Perry Farrell's path has had its ups and downs, its twists and turns, but don't look for trendy angst from the former frontman for Jane's Addiction and founder of Lollapalooza.

"Anything that is around hate, which could be angst or remorse or negativity ... it's powerful," he said, "but do you not believe that love will conquer all?"

"Because I do," Farrell said after a long pause. He performs tonight at Mr. Small's Theatre in Millvale with his new band, Satellite Party, which just released its debut, "Ultra Payloaded."

	Max Vadukul Perry Farrell will be at Mr. Small's in Millvale tonight. Click photo for larger image.

"I think that, No. 1, who wants to stay in angst and in anger and who wants to feel feudal in their life? I sure don't. So I think that, 'Yes, you know, those days, I did cut my teeth with those guys and that group.' " he says of Jane's Addiction. "I love the music that we made in those days, and we still perform it. ... I still to this day perform lots of Jane's music. But I'm surely not going to sit around and feel powerless."

Much has changed since Farrell had the youthful malaise that drove his mind when he wrote songs like "Jane Says," "Obvious" and "Had a Dad." There are a lot of highlights on the new album, such as "Only Love, Let's Celebrate," a song he feels gives the best impression of where he is psychologically and one that will soon be remixed with 50 Cent and Kelly Rowland.

Listen In: Hear excerpts from songs on the new Perry Farrell's Satellite Party CD "Ultra Payloaded": "Mr. Sunshine" "Insanity Rains" "Woman in the Window" (with Jim Morrison)

Another is the title track, which he loves performing because of its complexity. The one that's drawn the most attention is "Woman in the Window," a song with previously unreleased Jim Morrison lyrics. It's intriguing because it shows where Morrison, who predicted in a 1969 television interview that future music would be electronic-based, would have gone had he lived.

"I think that he was kind of right," Farrell says. "That's kind of where we're at. We are a live group, but we play with tracks and pads and drum triggers, which means that not only is a real player playing, but he's triggering electronic stimulation to synthetic drum programs. So, you get a much denser, richer and newer sound with drums, which is the new frontier for live groups. But what I wanted to dress Jim Morrison with new clothes. It would have been easy to completely emulate The Doors, but I think the juxtaposition of him with today's kind of sound is kind of thrilling."

Farrell became popular in the late '80s, when disillusionment and depression were seen as the marks of sincerity. But Farrell thinks it's much healthier, braver and just as authentic to express happiness..

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"Let's look at these guys. So they're all saying I want to destroy and I want anarchy. Well, that's [expletive] great. What do the rest of us do? Sit there and drink filthy water, and suck on dirty air. Who wants to do that? I mean, let's do something about it. That's a real revolution.

"There were guys in [Jane's], I won't mention names, but they used to try to write a song that wouldn't shoot for greatness. They would kind of try to be tongue-in-cheek and sarcastic. That's fine; you can kind of make a mockery of things and make a joke. I think it takes a lot more courage to stand up and say, 'No, I'm going to be beautiful. I'm going to put myself out there.' My attitude is that this is our world, and we're going to celebrate in this world. We're going to take the streets back, and we're going to do something good with it."

Farrell has tried to do his part, at least when it comes to the environment. Lollapalooza has long promoted the environment and other causes. He's also an avid snowboarder and surfer, unwilling to sacrifice clean beaches and the cold winter day that brings powder to legendary runs like Corbet's Couloir in Jackson Hole, Wyo. Farrell, for his part, knows that concerts like Lollapalooza won't necessarily help, but they shouldn't hurt the area around them.

Farrell criticized Live Earth organizer Kevin Wall, though he did think Al Gore was a "good guy."

"They should have taken their time and really checked out and seen what the defects of it was," he says. "If they're doing it about the environment, seeing the effects of the industrial revolution, but they're not doing it about their own festival, I think that is a little silly."

He thinks nitpicking isn't a good way to talk about it, though.

"You can do that with anybody. I can turn around and say, 'What did you do today to screw the environment up?' I'm sure that I can shoot some holes in your day. I just want to tell you that this whole concept of being a solutionist, and being aware of the environment and wanting to retrofit your business and your life ... it's only getting going. Talk to me in 10 years."