judge anyone until you make sure youre perfect first. I'm sure you love a lot of music that was created by people using substances...its kind of a thing. If you have been fortunate enough to not feel like you ever needed drugs than just feel lucky and don't judge others for what you do not understand.
I got the chance to see Jane's live in a small club in São Paulo last week. Despite the lack of Navarro, it was one of the best live concerts of my life. Perry got teary eyed as he sang the first lines of "Then She Did..", i fist bumped him twice during the show, and at the end I asked Stephen Perkins for a setlist and he handed it right in my hand haha
Saw Janes at the concert hall/masonic temple in toronto 1989 - no opening band. Just an ever increasing in intensity gypsy violin music track for over an hour. Then they slithered onto the stage, and blasted the entire audience into space. It was transcendent. One of, if not the best, the best shows I have ever experienced.
Hey Fran, you did an Awesome Job on this!! Thank you for making & sharing this! Jane's Addiction are one of my all time favourite bands! So glad Eric A is back, yeahhh!! ✌🤘🖖
Brilliant! Such a great presentation. Lollapalooza '91 is still one of my fondest memories ever. I got to see an amazing lineup of bands I already loved, but the Bashees??!! OH, HELL YES! It was a beautiful day into beautiful night as dream after dream came true with each band taking the stage in this festival of angst, spook and hope. As if someone knew exactly what this boy needed so badly. I know I wasn't alone... and Perry knew.
I’ve never heard a band who sounds like them. The variety of sounds on each album is unprecedented and the lyrics are coming from a place no one had gone before or since. Truly a perfect band, great sound, amazing thought provoking lyrics, great style, every band member is insanely talented and they gave me a feeling I not only can’t describe but one that no other form of music has given me.
I'm 55 and have loved Jane's since I discovered them in 91 or 92. I never got to see them in concert, but I did see Porno For Pyros in Miami. Your video was great and I like your perspective. You have a lot of insight to their music and influences. Thanks.
Fantastic video, thank you for sharing this. Jane's is my all time favorite band and I couldn't agree more on your take on Eric Avery. I am a reggae bassist of 20+ years and completely agree with your connection to his approach and style to writing bass lines.
huge huge band. I was 19 when they broke and they were THE game changers. Nirvana sounded to me like an expansion of the commercial possibilities that JA started. imho
Great job covering the band and their contributions. They definitely broke the mole. I’m glad you detailed what and how each member added to the sound.
Hey Frank, You put together such an amazing personal tribute to Jane's. It's great to hear from someone who was right there in the local scene as they came up. Going to so many of their shows must have been wild. My personal experience with their music didn't start till 95 but it I connected to it immediately, probably like someone now hearing Been Caught Stealing would. They are mysterious and truly magnificent to me. Thanks for teaching me more about them.
Cool vid and great job telling some of the LA story of Jane's Addiction. In high school I was a punk with also an appreciation for some classic rock. Jane's came along and completely blew me away and kind of changed everything. I was at the John Anson Ford, Hollywood Palladium and Universal Amphitheater shows during that era. Some of the very best shows I ever saw. I had a death rock/goth friend who saw them earlier at Scream. Also recently saw them with Troy on guitar who really did a damn fine job.
I really have to agree with you about Jane's not being the same without Eric. I still remember the day my father brought home nothing's shocking on wax and played it. I was hooked instantly
God I miss bands like this. As a brit I was heavily into bands like The Cure, Spacemen 3, The Smiths and The La's. I didnt pay to much attention to what was happening in the states until Jane's addiction and RHCP. I just loved these guys styles of music. Especially JA. This was a great review man.
excellent commentary!!!!!!! You hit all of the nails I know but unlocked a few I didnt. You saw the shit first hand...thx man...I miss the late 80s and early 90s...it was exciting, adventurous and magical...what a time to be alive....Janes is like a band that never broke up but they did...
Fran - I have few words for this vid. I got very emotional watching it. It’s one of your best. It’s clear to me how much you experienced life and how little I was aware of how you were building your love for music. Envy, admiration, respect.
I was around 8 when ritual came out and when i saw Stop on tv it really struck a chord as an impressionable kid.. still one of my favourite bands to this day.
I had been thinking of doing a video like this myself as these guys are my all time favorites. I'm a 90s alternative kid, so you can probably see why. Influenced the whole wave of bands i love. As there were only so few Jane's records, it led me to first discover Porno for Pyros... Then i also came across the Deconstruction album and Eric's Polarbear project. I loved all of that stuff, Eric and Perry are both such great songwriters. Some of their solo albums are good too, also Navarro's album Trust No One. Thanks for the video! Creative editing too. More people need to talk about Jane's Addiction.
P4p first album is criminally underrated. In my opinion it can be put in there with the the first 3 JA albums. I absolutely LOVE every solo DeStefano played on that album and lenobles baselines are so catchy.
Incredible band in their first incarnation! Like a bolt from the blue, they took all the soaring power of metal and made it majestic. And they were curious about everything - you could feel it in the music and the aesthetic. When I think of them, I always think of something colourful. Props for giving full credit to what each member brought to the table, especially Eric Avery - it's amazing how his basslines provided the foundation for so many memorable contributions from his bandmates.
