Jane's Addiction - February 03, 1989 - Woody's, Miami, FL

Date: February 03, 1989
Location: Woody's, Miami, FL
Recorded: Audio (audience)
Status: Confirmed
Type: Concert
Lineup: Perry Farrell
Dave Navarro
Stephen Perkins
Eric Avery
Artwork:
 

Setlist:

Had A Dad
Ted, Just Admit It...
Standing In The Shower... Thinking
Bobhaus
Pigs In Zen (with Blood Rag)
Summertime Rolls
Ocean Size
Mountain Song

(incomplete)

Show Information:

Nuclear Valdez opened for Jane's.

Recording Information:

Below-average audience recording. 44:31. Lots of crowd noise. Missing some songs from the start of the set, apparently incomplete on the master. The recording's first track, "Had a Dad", is missing the first half. Quick cut in the beginning of "Ted". Some other quick cuts here and there. Sometimes misdated as 2/1/89.

Notable Moments:

Perhaps the earliest known performance of "Blood Rag". Jane's would jam a minute or so of the song occasionally during the breakdown section of "Pigs" at early '89 shows. It would later go on to become a Porno For Pyros song.

(before "Shower")
"This is for you dirty, dirty, dirty motherfuckers."

(during "Pigs" breakdown)
"I just wanna tell my father, you've raised your boy well. Yeah, I know how to read and write and arithmetic. But I still wanna fuck! I've been around the world. I've been with about maybe a hundred and 99 thousand girls. I still wanna fuck, man!"

Perry yells "Hey, Nicky!" during "Ocean Size", likely a shoutout to a friend of his in the audience (Perry spent much of his youth in the Miami area).

(before the encore, "Mountain Song")
"What are you fuckers waiting for?"

Dave teases a couple seconds of "Jane Says" before the encore.

Miami Herald, The (FL)
January 19, 1989
JAZZ CLUB ONCE MORE SHIPSHAPE
Author: DOUG ADRIANSON Herald Staff Writer

The Helm is back on course.

For a while last year, Pete Minger had a good jazz scene going at the cozy club in downtown Hollywood (2037 Hollywood Blvd.; 925-2688).

Then one week the place closed. Now it's back in action -- and back in the hands of Steve Bruce, who ran it successfully before he sold it to the guys who ran it aground.

The Helm is a long, thin room with a bar and booths, lots of corny nautical doodads and a newly revised menu with a few Cuban and tropical touches.

Best of all, Bruce promises jazz every weekend.

Guitarist Randy Bernsen's trio provided welcome-back music last weekend, and Bruce said he'd like to book them regularly. This week, however, trumpet/flugelhorn man Paul Ayick and trio will play on Friday and Saturday, beginning around 10 p.m. Cover is $5.

A couple of other new entries in the live music scene:

* Saxophonist Kenny Millions plays Tuesdays through Saturdays at Tokyo Rose Bar & Grill, in the new pink shopping center at 13400 Biscayne Blvd., North Miami; 945-7782.

* And bluesbusters Iko-Iko will rock a post-Super Bowl party at Schooners (1890 Oakwood Dr., Miami Springs; 884-4686). This new three-level club will feature mellow rock and R&B each weekend, says spokesman Joel Young.

Salz stretches out

Guitarist Simon Salz is a musical chameleon.

For the past five years, he's been "hiding out at the Grand Bay Hotel," as he puts it -- playing tasteful background music for upscale diners. It pays the bills, but doesn't exactly tax the talents of a guy who's played all styles, teaches guitar at Florida International University and the New World School of the Arts, and has an eclectic album out, New Songs for a New Year.

Salz says some of the edge-seeking jazz he heard during last month's New Music America festival inspired him to stretch a little more, as he used to do with Ira Sullivan's group at the old Bubba's in Fort Lauderdale.

So tonight he's sneaking over to the Wet Paint Cafe (915 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach; 672-3287) to unleash some seriously adventurous jazz. Actually, you can hear Salz & Friends most Thursdays (all but the first of each month) at the Wet Paint. Music starts around 11:30 p.m.; $3 gets you in.

Southside Johnny

Jersey boys Bruce Springsteen, Little Steven Van Zandt and Southside Johnny Lyon have each gone their own way since they played together in the long-gone Sundance Blues Band.

