Weapon Of Beauty

Image my surprise when I read that Jane’s Addiction have reunited to pick up a Godlike Genius Award at the US NME-awards ànd play a 4-song set in their original line-up. 
The reunion comes as a surprise as after the last reunion in 2003 the band had fallen out again big time. And only a few months ago Dave Navarro had said that a new reunion wasn’t gonna happen again as the band members “did not get along on any level”. 
But the biggest surprise was that Wednesday’s reunion included Eric Avery – the original bass player. This was the first time in 17 years – Jane’s originally split up in 1991  - that he joined the band again. On all previous reunions Avery had refused to join the band again. Probably citing someting along the way that he’d rather set fire to his scrotum and run along Sunset Boulevard naked while being chased by a rampaging horde of rhinos on steroids, than standing on the same stage again with the bunch of idiots a.k.a. his former bandmates. And now all of a sudden he’s back and they’re even hinting that there might be some sort of future for JA after all. Wahey!

A couple of videos from the gig have already popped up on YouTube. It looks like Perry Farrell has managed to find some clothes that look like they were made by by a blind costume designer from ‘Cats’. He was probably thinking: “What looks even dumber than Dave Navarro’s nipple piercings? Mmm, I might wear a mansize black condom”. Nice going, Perry.