Perry Farrell was literally dragged off the stage after he swung at Dave Navarro in the middle of the song

So you are wondering on this beautiful Saturday morning, how is the Jane’s Addiction reunion tour going? Not Greatis the answer provided by a widely shared video of their performance in Boston on Friday night. It shows singer Perry Farrell being forcibly restrained by crew members (and bassist Eric Avery) after he swung at recently returned guitarist Dave Navarro in the middle of “Ocean Size.” While several people dragged Farrell away from Navarro, the lights dimmed, the band members who were not currently being actively restrained by other people apologized, and the performance abruptly ended.

This current tour, which began in May, is the first time the four original members of Jane’s Addiction have played together since 2010. (Avery left the band from 2010 to 2022, around which time Navarro retired from touring.) There have been some problems before, too, with Farrell telling an audience in New York earlier this week that he was having trouble with his voice. But the whole “hitting his guitarist on stage” thing is definitely an escalation; aside from putting the band under pressure, it’s also a much Although there have been many jokes about Oasis circulating on the Internet this morning, it also calls into question the viability of the rest of the tour.

Intriguingly, we supposedly have a “first-hand account” of what happened at the Boston show: Farrell’s wife, Etty Lou Farrell, posted a lengthy analysis of the argument on Instagram late Friday night, in which she says that Farrell became increasingly angry because “his voice was being drowned out by the band.” She claims that “Perry suffered from tinnitus and a sore throat every night” and that “the band started the song ‘Ocean’ before Perry was ready and did the countdown. The stage volume was so high at this point that Perry could no longer hear anything because of the roar and vibration of the instruments, and by the end of the song he was no longer singing, just screaming to be heard.”

Shortly after their lead singer was literally dragged off the stage, Navarro, Avery and drummer Stephen Perkins reportedly reunited in front of the crowd, hugged each other and thanked the audience for their time.