Live And Profane (1 Disc Version)

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Live And Profane (1CD)

Live And Profane a CD bootleg from Great Dane Records.  This bootleg is a compilation of three different Jane’s Addiction performances.  The first eight tracks, which makes up the bulk of this release,  are from the Pyramid in Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA on November 13, 1986.  The next three tracks may be from the November 27, 1987 concert at the Arcadia Theater in Dallas, TX, however this has not been confirmed.  The final five tracks are from Scream at the Embassy Hotel in Los Angeles, CA from February 14, 1987.  The first twelve tracks of this bootleg are identical to Tonka 1 and disc one of Live And Profane by Totonka and disc one of the Mountain Songs bootleg by Hollywood Nights.

This bootleg should not be confused of the two-disc bootleg collection Live And Profane released by Totonka.  This one-disc bootleg has the same essay found in Book 2 of the two-disc version of the same name, but includes entirely different liner note artwork than the other bootleg of the same name.

The photograph of Perry Farrell found on the front and back of this bootleg is from Jane’s Addiction’s final concert in 1991 at the Aloha Tower in Hawaii.

The essay, known as the Book 2 Essay, is as follows:

In the earliest eighties, the insular Los Angeles underground music scene, made up largely of over-educated misfits and art-school dropouts, exploded from the violent impact of suburban hard-core punk and scattered into a thousand fragments. Some of the fragments – the American-roots thing embraced by such bands as X and the Blasters, the neo-sixties scene that spawned the Bangles – became quite popular both inside and outside L.A.

The self-described “art” scene – depressed, black-clad musicians playing music almost as performance art, usually as an ironic comment on the state of pop culture – produced a lot of bands and venues but not many fans. Basically, all but the most popular LA art bands played to each other, to the 26 people on the guest list at the Anticlub on a Thursday night.

One of these bands, and by no means the best, was Psi-Com, whose lead singer, Perry Farrell, was king of the ring-nosed dreads. Psi-Com broke up out of ennui after half the members left to join a religious cult, but not before Eric Avery auditioned for the band in 1986, playing one bass riff for 45 minutes while Farrell improvised vocals. Psi-Com would never play another gig, but a few months later Stephen Perkins and David Navarro, the high-school-aged drummer and guitarist for a local glam-metal band, joined the group, which named itself Jane’s Addiction after the habit of a junkie friend of Avery’s and Farrell’s (Jane, now clean, works as a secretary in Hollywood – her idealized portrait, as the Virgin Mary, is on the inside cover of the lyric booklet that comes with the Ritual de lo Habitual CD.)

By the end of 1986, the thrashings of Hollywood post punk had all but withered away; what rose up in its place was plain old heavy metal again, and the heat that had surrounded local alternative music cleaved onto the retro-seventies hard-rock grooves you now hear on MTV. Guns ‘N Roses came out of the scene that formed at the club Scream, which happened a couple of times a week in a big, empty room under the Embassy Hotel in downtown LA Jane’s Addiction, which by this time had acquired a heavy, metallic sheen to underpin Farrell’s arty manderings, was also wildly popular at Scream, where the kids didn’t care how left-field a band was as long as it had loud guitars. The standard comparison in those days put them as Led Zeppelin to Guns N’ Roses’ Aerosmith, because Farrell’s voice was shrill, the song structures powerful and abstract.

Jane’s Addiction stood out as art music that metal kids could like too – “neometal” as easy to bang a head to as to contemplate to on headphones – and the success of the non-genre genre made it possible for other West Coast bands like Faith No More, Primus and Soundgarden to cross over with out confining themselves to a genre either. Where the record industry tends to peg bands as pop, rock, metal or alternative. Jane’s Addiction was all of the above.

In 1987, the band was signed by Warner Bros. Records for a sum large enough to stun the underground; in early 1988, it released a live album on local Triple X Records that included the classic “Whores”; in late 1988, it released its first major-label album, Nothing’s Shocking, which included a song about Ted Bundy, a pile of metaphors for heroin addiction (a problem that plagued all members of the band except for drummer Perkins) and an album cover that pictured Casey as naked Siamese twins with their heads ablaze. The nude videos accompanying the album were banned by MTV. Nothing’s Shocking was nominated for a Grammy but lost out to Jethro Tull. In 1990, Ritual went gold in less than a month, and the band went from playing small theaters to selling out Madison Square Garden. The band was speaking to somebody.

 

Track Origins:

Tracks 1-8: 11/13/1986 – Pyramid, The, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA
Tracks 9-12: 11/27/1987 – Arcadia Theater, Dallas, TX (unconfirmed)
Tracks 13-17: 02/14/1987 – Scream at the Embassy Hotel, Los Angeles, CA

Track Listings:

  1. My Time
  2. Whores
  3. Pigs In Zen
  4. Ain’t No Right
  5. I Would For You
  6. Idiots
    Idiots Rule
  7. Tripaway
    Trip Away
  8. Mountain Song
  9. No One’s Leaving
  10. Then She
    Then She Did…
  11. Ted
    Ted, Just Admit It…
  12. Oceanside
    Ocean Size
  13. Had A Dad
  14. 1%
  15. Standing In The Shadow
    Standing In The Shower… Thinking
  16. Three Days
  17. Stop!

Released By: Great Dane Records
ID Number: GDR CD 9227
Medium: CD
Quality: Very Good
Source: Soundboard
Time: 75:03

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