(Boston) A fight between members of alternative rock band Jane’s Addiction occurred amid “tension and animosity” during their reunion tour, the wife of singer Perry Farrell said Saturday.
The group is known for its hits Been Caught Stealing And Mountain Songinspired by punk, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, as the alternative rock and grunge movements were gaining momentum.
In videos posted to social media from Friday night’s concert in Boston, Perry Farrell, 65, is seen singing loudly into his microphone, then lunging at guitarist Dave Navarro, bumping him with his shoulder and then striking him with his right arm. Navarro is seen reaching out with his right arm to pull Farrell away before he is dragged off stage by others. The show ended shortly afterward.
“Perry’s frustration had been mounting as night after night he felt like the volume on stage 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 explained that her husband suffered from tinnitus and a sore throat and that “towards the end of the song he wasn’t singing, he was just screaming to be heard.” She added that her husband then broke down “and cried and cried.”
The band’s “Imminent Redemption” tour began in early August and has 15 more shows to go, including a concert in Connecticut on Sunday night.
The band has yet to make a statement about the future of the tour.