Playboy Playmates & Jane’s Addiction Rock the Rabbit @ SXSW 2009 [PICS]

By J Bryant

It’s no secret that Playboy and C3 know how to throw one helluva a SXSW shindig, but Thursday night’s Rock The Rabbit After Hours Party was the end-all-be-all.  I mean, hanging with eight Playmates in an abandoned grocery store with an endless supply of BBQ and swill may be a little less than commonplace, but seeing the original Jane’s Addiction lineup shred balls from the dairy isle was definitely a first.  Sure, I was a bit apprehensive that a grown-up Jane’s (minus the addiction) might be better suited as the opener on a Styx/Def Leppard parking lot double bill, but the boys brought it and brought it bigger than ever, busting out nine aggressively explosive pre-1990′s classics.  Thank you Jane’s for leaving the steel drum and the slow karaoke anthems back in 1997 where they belong.

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Photo Credit: James Trevenen