The single for Classic Girl has a live performance of them doing The Doors L.A. Woman and in that cover Dave Navarro is shedding the ENTIRE SONG. You can hear him running all over the fret board shredding licks and improvising.
Really well done video mate. In NZ as a teen I got into their albums around '94 and it was all over by then, so they were very mysterious, never knew much about them for years.
Nothing Shocking is in my top 5 greatest albums of all time, every song in the composition. I remember flipping the cassette after Standing in the Shower Thinking. Just so much context being a drunk kid trying to figure shit out.
i agree im 53 years old i was there, i will diw talking about janes addiction, are u kiddin, one of the best concerts i have ever seen in my life early 90's and they MUST enter some place and be cemented, theyre pure magic, also love love "Porno for Pyros" wonderful video, you made justice to them
This band is the best amalgam of all four members' musical tastes. I WISH I would've been of age during their heyday 87-90 to see them then. I saw them in 2003 tour, which was great, but just not the same.
Great observations. I would flip tapes endlessly, reading Stephen King's collected works and the storytelling and suggestive nature of Jane's Addiction fused with the coming-of-age dramas so incredibly well. Addictive.
Wonderful video! Lucky me got introduced to them in 1991 when i was over there in the U.S. for a year in high school and in May of that year got to see them live in Pittsburgh. What an experience that was. Can't even begin to imagine the shows in the mid 80s.
Jane's Addiction is pretty much the reason Green River broke up. Green River was playing a show in Southern California, and the members went and saw JA concert. Half the guys in GR was like "this is the direction I want us to go in.." while the other half was like "ewee no way..." that's when they realized they didn't gel with musical influences anymore.
Got to catch them in 2009 in Sydney, Australia with the classic line-up. Still is one of the best gigs of my life. Perry literally had the audience in the palm of his hand. I'm seeing them next month with Smashing Pumpkins. Looking forward, but a little bummed Dave isn't playing.
I told Eric the very same thing Fran. I said, "there's no JA without you & your baselines". He shyly smiled and thanked me. Jane's Addiction happens to be one of the loves of my life, musically. Zeppelin & Alice in Chains with Layne & Mike Starr are the others.
JA is my favourite hard rock band, ever! I grew up on Deep Purple, Sabbath, Zeppelin, 70s Aerosmith, Rush, Van-frickin'-Halen y'all, Judas Priest, Nazareth, UFO, Punk, AC/DC ... I love all that stuff - child of the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. When Jane's Addiction came along ... they were the band I'd been waiting for all my life (I was 25 when they popped). Everything about them was perfect ... and then they were gone. They are my favourite from all the greats. Saw them at the Nick in Birmingham, AL in 89 or 90. It.was.so.faakin'.AWE-sommmmmmme. The Nick is like a double-wide trailer, so ... yeah, that joint got pregnant that night. It was really weird, too - hard to describe ... it was Jane's Addiction.
@@francapitanelli9775 There was an opening band but ... there was a lot going on that night. I'll never forget Perry trying to score heroin whilst on stage. Ya had to be there; it was a rockin' night but it was a weird night.
Just....WOW!!! You, sir, have done a massive service to Jane's and the era that launched it. This may be the best mini-doc on this band on the internet, and made from someone who was there. Lucky man, you are. As mentioned elsewhere in the comments, Casey Niccoli is, in this contributor's opinion, as important as Perry, Eric, Dave, and Stephen were, for the creation of their magic. Would be nice to see her get the credit she deserves. And completely agree, it's not Jane's w/o the original four members. Nothing they've released since their original breakup captures the magic of that era. Maybe b/c like all great music and art, Jane's was as much a reflection of what was going on around them, as it was an expression of it.
He did do a very good job. If you're a huge JA fan you should read the book WHORES:an oral biography of perry Farrell and janes addiction. It's a bunch of stories from heavy hitters in the scene when JA was coming up. Great read if youre into them. It goes into the real reason why they broke up and why Avery refused to reunite with them for a long time. Amongst many other great stories.
Phenomenal video here great work covering truly one of the greatest bands of all time... though I sadly never got to see them I did see pornos for pyros do a rare acoustic free concert in Chicago and met Perry,Stephen and Peter... getting a nice picture with them at the limo was a highlight and also saw Perry do his very first DJ Gig at the same venue Metro Chicago
Nice work. Was lucky enough to catch the Ritual tour twice in London about 9 months apart. The 1st show was amazing (but no Three Days). However the 2nd show after many shows elsewhere. They were on fire. Three Days was mind blowing. One of the best shows I have ever witnessed.
I was at some of those shows you mentioned. I moved to Redondo in 1988 and immediately got into Jane's. I might have been one of the newcomers you mentioned. But I was already a crazy music person at that point, so Jane's hit hard for me. I saw them multiple times. One of my favorite bands. I used to bug my MI. friends playing bootlegs I picked up, and some I was at. Nice video.
Eric Avery is the unsung hero of JA.
@@ProudAmericanValdez Steve Perkins was/is a great drummer.
Eric A was a brilliant mix of melody and rhythm bass playing.
