Jane's Addiction may not make fans wait another eight years before releasing a new album.
While speaking with Billboard.com, drummer Stephen Perkins revealed that the band has already discussed the approach they'd like to take for the follow-up to their most recent effort, The Great Escape Artist.
"We had a discussion on the flight home from the Super Bowl about, 'Okay, new music - do we visit it while we're touring? Do some stuff on the bus and in sound check and go that route, or do we wait 'til the tour's over and take a break and then go head-first?' We are talking about music, so that's important."
Perkins goes on to add that while he would prefer to write all new material for the new album, he would consider using old ideas left over from the last album:
"I think it's always a wrong idea to do [use old ideas]. Hopefully you're different musicians and the world has changed. It's always good to do something new to see what you've been through the last year and reflect that. But a great melody and a great guitar riff stand forever. They're timeless. It's like Van Halen; if you can't find anything, go to the old days."
The Great Escape Artist marks the group's first album since 2003's Strays. Prior to that, it had been more than a decade since the group's last studio effort.
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