Jane's Addiction - October 20, 1988 - Cameo Theatre, Miami Beach, FL

Date: October 20, 1988
Location: Cameo Theatre, Miami Beach, FL
Recorded: No known recording
Status: Confirmed
Type: Concert
Lineup: Perry Farrell
Dave Navarro
Stephen Perkins
Eric Avery
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Jane's opened for Iggy Pop.

Miami Herald, The (FL)
October 16, 1988
THE SEPTEMBER OF IGGY'S YEARS
Author: DOUG ADRIANSON Herald Music Writer

His was the act that launched a thousand punk-rock bands.

Shirtless and sweating, Iggy Pop would scream his aural shrapnel over bludgeoned drums and chain-saw guitars. Sometimes he would smear raw meat over his naked chest, then hurl his sinewy body through the air, crashing violently into the stage, musicians or audience.

His brutal, primitive rock with The Stooges helped set the tone for the whole punk wave of the early 1970s -- a wave that left him behind partly because of his heroin addiction. His shtick was easy for the unhip to hate -- and that made it easy for the hip to love.

Pop still rocks ferociously on his new album, Instinct, as South Floridians can discover when he performs Thursday at the Cameo Theatre and Friday at Summers, with opening act Jane's Addiction.

But he's got a surprise up his nonexistent sleeve.

"When the tour wraps up around Valentine's Day, I want to make a record that's very different," Pop, 41, said in a phone conversation from Oregon last week. "Something about middle age."

Excuse me?

"You remember the album September of My Years, by Sinatra? Something like that."

He's not kidding.

The songs on Instinct are significantly more profound than the rude barrage that first outraged the musical mainstream back in 1968.

In the title song, he sings:

Standing on the borderline

Between joy and reason

Tending carefully my fire,

Waiting for my season

I know who these people are

I know what they stand for

Corruption's built into this plan

Nothing's on the other hand

Tricks and trials await the child.

"I worked really hard on this album, did a lot of woodshedding on the writing," said Pop, who was born James Osterberg in Ypsilanti, Mich. "I felt my technical skills were so limited when I started, there was room to do better. I still have a long way to go."

It was 10 a.m., the morning after a physical-as-ever nightclub performance, but Pop seemed chipper and cheerful. While passing years are adding depth to his songwriting, he insists his on-stage gymnastics haven't mellowed a bit.

"The nature of my work is much kinder to my body than a sedentary desk job would be," he said. "Of course some times it gets out of hand, and then I have to back off a bit."

One of those periods came in 1970, when the Stooges broke up and Pop retired for a year to kick drugs. Another came five years later, when he checked into a California mental hospital to clean up yet again. But now Pop sounds clear-headed and ambitious, discussing his reading habits (loves Paul Theroux), fellow songwriters (thumbs up to Guns 'n' Roses, Metallica, the Swans, Morrisey) and current painters ("Eric Fischl in New York I especially like.") Some of the new depth to Pop's lyrics comes from what he calls "social spying."

"I just like to walk around, see what people are doing, then write a song about it," he said. "Take the song Easy Rider -- I don't ride a motorcycle, but I have lots of friends who are into that scene. I would just go down, hang with the bikers and ask myself, 'What is the emotional motivation here?' "

The songs are powered by a band drawn from several hard- rocking outfits. On Instinct: ex-Sex Pistol guitarist Steve Jones, bassist Leah Foxx (Yoko Ono, Debbie Harry, Patti Smith bands), drummer Paul Garisto (Psychedelic Furs) and keyboardist Seamus Geaghen. On tour: guitarist Andy McCoy (Hanoi Rocks) and bassist Alvin Gibbs (UK Subs) with Garisto and Geaghen.

It hardly sounds like the team to go after the Sinatra crowd, but Pop sounds quite sincere as he discusses his fantasy project.

"This album was my rock and roll blowout. The next one will be quiet, a blend of traditional and new -- acoustic guitar, flutes, French horns.

"I can see the last 20 years of my life so clearly, stretched out like asphalt pavement. It's time to reflect a little on what it's all been about."

IGGY POP with JANE'S ADDICTION: 8 p.m. Thursday at the Cameo Theatre, 1445 Washington Ave., Miami Beach; $14 in advance, $16 day of show; 532-0922. Also, 9 p.m. Friday at Summers, 219 S. Atlantic Blvd., Fort Lauderdale; $14; 462-8978.

Sun Sentinel - Fort Lauderdale
October 20, 1988
DYNAMIC IGGY POP ENDURES AS PUNK PIONEER
Author: MICHAEL SAUNDERS, Staff Writer

An up-and-coming band tours with an established act to gain exposure and experience. It's one of the oldest entertainment traditions. Usually, newcomers ride the coattails of the headline act, but tonight and Friday night will be somewhat different.

When Jane's Addiction opens for Iggy Pop, the audience may feel a rock `n' roll symbiosis -- a coming together of two dissimilar bands that is advantageous to both.

For more than 20 years, Iggy Pop has been rock `n' roll's Mr. Individuality. His sound was unique and his actions bizarre: jumping on broken glass, exposing himself onstage, faking convulsions in midsong while covered in peanut butter.

Perry Farrell of Jane's Addiction takes a more cerebral route to express himself.

The cover art of his band's first major release, Nothing's Shocking, featured Farrell's sculpture of nude Siamese twins with their hair aflame, lounging in a rocking chair.

Although Farrell is regarded as an heir to Pop's domain as dynamic lead singer with an irrepresible presence, the 41-year-old Pop keeps rocking.

Iggy Pop, aka James Osterberg, recently released his ninth solo album, Instinct, which continues the hard-driving sound he seized and twisted during his heyday in the `70s.

Pop's often-used title of Godfather of Punk ignores the impact he has had on heavy metal. The potent, 12-cylinder sound of his first serious band, The Stooges, was used as a prototype by many punk and many heavy metal bands.

The Stooges' second album, Funhouse, was released in 1969 but sounds as vibrant as many punk albums from the second British Invasion of the late 1970s.

The Stooges broke up in 1973, after the release of Raw Power, and Pop spent more than three years in and out of hospitals throughout the world. His heroin addiction almost killed him, until he broke free with the help of his longtime friend and collaborator, David Bowie.

Pop co-wrote Bowie's 1983 No. 1 hit, China Girl, which appeared on Pop's 1977 album, The Idiot.

-- Iggy Pop with guest, Jane's Addiction, at 8 tonight at the Cameo Theatre, 1445 Washington Ave, Miami Beach. Tickets $14 advance, $16 day of show. Also at 9 p.m. Friday at Summers on the Beach, 219 S. Atlantic Blvd., Fort Lauderdale. Tickets $12 advance, $14 day of show. Call BASS, 741-3000 (Broward), 734-2277 (Palm Beach), 633-2277 (Dade).