Finally!!! I've been saying it for years! I've been a " Hired gun" bassist for the better part of 2 decades and I play a white p bass and from trying to play like Eric ive got touring gigs for LINK WRAY, MARKY RAMONE BAND,TOXIC HOLOCAUST ,EVERCLEAR (JUST to name. Few)
Eric Avery IS Jane's Addiction!🤘🤟🤘
💯% Agreed! With Perkins a Close Second!!
Pure truth
Apparently Casey Niccoli was not only responsible for creating the "atmosphere" of the early shows with candles, incense and her amazing art but she designed both of the two last album covers- Nothings Shocking & Ritual De Lo Habitual - she never gets any credit from the band for it though even though it's hard to imagine the band without her influence
and she also directed their videos.
The fifth member, she is incredibly artistic. Her outside vision for what the band could be was amazing. Also creating the cult classic "The Gift". To us true Jane's Addiction fans, Cassey is "Our" Classic Girl! ... Instant mashed potatoes.
I love what he said Eric Avery did with those late 80’s/early 90’s bass lines that just roll off like waves on the ocean almost like a trance; such as “Summer Time Rolls”! Dave Navarro on his Ibanez was my guitar guy! The 3 bands that influenced me were Jane’s Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers, & Alice and Chains! 87’-91’ High School vibes with girls, skateboarding, & my Ibanez RG 570!#🎼💥🎸🛹🤘🏻
💯 I sure can’t wait for her book to come out. I am glad she is doing well these days.
@@DeliRevv That's great she is writing a book! Can't wait to read it
Great history lesson on Jane's Addiction, such an amazing band. 3 Days is one of the greatest songs of all time, always felt it would take me on the same type of ride as stairway to heaven.
Yes!
Agree 3 days is one of the top best songs of all time by any band in the history of music. A song just like Stiarway to Heaven.
I still play Three Days at least once or twice a month on my guitar, just to revisit each part, and take the ride. Sometimes I play along with the record, sometimes I can find a drummer and bassist, who can get through most of it, without me having to teach them the whole song, but usually I play it by myself. I don’t play Stairway anymore. I learned it when I was first learning songs, then the leads when I was first learning leads. I’ll take Three Days over Stairway. The major scales Navarro plays on that song, are part of what makes it a ride, from moody and dreamy, climbing up a mountain, to flying across the sky, and back to earth, sliding down the other side of that mountain.
4 dudes who had a special chemistry together.
Probably my all time favourite band. They are ahead of their time today let alone 30+ years ago. I never miss them when they come around.
VOTE Jane's Addiction RNR Hall of Fame !!
Great video! As a 22 year old I will take all the info I can get on this perfect band. Not many people my age are aware of Janes and how magical they are. John Frusciante said Janes were Da Vinci level art and that is true as fuck.
Frusciante is a douche. But he's right.
You have good taste, and are wise beyond your years.
Keep listening.🎵🎶
See if you can find some of their live recordings from shows in 90 and 91. Absolutely incredible.
Yes I used to have some bootlegs. Otherworldly. There have been incredible bands, life changers in fact. Bad Brains, Sabbath, Zeppelin, Soundgarden, even Mr. Bungle. But Jane’s Addiction was from another planet it seemed, but they weren’t, and that’s the most beautiful part.
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You nailed it dude.
Love the Cab Calloway analogy 👌
I was more than a little late to the party when I discovered Jane's Addiction. It was back in 2000, I was barely 21, but this band literally changed my life, everything from my taste in music genres to my fashion sense, to my very worldview. When I look back, I distictively see my life in two parts: BJA (Before the discovery of Jane's) and AJA (After the discovery). That said, I thoroughly enjoyed this video and you sharing your obvious love and passion for this band, and the perspective of someone who was actually there for their glory days. I can only wish I'd been born in the right generation to be able to witness their rise to rock n roll legend, but following you down memory lane will more than suffice. This band just doesn't get discussed enough in the alternative music conversation, if you ask me. It's always Nirvana Nirvana Nirvana, when really, there would be no Nirvana without the path that Jane's paved the way for. Good on you for putting this much needed reminder out there. You've got a sub in me.
Totally agree about Eric he was the heart and soul of the band.
My favorite American band from that era.
"Nothing´s shocking" is a masterpiece. I love that album.
🙏❤🙏 from Gothenburg, Sweden.
You like the band graveyard from Gothenburg?
@@louidivine3140 Yes I do, and I am good friends with Richard, Truls, Oskar and Axel. My band URAN GBG played with them a lot and I have lots of photos and videos of them. Great guys. My channel actually have a few live clips with Graveyard. There are a lot of great bands from Gothenburg. Like Anticimex, Union Carbide Productions, Mustasch, At the gates, The Exorcist GBG, The Leathernun, Fontän and Cortex to name a few. I know them all privately more or less and we have a great music scene here. Some of them contemporary with Jane´s Addiction. I am just a humble musician and a music lover.
