In 2003, Veruca Salt released an EP entitled “Officially Dead.” Recorded five years after band co-founder Nina Gordon had left the band and three years after Veruca Salt’s only post-Gordon album, 2000’s “Resolver,” the recording’s name was an accurate assessment of the band’s unfortunate fate.

But yesterday Veruca Salt — more reformed than dead — took to the stage at Jaxx for a show that was more nostalgic than it was necessary. It wasn’t that the band didn’t work its way through some of the more popular tunes of their brief sojourn with fame in the mid-1990s, it was that their doing so led to the inevitable comparisons to the band that they used to be, the band that many would love to have back.

Had this been another band with another name, it may have been a good show. But it wasn’t. It was Veruca Salt, but only half of it.

Most would hate to admit it, but if Veruca Salt isn’t dead, she’s definitely on life support.