In Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story of Different Rock’s Wildest Competition DAVE NAVARRO recollects being ON DRUGS whereas combating JANE’S ADDICTION frontman PERRY FARRELL.
Jane’s Habit have had a good quantity of drama all through their lengthy music profession, with the most recent dramatic second coming within the type of an onstage battle between guitarist Dave Navarro and frontman Perry Farrell this previous September – a battle that compelled the band to cancel the remainder of their tour and left their future unsure.
Now, Navarro is recalling an analogous second between him and Farrell that befell throughout the very first present of the very first Lollapalooza in 1991 (a touring music competition conceived by Farrell).
Main as much as the present, Navarro had been attempting to get clear, however struggled. Shortly earlier than they had been set to take the stage in Chandler, AZ, Navarro discovered himself unable to maneuver because of the quantity of medication in his system.
“I had gotten too excessive on h*roin,” Navarro recollects within the ebook “Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story of Different Rock’s Wildest Competition” by authors Richard Bienstock and Tom Beaujour. “So then I used to be given c*caine … took a handful of drugs and drank a bunch. By the point I received onstage, I didn’t know which approach was up.”
Based on witnesses, as soon as Navarro and Farrell (who was additionally on medicine) had been on stage they received right into a battle, attacking one another in entrance of the viewers.
Farrell, nevertheless, doesn’t bear in mind it that approach. “I believed we had been off the stage. I didn’t know that we had been on the stage. Have been we?” he says within the ebook.