@@dundergod oh cool. I saw graveyard here once. I have their albums and 7 inch record tho
@@dundergod i love at the gates too
@@louidivine3140 Try listen to the other bands to, they are all superb. Well I think so, anyway. Where are you from?
thank you for this insight into Jane's Addiction. When I first heard them in the late 80s I was blown away and I went to see them live at a bar in Portland. They were on another level, their show was other worldly and it changed my life, my perspective and outlook on life. I saw them again with the Pixies and Primus and also at the first Lollapalooza in Seattle 1991. When Ritual de lo Habitual came out my friend bought it on vinyl and played it over and over again. I had dropped acid that night and tripped out listening to that album all night. So sublime
Ahhh, the acid. Nothing like dropping a couple hits back in the day, pulling the T-tops off my car and soaking up the beautiful summer sun listening to “Summer Time Rolls”. Driving nowhere in particular. Just enjoying great times and great music with a girl I loved. I wished it could’ve lasted forever.
Wow. You said it bro
With Dave Navarro I hear a ton of Jimmy Page licks that Page played live and Hendrix. He seems to have many of the same Slash influences but more psychedelic than Slash. That’s what I hear anyway. He’s underrated for sure - we talk about Slash forever but I think Navarro is at the same level IMHO
I agree 🤘
Really. Dave and you hear Jimmy page. I don't want the drugs your taking
@@jamescone6359 Navarro says that Page and Hendrix were his two main influences and I think you can hear Page in his playing. Lots of pentatonic major/minor runs. Like the solo in Been Caught Stealing sounds like Page to me, I dunno.
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Slash is a Dave Navarro knock off. Axel wanted him in GNR but he declined so slash was their back up plan. Can't stand that GNR is bigger, yet JA is sooo much better.
That second Nirvana album never would have hit the way it did if Jane's Addiction had not cleared the runway first. And they were a much better band at that...absolutely unique. I've been banging that drum since my senior year in high school. Not to mention what a wonderful time that was to be alive.
Nothings shocking came out in my graduation year of 88’ great record..I always said that too,janes paved they was for 90’s alternative to become popular…was outta high school 3 years when nevermind changed the world… grunge/alternative was so cool when it got more mainstream cause we were kinda sick of the hey baby baby 80’s hairmetal..good guitarists but it was played out in 88 to be honest by 91 it was deader than dead…now grunge is considered complaint rock…..I loved being a 18-21 year old kid in 88-91 was the best time man 😊
That's still an insanely short sighted view of it too. Nrivana would have never landed period, if Mudhoney hadn't made them possible. Hell, Perry Ferrell let a significant portion of the Post Hardcore scene crash on his couch in L.A. when they toured.
I think you're overlooking how much The PIxies's Loud/ Quiet style simply and absolutely made the Nirvana sound. Nirvana lacked the originality and definitely the humor of the Pixies.
@@peterjonas4971 And Dinosaur Jr. Same guitar distortion J Mascis uses
@@jeffbarnes19fg76 True, and Flipper, Melvins, Husker Du, etc.
Disgustingly underrated
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May sound strange but Jane’s Addiction was my Grateful Dead!
Me too !
The recent porno show , they went into longer , jam variations of some of their songs, like the dead.
And STILL IS!!!
Weirdo. The Grateful Dead is my Jane's Addiction.
Saw them in 1988, it was so magical. Heavy and somehow ethereal at the same time. And I definitely agree that the original 4 all brought something that is irreplaceable.
Yea man. I saw them back in the day when they were poor starving artists wearing rags for clothing and humping it in a van. Changed my world bro
navarro and perkins werent "original" lol but i get what you mean
Eric is the man in this band as far as I'm concerned.
I can Instantly recognize Eric's bass lines for just one or two notes,
you can't say that about a lot of bassists.
Steven and Eric make this band hit hard.
The production on Nothings Shocking was phenomenal. That album was a real standout when it was released.
Ritual has better sound in my opinion, but the songs are more complex.
They had many of the Ritual songs, when Nothing’s Shocking was released. Even when XXX was released, but Perry was saving what he and at least some band members thought were the best songs.
Always will be
@@CorbCorbin I get it. I’m a nothings shocking guy, but I get it. That album is soooo crazy which is what they are. Not just crazy but beautiful and with Perry’s lyrics are always great.
Man thank you so much for making this. I’m 33 years old and when I started learning guitar at 13 I had a cassette tape of “Nothing’s Shocking” that my Aunt Rose left with my mom. I was instantly hooked by Perry’s amazing vocal range and lyrics, the groovy bass lines that held it all together, Stephen’s incredible drumming and of course the insane guitar work of Dave Navarro that blew me away. “Three Days” is my favorite Jane’s Song ever but “Nothing’s Shocking” is my album because of that incredible guitar tone. So cool to see someone else who loves them too. It sucks being a guitar player and never having met another musician in real life.
Glad you dug it 🤙🏼
I will never forget where I was and when I first heard Nothing's Shocking. That album did not leave my rotation of straight play for 4 months.
Amen brotha
I remember the very first time I heard of Jane. The dude who introduced me to the band's music said that they were a cross between Pink Floyd and the Sex Pistols. Totally inaccurate description, but I was intrigued. Borrowed the Nothing's Shocking cassette from him and I almost wore it out in two days. Saw the very first Lollapalloza ('91), and though they were upstaged by NIN, Jane were magnificent. And yes, Eric Avery was the musical and conceptual center of that band. Artistically speaking, when he left they became a spent force.
