Metal Anarchy

As previously reported, Jane’s Addiction recently went on hiatus after frontman Perry Farrell attacked guitarist Dave Navarro onstage during their September 13 show in Boston, MA. However, a couple of new posts from Navarro seem to suggest that the break may be more of a permanent thing.

Navarro said the following while discussing Walt Whitman:

“I was re-reading Whitman’s ‘Leaves of Grass’ and it occurred to me that there is a strong parallel between his work and that of our own. The leaves represent the cycle of life and death, yet he continued to work on the body of poems until his own death in 1892. Perhaps he, like us, was unable to fully understand his own work as he continuously tried to re-write, add and expand upon it, willing away his own work’s cycle of life… just as we have. Perhaps it’s simpler to recognize when something is gone and learn from the magical lesson of grief rather than avoid it and remain in a consistent state of dissatisfaction.”

He also added the following after sharing the news of Jane’s Addiction’s lastest single “True Love”:

“New Jane’s Addiction track released today, ‘True Love‘. I am proud of the work we did on this song but I am equally saddened by the fact that you will likely never hear it live. I’d also like to publicly apologize to our crew, @crawlersband and their crew and to @loveandrocketsofficial and their crew. Thanks for being our travel companions for as long as you did. I am gutted that things ended this way and that so many jobs were lost as a result. May all of our hearts mend together.”