Posted by Luku on Friday, November 02, 2001 at 0:44AM :
Many many thanks to all 100 fun-maker masters that threw down their freaky lovely skills for the Mystic Family Circus at the Jubilee/ Janes Addiction Show on Oct. 26 at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountainview. We did several choreographed performance pieces & parading & the Yard Dogs went off! All our offerings were very well received by the 10,000 audience members who attended the show.
The Jubilee Foundation, Perry Farrell, his management & promotions team also extends their thanks and compliments…. We’ll be calling some of the participants in the upcoming days to offer some financial thank yous…. Hope you all enjoyed it too….
Much love, Bantu Mystic Family Circus
::The next big show- New Year's Eve w/ String Cheese Incident at the Bill Graham Civic Center:: Stay attuned......::
Please see below a concert review from an audience member found at www.janesaddiction.org:
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What an amazing show: Sound and Visual. It’s all about the freedom. Met every expectation and blew some of them away. We arrived about 45 minutes before Jane’s would come on stage. We missed all opening acts..oh well.
We did hang out and watch the carnies and gypsies play carnival music. We found a great spot in the lawn and waited. Having seen Jane’s from several angles in the past, and never being to Shoreline Amphitheater I was content with the lawn. Besides, we got our tickets for $18 each. I
think because we had lawn seats I didn’t expect to be quite so blown away, but I was… from the lawn!
Opening up with "Kettle Whistle", Perry came out with a HUGE dress, which had about 6 half naked ladies underneath. He changes into a black and red velvet-looking suit, and begins to hit the natural-super-rock-hero we all know with "Ocean Size". Dave was rippin’ it all out with a guitar that looked like Eddie Van Halen’s ‘5150’
guitar.
There was a very long and different into to "Ain’t No Right". Not quite the usual heavy bass intro.
Perry raps a bit then goes into the hypnotic "Three Days", building through all the movements. I think Perry may have introduced the band at this point (he recognizes the band like 3 times throughout the show) Perry raps a bit more about the freedom and asks, ‘are you going to "Stop"’?!, which they go into immediately. They slow it down and go into "Summertime Rolls", which was great as always. The song changes and the band leaves for the center stage.
There was a nice groove playing during all this. Then there’s a presence of THE gypsies and carnival people moving through the audience, fire twirlers on side stages. We enjoyed these people’s antics before the show by the food/beer area. They performed gracefully to carnival music and generally got their trance on. They really got
the vibe going before Jane’s went on. Anyway, there they were apparently escorting the band to the center stage, or causing a distraction while the band took the center stage. Before you know it they’re on the center stage and that LONG groove turns into (or already was) a familiar "Jane’s Says" intro. Perry looks like a cross between Pokemon and Davy Crocket.
We made our way closer to the center stage during this song, which was way worth it.
At some point on the center stage Perry was rapping about how ‘we want your children… you guys like to party… we need you… and your children’. The crowd was very responsive feeling complimented and entertained. It was just a great vibe of energy out there. He also spoke to the times, ‘there’s no terrorism out here… This is a party! … How many of y’all wanna say, ‘Kiss my Ass!’ (to the terrorism)?’. They dive immediately
into "Helter Skelter". This was a surprising privilege and treat. As far as I know they haven’t played their version of The Beatles "Helter
Skelter" for any other shows. The band really played it well, and it felt great hearing the entire audience sing along.
There was a lot of improvisation on the center stage with Perry rapping about freedom and Dave, Steve, or Martyn coming in every now and then. I think he announces the band by name again here. Then it sounded like they got it together and they were about to play something, but Perry halted it to continue rapping about this and that. He talked about love and freedom and went into "Classic Girl"
Perry talks more about freedom and how he ‘wants his good friend Dave to play one of his songs’. Dave says hi and plays "Hungry" off his solo ‘Trust No One’ album.
They return to an improvisational style on the center stage with Steve playing a beat on bongos and Perry singing ‘Steve Perkins, Steve Perkins...’. This builds into an all out jam, "Happy Birthday Jubilee". The intensity backs down with Perry singing solo on the center stage "Happy Birthday Jubilee". The whole center stage phase blended and flowed like a fresh jam session.
After Perry finishes singing solo on the center stage the rest of the band appears back on the main stage and begins playing "Up The Beach".
It was completely instrumental. Can you imagine Perry’s journey back to the main stage with that song filling the place?
Perry arrives back on the main stage decked out in a silver sequence suit and a fuzzy purple hat worthy of Dennis Rodman. He was lookin’ like the slickest pimp in the place. They head right into "Mountain Song". It was America in every sense of the notion. American rock n’ roll, Dave wailing on the guitar wearing blue jeans, standing in front of an American flag. It’s all about the freedom.
They go into "Ted, Just Admit It" and Perry announces the band introductions again this time including Linda Good on keyboards. With
all the theatrics in effect at the end of the song Perry jumps onto a ‘rotary swing set’ that was on stage. Swinging around the thing screaming ‘Sex is Violent’!! The song ends high, the band leaves the stage, but Steve Perkins stays behind pointing at the audience. You could tell they wanted to play more. And they did.
The band returns to play "Chip Away" to the remaining audience. They really jammed all levels of the percussion. It was great. Perry got
some mic feedback when he walked to the side of the stage. He played it off perfect by hiding to the side of the speaker wall swinging the mic
into the front of the speakers producing and experimental ‘controlled feedback’. Then bring it to and end.
The band goes out, but Perry doesn’t make it all the way out. He’s talking to the fans on the way out asking, ‘Are you good? Are you bad?…
You’re good, right?’ He runs back to the middle of the stage and drop his pants. He starts running around in his black underwear with his
pants around his knees saying, ‘don’t you tell anybody!’ He runs off the stage and that was it. We were free to go mingle with the gypsies
and carnival people again.
Oh, yeah, we capped the show with doughnuts from Krispy Kreme then drove back to San Francisco.
Some of the sequence might be slightly off, but that’s the way I remember it. You understand how someone can lose time at a Jane’s Addiction concert. I highly recommended you see this show.
-- Luku
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