Jane’s Addiction

JANE’S ADDICTION Released 2nd Album ‘RITUAL DE LO HABITUAL’ 35 Years Ago Today

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Significant longplayers from the past

Last year Los Angeles alt rockers JANE’S ADDICTION fronted by frontman Perry
Farrell, who conceived and created musical festival Lollapalooza as the band’s
farewell tour in 1991 (since then the formula started spreading worldwide every
year) broke up after Farrell started a fight with guitarist David Navarro. The final
eruption after many rows.


Farrell – cover of his 1999 solo LP

Back to the past. JA released their 2nd, critically acclaimed and commercially successful album RITUAL DE LA HABITUAL on 21 August 1990, today 35 years ago. A year later
they split up for the first time..

The LP’s artwork, a papier-mâché sculpture co-created by artist Casey Niccoli and Farrell, visually referenced the African diaspora religion known as Santería. It shows male and female nudity.

The record featured two of their biggest hit singles.

STOP!

BEEN CAUGHT STEALING

ALBUM


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Bio – Albums

JANE’S ADDICTION – When PERRY FARRELL Went Totally Nuts

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5 October 2024

Last August the reunited art-punk rockers JANE’S
ADDICTION started the American part of their world
tour.

From the first gigs on, tensions within the band built up.

It came to a physical eruption a few weeks ago in Boston when frontman
Perry Farrell attacked guitarist Dave Navarro a couple of songs before the
end of the show.

New footage has emerged now. Actually shared by the band’s guitar and
bass tech of 17 years, who also said that Farrell had punched Navarro in
the face backstage afterward.

Here’s the clip. Farrell screeches like
a hoarse demon and loses his marbles.

The rest of the tour was cancelled and I guess the next news we will get is the announcement that the band split.

JANE’S ADDICTION Guitarist DAVE NAVARRO To TAYLOR SWIFT Fan: “Fucking Punk Rock, Brother”

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We know that Trump went full tilt orange when he heard that Taylor Swift told
the world that she endorses Kamala Harris. He tweeted: I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!
You fucking cry baby.

Jane’s Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro isn’t the paranoid fool DT is.
He posted this footage of a JA gig on August 29 show in Tampa, Florida,
where he spotted a fan in front with a Taylor Swift t-shirt on.

Pretty cool, Dave.

JANE’S ADDICTION Fight On Stage In Boston – PETER FARRELL Attacks DAVE NAVARRO

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14 September 2024


Tour poster

Legendary art-punk rockers JANE’S ADDICTION recently started a world tour with
the original line-up: frontman Perry Farrell, guitarist Dave Navarro, bassist Stephen
Perkins, and drummer Eric Avery.

It seemed tensions within the band started a few weeks ago, as reported by journalist/photograher Alice Teeple after JA’s show in NYC 2 weeks ago.

“Perry Farrell needs to dry the fuck out, stat. Tonight’s Jane’s Addiction show in NYC was disgraceful. The drunken 5 minute rant was rough. It’s clear he isn’t a well man. The rest of the band sounded great. It was genuinely cool to see Dave Navarro play. But let me put it this way – every pit photographer at this show had the same look of abject horror or “yiiikes.” Out of the hundreds of concerts I’ve shot, this was easily the worst.”

And last night it got all wrong when Farrell attacked
Navarro a couple of songs before the end of the show
in Boston.

So far no statement whatsoever from the band or their members following the incident.

Who did react afterward was Farrell‘s wife Etty Lau Farrell on her socials.

Documentary ‘LOLLA: THE STORY OF LOLLAPALOOZA’ Premiers May 21 On Paramount+

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7 May 2024

LOLLAPALOOZA was the banner devised by Perry Farrell for
the 1991 farewell tour of his Los Angeles-based band Jane’s
Addiction (who reunited later and are amidst their 2nd farewell
tour, right now).

It started in Chicago and has since become a defining cultural event for
alternative music enthusiasts worldwide, showcasing diverse talents and
fostering a global community of music and art lovers. Lollapalooza has also
become a platform for social change, encouraging activism and also
environmental consciousness.

The festival has since expanded into eight territories around the world
including Chicago, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Germany, France, Sweden and
India.

A documentary series, named LOLLA: THE STORY OF LOLLAPALOOZA,
about the festival‘s conception and development over the years, has been
made now. It’s a three-part docu, premiering May 21 on Paramount+.

Poster for Lolla‘s first edition in 1991.

Farrell: “When a car is going real, real fast, it gets harder to jump out. Lollapalooza began in the summer of 1991 as a particularly underground event. In the more than three decades since, the festival has transformed into a popular culture staple where some of the biggest names in pop — from Ariana Grande and the Weeknd to Kendrick Lamar and Lana Del Rey — have delivered headlining performances.”

Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ice Cube, Soundgarden, Tool, Hole, Foo Fighters, Sonic Youth, Arrested Development, Primus, Alice in Chains, the Verve, Beastie Boys, the Breeders, A Tribe Called Quest, the Smashing Pumpkins, Moby, Coolio, Beck, the Pixies, Pearl Jam, Kim Petra, Steve Aoki, Miley Cyrus, Sinead O’Connor, Questlove & the Roots, the Ramones, are among the artists that appear in the trailer.

TRAILER

2024 Line-up
August 1-4

Lollapalooza: Website

PERRY FARRELL Reunites JANE’S ADDICTION For Livestream LOLLA2020

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2 August 2020

LOLLAPALOOZA is one of the biggest American Festivals Parties ever. A four
day alternative extravaganza feast in Chicago. It was Perry Farrell who founded, mentored and started it in 1991 as a farewell concert for his band JANE’S ADDICTION.
The cancellation of this year’s edition due to the evil coronavirus was announced in June.

But it’s on anyway, as a livestream event since Thursday July 30.

Over 150 acts will perform over four days: Paul McCartney, Metallica, The Cure, OutKast,
LCD Soundsystem, Arcade Fire, Lorde, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Tyler the Creator, Run the Jewels, ASAP Rocky, Chance the Rapper, Tenacious D, Cypress Hill, Jane’s Addiction, Alabama Shakes, Tove Lo, Portugal. the Man, Kehlani, LL Cool J, Princess Nokia, Polo G, and more. Also a David Bowie tribute is planned.

For this special occasion Perry Farrell brought Jane’s Addiction back together
(he will do the same with his other band Porno For Pyros). Watch them perform
touching ballad  I Would For You (from a 1987 Live Album)