etee Lou Farrell, the wife of Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell, has revealed the reason behind the band's onstage brawl in Boston Friday night.
He Instagram On Saturday Morning to give a “first-hand account of what happened on stage,” he claimed there was “a lot of tension and hostility between the members” of the band.
Jane's Addiction had just begun playing its hit song “Ocean Size” on stage at Leader Bank Pavilion when the 65-year-old frontman became frustrated that the band's singing was much louder than his vocals, “and he was screaming to be heard.”
“Perry's frustration grew as night after night he felt the stage volume was too loud and his voice was being drowned out by the band's din,” wrote A.T. Lu.
“Perry suffered from tinnitus and a sore throat every night. But when the front row audience began complaining and cursing at Perry, saying the band was playing too loud and they couldn't hear them, Perry lost his temper.”
Video footage showed Farrell cursing into the microphone and approaching the band's guitarist Dave Navarro before hitting him. After Farrell was restrained by several crew members and fellow bandmate bassist Eric Avery, the concert ended prematurely.
According to AT Lou, backstage, Avery – who he claims “won the fight” – “walked up to Perry, upstage, in the dark, behind Dan, he grabbed Perry over the head and punched him three times in the stomach.”
“Perry was like a rabid animal for the next half hour – he didn't finally calm down but kept breaking down and crying,” he added. “Eric, either didn't understand what deescalation meant or he took advantage of the situation and landed a few cheap blows on Perry.”
The frontman suffered some issues with his voice earlier this week, when he told the crowd at New York's Pier 17 that “there's something wrong with my voice.”
Jane's Addiction is scheduled to perform in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on Sunday.
