Jane’s Dependancy launched into a reunion tour final 12 months that was lower brief after Perry Farrell started preventing with Dave Navarro onstage mid-show. Since that ill-fated September night, a guitar tech from that gig stated the band was over, and the members who aren’t Farrell have apparently spent a while jamming within the studio collectively. We didn’t actually want any concrete information that Jane’s Dependancy was over for good, however regardless, we now have affirmation that there’s “no probability for the band to ever play collectively once more.”
Navarro lately did an interview with Guitar Participant and made his first feedback concerning the punching incident. He was understandably a bit obscure about what went down backstage, however right here’s what he needed to say:
There was an altercation onstage, and all of the exhausting work and dedication and writing and hours within the studio, and selecting up and leaving dwelling and crisscrossing the nation and Europe and making an attempt to beat my sickness — all of it got here to a screeching halt and endlessly destroyed the band’s life. And there’s no probability for the band to ever play collectively once more. I’ve to say that’s my least favourite gig, with out throwing animosity round, and with out naming names and pointing fingers, and arising with causes.
I’ll simply say that the expertise previous to that gig, after we have been in Europe and gelling, actually, for the primary time — as a result of at our ages, in our 50s and 60s, everyone’s finished what they’re gonna do, and we weren’t aggressive with one another — we have been getting alongside. There was no ego situation; it was simply 4 guys making nice music, identical to we did to start with. It was simply us on a stage, with folks going fucking loopy.
And that gig, September thirteenth, in Boston, ended all of that. And for that motive, that’s my least favourite gig that I’ve ever performed… The experiences are there, however the potential of getting these kinds of experiences ended that evening. And so, you recognize, it’s what it’s. And that’s my reply.
In the identical interview, Navarro additionally talked about his favourite gig he ever performed, when his different band Camp Freddy received Lou Reed to carry out “Venus In Furs” with them. Not a nasty trade-off! You possibly can examine extra Jane’s-related chaos and drama in Richard Bienstock and Tom Beaujour’s new oral historical past ebook Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story Of Different Rock’s Wildest Competition.