Jane’s Addiction ends Boston show with fight between Perry Farrell and Dave Navarro

A Jane’s Addiction reunion show in Boston didn’t go quite as planned, as the show ended early after frontman Perry Farrell body-checked and appeared to take a swing at guitarist Dave Navarro.

The show was thunderously loud and what could be seen on stage was only part of the story. But what is obvious is that, as Navarro was picking through a solo in “Ocean Size,” Farrell walked over from the front of the Leader Bank Pavilion stage in Boston’s Seaport and body-checked him.

Navarro put his arm up to keep Farrell at a distance as crew members and founding bass guitarist Eric Avery walked up to restrain Farrell.

“Clearly there had been a lot of tension and animosity between the members,” Farrell’s wife Etty Farrell posted on Instagram following the show. “The magic that made the band so dynamic. Well, the dynamite was lit. Perry got up in Dave’s face and body checked him.”

Etty Farrell said she made her post to give a “first person account of what happened” to avoid speculation.

She wrote that Perry Farrell’s “frustration had been mounting, night after night” because the stage volume was far too loud and he felt that “his voice was being drowned out by the band.

“Perry had been suffering from tinnitus and a sore throat every night,” she wrote. “But when the audience in the first row, started complaining up to Perry cussing at him that the band was playing too loud and that they couldn’t hear him, Perry lost it.”

She said that he couldn’t hear past “the boom and the vibration of the instruments and by the end of the song, he wasn’t singing, he was screaming just (to be) heard.”

But some readers were unsatisfied with Etty Farrell’s story when she brought bassist Avery into the mix. She said that Avery, while everyone else was trying to deescalate the situation, ran up in the dark “put Perry in a headlock and punched him in the stomach three times.” She said it was a “cheapshot.”

Some commenters accused Etty Farrell of enabling her husband who needs some mental help and criticized her for blaming the sound personnel or Avery for the situation.

One commenter said her story was “deranged gaslighting. Perry chose violence.”

This is a developing story.

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