Perry Farrell’s wife broke her silence after her husband attacked his lead guitarist at a show in Boston, claiming the frontman was upset by being ‘drowned out’ by his bandmates playing too loudly.
Farrell’s wife Etty Lau took to Instagram to share her husband’s side of the story after he was slammed for body checking and punching guitarist Dave Navarro on stage on Friday night.
‘Rather than speculating, I thought to post a first person account of what happened on stage,’ she wrote.
Lau said Farrell has been struggling with ‘tinnitus and a sore throat every night’ that has affected his voice, and he ‘felt that the stage volume had been extremely loud and his voice was being drowned out by the band.’
Frontman Perry Farrell began swearing on the mic before marching over to guitarist Dave Navarro and punching him some nine songs into Jane’s Addiction set in Boston
Farrell’s wife Etty Lau (pictured together) claimed her husband ‘lost it’ because he was being ‘drowned out’ by his bandmates playing too loudly
Lau said that there had been ‘tension and animosity between the bandmembers’, but felt that this was not always a bad thing as it was also ‘the magic that made the band so dynamic.’
But on Friday night, Lau said her husband reached breaking point after he was heckled by fans who couldn’t hear him.
‘When the audience in the first row, [they] started complaining up to Perry cussing at him that the band was planning too loud and that they couldn’t hear him, Perry lost it,’ she wrote.
‘He wasn’t singing, he was screaming just be to be heard.’
Attendees say Farrell appeared to be heavily intoxicated at the Friday night show, with others claiming it was far from an unusual sight for the frontman who is known to down bottles of wine on stage.
