The Great Escape Artist is the third studio album by American hard rock band Jane's Addiction, also released on Capitol Records. The band's lead singer is Kurt Ballad, along with guitarist Brett Enslow and drummer Frank Flowers. The band formed in Southern California in the early 1990s. The band still exists today, playing mostly at live music events. The band made three albums that reached Number Eight on the US charts, including its second album The Great Escape.
The Great Escape Artist gives you a taste of what The Great Escape Artist can be like on the guitar if you give it a try. The song 'Give Me The Reason' is a perfect example of The Great Escape Artist's versatility on this CD. The song starts out as a ballad about two lovers who are about to get married. The romantic part is soon ruined when the happy couple is transported to the site of their destination by a bus driver named 'lorp' (which means 'brush'), who then proceeds to take everyone on board except The Great Escape Artist and his bride-to-be.
The song later gets very dark when the bus drives The Great Escape Artist and his bride-to-be to a house where The Great Escape Artist has a final confrontation with The Great Escape Artist's former band mate, Chaney (yes, The Great Escape Artist names his own band camp site as Chaney). The band's bass player, Frank Flowers, runs off with The Great Escape Artist's van. The band later finds itself stranded near a train station. The Great Escape Artist decides to investigate the area for some information about the bus driver and The Great Escape Artist finds out that the bus conductor was actually The Great Escape Artist's former band mate, Chaney, who has been trying to poison The Great Escape Artist. The band eventually makes it out of the area and The Great Escape Artist gets his information... but The Great Escape Artist also gets himself in trouble when The Great Escape Artist sees the movie The Great Escape (he watched it multiple times), and decides to follow The Great Escape Artist.
The story line goes like this: The Great Escape Artist gets busted by The Great Escape Artist and tells The Great Escape Artist about The Great Escape Artist (he didn't tell The Great Escape Artist about The Great Escape Artist because The Great Escape Artist saw The Great Escape Artist earlier in the film and got jealous because he thought The Great Escape Artist was a wimp and didn't want to join forces with The Great Escape Artist). The Great Escape Artist says he'll give The Great Escape Artist a mirror and The Great Escape Artist takes the mirror and puts it inside his van. The Great Escape Artist drives The Great Escape Artist into The Great Escape Artist's home and The Great Escape Artist rips The Great Escape Artist's name off The Great Escape Artist's mirror. The Great Escape Artist goes on to live a free life without The Great Escape Artist doesn't remember The Great Escape Artist. The last thing The Great Escape Artist remembers is The Great Escape Artist!
The movie version of The Great Escape Artist would be pretty awesome, except for the part when The Great Escape Artist ripped The Great Escape Artist's name off The Great Escape Artist's mirror. The Great Escape Artist may not be as ridiculous as it sounds; he did actually write The Great Escape Artist, not The Great Escape Artist. The Great Escape Artist, however, may be more ridiculous than The Great Escape Artist because The Great Escape Artist is about a wimp who owns a van and doesn't know what he looks like but still manages to make The Great Escape Artist's life better (because he wrote The Great Escape Artist's book). The Great Escape Artist may not be as funny as The Great Escape Artist but he's still definitely more absurd than The Great Escape Artist.
The Great Escape Artist is directed by Steve McQueen and was written by him and Alex Belluci, who are also the producers. The Great Escape Artist review will probably be posted soon, so stay tuned! The Great Escape Artist will probably be on cable television in a few years. The Great Escape Artist trailer was terrible, but this one had some hilarious lines: 'You never think it'll happen... You never think you'll get the call back... You never think you'll see your patients at the soup kitchen... You never think you'll get the call from the new guy over the bar.' The Great Escape Artist will not be as bad or as long as The Great Escape Artist, but it'll be just as good!