It has become one of the videos of the weekend. Perry Farrellleader of Jane’s Addictionhit the group’s guitarist, Dave Navarroduring a concert in Boston. The band was performing “Ocean Size.”
We’ve seen some moments that have gone down in history in which members of a group hit each other, but the truth is that, after seeing Jane’s Addiction in our country (with stops in Vitoria and Madrid), we didn’t expect them to be next.
This past Friday, September 13, the American band was performing at one more of their reunion tour shows, this time in Boston, when Perry Farrell started pushing Dave Navarro. Farrell then started hitting the musician, which led the band to stop the concert. Several technicians got on stage to separate the singer and take him away. At that moment, the remaining members of Jane’s Addiction approached Navarro to calm him down and give him a hug. The concert had to be cancelled from that moment on, in which the band had performed almost a dozen songs with “Ocean Size” as the final piece. The next concert has also been cancelled, so we will see what happens with the next announced shows.
In the absence of an official statement from the musicians, it has been Etty Lau FarrellPerry Farrell’s wife, who has made public statements through social media. In her statements she blames the members of the group for playing at full volume at each concert, preventing Farrell’s voice from being heard properly, which forced him to shout and lose the concentration necessary to perform his classics properly. However, she blames above all the band’s bassist, Eric Avery, whom she disqualified in her statement. On the other hand, the photographer of the venue told the media that Farrell had been drinking from a bottle of wine throughout the concert and that the rest of the members of the group had been talking about it at various times, showing their nervousness at various times.
