My 7 Day Weekend of Live Music!! (VIDEO)

Wow! What a freakin' week! Normally, the concert season doesn't start around here (Omaha) until Winter is over and everything thaws out. Not so much in 2024. This video documents a pretty wild week where I saw five different shows in seven days!

Porno For Pyros hit the brand new venue, The Astro. Despite being a Jane's Addiction fan since the late 80s, I never actually saw PFP after Jane's broke up. For the "final" tour, PFP added Mike Watt (Minutemen, fIREHOSE, The Stooges) on bass, and that made the show mandatory for me! Opening the show was a UK band called TigerCub.

Veteran indie rockers, Yo La Tengo, returned to The Waiting Room for "An Evening with Yo La Tengo." The band did two separate sets - one quiet, one loud - and there was no opener. No matter how many times I see YLT in concert, they never cease to amaze.    

David Nance released his newest LP, David Nance & Mowed Sound, recently on Jack White's Third Man Records. He had a record release show at Reverb Lounge. Vinyl community members will recognize Dereck Higgins on bass. He played on the LP, and performs with the band when they play locally.

The last two shows I cover in today's video (Living Colour, Matthew Sweet) both have their own video reviews with lots more clips and photos.

Porno For Pyros LIVE at The Astro 2/24/24 (PHOTOS)

Porno For Pyros, the band formed by Perry Ferrell and Stephen Perkins after the initial break-up of Jane's Addiction in 1992, played at The Astro on Saturday, February 24. This show was a little bittersweet for me. It was my first time seeing PFP, as a long time Jane's fan. However, this tour is being billed as PFP's "final," so it is likely to be my last time seeing them, as well.

Returning on bass was Mike Watt (Minutemen, fIREHOSE, The Stooges). Watt has never been an official member of Porno For Pyros, but he did play bass on some of the band's second album, Good God's Urge, and has toured with them in the past.

TV On the Radio's Dave Sitek Joins Jane's Addiction

Dave Sitek will be the fifth Jane's Addiction bass player

TV On the Radio's guitarist and producer is taking on a new role. He is joining Jane's Addiction as its newest bass player. Dave Sitek is the band's third bassist in the last two years and fifth overall. His new stint in the band follows Duff McKagan's (Guns 'N Roses, Velvet Revolver) brief time in the band. Jane's Addiction is scheduled to release a new album in the summer of 2011.

Personally, I think this is a great move. Jane's has been thoroughly uninteresting since its initial break-up; and the one album of new material since then, Strays, sucked. While guys like Duff and Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers) are more high profile, Sitek is a very forward thinking musician and artist. If Jane's is going to break any new ground and be musical innovators again, they need someone like Sitek. I am very curious how this will turn out.

Duff McKagan Is Joining Jane's Addiction? WTF?

Former Guns 'N Roses and current Velvet Revolver bassist Duff McKagan is rumored to be the new bass player in Jane's Addiction. Last week on Perry Farrell's twitter, the Jane's singer wrote about writing new material with the band, and how great it was. However, original bassist Eric Avery (who re-joined in 2009 for a tour) said on his twitter, "fyi, to answer the question directly, i am not writing with janes addiction." This led to speculation that he had, once again, left the band.

No one has officially commented on this Duff in Jane's Addiction thing.