While the future certainly didn’t look bright for Jane’s Addiction following an onstage fight between singer Perry Farrell and guitarist Dave Navarro this past September, Navarro has seemingly put the last nail in the coffin for the legendary alt-rock band in a new interview.
As previously reported, Farrell shoved and punched Navarro onstage toward the end of Jane’s Addiction’s September 13th show at Leader Bank Pavilion in Boston, ending the concert abruptly. The singer was pulled off the guitarist by Cleary and bassist Eric Avery, who then landed a couple of punches on Farrell. It was later reported that moments later, Farrell punched Navarro again backstage, this time in the face.
The band subsequently canceled the remainder of the tour, which was the first outing featuring all four classic members of the band — Farrell, Navarro, Avery, and drummer Stephen Perkins — in 14 years. Farrell apologized for the incident, with his wife Etty Lau Farrell reporting that the singer had sought medical help after the meltdown.
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In a new interview with Guitar Player magazine, Navarro was asked to name the best and worst gigs of his career. The best was having his musical hero Lou Reed perform with his covers band Camp Freddy.
The worst was that Boston show on September 13th, 2024, with Navarro noting, “There were a couple of gigs on this last run that we did last year in Europe with Eric Avery back on bass that were some of my favorite Jane’s Addiction gigs of all-time. There was no bullshit: No props. No nothing onstage. No dancing, no pyro, and no gimmicks. It was just the four of us and some colored lights, and we were playing the songs, expanding on them, and getting in a kind of weird.”
He continued, “If you combined Grateful Dead and Radiohead, there were moments like that — just weird, experimental jams that we’d never done before as a band.”
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