Jane's Addiction - "Been Caught Stealing" (guitar cover) video free download


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Duration: 03:29
Uploaded: 2013/02/03

This is my cover of Jane's Addiction's song "Been Caught Stealing" (1990). I love Perry Farrell's lyrics and voice, so I put up with Dave Navarro's wanky guitar antics and "too cool for you" attitude. Sure, Navarro looks alternative with the Doc Martens, black T-shirts, and torn jeans. But he comes across to me as a Classic Rock get-wasted-and-fuck-girls-type macho man rocker (complete with an STD that he brags about and shirtless performances), which is exactly what grunge bands and other alternative rockers were fighting against! (Jane's Addiction is not grunge, but it is alt-rock.) On top of that, his guitar solos often go on and on and on and on...So boring.

This song expresses the alternative tactic of sabotage against those in power. It doesn't have to be shoplifting/stealing obviously, but some people did that or other kinds of subversive behaviors as an anti-corporate political statement...including "slacking" - i.e., not doing what the man says or expects, but instead something you love even if it doesn't pay well.

I played it on my modified Fender American Standard Stratocaster which has Fender Red Lace Sensor pickups in the bridge and middle positions, Grover tuners, and a perloid pickguard. I selected the bridge & middle pickups. I ran it through my 1970s Silverface Twin Reverb with various effects. I used a Boss ME-6 for the two basic sounds: (1) an overdrive for everything except the big solo, and I added a slight delay on my Line 6 DL4 in the short solo after the first verse; (2) for the big solo after the second verse I use an ME-6 distortion/delay plus a wah from my Digitech XP-100 Whammy Wah (patch #4). To record it, I played the MP3 with my Mac on Itunes, and recorded it using the Mac's PhotoBooth program which puts it in mirror image (sorry). I used a Samson CO1U microphone with USB connection into my Mac.

I've been caught stealing; once when I was five.

I enjoy stealing. It's just as simple as that.

Well, it's just a simple fact.

When I want something I don't want to pay for it

I walk right through the door. Walk right through the door.

Hey all right! If I get by, it's mine. Mine all mine!

Yeah, my girl, she's one too. She'll go and get her a skirt.

Stick it under her shirt. She grabbed a razor for me.

And she did it just like that.

When she wants something, she don't want to pay for it.

She walk right through the door. Walk right through the door.

Hey all right! If I get by, it's mine. Mine all mine!

We sat around the pile. We sat and laughed.

We sat and laughed and waved it into the air!

And we did it just like that.

When we want something, we don't want to pay for it.

We walk right through the door. Walk right through the door.

Hey, all right! If I get by, it's mine, Mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine...

Comments

8 years ago

alexis mccraig

Wow, I'm a leftie strat player, too, and I strum and voice notes like you, although not quite as well! LOL Great job.

8 years ago

bigduke6702

Good stuff. Actually one of the things I always liked about Navarro is that he is kind of sloppy. 

9 years ago

Violet Deliriums

+Jimmy Magana Wow, you have quite an ego. I don't care what you think of my "skills" and I do not care that you think I "way off" or "adding too much." I didn't try to play the solo exactly and rarely do I because I trust my ability to make something myself -- and I hate Navarro and do not want to be anything like that asshole. I am not "adding" anything to the rhythm -- I am playing what my ears tell me is going on, not looking at bad tabs to figure it out. And nothing I do in this song is extremely "hard." I post these to communicate something more important than "look how well I can copy something" or "look at my skills." Music should be about something bigger than that. 

9 years ago

calvinstulip

Good rhythm cadence, sis! RAWK on :-)

9 years ago

Dwight Heitman

You rock, girl!

9 years ago

Wapfgaming

Guitar sounds a bit out of tune but otherwise great cover.

9 years ago

Franco Galvez Zuñiga

Es zurda ; )

10 years ago

yourallabunch ofslaves

you rock!!! will you be my gf haha lol jk awesome cover keep on rockin!!

10 years ago

Ricky Bobby

What crazy chord shapes!! I am, not a huge Navarro fan, but I got to give credit for coming up with pop a song that uses these forms.

10 years ago

Narzylok

lo haces muy bien saludos desde calama san pedro de atacama Chile

10 years ago

duditon1

awesome cover!!! i'm sure this is the case with a lot of people but where i first heard this song was off of grand theft auto: san andreas off Radio X. again awesome cover, i hope i can learn this song

10 years ago

Violet Deliriums

Thanks...I am not a huge fan of Navarro. I thought about doing "Pigs In Zen" which has a great riff that feels really good to play if you get in character and get angry while you are doing it, but he goes on and on and on with the solos. More importantly, I see him as a gross sexist pig, and I wish Perry Ferrell never hooked up with him.

10 years ago

Shorty110bucks

Nicely done, interesting to hear the guitar more at the forefront on this track as the original mix is pretty bass heavy. Also... you have a fierce intelligence.

10 years ago

slackerVK

damn... that was cool. been thinking to play this too.

10 years ago

Violet Deliriums

Thanks. The first one I just click on some delay. The main solo I just made up. I used a more distortion saturated sound and clicked on a wah that is on the Digitech XP-100 Whammy Wah. In all my videos, I put what gear I used when playing it in the "show more" comments. I have a different amp now and my pedal board is different now too than it was last winter. The whammy wah is off and I have a Crybaby 535Q on now.

10 years ago

Steven Dalton

Great cover really liked it,what pedal did you switch onto for the solo

10 years ago

Violet Deliriums

Thanks. I never really felt like this one one of my better covers, but I get a lot of good comments on it. So whatev. :)

10 years ago

Violet Deliriums

That is a question I think you should ask yourself of every song you hear! :) This particular song requires a bit of cultural context to understand how an "alternative" person would have read it. As a hint, I would say the message parallels the one sent in the movie "Office Space." If you look under "show more," I discuss the way I read the song in the second paragraph.

10 years ago

speculawyer

what does the song mean?

10 years ago

Violet Deliriums

I am glad you commented from the start! This is my favorite part about this -- interaction with people. I fully support the noise. When I first read this seven years ago or so, I felt completely empowered: "Noise -- that is, disturbing music -- is the harbinger of a new social order." (Jean-Jacques Nattiez in his book "Music and Discourse" -- which I do not recommend reading -- summarizing Jacques Attali's core thesis in his book "Noise," "Bruits" in French.) Make noise.

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