After 10 albums with the Asbury Jukes (now just the Jukes), Lyon has released his first solo effort, Slow Dance on Cypress Records. It shows off his gruff, bluesy voice in a variety of styles.

He cruises through the romantic When the Moment is Right, then spins around and rages against the hopelessness of the homeless in Little Calcutta.

Hear Southside Johnny and the Jukes tonight at City Limits (2520 S. Miami Rd., Fort Lauderdale; 524-7827) Tickets are $10; show time is 9 p.m.

Or hear them Friday at Deco's (1235 Washington Ave., Miami Beach; 531-1235). Tickets are $10; music starts around midnight.

Concert update

New on the concert horizon are hard-core Grammy nominees Jane's Addiction coming Feb. 3 to Woody's; underground sensation The Feelies on Feb. 7 at the Button South; R&B pioneer Fats Domino on Feb. 9 at Woody's; brassy classic rockers Chicago on Feb. 18 at the Knight Center; progressive rockers That Petrol Emotion and Voice of the Beehive together on Feb. 23 at Club Nu; smooth soul crooner Jonathan Butler with Najee and Angela Bofill on March 12 at the Knight Center One to subtract: The Smothers Brothers show at Sunrise Musical Theatre has been canceled.

International music

Music from Armenia, Israel, Yugoslavia, Venezuela and even the United States are on the menu Saturday as the South Florida Composers Alliance presents a concert of contemporary music at Opus Gallery (1810 Ponce de Leon, Coral Gables; 253-3894).

Lisa LaCross will perform Fusion, a minimalist flute solo by Vladimir Tosic, and Song, a piece by Reza Vali that requires LaCross to sing and play flute at the same time.

Brian Denk will play A Circle in the Fire, a duet for bass clarinet and tape by Amnon Wolman, and In Memory of Gentle Giant, a composition for clarinet and tape by Gustavo Matamoros.

In addition, the four-channel tape piece Variations on Strata by Steven Smith will be presented.

The performance starts at 8 p.m.; admission is $6.

Industry summit

Concert-biz honchos from across the nation will gather at the Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood on Feb. 2 for a three-day conference sponsored by Performance magazine.

The annual summit brings together promoters, booking agents, managers, club owners, corporate sponsors and others to discuss industry issues and trends.

For details, call Allan Prober at 940-1625.

Request line

Got a musical question, suggestion, news tip or complaint? Write Doug Adrianson c/o The Herald, 1 Herald Plaza, Miami 33132, or call 376-3658 (toll-free from Broward 764-7026 ext. 3658).

Miami Herald, The (FL)
February 2, 1989
2 CLUBS TRY LATIN NIGHTS ON BEACH
Author: DOUG ADRIANSON Herald Music Writer

Waking up and smelling the cafe cubano, two Miami Beach discos are introducing Latin music nights.

"Salsa is what's hot," said publicist Diane Siquier of Deco's (1235 Washington Ave.; 531-1235). "The Latin community is really heavy here, and we want to give them their music."

Salsa nights at Deco's start Feb. 10 with Hansel and Raul, plus Yordano. Roberto Torres performs on Feb. 17, Willy Chirino on Feb. 24. Admission is $5 for women and $10 for men until 11 p.m., $5 more afterward.

Club Nu started the strategy two weeks ago, also with Hansel and Raul. Sunday night, Nu (245 22nd St.; 672-0068) will present a Brazilian carnival with music by Torro Batucada, followed on Feb. 10 by Chirino and a salute to the Latin filmmakers of the Miami Film Festival.

Response has been "pretty good," a club spokeswoman said.

Mardi Gras at Bon Ton

Zachary Richard plays Cajun zydeco music with a rock and roll edge -- or maybe it's the other way around -- and a Tabasco-hot stage show that has left audiences panting from the Louisiana bayous to Quebec to Paris.

He could be just what's been needed to bring bigger crowds to Fort Lauderdale's Bon Ton Square entertainment complex (200 W. Broward Blvd.; 467-7500).

Bon Ton Square, where the popular Lagniappe Cajun House restaurant relocated last October in quarters once occupied by the legendary Backstreets disco, centers around a courtyard with pool, outdoor stage and several bars. Shops, a health club and a variety of restaurants complete the complex.

