DESPITE DAVE NAVARRO'S GOATEE SUCKING and a complete denial of the Emerica shoe incident (Google it), Jane's Addiction remains an epic rock band and believe it or not, Perry Farrell is one hell of a down-to-earth dude. I weaseled my way into a press pass for this year's Lollapalooza, mostly to see Depeche Mode, but also to check out the plethora of top DJs and electronic acts that would be performing at Perry's (which I believe used to be called the "rave tent" in the '90s). And once the word got out that Thrasher was coming to town, an interview was quickly arranged for me to meet the Wizard of Oz himself.
Do you have any history with Thrasher?
Well in the early '80s yeah. The cat who passed away, Vitall? Is that his name?
Fausto Vitello. Did yon ever meet him?
replica rolexYou know I never met him, but I just really appreciated it, reading Thrasher from time to time, and I dug the punk rock ethic that they applied to skateboarding.
How did Lollapalooza start?
I was invited to do a final tour for Jane's Addiction and they said, "Do something really powerful." So I laid on my back in my apartment, smoked some weed, and started going through my dictionary for a great name. I came across "lollapalooza: something, or someone great, and/or wonderful." And it was also a colorful swirling lollipop. So I thought, "I'm going to swirl all these different musicians into this thing. And art, and culture, and youth movement."
So how did you go from being in one of the best alternative rock bands to making electronic music, which wasn't that popular at the time?
I loved it. I started listening to electronic records like The Orb and wholesale colthing The Future Sound of London, back at the end of the '80s. And I was so fascinated as a musician by how they got those sounds, because nobody I knew was making sounds like that. I couldn't figure it out, so I started to research how they did it, because I wanted to do it too. I felt like the electronic music scene was the new frontier for music. I'd grown a little bit tired of the trap-kit drum and basically blues-based rock guitar.
Do you prefer to collaborate with others or do things yourself?
Both. Because when you collaborate, you learn their tricks, and together you make great music. There's an area we've developed here at Lollapalooza called Perry's, that's all about this hybrid of sound, which is the electronic musicians working with stringed instrumentalists, and they're self producers. That's the big evolution--that the musicians are producing themselves. And bringing that knowledge out onto the stage with them. It's a great thing that's happening. It's the future of music.
What prompted getting Jane's Addiction back together?
It was all very organic. I didn't think that we would ever get back together again. The band was in shambles. We all hated each other, I'll be honest. But I was invited by NME magazine to receive a lifetime achievement award. And I didn't feel comfortable receiving it without at least calling the guys to say, "Look, they invited me. You're invited, fuck you." But they said, "Man, we wanted to call you, we love you, we want to get back together."
All three of them were saying that?
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Two of them. And then Eric came on.
He was the last one to get on?
Yeah. I hea
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