Jane's Addiction: In the Studio

This book has one cool thing: Ronnie Champagne who was the recording engineer for the first two studio albums of Jane's is interviewed here by Jake Brown, he also works with Deconstruction. That's why the two stars.But besides all the technical stuff which in the end is so complex if your not a musician, the author does not give you inside the studio stories like why Champagne end up playing bass on "Of Course" instead of Eric on Ritual.The rest is forgettable cause the author just uses interviews from past magazines from the 80's and 90's and this early decade lacking a fresh angle, even Dave Jerden interviews don't add up much new info.The book is supossed to be divided by records, but besides the technical stuff on Nothing's Shocking and Ritual, the other record reviews like Porno For Pyros two LP's or even Kettle Whistle is just comments and not inside the studio technical stories, so you don't have a link from chapter to chapter on the core of what the book is supossed to be about.Besides "critic" mistakes like calling "Mountain Song" "Coming down the Mountain" on the back cover of the book!!or stating that Ritual is a 1991 record which everyone knows is from 1990, at least once inside the book.So I would say Jake Brown does not know much of Jane's Addiction...if you read this book.I would rather recommend Whores.....that's a really good Jane's Addiction book.

This book was not really what I had hoped for. I expected in-depth examination and details of the process of recording the Jane's albums; instead I got some rehashed interviews and mostly the authors rambling fan-boy nonsense. The editing was terrible; it reads like some Junior High School-aged child's book report. Save your money on this one folks.