Jane's Addiction played an incredible concert at La Cita in Downtown Los Angeles last night. Dave Navarro and Eric Avery announced the show 2 days before on their blogs. I didn't hear about it until the day of.
La Cita is a tiny Mexican bar. Super small. The Fire Marshal limited capacity to just 157 people because of the stage. There were hundreds of people outside.
This show was only the second time that Jane's Addiction has played with the original lineup since 1991. Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro, Eric Avery and Stephen Perkins got together and played 3 songs about 6 months ago at the US NME Awards. Last night they played 10 songs.
Jane's Addiction setlist at La Cita 10/23/08:
- up the beach
- trip away
- whores
- 1%
- ain't no right
- pigs in zen
- ted, just admit it...
- ocean size
- had a dad
- been caught stealing
The concert was unbelievable. What a surprise! So damn good. Everybody was having a great time on stage and off. It was jam packed. People were sitting and standing on the bar. Perry and others were banging on the ceiling so hard that pieces started falling.
The band threw in a little "Thank You Boys" jam near the end. Perry sat down behind the drums at the beginning of the encore. He said that Stephen Perkins promised him a drum solo. Stephen jumped back on the drums and played part of the solo of The Beatles' "The End" off of Abbey Road. Then they finished the set with a killer performance of "Been Caught Stealing."
Awesome.Gear pics:
Eric Avery:
"we never know what the future has in store for us; especially with this band. but, at least right now janes addiction has a future that one would have to call somewhat promising.Update: Shout out links to audio - video - pics + reviews in the comments.
we are a great band."
Update 2: Less than a month later, they played another intimate show at El Cid.
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