A Jane’s Addiction band technician has revealed that the fight that broke out onstage between Perry Farrell and Dave Navarro at a Boston concert earlier this month continued after the show ended.
In a new episode of the podcast odd shaped radioDan Cleary, the group’s guitar and bass technician for 17 years, claims that Farrell delivered another violent blow to Navarro offstage.
And unlike the punch the singer threw in front of the crowd, this one landed, hitting the guitarist square in the face.
Cleary, who was seen during the crisis on stage trying to restrain Farrell, said “the band is over.”
Jane’s Addiction manager Dan Cleary revealed that the fight that broke out onstage between Perry Farrell and Dave Navarro at a Boston concert earlier this month continued after the show ended.
After the show, Cleary said Farrell threw a punch at Navarro, hitting him in the face.
For the podcast, he was joined by Todd Newman, who has been Navarro’s best friend for 30 years.
Throughout the episode, host Cleary played audio clips of Boston’s disastrous performance.
In them, Farrell seemed to sing out of sync with the rest of the band. The audio feed then appeared to capture the fight on and off stage.
At one point, Farrell can be heard complaining to his wife, Etty Lau Farrell, that the other musicians were “trying to screw up my show.”
Then Navarro, who Farrell attacked on stage, appeared to confront the lead singer and said, ‘What the fuck was that, you son of a bitch?’
After this, the sound of a fight can be heard, which Cleary explained as “Perry punching Dave.”
“That (hit) really connected,” the band’s coach said. “You can hear it, the right hand on the left side of Dave’s face.”
Cleary and Newman continued to trace Farrell’s truculent behavior to the tour’s opening show in Las Vegas, where the singer “left the band” before he was convinced to perform at the last minute.
Etty Lau Farrell has said her husband eventually became violent because he “reached his breaking point.”
Cleary and Newman, however, agreed that the singer was already at his breaking point by the time of the first concert.
But the podcast host seemed to have the same opinion as Etty when it came to her husband’s alcohol consumption. Neither of them believes that drunkenness is a problem for the singer, who usually drinks from a bottle of wine on stage.
Cleary identified earlier signs of the latent conflict. In the past, tours under the band’s name sometimes included Etty and other dancers backing the group.
Dave and Perry seen performing at Lollapalooza, Chicago, in 2016
Guitar and bass tech said Jane’s Addiction was ‘over’
But for this tour, the other members of Jane’s Addiction expressed their desire for the band to perform alone, a wish to which the singer acceded.
According to Cleary, Farrell showed up a few hours before the Las Vegas show with some footage he had recorded of his wife and “some other women dancing in the desert.”
The singer wanted the video to be played during the show, and when the rest of the band resisted, he quit, Cleary claimed.
Newman, who was present at the show, said Etty Lau Farrell proceeded to come out “into this public area screaming that Perry is going home and that the tour is over.”
At the Boston show, during the group’s song Ocean Size, ‘everything fell apart,’ explained the band’s technician
Even though the Las Vegas show ended up happening and Farrell remained in the band, Cleary said that “from that point on, Perry drifted away from his bandmates.”
At the Boston show, during the group’s song Ocean Size, “everything fell apart,” explained the band’s technician.
Cleary then played an audio clip of Farrell allegedly muttering ‘fuck these motherfuckers’ before punching the guitarist.
But the podcast host made it clear that the fight did not end on stage. “I want people to understand that this didn’t end there,” he said.
“He’s a good guy most of the time. And then there are moments where he’s kind of like that, but we’ve never seen this crazed version before,” Cleary said of Farrell.
“Eventually, Dave comes over to ask what the hell happened and Perry hits him again,” Cleary said.
But the band’s manager sympathized with Farrell, saying, “I feel sorry for him because something is going on mentally.” He seemed crazy.
“I enjoy Perry,” Cleary continued. ‘I’ve had excellent conversations with him. The other day he sent me a beautiful text message, basically an “I’ll miss you” type message.
“He’s a good guy most of the time. And then there are moments where he’s kind of like that, but we’ve never seen this crazed version before. That’s what makes him so scary.