

Navarro has more than 30 tattoos, ranging from drawings by Gustav Klimt to a topless nun. You stop doing that, things are going to be better.' I'll just say I don't shoot heroin and cocaine in my veins any more. 'In the past I was loaded all the time, so I wasn't able to give it my most and really enjoy myself in this band. Keen to get started, he pulls up a brown leather chair and welcomes good-natured drummer Stephen Perkins - the only one of the original line-up never to have fooled around with hard drugs - with a cheery, 'Hey, Perk!' Like Farrell, these days Navarro is choosier about getting wasted. The guitarist pours himself a cup of coffee and smokes the first of many Camel Lights. After a firm handshake and winning smile - accompanied by meaningful eye contact - he immediately moves to within a few inches of a mirror on the wall and examines his face with the fussiness of someone who knows they are good-looking.

But I just decided to fill up my life with other things and see how it went.'ĭave Navarro arrives, confident and wilfully intense. I thought I'd miss it when I was doing it - like, I don't see a world without crack. These days I think we're pretty darn great.'įarrell: 'You mean do I like to party? I love it, but I don't do intravenous drugs. 'I used to do that because I thought we sucked so, rather than the audience having to listen to bad music - have a laugh. 'I don't whip out my cock any more,' he says. Softly spoken and unfailingly polite, it's difficult to imagine this 44-year-old sporting a rakish yellow scarf, performing in a corset and exposing his penis to the crowd as he did when Jane's Addiction first formed in the mid-80s. Perry Farrell is enjoying a late breakfast of fruit, camomile tea, white toast and strawberry jam. In town to play the fifth date of Lollapalooza 2003, they are also poised to release Strays, their first album since splitting up. Twelve years after that meltdown, Jane's Addiction are gathered in the conference suite on the 14th floor of Chicago's House of Blues hotel. Three months later, Jane's Addiction was all over.
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Faced with a choice between acknowledging the first piece of mainstream recognition his band have ever received or staying in bed and smoking crack with a girl he'd just met while out shopping, Farrell's preference was always going to be crack, and lots of it. Bassist Eric Avery and drummer Stephen Perkins are nowhere to be seen, and neither is Farrell. During Niccoli's garbled acceptance speech, Navarro makes a junk-addled attempt to kiss her. Trailing behind him is singer Perry Farrell's girlfriend Casey Niccoli, the director of the clip.

The band's guitarist Dave Navarro - clearly out of his gourd - wanders up on to the stage wearing sunglasses.

Jane's Addiction, "Been Caught Wanking,"' he sneers, holding the statuette at groin level and jerking his pelvis at the audience. Idol tears at the envelope, unable to resist a typical display of his humour. The MTV Video Music Awards, Los Angeles, 1 July 1991: Billy Idol is about to announce that Jane's Addiction have won the Best Alternative Video category for 'Been Caught Stealing', the surprise hit taken from their second studio album, Ritual de lo Habitual.