The intro to this video is amazing mate, it captures the smooth and heavy sound of Jane's. I first heard navarro play on the one hot minute album and fell in love with his playing instantly, after hearing that and finding out he was in a band before that and enjoying Jane's first three records my jaw dropped (i also love the deconstuction album). So i am from Scotland and during the time i fell in love with Dave/Janes music i was about 20 years old and i traveled down south to manchester to watch them live (2014) and i was honestly blown away.When i returned i said to my younger brother one day i will take you to see dave play guitar, fast forward to 2024 i am 30 and my brother is about to turn 18 and we are going to see the original line up of Janes this may in glasgow...... LIFE IS WONDERFUL
Great band mucker as a fellow Scotsman I've loved this band since they dropped the Jane's Addiction live album. Jane's Addiction and The Red Hot Chlli Peppers were the most unique bands from the states at the tail end of the 80's. Pixies and Nirvana to. But for me Jane's Addiction are untouchable.
I’m a bassist songwriter with a small underground metal/rock band called White Wizzard. Eric Avery was a huge influence and I think you are right on point. I always equate him to Simon Gallup of the Cure. The bass lines are the main hook in the songs. Even though my band is much more Maiden/Rush/Sabbath….I always cite Janes and Eric as a huge inspiration. I’ll never forget the first time I heard Nothings Shocking late one night summer 1990 standing at Vista Point by the GG Bridge after a show at the Stone. My friends boom box blasting Up the Beach….and a few months after seeing them at the SF Civic on the Ritual Tour Dec 1990. In 1990 they peaked and I thought they were gonna take over the world. They set up what Nirvana knocked down the next year (with AIC as a Segway)
Nirvana ended up being the band that took over the world….But Janes set it in motion. They should have been that but their star burned too bright too fast.
👊Thank you! 🤘
Greatly appreciated, kind sir. Gives anyone who wasn't there to witness their iconic rise to prominence a real feeling of what it was like to be there first hand. Their importance to alternative music culture should never be allowed to diminish in the sands of time. The music is timeless & will last forever, but man if only I had a time machine to go back & experience those early shows... Legendary stuff
I used to play drums in a Jane's Addiction cover band in the 90's. Our lead singer's name was Jon, so we were called Jon's Addiction lol. We sucked, but we were drunk, playing parties and bars and in college, so it was cool. I got laid a bunch from it - good enough. We should have started our own festival called Suck-apalooza
You are what is called "a success in life". If you can play crappy drums and get laid from it, you are doing better than the other 99% that are trying to get degrees and scholarships and going home alone.
livin the dream, baby !!!
Good on you kid, at least you had a go.
Nah. Call it “LOL-a-Palooza”🙃
@@shacktime what have done that was personally enjoyable and half decent,
and I am not talking about the enjoyment you get when you're trolling from your mom's basement.
@@slowery43 yawn.....😭
It was the Deadheads in College at Kent State University back 1988 that had the Jane’s CD’s. As artists and writers we embraced Jane’s music like no other, accumulating to Lallapaloza 1 where Jane’s headlined. The soundtrack to my life 1988-1991. No one’s leaving.
When I first heard Jane’s in
‘91 they blew me away. I listened to them over and over. It was the newest and best feeling I have ever had listening to music.
I love these guys! “Stop” is one of the most jamming tunes ever, and I love the opening. Dave Navarro is the man!! Perry is too
Come the late eighties, I was a pure Genesis and Pink Floyd snob, and nothing could come anywhere close to these bands.
Then I acquired a box of tapes in a very illegal way, and Nothing's shocking was among the tapes.
Eric's bass intro on summertime rolls and mountain song gripped me, and Jane says, crushed me.
So for me, Jane's Addiction really did change music.
Since then, alternative music has a massive place in my heart, and it's thanks to Jane's Addiction,
but also for fate for placing those tapes in my path.
My favourite band ever, I was and still am obsessed with them!!
They were unique, their music style was a mix of rock, metal, funk, pop and more. I never seen and heard a band like them, i'm still waiting.
Every band member were supertalented, too bad they didn't last long. Avery was my favourite, he's bass grooves were hypnotic.
Great video!!!
Janes Addiction was the beginning of the end of Hair Metal I don’t think I have ever been so bummed to hear that a band broke up.
But they were before hair metal 😮
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No they weren’t.
Perry was in Psi Com in 1981-1985, which was a Goth rock band, that had some new wave/post punk, but still a very unique sound. The song Xiola, is as close to Jane’s sound as he got.
Jane’s really started when Perry met Eric, looking for a new bass player for Psi Com. Avery played some gigs, but never was a full member, as that band was falling apart.
The new band came together at the house, where Perry and Casey Niccoli lived, frequented, etc.(mentioned in the video), and they came up with the name before any band existed.
After a few temporary members, Perkins was hired, which lead to Navarro, which was likely the end of 85’ or early 86’.
Hair metal was still peaking at that time. In 1987, when I got ahold of the Triple X album, the Christian Hair metal band Stryper, was on the top ten videos on MTV for months.
Even bands like Extreme, that were trying to get out of that genre of metal, did ballads to make a hit. More Than Words, is a hair metal ballad, whether they like it or not. They had another acoustic song as well.
