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perry and i did play early shows as a duo. not many. dont know what we were thinking. i would sometimes play bass, sometimes a chemical drum, while perry sang through all his fx units. improvisational. in fact, 'pigs in zen' was born when i started to play a bass line to what i could hear of a drum beat coming through the house speakers as we stood onstage waiting for the club to turn off the music. maybe ten people there. one of whom was biff sanders (then in a band called fourway cross) who i would years later do polarbear with.

Perry Farrell: Between Psi Com and Jane's I'd go out there and improvise with just a drummer or with Eric on electric bass and I'd holler through my vocal effects box. I'd do off-the-top-of-my-head lyrics dressed in a see-thru unitard. It was a big hit at Lingerie, the Anti-Club, Charlie's Obsession.... I think we may have billed ourselves as the Illuminotics, or the Illuminati....

Eric Avery: Once we played some hellhole bar on Skid Row on the corner of 5th and Spring Street [downtown L.A.]. Charlie's Obsession was its name. The whole area outside the club was like Dawn of the Dead. Several thousand unchecked crackheads and mental patients wandering homeless around a two-mile radius. About five people inside, including us. I played bass. Perry sang and made noises with his effects unit. We played with Four Way Cross. They watched us play and then we finished and watched them play, there was nobody else there.