Perry Farrell Speaks Out On Jane's Addiction Split

07/08/2004 9:00 AM, Yahoo! Music
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Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell has commented on the band's recent break-up to Rolling Stone magazine, saying that the group "went astray, falling into shallow holes...there was no consideration for the legacy she had built up over the years. Jane was getting stripped of her majesty." The influential alternative rock act had been dormant since releasing and touring behind last year's Strays, their first album of all new material in over a decade.

Farrell said, "My separation came about because this legendary band was taken over by new owners. Music that was once relevant and graceful had become clumsy as a circus seal tooting his horns...Jane doesn't strip for anyone but me. I brought Jane's Addiction to life, it is only fitting that I am the one to bury her."

Farrell indicated that he hoped Jane's Addiction would be remembered as "one of the seminal bands of her era. She laid a foundation for unbridled underground music to rise up on....we encouraged people to make scary choices." The singer did not indicate any specific future plans.

A statement published online last week, reportedly from Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro, bassist Chris Chaney, and drummer Stephen Perkins, read in part: "The deal is that it simply didn't work out. Sometimes things just don't work out...we do know that we really gave it everything we had this time and we actually made a really great record after so many years of silence."

Navarro, Chaney, and Perkins have already formed a new, yet-to-be-named group with former MTV VJ Steve Isaacs on vocals.

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