Jane's Addiction update: If you are not in line now, you probably won't get in

See these two guys who were already in line this morning on my way to work around 8:30?  They are getting in to the Jane’s Addiction show at El Cid tonight.   

What are your chances? They are not looking good unless you are already on the list, friends with the band or currently en route to the venue to claim your place in line (there were around 20 in line as of noon, according to our man in front of the Silver Lake restaurant, who also relayed that only 30 or so will get in). Official capacity at El Cid is around 150 200 people. Update: We checked with an El Cid employee and capacity is "around 150," not 200. Also, the latest buzz from the line around 4:15 p.m. is that 50 people will get in.

Jane’s Addiction fan website xiola.org has a pessimistic post regarding the chances of gaining entry tonight:

"no one will be getting in on ticket sales. if you are on the guest list, you will get in. from what i understand, even the guest list is already over 100 people. considering the max is 150 people, chances are you aren't on the guest list and are not gonna get on the guest list."

But Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro, on his Indie 103.1 radio show “Dark Matter” last night, was a bit more upbeat, confirming that the band would play El Cid, while noting that he felt bad for fans who missed the past show at La Cita.

Navarro even called El Cid during his program, after a fan informed him that the venue was telling callers the show was a private event.

"There are no tickets available," an El Cid employee named Tobin who answered the phone last night told Navarro, unaware that he was actually talking to a member of the band.

Navarro eventually got the man to admit that there would be (very limited) tickets at the door tonight.

Navarro heavily hinted that there would be more opportunities in the near future to catch Jane’s Addiction at a more sizable local venue.

“We will eventually make it up to you, one way or another,” he said.

“What we are focusing on now is taking it back to where we started [in very small clubs],” he said. The guitarist further explained the rationale behind playing very small clubs such as El Cid and La Cita (two venues that look ripped from the pages of a "Ritual de lo Habitual" album art shoot) to listeners who might not understand why the group would make fans wait so long in line for a chance to see Jane’s Addiction. “We played a lot of obscure, out of the way places that weren't your conventional venues [back when we started],” he said.

Xiola.org says the band will be playing a gig sometime this winter at the Palladium, but Navarro claimed ignorance Wednesday.

“I don’t know about that,” he said, “but we have played the Palladium in the past.”

As we first told you Monday, the gig is first come, first served.  Tickets are $8 at the door.

-- Post and photo by Charlie Amter

Comments

[Sean]

Arrived at 5 p.m. and waited for six hours. by the end, there were only 15 fifteen people in front of me, but the bouncers were done with letting anyone else in. btw it was $20 if we got in, but we didn't. At 11:15 they cleared us off the sidewalk and said that Jane's guest list filled up the place. stopped at garage pizza then walked home. yay.

[janesays]

I don't know what it was like in the back of the line, but blue wristband people who waited all day paid only $9. All my friends paid $9, too.

Maybe the door guy was trying to skim extra off of late arrivals. Just got back from the show and man was it worth the wait!. Sorry you didn't see it.

[Bob Clark]

Bottom line was... if you got off you ass and got down there even by 4pm you got in. (which if you think about it is really late to get to something like this and expect to get in)
The gave out 70 wrist bands at 5:30 and that was pretty much the only people that got in off the list. At that point there were only about 75 people total in line. People who came after the wristbands were handed out were told the chances of getting in were slim. So if you waited from 5pm till 11 that's pretty much your own fault.

[MFF0RD8]

arrived at 415. got in. was $10 but i heard them say they were jacking it up to $20 after our group. thats BS but what can you do. really fun set, though dave's amp/pedals were causing him trouble. great to see the original lineup.

[Jeremy.]

Best concert ever.

http://jeremyferrick.blogspot.com/2008/11/janes-addiction-plays-best-concert-ever.html

[COLDNTIRED]

I got there at 4:30 and waited for 6.5 hours and did not get in. I was 5 people away from the cutoff. What happened was the security came out and said tickets were going up to $20 a piece, no one minded and we were actually giving people money so they could afford the price hike.

There was no warning on the price hike they just came out and said "IT IS NOW $20 TO GET IN."

They told us several times that 20-30 more people were going to get in with no problems.

Right as they were about to let more people in (they had just counted about 20 people and he had a handful of wristbands) a firetruck came down the street with lights on and parked across the street... then another firetruck and several police cars. The security guy's eyes bugged out and he said "that's it! just these 4 and that's all guys... go home NOW"

He totally got spooked that the fire marshal was going to ruin their "over sell the club and double the price thing." and we all were turned away. horrible experience.

@janesays
if you hadn't gotten in you'd be pissed too dude. so don't be condescending.