A Jane’s Addiction concert in Boston ended early and unexpectedly when singer Perry Farrell instigated a fight with guitarist Dave Navarro. The show at Leader Bank Pavilion on Friday was the latest stop on the first tour in 14 years featuring the band’s core lineup.
Eleven songs into the show, as Navarro played the guitar solo to “Ocean Size”, Farrell walked over and yelled in the guitarist’s face before shoulder-checking him and disrupting the song. As Navarro looked up in bewilderment, Farrell began to close in—Dave attempting to keep Perry at arm’s length until the singer finally connected a right hook after continuing to shout in his bandmate’s face. After Perry landed the punch, a crew member came out to stop the singer and ultimately physically restrain him with help from bassist Eric Avery and another crew member.
In a video of the altercation, Avery can be seen delivering several punches to Farrell’s torso as they attempt to contain him. As the singer was begrudgingly whisked away backstage, Navarro set down his guitar and was met with a hearty and emotional hug from drummer Stephen Perkins. Navarro, Avery, and Perkins took their bows and the show was over after 11 songs, about four less than the band has usually played each night of this tour.
Jane’s Addiction — Perrell Farrell & Dave Navarro Fight — 9/13/24
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JamBase reports that the tension between Navarro and Farrell began during “Mountain Song” when Perry started yelling at Dave, with the altercation continuing through the following “Three Days” and ultimately boiling over during “Ocean Size”. While that may have been the immediate lead-up to the Jane’s Addiction fight on Friday, issues had been mounting throughout the week. Fans took to Reddit to complain about Farrell’s sub-par performance during a pair of New York City shows on Tuesday and Wednesday. According to eye-witness accounts, Navarro and the other instrumentalists did little to mask their dissatisfaction at the Farrell’s singing—rolling their eyes and commiserating between songs as the singer missed multiple cues and sang out of key.
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Perry’s wife Etty Farrell took to Instagram to offer her explanation of what happened in Boston. In a lengthy post, Etty attributed her husband’s mounting frustration to his perception that the band’s instruments were too loud and drowning out his vocals. She also pointed out that the singer had been suffering from tinnitus and a sore throat every night of the tour.
“But when the audience in the first row, started complaining up to Perry cussing at him that the band was planning too loud and that they couldn’t hear him, Perry lost it,” Etty wrote. “The band started the song Ocean before Perry was ready and did the count off.. The stage volume was so loud at that point, that Perry couldn’t hear pass the boom and the vibration of the instruments and by the end of the song, he wasn’t singing, he was screaming just be to be heard.”
Etty made sure to call attention to Avery’s shots at Perry while he was being subdued, sarcastically naming him the winner of the fight. In her analysis of the altercation, she summarized, “Dave still looked handsome and cool in the middle of a fight. Perry was a crazed beast for the next half an hour – he finally did not calm down, but did breakdown and cried and cried. Eric, well he either didn’t understand what descalation meant or took advantage of the situation and got in a few cheap shots on Perry.”
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Jane’s Addiction has yet to make an official comment on the situation, and as of now is still set to perform on Sunday in Bridgeport, CT. The band has 15 shows left on the tour, set to wrap on October 16th in its native Los Angeles. Find a full list of tour dates on the band’s website.
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