LOS ANGELES (AP) — The members of other rock band Jane’s Dependancy filed dueling lawsuits Wednesday over singer Perry Farrell’s onstage scuffle with guitarist Dave Navarro at a Boston live performance final yr, prompting the cancellation of the remainder of their reunion tour and a deliberate album.
Navarro, drummer Stephen Perkins and bassist Eric Avery sued Farrell in Los Angeles Superior Court docket searching for a minimum of $10 million, alleging that Farrell’s habits on the tour had ranged from erratic to out-of-control, culminating within the assault, the place Perry punched Navarro each on stage and backstage.
“With a series of swift blows, he single-handedly destroyed the name, reputation, trademark, and viability of the Band and those who built it,” their lawsuit says.
Farrell and his spouse, Etty Lau Farrell, sued the three bandmates in the identical courtroom Wednesday, blaming them for the battle and the violence.
“Navarro, Avery and Perkins apparently decided,” the lawsuit says, “that Jane’s Addiction’s decades of success should be jettisoned in pursuit of a yearslong bullying campaign against Farrell involving harassing him onstage during performances, including, among other tactics, trying to undermine him by playing their instruments at a high volume so that he could not hear himself sing.”
The Farrells stated that Navarro and Avery really assaulted them.
Perry Farrell stated he was “blindsided” when the opposite members canceled the remaining 15 exhibits of the tour and broke up the band with out consulting him, costing all of them quite a lot of cash.
And he stated his bandmates defamed him by publicly saying after the struggle that he had psychological well being issues.
Jane’s Dependancy was a vital a part of the Los Angeles music scene within the late Eighties with their mixture of components of punk, goth and psychedelic sounds and tradition. They turned a nationwide phenomenon with hits together with “Jane Says” and “Been Caught Stealing,” and thru their founding of the Lollapalooza tour, whose first incarnations they headlined in 1991.
The group broke up quickly after however returned a number of occasions in varied incarnations. The 2024 tour was the primary time the unique members had performed collectively since 2010.
Farrell missed all seven of the group’s rehearsals within the run-up to the tour, his bandmate’s lawsuit alleges, and his habits throughout the early exhibits ranged from erratic to out-of-control.
“He struggled night to night amid public concern for his well-being and apparent intoxication,” their lawsuit says. “Perry forgot lyrics, lost his place in songs he had sung since the 1980s, and mumbled rants as he drank from a wine bottle onstage.”
The lawsuit says Farrell was given many options to the amount drawback, none of which he adopted.
Then on Sept. 13 at Chief Financial institution Pavilion in Boston in entrance of about 4,000 followers, movies partially captured Farrell lunging at Navarro and bumping Navarro together with his shoulder earlier than taking a swing on the guitarist together with his proper arm. Navarro is seen holding his proper arm out to maintain Farrell away earlier than Farrell is dragged away.
However Farrell’s lawsuit says the “video evidence is clear that the first altercation onstage during the Boston show was hardly one-sided.” It says Navarro was intentionally taking part in loud to drown out the singer, and “what followed was an inappropriate violent escalation by Navarro and Avery that was disproportionate to Farrell’s minor body check of Navarro.”
Farrell alleges that when he was being restrained by a crew member, Avery punched him within the kidneys, and that each Avery and Navarro assaulted him and his spouse backstage.
Shortly after the struggle, Farrell in a press release apologized to his bandmates, particularly Navarro, for “inexcusable behavior.”
Each lawsuits allege assault and battery, intentional infliction of emotional misery and breach of contract, amongst different claims.
“Now,” Navarro, Perkins and Avery’s lawsuit says, “the Band won’t ever have their revival Tour, to have fun a brand new album and 40+ years of deep, complicated, chart-topping recordings. As an alternative, historical past will keep in mind the Band as struggling a swift and painful dying by the hands of Farrell’s unprovoked anger and full lack of self-control.”