As the name suggests, the theme is old New Orleans. While the atmosphere suffers from a few Disney-style affectations (shops tend to be "shoppes," for instance), there's no quibble with the quality or authenticity of the Cajun House's food.

Owner Ron Morrison is still fine-tuning the musical offerings but seems sincerely committed to both quantity and quality seven nights a week. Bigger crowds would help, especially on weeknights.

On a raised stage in the large dining room, a "Cotton Club" jazz revue alternates with Dixieland by the Ragin' Cajuns. On the poolside stage, the ferocious Blind Tigers blues band has appeared regularly along with various others.

That's where Richard's band will kick off the 10-day Mardi Gras celebration tonight with sets at 9:30 and midnight ($8 cover). He'll also play two shows on Friday and Saturday ($10).

On Sunday, an outdoor gospel hour will follow the weekly jazz brunch, which runs from noon to 3 p.m. Asante will play African jazz and reggae on Monday and Tuesday, the Cotton Club Revue returns Wednesday and Thursday, and voodoo piano master Dr. John wraps things up with dinner shows on Feb. 10 and 11.

This place has great potential, and this is a perfect week to check it out.

JANE'S ADDICTION

California art-rock band Jane's Addiction called its debut album Nothing's Shocking, but Lord knows they try.

There's the album cover, prominently featuring a sculpture of female albino Siamese twins naked with their hair on fire. That got the album bounced from a half-dozen moral-minded record store chains.

And there's lead singer/songwriter Perry Farrell's sense of, ah, style -- Technicolor dreadlocks, makeup, face tattoo, gold nose ring, costume-trunk stage duds.

And then there's the music, an aggressively original brew of psychedelic space noise, hard-core thunder and even moments of gentle acoustic lilt. It got them a Grammy nomination in the new Hard Rock/Heavy Metal category.

By all accounts (and they've been getting lots of accounts), this is a band best appreciated live. See them Friday at Woody's (455 Ocean Dr., Miami Beach; 672-8110). Opening act is Nuclear Valdez; doors open at 10 p.m.; tickets are $10 at the door or through Ticketmaster.

More Woody's news: The Feb. 9 date by Fats Domino has been postponed due to his delicate health, according to club spokesman Woody Graber, and the Neville Brothers will add Woody's dates on March 17 and 18 to their March 16 appearance at the Carefree Theatre in West Palm Beach.

FEELIES AT THE BUTTON

It's been more than a decade since the Village Voice declared The Feelies "The Best Underground Band in New York," and their underground status remains persistently intact.

On last year's Only Life (A&M), the Feelies' music remains true to their distinctive form. Songs typically are built on two or three basic chords, neatly strummed over and over, gradually becoming more complex and speeding up as they develop.

It's a rootsy, sometimes folkie, sound that leans more toward Smithereens than Velvet Underground, so basic on record that there's plenty of room for stretching things out on stage.

Again, the evidence is best judged in person, so go see the Feelies Tuesday at the Button South (100 Ansin Blvd., Hallandale; 756-5811 from Dade, 454-0001 from Broward). Opening act is Yo La Tengo. Tickets are $8 at the door or through Ticketmaster.

GIL SCOTT-HERON

The word from Johannesburg hasn't gotten much more encouraging since Gil Scott-Heron first sang about it in 1975. But the writer-turned-singer hasn't lost his political edge, or his funk-charged musical sensibility.

Hear him Sunday at 8 or 10:45 p.m. at the Musicians Exchange (200 S. Andrews Ave., Fort Lauderdale; 764-1912). Cover is $10.

Kronos in Palm Beach

If you got hooked on the Kronos Quartet during the New Music America festival, or if you've been regretting that you let yourself miss the most talked-about foursome in classical music, you have another chance this week.

The Kronos will perform works by John Zorn, Astor Piazzolla, Terry Riley and Alfred Schnittke at 8 p.m. Friday at the Duncan Theatre of Palm Beach Junior College (4200 Congress Ave., Lake Worth; (407) 439-8141). Tickets are $15 to $25.

KITCHEN CLOSET

The Closet, the tiny alternative multimedia arts space on NE 125th Street, is sending forth expedition forces this Sunday to The Kitchen (100 21st St., Miami Beach; 538-6631).

