Okay...withholding judgement...I guess.

Ex-Jane's Members Working on Debut Album

By Jonathan Cohen

NEW YORK (Billboard) - The Panic Channel, a new band featuring three-quarters of Jane's Addiction and a relatively unknown vocalist, has recorded more than half of its debut album.

"We've got close to 10 or 11 songs written and we've recorded about seven," guitarist Dave Navarro told Billboard.com last week in Las Vegas. "We're finishing up the album in January, and it's awesome."

Navarro formed the band in May with bassist Chris Chaney and drummer Stephen Perkins after an acrimonious split with Jane's frontman Perry Farrell. They brought aboard Steve Isaacs, former vocalist with Skycycle.

Asked to describe the Panic Channel's sound, Navarro offered, "It's definitely rock. The best description I can give you is, if Rush was an alternative band with a little sense of goth. It's like a goth Rush."

The new band has played a couple of shows in Los Angeles so far, but is looking to tour extensively in 2005 once the album is complete. "That's why we're focusing on making this record, so we can try to get on a summer bill and have fun," Navarro said.

The as-yet-untitled set is being recorded by producer/engineer Bryan Virtue, who worked on Jane's Addiction's 2003 Capitol reunion album, "Strays."

While Navarro is signed to Capitol as a solo artist, the Panic Channel has yet to ink a label deal. "We'd like to stay at Capitol," he said. "So far, everything has been DIY. We financed the record and the shows. At this point, we're just doing it as well as we can on our own. If Capitol wants to get involved, we'd love it."

Fans can track the Panic Channel's progress on Navarro's blog http://www.6767.com), which he updates nearly every day.

In addition to the Panic Channel's album, Navarro says the debut album by his cover band Camp Freddy is nearly complete as well. "We actually have a record recorded -- now we're just waiting to get all the guests on there," he said of the project, which has also featured Chaney, the Cult's Billy Duffy and Velvet Revolver drummer Matt Sorum. "That's a logistic nightmare; I'm sure you can imagine!"


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Um...yuk.

So it would seem, though I'm holding out very slim hope that it'll turn out to be so weird that's it's good. That hope's very, very slim, though.

Well it's about time someone out did Audioslave for worst re-formed band name.

Is it a channel for you to watch when you're panicking? Is it a channel that has panicking on it? Or does it mean a pathway to panic? Oh, so frickin' deep, jane dudes.

When I originally opened this, I thought it was a second tread about the new Mars Volta album...this one being much more positive...

Another in the myriad of fronts for child molesters.

?

Yeah, like Frosty's new avatar---creepy

[sound of bus going by]

The avatar is from the I Wanna Be Kate Kate Bush tribute album.

It's a kid with a chalkboard. Any creepiness implied comes from the mind of the viewer.

Word up, dude;.

I still don't know what Loog's getting at, though. Something wrong with Navarro I haven't read about? Or a punchline that slid by me, maybe?

Let's just say that it would not surprise me if anyone, from The Pope, George Bush and Khaddafi, to Dave Navarro, Bob Dylan or Charlie Watts were outed for sex crimes against children.

Just a little theory that I have developed that 50%+ of the world are child molesters.

Nothing More, Nothing Less.

Navarro still looks 12, despite the hair. Maybe it's Carmen who's the perv.

Anybody ever heard Deconstruction?

I thought you were showing solidarity with Castro against the American pigs

I should keep a tally of how many times the term "Goth" is misused in these tense and confused times. Of course, doing so would bring down upon my head the derision of pre-pubescents with squiggly eyeliner dripping down their cheeks in the form of poorly-spelled emails.

Suffice it to say that I can't envision Dave Navarro doing music that sounds like a fusion of "She's Lost Control" and "Tom Sawyer" - nor would I really want to.

I think that album still fucking owns.

How do we know Navarro meant Rush, the band? Couldn't he have been referring to Rush, of EIB Network fame?

... Then again, we already have a goth [sic] meets Rush band -- Evanescence.

And, no, I don't take Amy Lee for as large as R. Limbaugh. In fact, I think the little miss is quite cute, beautiful even... Probably because I could see her tying my wrists and ankles to the bed and urinating on me.

Also: finding Amy Lee beautiful does not go against my loathing of fat women, since Ms Lee is merely chubby, and, more importantly, has a pleasant disposition. No perpetual sneer over three chins on her face.

Goth as fuck.

I believe I still own that album. I definitely don't mind it from time to time. There are a couple pretty damn good songs on it. But, as a whole I tried to get into it, but it never really turned the corner for me.

Definitely the most interesting post-Jane's album. The second half of Ritual is a nice segue into Deconstruction actually.

The answer is:
no.

I really dig that album.