Jane's Addiction - December 12, 2003 - Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, CA

Date: December 12, 2003
Location: Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, CA
Recorded: Audio (audience)
Video (audience)
Status: Confirmed
Type: Concert
Lineup: Perry Farrell
Dave Navarro
Stephen Perkins
Chris Chaney
Artwork:
 

Setlist:

Stop!
True Nature
Been Caught Stealing
Strays
Just Because
Price I Pay
The Riches
Mountain Song
Ocean Size

Show Information:

Jane's Addiction's performance at Live 105's "Not So Silent Night".

Thanks go to Crater for the ticket photo.

The Offspring outshine heavy hitters at Not So Silent Night

Alameda Times-Star By Jim Harrington, CONTRIBUTOR Sunday, December 14, 2003 - 5:31:25 AM PST

THE Offspring vocalist Dexter Holland provided the perfect summary for the 2003 Not So Silent Night concert held at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco.

"You don't get shows like this in Springfield, Mo.," he told the near-capacity crowd on Friday night.

This year's Not So Silent Night, the annual holiday show put on by the radio station Live 105, certainly made music fans glad that they reside in the Bay Area. The lineup of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Rancid, Iggy Pop, The Offspring and Jane's Addiction was the best in years.

The fact that the show did not sell out, particularly given the level of talent, says something about the sad state of mainstream alternative rock in 2003. That's especially true since the event moved this year from the cavernous HP Pavilion in San Jose to the smaller Bill Graham Civic Auditorium.

Still, Live 105 managed to make the holiday season a bit brighter for the 8,000-plus fans that turned out for the show.

Following short sets by local-act Secondshot and buzz-band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, the East Bay's own Rancid really got the party started with an explosive 30-minute offering of punchy punk rock.

The veterans of 924 Gilman Street, the legendary Berkeley punk club that also spawned Green Day and AFI, were a bit sloppy on this night -- even by punk-rock standards -- and their show never reached the heights of their solid Warfield gig back in November. But it was still a lot of fun as the band pulled bouncy numbers from its stellar back catalog and most-recent album, "Indestructible."

Looking a little less than "Indestructible," except for the punishing bass work of Albany's own Matt Freeman, Rancid seemed a bit distracted as the band moved through songs like "Time Bomb" and "Ruby Soho." Some inappropriate crowd behavior didn't help. The band even stopped mid-song during the new album's "Red Hot Moon" to help stop a fight at the front of the stage.

"I don't care if it's Live 105," vocalist-guitarist Lars Frederiksen said. "There's no (expletive) fighting at a Rancid show."

Furthering the mood, Frederiksen graciously pointed out to the crowd that there would be no Rancid if not for the next act on the bill: Iggy Pop.

The audience was decidedly split between those who had turned out to hear recent radio hits by the younger bands and those who come to see a true legend. Pop, who influenced countless punk acts with his band the Stooges, managed to both please the initiated and gain some new fans with his chaotic set of self-indulgent rock'n' roll.

Looking like the long-lost father of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Anthony Kiedis, with long stringy hair and going shirtless to better display his chiseled upper torso, the vocalist absolutely worked the crowd with feverish renditions of the early Stooges' classics "No Fun" and "I Wanna Be Your Dog."

Compared to Rancid and, especially, Iggy Pop, it's amazing that anyone ever used the term "punk" in conjunction with The Offspring. In concert, the band came across as a pretty straightforward hybrid of pop and metal -- although, admittedly, a really good one.

It's not the hip thing to say when Iggy Pop, Rancid and Jane's Addiction are on the bill, but The Offspring delivered the best show of the night. Credit that to the band's familiarity with the radio-show format, where acts have little time to warm up and must come out firing with the fan-friendly hits.

And that's exactly what The Offspring did. The band hit early and often with an onslaught of familiar tunes like "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)" and "Why Don't You Get a Job?" The Offspring also introduced fans to material from "Splinter," the band's new album that reached record stores on Tuesday.

The headliner, Jane's Addiction, couldn't really compete with The Offspring's lively set of radio staples. So it didn't. Led by emotive vocalist Perry Ferrell and expert axe-man Dave Navarro, Jane's sounded like it was channeling Led Zeppelin or some other purveyor of classic rock during this heavily atmospheric and guitar-drenched set.

There were plenty of highlights to be found during Jane's show, including a fierce rendition of the classic "Been Caught Stealing," but it didn't quite gel as a whole. More so than any act on the bill, Jane's Addiction works its shows like a theatrical presentation, moving steadily toward some type of climax. But the climax came with a whimper, not a scream, like the plug was pulled early on the band in order to hit curfew. Everyone seemed surprised when Jane's called it a night.

And then Not So Silent Night went silent.

Iggy makes crowd listen up on a night for celebrating noise

Aidin Vaziri, Chronicle Pop Music Critic, SF Gate Monday, December 15, 2003

Oh, the humanity. It's Friday night at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium and Iggy Pop already has removed his shirt, flipped everyone in the audience the bird and dived on their heads several times.

Now he tears into "I Wanna Be Your Dog," while his butt-crack creeps above the line where his painted-on jeans begin to cover his ding-dong. There are many ways to get into the holiday spirit. Seeing a half-naked 56-year-old man dry hump a stage is probably not one of them.

But it doesn't matter, because this is better than that part in "Titanic" where the ship sank with Celine Dion on it. Pop sings "The Passenger" and "Search & Destroy," two of the most amazing songs ever written by a spindly Detroit self-mutilator. He slaps the stage. He shakes his hips. He throws a microphone stand at his guitar player's head.

And just when it feels like he should maybe sit down on a stool and chug a bottle of cough medicine, he invites half the crowd onto the stage to ram each other like billy goats while he slithers through a jacked-up version of "Lust For Life." Then everybody tackles him. Not So Silent Night, San Francisco alternative rock radio station Live 105's annual holiday party, never disappoints. There's nudity, loud music, bloody noses, vomiting, drunk teenagers and everything.

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club plays a criminally brief but mind-frying set of feedback-drenched, strobe-light flickering psychedelic rock that sounds like the Stone Roses if they joined a biker gang.

Fresh from giving Pink a safety-pin-and-black -nail-polish makeover, Tim Armstrong and Rancid put on such an animated punk set that even the parents standing in the enormous beer line in the lobby can't help but go-go dance.

Normally, seeing the Offspring live is worst than getting food poisoning on an 18-hour flight to Easter Island. But tonight there are free Play Station 2 consoles in the lobby, loaded not only with a slick basketball game but one that looks kind of like Miami Vice. Fantastic.

But that's nothing compared to the sight of Perry Farrell, frontman for headliners Jane's Addiction, coming out in a black corset and silky cargo pants. By the first song, he's already got the audience singing along to every word on "Stop." By the second one he's got them all totally confused because he keeps talking about tripping, being high and living in a nest.

When the band launches into massively rhythmic versions of old smack anthems like "Been Caught Stealing" and "Mountain Song," however, it's complete chaos. People bolt straight up and clamber for the front of the stage, with no regard for personal safety. It makes perfect sense. Who cares about a broken arm when you've just touched Perry Farrell? What a night.

Recording Information:

Audio Recording:
2 source mix:
[Sonic Studios (DSM6) -> Sony PCM-M1 -> DAT(M) -> CDR(1) -> .wav]
[unspecified Schoeps -> unknown pre-amp -> DAT(M) -> CDR(1) -> .wav -> dEQ] => FLAC
Sonics taper: Shawn W.
Schoeps taper: anonymous