Perry Farrell’s wife has broken her silence after her husband attacked his lead guitarist at a show in Boston, claiming the frontman was upset that his bandmates were “drowning” him out because they were playing too loud.
Farrell’s wife, Etty Lau, took to Instagram to share her husband’s side of the story after he was criticized for punching and hitting guitarist Dave Navarro on stage on Friday night.
“Rather than speculate, I thought I’d post a first-person account of what happened on stage,” he wrote.
Lau said Farrell has been struggling with “tinnitus and a sore throat every night” that has affected his voice, and “he felt like the stage volume had been extremely loud and his voice was being drowned out by the band.”
Frontman Perry Farrell began swearing into the microphone before turning to guitarist Dave Navarro and playing him nine songs from Jane’s Addiction’s Boston set.
Farrell’s wife Etty Lau (pictured together) claimed her husband “lost control” because his bandmates were “drowning” him by playing too loud.
Lau said there had been “tension and animosity between the band members” but felt this wasn’t 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 fans booed him because they couldn’t hear him.
“When the front row audience started complaining and even cursing Perry because the band was playing too loud and they couldn’t hear him, Perry went nuts,” he wrote.
“He didn’t sing, he shouted just to be heard.”
Attendees say Farrell appeared to be very drunk at Friday night’s show, while others say it was nothing unusual to see the frontman, who has been known to down bottles of wine on stage.
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