Guns and Roses’ Appetite for Destruction eventually sold crazy numbers of records, but that album took over a year to get mainstream play, and Jane’s had already went Gold with Nothing’s Shocking, snd were one of the biggest draws, not a hair band in LA.
Hit metal became popular in the early 80’s, and was a thing unto itself by 1983.
His lyrics are as good as anyone else's in popular music. Brilliant, profound, poetic lyrics. The sound of the band is incredible too. The vocals and bass are avant garde, post-punk and gothy, while the guitar and drums are totally over the top and metally but in a good way. The dynamics are incredible too, between quiet and loud.
HELL YEAH JANE'S ADDICTION!!! 🤘🤘🤘😈😈 still my favorite band after all these years!
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@@francapitanelli9775 have you heard of the early 80s new Zealand band the Swingers ? The singer sounds so much like Perry , I think he must of been an influence .
I agree about the melodies. There's something beautiful and archaic about the way he sings. Helped with the effects.
Another killer video!! I am so envious you got to be there and experience that music scene as it was happening. Those first three records are so good. There is no other band that had what they did or hit the way they did. Thanks for putting this together. As always learned some new things! Fantastic editing!!
I gotta say this…modern culture focuses on Nirvana, but 5 years before, these guys were doing it different. I mean, I was a kid in elementary school when JA were on MTV…when Nirvana hit the scene I was already 15 years old. I don’t know, but I think they deserve a bit more of the sentimental limelight. I mean Perry started Lollapalooza, and was very prominent in the media at the time. I know their style can be polarizing, like RHCP, but you got to admit the doors they opened are still happening today. Would the Seattle scene even have been the same? So much energy and trippy emotional stuff.
Three Days, that’s all I’ll say (after all that). Love that song.
The first time I heard them was one of the happiest days of my life. I grew up listening to and playing 70s guitar rock, it was all Stones, Zeppelin and Aerosmith. When that music got pushed aside for New Wave it was like hell, The Cure just wasn’t doing it for me. Then I was at a party and someone put on Ritual and I almost cried. It was heavy guitar and drums with beautiful lyrics sung by a beautiful voice it was so full and dramatic. They are the only band from that era of late 80s to mid 90s that I never got to see. For some reason every time they played somewhere I was at something would interfere. I love Perry
Eric Avery is a phenomenal bassist plus he’s the primary song writer in Jane’s. I got to see them a few times. First time in 88 in Miami second time in 91 with Suicidal Tendencies third time was on Halloween night in NYC with Flea on bass. All amazing shows! Great video!
The first time I heard Nothing's Shocking in 1988, it changed everything I listened to from that point forwarded.
I am so glad someone agrees with me on their influence. They are so under appreciated and I hope they eventually get the respect they deserve.
A band ahead of their time. A flame that burned too bright too fast. Also, don’t forget about the movie Perry made.
Quite a heroin commercial. "I wrote whole aaallbums in a night. It was like a secret lover...." and so on. I saw it tons of times, so don't get the wrong idea, but watching it these days, it's an instructional video for cold-coppin and doc shoppin
@@briansmith9455 I wouldn't judge anyone until you make sure youre perfect first. I'm sure you love a lot of music that was created by people using substances...its kind of a thing. If you have been fortunate enough to not feel like you ever needed drugs than just feel lucky and don't judge others for what you do not understand.
I got the chance to see Jane's live in a small club in São Paulo last week. Despite the lack of Navarro, it was one of the best live concerts of my life. Perry got teary eyed as he sang the first lines of "Then She Did..", i fist bumped him twice during the show, and at the end I asked Stephen Perkins for a setlist and he handed it right in my hand haha
Super cool!
Best Jane's Addiction doc I've ever seen
Eric’s bass playing is fkn hypnotic dude
Saw Janes at the concert hall/masonic temple in toronto 1989 - no opening band. Just an ever increasing in intensity gypsy violin music track for over an hour. Then they slithered onto the stage, and blasted the entire audience into space. It was transcendent. One of, if not the best, the best shows I have ever experienced.
Hey Fran, you did an Awesome Job on this!! Thank you for making & sharing this! Jane's Addiction are one of my all time favourite bands! So glad Eric A is back, yeahhh!! ✌🤘🖖
I don’t think about it much, but they always show up back in my ears and I love it
Brilliant! Such a great presentation. Lollapalooza '91 is still one of my fondest memories ever. I got to see an amazing lineup of bands I already loved, but the Bashees??!! OH, HELL YES! It was a beautiful day into beautiful night as dream after dream came true with each band taking the stage in this festival of angst, spook and hope. As if someone knew exactly what this boy needed so badly. I know I wasn't alone... and Perry knew.
I’ve never heard a band who sounds like them. The variety of sounds on each album is unprecedented and the lyrics are coming from a place no one had gone before or since. Truly a perfect band, great sound, amazing thought provoking lyrics, great style, every band member is insanely talented and they gave me a feeling I not only can’t describe but one that no other form of music has given me.
So glad that their gigs ‘87-‘89 were so well documented (recorded) they are invariably an absolute trip to listen to
I'm 55 and have loved Jane's since I discovered them in 91 or 92. I never got to see them in concert, but I did see Porno For Pyros in Miami. Your video was great and I like your perspective. You have a lot of insight to their music and influences. Thanks.
