Jane Addiction Fans: Jane's Addiction Reuniting WIth Original Lineup

MTV News:

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's publicist did not disclose how long the band's set will last or which songs it will be playing. It remains to be seen whether this performance will lead to a full-fledged, true reunion tour.

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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Comments

[kae]

cool

[bigdaddyvike]

Please come to Denver!!!

[rini]

Nothing like remembering the good old days. I try to tell the young'uns about them but they just don't unnerstand!

When we was young people knew how to make music proper-like. We all went to the first Lollapalooza and liked it... (really, we did.)

[newworldman777]

Glad to see that yet another great band will reunite with the original members. Their live version of "Jane says," with the steel drums, of course, epitomizes their unique sound. Kudos to them.

[petecook5]

Too bad they're only playing one date. Avery made that band. JA reunion without him left me a little flat.

[JohnFromCensornati]

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