I think there's one - about a minute into the foreskin song, Dave throws down a some guitar that, to me, sounds angry, ugly, savage even. Probably reading way, way too much into it because of the song context, but every time I hear it I think about Dave feeling angry or betrayed by a former close friend he feels let him down, and expressing it through his fingers rather than via a stoned rant on a radio show. It's only a few seconds, but every time I hear it, it gives me that "shivers" feeling you can get from classic Jane's. Nothing on Strays has ever given me that.Matz wrote:
On TGEA the songs suck and there's not one intense, ugly, dangerous moment on the whole thing.
Not sure I'd claim that TGEA is Jane's Addiction's finest work, but I'm coming to the view that it may be Dave Navarro's creative high point, bearing in mind that he joined Jane's with a good part of the canon already written (if not fully formed). It seems very, very clear to me that at least one member of the band was very much bothered about making TGEA as good as it could be, and if Eric's brief rapprochement with the band achieved anything, maybe it got Dave closer to the musical spirit of "1.0" Jane's than he was around the time of Strays...