's Dave Navarro has been harbouring a dark secret from his dear friend and musical soulmate for years, but he can live a lie no longer: the truth is that the guitarist has been secretly channelling his love of into Jane's Addiction songs for decades, despite the group's de facto leader actively hating the Canadian progressive rock trio's music. Navarro's confession emerged during a new online interview with . After being laid low for three years with Long Covid, and forced to sit out major tours, Navarro joined his bandmates - vocalist Perry Farrell, bassist Eric Avery, and drummer Stephen Perkins - at the band's on May 23, reuniting the group's classic line-up onstage together for the first time since 2010.
Interviewing Navarro for , writer Andy Greene pointed out that so many iconic rock bands have called time on their careers in the past few years - Rush, and Fleetwood Mac among them - and asked the guitarist if this changed musical landscape made him feel any obligation to keep Jane's Addiction intact. “I wouldn’t say I feel an obligation,” Navarro replies. “I feel a desire.
But you mention Rush. What’s funny is that Rush were my earliest childhood influences. The same goes for Stephen Perkins.
But oddly enough, Perry and Eric hated Rush. They just them. But if you listen to songs like , , or , and I could go on, you can hear the Rush influences that Stephen and I snuck in there, that they didn’t know about.
L “Let’s just put this this way, they were all a.