Fantastic video, thank you for sharing this. Jane's is my all time favorite band and I couldn't agree more on your take on Eric Avery. I am a reggae bassist of 20+ years and completely agree with your connection to his approach and style to writing bass lines.
Truly fantastic videO - much more personal than most band retrospectives 🔥🔥🔥
Thanks a lot for the reminder buddy! I got into them when Nothing's Shocking came out, love it!!
huge huge band. I was 19 when they broke and they were THE game changers. Nirvana sounded to me like an expansion of the commercial possibilities that JA started. imho
Great job covering the band and their contributions. They definitely broke the mole. I’m glad you detailed what and how each member added to the sound.
Hey Frank, You put together such an amazing personal tribute to Jane's. It's great to hear from someone who was right there in the local scene as they came up. Going to so many of their shows must have been wild. My personal experience with their music didn't start till 95 but it I connected to it immediately, probably like someone now hearing Been Caught Stealing would. They are mysterious and truly magnificent to me. Thanks for teaching me more about them.
Cool vid and great job telling some of the LA story of Jane's Addiction. In high school I was a punk with also an appreciation for some classic rock. Jane's came along and completely blew me away and kind of changed everything. I was at the John Anson Ford, Hollywood Palladium and Universal Amphitheater shows during that era. Some of the very best shows I ever saw. I had a death rock/goth friend who saw them earlier at Scream. Also recently saw them with Troy on guitar who really did a damn fine job.
This is an amazing video. Thanks for doing this.
We had Jane's Addiction, and then along came Grunge. Great time to be alive!
Absolutely
They were so far ahead of the time, it's sad they aren't given more credit in these strange times!
I really have to agree with you about Jane's not being the same without Eric. I still remember the day my father brought home nothing's shocking on wax and played it. I was hooked instantly
Great summary of the real events of the band and very interesting links and comparisons I never thought about before.
God I miss bands like this. As a brit I was heavily into bands like The Cure, Spacemen 3, The Smiths and The La's. I didnt pay to much attention to what was happening in the states until Jane's addiction and RHCP. I just loved these guys styles of music. Especially JA. This was a great review man.
excellent commentary!!!!!!! You hit all of the nails I know but unlocked a few I didnt. You saw the shit first hand...thx man...I miss the late 80s and early 90s...it was exciting, adventurous and magical...what a time to be alive....Janes is like a band that never broke up but they did...
Fran - I have few words for this vid. I got very emotional watching it. It’s one of your best. It’s clear to me how much you experienced life and how little I was aware of how you were building your love for music. Envy, admiration, respect.
This is awesome Arn. Thanks my bro💕
I was around 8 when ritual came out and when i saw Stop on tv it really struck a chord as an impressionable kid.. still one of my favourite bands to this day.
I had been thinking of doing a video like this myself as these guys are my all time favorites. I'm a 90s alternative kid, so you can probably see why. Influenced the whole wave of bands i love.
As there were only so few Jane's records, it led me to first discover Porno for Pyros... Then i also came across the Deconstruction album and Eric's Polarbear project. I loved all of that stuff, Eric and Perry are both such great songwriters. Some of their solo albums are good too, also Navarro's album Trust No One.
Thanks for the video! Creative editing too. More people need to talk about Jane's Addiction.
P4p first album is criminally underrated. In my opinion it can be put in there with the the first 3 JA albums. I absolutely LOVE every solo DeStefano played on that album and lenobles baselines are so catchy.
Incredible band in their first incarnation! Like a bolt from the blue, they took all the soaring power of metal and made it majestic. And they were curious about everything - you could feel it in the music and the aesthetic. When I think of them, I always think of something colourful.
Props for giving full credit to what each member brought to the table, especially Eric Avery - it's amazing how his basslines provided the foundation for so many memorable contributions from his bandmates.
Such a deadly band!
Love Juana's Addiction
The single for Classic Girl has a live performance of them doing The Doors L.A. Woman and in that cover Dave Navarro is shedding the ENTIRE SONG. You can hear him running all over the fret board shredding licks and improvising.
your assessment/observation of Stephen Perkins is great!
Really well done video mate. In NZ as a teen I got into their albums around '94 and it was all over by then, so they were very mysterious, never knew much about them for years.
88/89’ in Honolulu…A guitar playing friend (I played bass) introduced me to Nothing Shocking. It changed my listening world!
Great video
Excellent summation of the history of this astonishing group.
Great video man. Really well done
Nothing Shocking is in my top 5 greatest albums of all time, every song in the composition.
I remember flipping the cassette after Standing in the Shower Thinking. Just so much context being a drunk kid trying to figure shit out.
Well done I met Perry at WBCN river rave in Boston He was just walking through the crowd passing a blunt.
Big Fan of Dave Navarro's Guitar Playing and Tones. Great Analysis of such a Great Band. Thanx for sharing your personal experience as well.
i agree im 53 years old i was there, i will diw talking about janes addiction, are u kiddin, one of the best concerts i have ever seen in my life early 90's and they MUST enter some place and be cemented, theyre pure magic, also love love "Porno for Pyros"
wonderful video, you made justice to them
They blew my mind! Thanks
This band is the best amalgam of all four members' musical tastes. I WISH I would've been of age during their heyday 87-90 to see them then. I saw them in 2003 tour, which was great, but just not the same.