Edward Bobb, known for his work with the Happiness Boys, will present a multimedia "cyber-punk blues operetta" called The Book on How to Live, Volumes 1, 2 & 3.

The work, in three 16-minute sections, combines film and partly improvised music with "found vocals" from radio and elsewhere. The plot explores tensions -- between world powers, individuals and factions of a community -- with a little help from friendly extraterrestrials.

Musicians involved include Bobb, Frank Falestra, Johnny Zhivago, King Felix and others. Starting time will be around 10:15 p.m., Bobb predicted.

FIRST PERSON, MUSICAL

Saturday is songwriters' night at the Folk Club, featuring compositions by such South Florida stalwarts as Janet Bratter, Eileen Cuba, Boomslang, Grant Livingston, Valarie Caracappa, Robbie Skultey, Ade Peever and David C. Perry.

Music starts at 8:30 p.m. at the Our Place health food restaurant (830 Washington Ave., Miami Beach; 674-1322). Cover is $4.

NAIOMI'S HAIR

Intense? One recent review mentions that guitarist Scott Mahaney broke eight strings during a show by his band, Naiomi's Hair.

The trio, which jelled in Fort Lauderdale, earned a noisy following in Gainesville and recently relocated to suburban Orlando, specializes in an energetic blast of jangling guitars and muddy vocals that owes a lot (maybe a hair too much) to R.E.M. Many songs show evidence of a more-original approach, however, and there's never a shortage of energy.

Hear them tonight around 10:30 at the Reunion Room (2660 E. Commercial Blvd., Fort Lauderdale; 776-4081; $5) or Friday around 11 at the Wet Paint Cafe (960 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach; 672-3287; $6).

CONCERT UPDATE

Newly on sale this week at Ticketmaster outlets are several shows at the Knight Center, including the Winans on Feb. 17, the Gipsy Kings on March 10 and Waylon Jennings on July 15. Tickets are also on sale for Julio Iglesias' show at Sunrise Musical Theatre on March 31. Call 653-3309 in Dade, 523-3309 in Broward, 588-3309 in Palm Beach County.

REQUEST LINE

Got a musical news tip, question, suggestion or complaint? Write Doug Adrianson, The Miami Herald, 1 Herald Plaza, Miami, Fla. 33132 or call 376-3658 (toll-free from Broward, 764-7026 ext. 3658).

Sun Sentinel - Fort Lauderdale
Feburary 2, 1989
CAN JANE'S ADDICTION LIVE UP TO HYPE?
Author: MICHAEL SAUNDERS, Staff Writer

Jane's Addiction has received an amazing amount of press coverage for a band that supposedly is way out on the fringe of rock `n' roll.

Publications such as Rolling Stone, Spin, the Los Angeles Times and even the New York Post have hailed the four South Florida expatriates as musical messiahs, poised to carry the rock tradition to a higher plane.

And if the media buzz wasn't enough, the band's debut album, Nothing's Shocking, has been nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Performance.

But can any band, or anyone, live up to that much hype?

South Florida listeners will be able to judge for themselves when Jane's Addiction plays at Woody's on the Beach Friday. Local rockers Nuclear Valdez will open the show.

An oft-told story about the band has the president of Warner Bros. records saying after his first listen to Nothing's Shocking: "You guys are gonna warp an entire generation."

Some record stores have refused to carry Nothing's Shocking because of its lurid cover art, lead singer Perry Farrell's sculpture of two naked Siamese twins with flaming hair.

Inside the cover, the album is truly unique, a hard-to-describe smattering of melodic neo-folk and bare-knuckled, guitar-based rock. All are performed behind Farrell's bizarre, compelling voice.

Yet, the band turned in a surprisingly lifeless performance opening for Iggy Pop last October at Summers on the Beach in Fort Lauderdale.

Their youthful, hell-raiser attitude was wiped away by the potent 41-year-old Pop, who took the stage as if Jane's Addiction had not been there minutes before.

Oddly though, some people left the show feeling as if they had seen The Big New Thing.

Perhaps some of the audience at Woody's will see The Next Big Thing. But maybe it will be Nuclear Valdez.