Is there a worse sound than a metal band playing a school gymnasium? And surely there was no worse time for heavy metal than 1988. It was all REM and U2 back then. And a more dead end place than Suffolk County Long Island? There isn't one!
Yet the best sounding heavy metal band who's timing couldn't have been better, played that night in '88 at the SUNY Stonybrook Gymnasium.
Jane's Addiction (JA) did that night what every kid who joins a band dreams of doing: Taking the stage of some dive, full of people who never heard of you and rocking them to the point of oblivion. (Poor Love n Rockets had to follow them and didn't stand a chance.)
But where are JA now? The once amazing Dave Navarro Tweeted their bass player Eric A. abruptly left the Comeback Tour in the middle of the Australian outback after playing just a handful of shows . (Anvil anyone?) And I guess it's back to posing for John Varvatos ads for Perry. It's a shame because these guys really were the Real Deal. Sure it was 20 years ago but I'm talking Real Rock Stars. JA and contemporaries Guns-n-Roses may have been the a last of the Led Zep breed.
But without JA and (especially) The Pixies paving the way, the world never would have been able to take Nirvana seriously let alone consider Kurt Cobain a genius.
In 2010, it kinda looks like Lady Ga Ga is pop culture's one and only Rock Star . And she doesn't even play the guitar…
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