Since bassist Eric Avery left Jane’s Addiction in 1992, the band have re-formed occasionally, even releasing an album, Strays, in 2003, with Chris Chaney on bass. But this summer’s tour with Nine Inch Nails—including a headlining gig at Lollapalooza—marks their first with Avery since then.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Then the NME gave us an award last year.
Farrell: I didn’t want to go up there and accept it myself, so though I hated everyone, I called them, and that got us talking. I didn’t want to wait till we’re 65 and don’t have the chops anymore.
Perry Farrell: I don’t like the word “reunion.” We have, as everybody knows, a tumultuous relationship. I look at us like a farm—you’ve got a goat, you’ve got a pig, you’ve got a bull, and you’ve got a rooster, and sometimes the bull doesn’t like the goat, but when you put these animals together, it’s a great farm. I’m the ram.
Dave Navarro: I’ve been in and out of this band throughout my entire career, so not much surprises me. We are so full of surprises that when they happen, I’m not surprised.
playing: SaSquatch! / lollapalooza
eric avery: For a long time, I looked at the whole idea of a reunion as a negative, as being an older, fatter version of my younger self. But I’d already thought to myself that I’d come back and play if we were inducted into the
StePheN PerkiNS: I met Eric when we were 17; I took his younger sister Rebecca to the prom. So my relationship with him is 20, 25 years in the making. His simple, melodic bass playing gave me a lot of room to find myself as a drummer, and it’s a great musical reminder of where we came from and how we got our personalities to come out on our instruments.
JANE’S SAYS Stephen Perkins, Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro, and Eric Avery, photographed for SPIN in Los Angeles, March 4, 2009
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PHOTOGRAPH BY CHAPMAN BAEHLER
References:
http://www.amazon.com/Up-Catacombs-Best-Janes-Addiction/dp/B000AYEI4K/spindigi-20
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