Jane's Addiction treated its fans to a visual assault as well, with multiple, large video monitors blasting old movies, propaganda and vintage stag films. Drummer Stephen Perkins remains the band's secret weapon, thanks to his ferocious tribal drumming and steel-drum-playing. Guitarist Dave Navarro-despite his well-publicized forays into reality TV and porn-directing-proved why he should be considered a quasi-pioneer for melding metal, alt-rock and psychedelic styles. Singer Perry Farrell was a genial host, dancing in his familiar arrhythmic, psycho-marionette fashion and cranking his inimitable whine up to air-raid-siren volumes.
In attendance were three of the original members, looking younger than they have a right to, as well as bassist Chris Chaney, who has played on and off with the band for a decade. During the 80-minute set, Jane's played songs from each of their studio albums (including a couple from last year's The Great Escape Artist), although the concert was top-heavy with numbers at least 20 years old-"Ocean Size," "Mountain Song," "Jane Says" and "Been Caught Stealing" among them. The band, which began in the 1980s, arrived to the strains of Pink Floyd's "Welcome to the Machine," and they immediately walloped the audience with the power of a super-charged earthmover. One of the few still-relevant groups from the alternative-rock renaissance of the 1990s, Jane's Addiction, roared into town last week and crammed an arena-size show into this genteel theater.
0 kommentar(er)
