Episode #264 | 2.3.26

Jane’s Addiction (Pt. 2): Nothing’s Shocking, Not Dead Teenage Girls or Onstage Brawls

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In this episode

An onstage brawl in Boston. A dead teenage girl turned into art. Warehouse shows and a freak scene bankrolled by transgression. Listen to find out how Jane’s Addiction helped build the alternative nation – and how the freedom that they worshiped eventually turned into control, violence, and collapse.

Sources

Whores: An Oral History of Perry Farrell and Jane’s Addiction, by Brendan Mullen

Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock’s Wildest Festival, by Richard Bienstock and Tom Beaujour

Beantown Beatdown: The End of Jane’s Addiction (Rare Form Radio)

MTV Attend the First Lollapalooza Festival in 1991 (MTV Vault)

Jane Bainter: The real-life Jane who inspired Jane's Addiction (Far Out)

I Was A Creative Force Behind One Of The Biggest Rock Bands Of The '90s. Then I Watched Them Erase Me From Their Story. (HuffPost)

Contrast – “The Story of Jane’s Addiction – Issue 1, Winter 1986 (JanesAddiction.org)

You Had To Be There: The Weirdo Alternative Of Ritual De Lo Habitual 30 Years Later (Stereogum)

The Dance of Decadence: The Uncensored History of Jane's Addiction (SPIN)

Perry Farrell on the second Messianic era, his new solo album and more (Q with Tom Power)

THE L.A. CLUBS--WHERE IS THY ZING? (LA Times)

OWNERS TO PULL PLUG ON POWER TOOLS (LA Times)

Credits

Hosted by Jake Brennan.

Written by Zeth Lundy.

Copy edited by James Sullivan.

Mixed by Colin Fleming.

DISGRACELAND theme song, “Crenshaw Space Boogie,” written and produced by Jake Brennan. Performed by Jake Brennan, Bryce Kanzer, Jay Cannava, and Evan Kenney. Mixed and engineered by Adam Taylor.

*illustrations by Avi Spivak @avispivak