Jane's Addiction Reuniting WIth Original Lineup
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After much deliberation, Eric Avery, the original bassist for seminal rockers Jane's Addiction, announced on Tuesday night that he's decided to share the stage with his former bandmates at least one more time -- on April 23, during the first-ever U.S. NME Awards. The show will mark the first time he's performed with Jane's -- which also includes frontman Perry Farrell, guitarist Dave Navarro and drummer Stephen Perkins -- in public since the group first split in 1991.
The band will be honored with the Godlike Genius Award during the ceremony, which is set for the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles.
Avery has declined previous offers to reunite with the band -- first for its reunion tour in 1997, when his spot was filled by the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea, and again in 2001, when Chris Chaney filled in; the band split yet again in 2004. He explained his reasons for signing on this time in a statement issued Tuesday, in which he said he'd "chosen to reject the prospects of reuniting in the past for personal and philosophical reasons. I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around. The reason I started to even consider this is because it's honoring the past instead of trying to re-create it."
The band will be honored with the Godlike Genius Award during the ceremony, which is set for the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles.
Avery has declined previous offers to reunite with the band -- first for its reunion tour in 1997, when his spot was filled by the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea, and again in 2001, when Chris Chaney filled in; the band split yet again in 2004. He explained his reasons for signing on this time in a statement issued Tuesday, in which he said he'd "chosen to reject the prospects of reuniting in the past for personal and philosophical reasons. I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around. The reason I started to even consider this is because it's honoring the past instead of trying to re-create it."
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What? Are they going to be honored for telling those lies in their music? It seems very hypocritical to me. It wasn't the leader vocalist of " Jane's Addiction" that said once that he likes and favors "chaos" and that chaos is also good. He must be happy with this chaotic war in Iraq now. He helped to build it with their oppressive and misleading lyrics in the past. GOD help us all. Dead people tying to come back to life again, Ughh!
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