Perry is so original and gifted. What a great band JA are.
Met him a couple of times. Really nice guy.
Yeah always loved this band you gave a great description and incredible flashback of my first time hearing this guys
Fascinating, you made some great observations i newd realized.
Great observations. I would flip tapes endlessly, reading Stephen King's collected works and the storytelling and suggestive nature of Jane's Addiction fused with the coming-of-age dramas so incredibly well. Addictive.
Wonderful video! Lucky me got introduced to them in 1991 when i was over there in the U.S. for a year in high school and in May of that year got to see them live in Pittsburgh. What an experience that was. Can't even begin to imagine the shows in the mid 80s.
Jane's Addiction is pretty much the reason Green River broke up.
Green River was playing a show in Southern California, and the members went and saw JA concert. Half the guys in GR was like "this is the direction I want us to go in.." while the other half was like "ewee no way..." that's when they realized they didn't gel with musical influences anymore.
Got to catch them in 2009 in Sydney, Australia with the classic line-up. Still is one of the best gigs of my life. Perry literally had the audience in the palm of his hand. I'm seeing them next month with Smashing Pumpkins. Looking forward, but a little bummed Dave isn't playing.
Cool video.
I grew in my teens during 87-94’. And you nailed this era. I think some of the best music ever made was during this period.
Hey man, great video. You passed on so much knowledge.
I told Eric the very same thing Fran. I said, "there's no JA without you & your baselines". He shyly smiled and thanked me. Jane's Addiction happens to be one of the loves of my life, musically. Zeppelin & Alice in Chains with Layne & Mike Starr are the others.
JA is my favourite hard rock band, ever! I grew up on Deep Purple, Sabbath, Zeppelin, 70s Aerosmith, Rush, Van-frickin'-Halen y'all, Judas Priest, Nazareth, UFO, Punk, AC/DC ... I love all that stuff - child of the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. When Jane's Addiction came along ... they were the band I'd been waiting for all my life (I was 25 when they popped). Everything about them was perfect ... and then they were gone. They are my favourite from all the greats. Saw them at the Nick in Birmingham, AL in 89 or 90. It.was.so.faakin'.AWE-sommmmmmme. The Nick is like a double-wide trailer, so ... yeah, that joint got pregnant that night. It was really weird, too - hard to describe ... it was Jane's Addiction.
I think Mary My Hope was on that bill at the Nick.
@@francapitanelli9775 There was an opening band but ... there was a lot going on that night. I'll never forget Perry trying to score heroin whilst on stage. Ya had to be there; it was a rockin' night but it was a weird night.
Just....WOW!!! You, sir, have done a massive service to Jane's and the era that launched it. This may be the best mini-doc on this band on the internet, and made from someone who was there. Lucky man, you are. As mentioned elsewhere in the comments, Casey Niccoli is, in this contributor's opinion, as important as Perry, Eric, Dave, and Stephen were, for the creation of their magic. Would be nice to see her get the credit she deserves. And completely agree, it's not Jane's w/o the original four members. Nothing they've released since their original breakup captures the magic of that era. Maybe b/c like all great music and art, Jane's was as much a reflection of what was going on around them, as it was an expression of it.
Thanks for this cool comment
Great video and análisis of this great band that blows my mind from the first time.
Thanks!
bless u for making this -their story need to be told -- such game changers + legends
He did do a very good job. If you're a huge JA fan you should read the book WHORES:an oral biography of perry Farrell and janes addiction. It's a bunch of stories from heavy hitters in the scene when JA was coming up. Great read if youre into them. It goes into the real reason why they broke up and why Avery refused to reunite with them for a long time. Amongst many other great stories.
This was a great watch. I grew up in the Hollywood area around the time Jane's was coming up and this brings back memories
I was at that Coach House show. What a night!! Still have the ticket stub. Also saw them open for X at Cal State Fullerton. Amazing show!!!
Perry’s singing is so reminiscent of Nina Simone: creating dissonance with sharp intervals. He plays the microphone as an instrument.
I love both singers. What is sharp intervals?
Phenomenal video here great work covering truly one of the greatest bands of all time... though I sadly never got to see them I did see pornos for pyros do a rare acoustic free concert in Chicago and met Perry,Stephen and Peter... getting a nice picture with them at the limo was a highlight and also saw Perry do his very first DJ Gig at the same venue Metro Chicago
Just saw them with SP in Anaheim last year w/o Navarro...great show!
And good job on this little biopic of one of my all time favorite bands
Nice work. Was lucky enough to catch the Ritual tour twice in London about 9 months apart.
The 1st show was amazing (but no Three Days). However the 2nd show after many shows elsewhere.
They were on fire. Three Days was mind blowing. One of the best shows I have ever witnessed.
I was at some of those shows you mentioned. I moved to Redondo in 1988 and immediately got into Jane's. I might have been one of the newcomers you mentioned. But I was already a crazy music person at that point, so Jane's hit hard for me. I saw them multiple times. One of my favorite bands. I used to bug my MI. friends playing bootlegs I picked up, and some I was at. Nice video.