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Jane's Addiction: February 7, 2003
Santa Barbara, CA - Arlington Theater
support: band
Main Set:
Up The Beach
Pigs In Zen
Stop!
Ain't No Right
Blood Rag (snippet)
Three Days
Summertime Rolls
Price I Pay
Suffer Some
Then She Did...
Ocean Size
Ted, Just Admit It...
Mountain Song
Jane Says
Encore(s):
Notes: This is what I wrote in my journal the day after the show:
Oh MAN.
The show last night was woooonderful.
My seat was right in front of the speaker stack on the right side of the
stage, and it both made me deaf and obstructed my view of the lovely
Stephen Perkins, but when Dave was up by his pedals he was less than 10
feet away from me, and if I'd stretched and he'd stretched, we could've
touched hands but I didn't even try. It was actually kind of weird being
that close and looking at him and knowing that sometimes he was looking
right back at me. EEP! I found myself watching other parts of him
because eye contact was so intense. He's not as wickedly sexy as he was
in 1997, with the longer hair, shorter goatee, and of course,
mini-skirt, fishnets, and boots...but he is still damn beautiful and
H-O-T hot. He wore simple black pants and sneakers and that was it. mmm,
mmm, good.
*ahem*
Perry looked good, too. He didn't have the ridiculous pimp outfit he
wore to the Warfield show last July. He spent time all over the stage,
doing his funny dances and looking all blissed out. I could rarely see
Stephen at all, I had to stretch and crane my neck a bit to get a look
at him. =( The bassist was Chris Cheney I think...? I don't really know
anything about him, unfortunately
There were no seats in front of me, and I was able to be up on the rail
for the whole show, which was good because a ton of people moved up into
the first few rows --which severely pissed me off! I paid good money for
that seat and that space, and the security guards did absolutely nothing
to stop people from moving up, or send them back to their seats. grrrr.
The sound was better than at the Warfield, probably because I was right
in front of the speakers. They also played "Then She Did" and "Ted, Just
Admit It," my other two favorite songs (#1 being "Three Days") that were
not played at the Warfield show. They did two new songs...one
of which I think was played in July, and the other sounded unfamiliar to
me. Both were great and I'm anxious to hear them on an album soon.
Let's see...what else did they play... Up the Beach, Pigs in Zen, Stop,
Ocean Size, Summertime Rolls, Mountain Song, Jane Says, Ain't No Right
(I think?)... I think there were a few more but I don't remember them
right now. They did NOT play Been Caught Stealing! haha! They did play a
little teaser of "Blood Rag," a Porno for Pyros song.
The theatre was pretty small. It's nice to see bands in that
setting...big enough to have high energy, but small enough to still feel
intimate. I had no trouble finding my way around Santa Barbara to my
motel, the venue, gas, and food. Parking wasn't easy right off the bat
but I found a free space only a block and a half away from the venue. I
wished I'd had someone to go to the show with me --I was pretty wired
when I got back to my motel room, but I had no one to share it with so I
text messaged about four people and called my parents, as well-- but
otherwise I did just fine by myself. It's nice to go solo sometimes,
when I'm on nobody's schedule but my own.
Driving down I took 99 to the 5 and then west on 126 through Ventura to
101 North to S.B.. Coming home today I decided to take 101 North through
San Luis Obispo and Paso Robles, to 46 East and 41 North. Both routes
took about 4.5 hours, including a 30-minute break. I think the route I
took home is about 20 miles shorter, but there are sections of the road
where speed is reduced, and it's not quite the same straight shot that
99 & I-5 are. But it's definitely more scenic, with at least 25-30 miles
right by the ocean. I'm glad I took that route home during the daylight,
both for safety's sake as well as the scenery. That little stretch of
desert-like terrain between Kettleman City and uhhh...wherever it ends
(if you've driven it, you know what I'm talking about) wasn't so bad
because the weather was nice and things weren't completely brown and
ugly yet.
I love driving with no one ahead or behind me, sunroof open, and music
loud. Ahhh, it was just superb today. It was one of those days when I
really love my car.
(February 8, 2003)
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