Jane's Addiction - December 06, 1990 - Mammoth Events Center, Denver, CO
| Date: | December 06, 1990 |
| Location: | Mammoth Events Center, Denver, CO |
| Recorded: | No known recording |
| Status: | Confirmed |
| Type: | Concert |
| Lineup: | Perry Farrell Dave Navarro Stephen Perkins Eric Avery |
| Artwork: |
Show Information:
Primus opened.
Thanks go out to 'The Madcircle' for the opener info, and ticket scans, 'kc' for the multi-date ad, and D. Salas for the fifth ticket stub.
Rocky Mountain News (CO)
December 5, 1990
SUBCONSCIOUS THOUGHT FUELS MUSIC OF JANE'S ADDICTION
Author: KIRA L. BILLIK
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Dateline: PHILADELPHIA
Perry Farrell doesn't want his lyrics to be overanalyzed. He's adamant about it. In fact, if the hyperkinetic singer of Jane's Addiction were to have a motto, it would be: "That's for me to know and you to find out."
Farrell's evasiveness about the exact subject matter of his material can be exasperating. But whether he is that way because he is trying to maintain artistic integrity or is just trying to be enigmatic is a mystery.
He strives to make listeners think for themselves and then draw their own conclusions without his help. So he reduced the band's seeming complexity to basic terms.
"I write down what gets me off," he said in a telephone interview, before the band's performance at Mammoth Events Center tonight. "There's very little rational thought. I don't want to come off sounding like a fool or a simpleton, but I don't think that hard on purpose.
"I simply just do it. I jot it down and then if it's good, it's good, and if it's not, I try and fix it. Most of it is subconscious, but I don't want you to think I don't think - maybe I'm more impulsive than I am intellectual."
He also doesn't like discussing the band's album covers, which have caused controversy since the start of their career.
The cover art on the 1988 LP Nothing's Shocking features two nude lifesize sculptures, joined at the waist, of Farrell's girlfriend, Casey. A banal look is painted on their faces and their heads are aflame. Farrell created the sculpture.
Eight of the nation's major record distribution chains refused to carry the album. Later that year, all but two agreed to distribute the record.
Now, Jane's Addiction's second release, Ritual de lo Habitual, has caused a similar furor. The cover art this time depicts a fetish made up of sculptures of Farrell, Casey and their late friend, Xiola, all nude, lying on a bed surrounded by various objects including Tarot cards, burning candles and photographs.
But Jane's Addiction is not explicit for the sake of being so - look beyond the covers and see that Farrell's lyrics are brutally honest accounts of drug- addicted friends, bigotry and the general deterioration of society set in a base of neo-psychedelic guitar.
Ritual is a bit more low-key musically than its predecessor, but its subjects are as biting as ever. The erotic Three Days is Farrell's discourse on the three natures of sexuality human beings are capable of - bisexuality, homosexuality and heterosexuality.
Farrell always is looking to expand his understanding of the human condition. He praises women in Classic Girl and empathizes the pain an interracial couple can face in No One's Leaving.
Jane's Addiction performs at 8 p.m. tomorrow at Mammoth Events Center, 1510 Clarkson St. LIB7