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The band has yet to comment on the future of the tour, which kicked off in August and has 15 dates remaining.
Dave Navarro, left, and Perry Farrell of Jane’s Addiction perform during KAABOO 2017 at the Del Mar Racetrack and Fairgrounds on Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017, in San Diego, Calif. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP, File)
BOSTON (AP) — An altercation between members of the seminal alternative rock band Jane’s Addiction came amid “tension and hostility” during their reunion tour, singer Perry Farrell’s wife said Saturday.
The band is known for the edgy, punk-inspired hits “Been Caught Stealing” and “Mountain Song” in the late 1980s and early 1990s as the alternative rock and grunge music movements grew.
IN videos posted Social media from Friday night’s concert in Boston shows Farrell, 65, singing loudly into his microphone and then lunging at guitarist Dave Navarro, bumping Navarro with his shoulder before swinging at Navarro with his right arm. Navarro is seen holding out his right arm to keep Farrell away before Farrell is dragged away by others on stage. The performance ended shortly thereafter.
“Perry’s frustration had been mounting, night after night he felt the stage volume had been extremely loud and his voice was being drowned out by the band,” Etty Lau Farrell wrote in an Instagram post Saturday morning.
She said her husband had been suffering from tinnitus and a sore throat and “at the end of the song he wasn’t singing, he was just shouting to be heard.” She said her husband later broke down “and cried and cried.”
The band’s “Imminent Redemption” tour kicked off in early August and has 15 dates remaining, including a show in Connecticut on Sunday night.
The band has not yet commented on the future of the tour.