The Relapse Of Jane's Addiction -- Reunion Tour Ends In Seattle, But Fans May Hear More From The Band That Helped Launch The Grunge Revolution

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Jane's Addiction and Goldie 9:30 p.m. Monday, KeyArena; $25, 206-628-0888. -------------------------------------------

It all comes down to Monday night.

The Jane's Addiction reunion tour has been a highlight of the rock year, a sold-out trek of only 19 dates that's been getting rave reviews.

One strong indication of the tour's buzz is the fact that the show here originally was set for Mercer Arena but had to be moved to KeyArena because of ticket demand.

The KeyArena concert will be the last. The big question is, what happens then?

"The door's open," drummer Stephen Perkins said from a tour stop in Sacramento. "The future's so bright. We have more leverage, more money. We have great ideas for the future of the stage show, and Jane's Addiction may be the vehicle."

Officially, the tour is not a reunion but a "relapse" of Jane's Addiction, which broke up in 1991 after five years of challenging, influential, wild and wacko music. Jane's Addiction released only three albums, none of them huge sellers, and never cracked the singles chart. But its music captured a certain ethos in the street that eventually flowered into the grunge revolution. And the longer Jane's Addiction was gone, the more it was missed.

Its members had gone on to other things. Founder/leader Perry Farrell and Perkins started a new band, the world-music-influenced Porno for Pyros, which still exists. Guitarist Dave Navarro joined Red Hot Chili Peppers and bassist Eric Avery (who decided not to join the reunion tour) started a band called Polar Bear.

Last summer, Perkins, Farrell and Navarro got together with bassist Flea of Red Hot Chili Peppers to record a track for Howard Stern's movie, "Private Parts." Since the Chili Peppers were on hiatus while members Anthony Kiedis and Chad Smith recovered from separate motorcycle accidents, a tour cooked up. The "relapse" band was supposed to be temporary, but it now looks as if it might have some permanence.

That won't happen immediately, because the Chili Peppers have shows set for the end of this month, and Porno for Pyros has to make an album.

So for now, anyway, the KeyArena show is the last, and Perkins says it will be memorable.

"We all love Seattle, we love the music that came out of there," he said. "Seattle is going to be a great show for many reasons. It's a finale for this birth. It's going to be quite spectacular and pretty emotional. There's going to be a lot in the air."

As to why the show starts so late at night, he explained that it was to "let everybody loosen up, let the spirits get loose. We like to warm up to the night. We're there to have a party as well. That's really why we did it."

The show's concert stage is inspired by Perkins' and Farrell's visits to Bali, Indonesia, Fiji, Tahiti and other exotic spots. The stage is bedecked with colorful banners, parasols, masks and garlands.

In conjunction with the tour, the band released "Kettle Whistle," made up of previously unreleased material from the 1980s, along with a couple of new songs.

"It's great," Perkins said, "like the side B of `Ritual de lo Habitual' (the band's 1990 album). You can really hear a modern rock sound. It really is the next step. The energy is so beautiful. The show is one thing, but the new music is actually more - it's the future. The concerts are a lot of fun but you have to make new music."

Perkins said he especially likes working with the energetic, unstoppable Farrell.

"He's got a million ideas, he's got a wish list that's a mile long," Perkins said. "He's an idea man who tries like hell. Now he wants us to play in Belfast and places like that, that need some love. I would love to take this energy and bring it over to somewhere where they need it." ------------------------------------------- QUICK FACT

Special guests? The Smashing Pumpkins joined Jane's Addiction onstage in Chicago. "Maybe something like that will happen in Seattle," Stephen Perkins said. "We've got a lot of musician friends there that we'd love to jam with."