Jane’s Addiction have now cancelled their entire tour following the onstage bust-up between guitarist Dave Navarro and lead singer Perry Farrell.
The duo got into a fight last week in the middle of their Boston show, with eyewitnesses claiming Farrell, 65, began shouting at Navarro during ‘Mountain Song.’
On Monday, Navarro, 57, told fans the tour would no longer continue.
‘Due to a continuing pattern of behavior and the mental health difficulties of our singer Perry Farrell, we have come to the conclusion that we have no choice but to discontinue the current US tour,’ Navarro said in a statement.
He continued: ‘Our concern for his personal health and safety as well as our own has left us no alternative. We hope that he will find the help he needs.’
‘We deeply regret that we are not able to come through for all our fans who have already bought tickets. We can see no solution that would either ensure a safe environment on stage or reliably allow us to deliver a great performance on a nightly basis.’
Navarro signed off the statement with a heartbreaking message, adding: ‘Our hearts are broken. Dave, Eric and Stephen.’
This was the first tour in 14 years that featured the band’s original lineup.
Jane’s Addiction have now cancelled their entire tour following the bust-up between guitarist Dave Navarro and Perry Farrell onstage.
The post comes after Farrell’s wife Etty Lau broke her silence after her husband attacked his lead guitarist, claiming the frontman was upset by being ‘drowned out’ by his bandmates playing too loudly.
Lau took to Instagram to share her husband’s side of the story after he was slammed for body-checking and punching guitarist Dave Navarro on stage on Friday night.
‘Rather than speculating, I thought to post a first person account of what happened on stage,’ she wrote.
Lau said Farrell has been struggling with ‘tinnitus and a sore throat every night’ that has affected his voice, and he ‘felt that the stage volume had been extremely loud and his voice was being drowned out by the band’.
Lau said that there had been ‘tension and animosity between the bandmembers’, but felt that this was not always a bad thing as it was also ‘the magic that made the band so dynamic.’
But on Friday night, Lau said her husband reached breaking point after he was heckled by fans who couldn’t hear him.
The statement was signed off by the three remaining members of the band
‘When the audience in the first row, [they] 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,’ said Lau – a former original member of the Pussycat Dolls when it was a dance troupe.
‘He wasn’t singing, he was screaming just be to be heard.’
Attendees say Farrell appeared to be heavily intoxicated at the Friday night show, with others claiming it was far from an unusual sight for the frontman who is known to down bottles of wine on stage.
Fans said tensions began rising during the band’s rendition of ‘Mountain Song’, and by the time they got to ‘Ocean Size’ three song’s later, Farrell was seething.
‘The band started the song Ocean before Perry was ready and did the count off,’ Lau said.
‘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.’
Dave Navarro and Perry Farrell seen performing at Lollapalooza, Chicago, in 2016
Lau signed off her Instagram post with a jab at ‘who won the fight’, claiming that bassist Eric Avery came out victorious as he aggressively confronted Farrell.
‘While Dave (Navarro) was keeping Perry at arm’s length to de-escalate the situation, Dan (Cleary, a band technician) rushed over to de-escalate as well by holding Perry back,’ Lau wrote.
‘Dave walked away to take his guitar off. Eric walked up to Perry, upstage, in the dark, behind Dan, put Perry in a headlock and punched him in the stomach three times.’
Lau said Avery had to be ‘pulled away’, before the bassist ‘nonchalantly walked off to the front of the stage to apologize to audience for the show ended early’.
She said while Navarro ‘still looked handsome and cool in the middle of a fight’, her husband ‘was a crazed beast’ in the aftermath of the altercation.
‘He finally did not calm down, but did breakdown and cried and cried,’ she said, concluding that Avery ‘didn’t understand what de-escalation meant or took advantage of the situation and got in a few cheap shots on Perry’.
The LA band formed in 1985 and first did a ‘farewell’ tour back in 1991 – with band member Eric Avery acrimoniously leaving in 2010.
Dayle Gloria, the LA club promoter who helped discover the band in 1986 and host of podcast Nightclubbing with Dayle Gloria told the DailyMail.com: ‘Perry Farrell’s meltdown is tough to see for those of us like me who love the band.’
‘We all hope that Perry gets the help he needs so he and the band can someday re-capture the magic that is Jane’s Addiction.’