In keeping with Rolling Stone, Jane’s Dependancy founding members Dave Navarro, Eric Avery, and Stephen Perkins have filed a lawsuit in opposition to frontman Perry Farrell. The authorized battle stems from a bodily confrontation on stage final September that led to the abrupt cancelation of the band’s North American tour and a long-anticipated album. Navarro can also be suing Farrell individually for assault and battery.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday, July 16 in Los Angeles County Superior Courtroom, alleges the altercation prompted the band to lose greater than $10 million: “The Band can not operate because of the Defendant’s conduct, together with his sudden, violent outbursts and demonstrated lack of ability to function the Band’s frontman and vocalist,” the criticism states.
“The bodily, emotional, and monetary harms Defendant has wrought have deeply impacted the Plaintiffs, their households, and their family members, and it’s time for Defendant to face the implications of his actions and be held accountable.”
Navarro, Avery, Perkins and additional allege that Farrell‘s escalating alcohol use severely affected his dwell performances.
“Plaintiffs (and others in attendance) had noticed through the Tour that Perry often appeared onstage in a sophisticated state of intoxication,” reads the submitting. “He would typically drink wine onstage and slur his speech. Perry regularly went on lengthy, rambling discursions between songs for no obvious goal apart from for his personal amusement. The issues with Perry‘s efficiency would typically worsen because the evening wore on and he grew to become extra intoxicated.”
Legal professional Christopher Frost, representing Navarro, Avery, and Perkins, advised Rolling Stone the trio initially had excessive hopes for a full-scale Jane’s Dependancy revival.
“Dave Navarro, Eric Avery, and Stephen Perkins had excessive hopes that they may seize the pure spirit of the band’s early days and construct on it. Initially they did, within the studio and onstage. However … they did so with a fourth bandmate who was by turns unwilling or unable to carry out to an affordable commonplace and who repeatedly threatened to derail the tour.”
Frost emphasised that Farrell in the end “abruptly and unilaterally ended all of the plans for a Jane’s Dependancy revival” and “left his bandmates holding the bag for an unfulfilled tour and document deal.” He added: “Dave, Eric, and Stephen by no means wished it to return to this. However they’ve been wronged, need the correct story advised, they usually deserve a decision.”
For these unaware, Jane’s Dependancy‘s present on September 13 on the Chief Financial institution Pavilion in Boston, MA was sadly the tip of the band when Farrell assaulted Navarro on stage. Jane’s Dependancy initially cancelled their present on September 15 with doable plans to proceed, however in the end canned their complete tour and stated they have been taking time away as a band.
Regardless of the chaos, Jane’s Dependancy launched a brand new single simply days after the tour’s collapse. Titled “True Love”, the observe marked the second new launch from the reunited traditional lineup of Farrell, Navarro, Avery, and Perkins — following “Imminent Redemption”, which dropped in July 2024.
Sadly that altercation appears to have ben the ultimate nail within the coffin for Jane’s Dependancy, not less than in response to Navarro an current interview with Guitar Participant. Navarro avoids a number of particular wording in his reply, however does concretely notice that there is “no likelihood for the band to ever play collectively once more.”
“There have been a few gigs on this final run that we did final yr in Europe with Eric Avery again on bass that have been a few of my favourite Jane’s Dependancy gigs of all-time,” stated Navarro. “There was no bullshit: No props. No nothing onstage. No dancing, no pyro, and no gimmicks. It was simply the 4 of us and a few coloured lights, and we have been enjoying the songs, increasing on them, and getting in a form of bizarre.
“If you happen to mixed Grateful Lifeless and Radiohead, there have been moments like that — simply bizarre, experimental jams that we might by no means carried out earlier than as a band. And but, if you happen to have been to ask me what my least favourite gig was, it will be a gig final September, on Friday the 13th, in Boston. I’ve to talk in broad strokes right here, as a result of there are different people concerned, and it is nonetheless very tender and unresolved.
“There was an altercation onstage, and all of the laborious work and dedication and writing and hours within the studio, and choosing up and leaving dwelling and crisscrossing the nation and Europe and making an attempt to beat my [long COVID] — all of it got here to a screeching halt and perpetually destroyed the band’s life. And there is no likelihood for the band to ever play collectively once more.
“I’ve to say that is my least favourite gig, with out throwing animosity round, and with out naming names and pointing fingers, and developing with causes. There was an altercation onstage, and all of it got here to a screeching halt and perpetually destroyed the band’s life.
“I am going to simply say that the expertise previous to that gig, once we have been in Europe and gelling, actually, for the primary time — as a result of at our ages, in our 50s and 60s, everyone’s carried out what they’re gonna do, and we weren’t aggressive with one another — we have been getting alongside. There was no ego situation; it was simply 4 guys making nice music, identical to we did to start with. I used to be simply us on a stage, with folks going fucking loopy.
“And that gig, September 13th, in Boston, ended all of that. And for that cause, that’s my least favourite gig that I’ve ever performed. I believe that is a reasonably democratic approach, you recognize, a reasonably bipartisan technique to go about it. You already know, simply the actual unhappiness is the lack of that earlier… The experiences are there, however the potential of getting these sorts of experiences ended that evening. And so, you recognize… it’s what it’s. And that is my reply.”