Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell and Eric Avery Talk Reunion, New Songs and Touring Without Dave Navarro
variety.comRichard Bienstock “What’s beautiful about life is not always winning,” Perry Farrell says. “It’s getting knocked down and getting back up and then winning.
Sometimes, that can be even sweeter.” Farrell, it should be noted, has not lacked for winning moments in 2022. The 63-year-old musician recently saw Lollapalooza through another massively successful multi-day stand in Chicago (not to mention Stockholm, Paris, Buenos Aires and other far-flung locales); conceived, executed and performed at, along with his wife, Etty Lau Farrell, a recurring L.A.-based “immersive theater” experience named Heaven After Dark that he hopes to take international; and unexpectedly reunited his mid-‘90s outfit, Porno for Pyros, for their first full shows in more than 25 years.
The piece that has been missing from this winning puzzle is Jane’s Addiction, the L.A. band that, with the shamanistic Farrell at the helm, played a key role in shepherding alternative rock into the mainstream in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, and that famously broke up (for the first time, at least) after headlining the inaugural Lollapalooza festival in 1991.
Jane’s has regrouped to record and tour numerous times over the years, and remains a hot live ticket and festival headliner.
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