“If there is a Jane’s Addiction in 2025, there will be new music. But you never know if there’s going to be a band at all”: Eric Avery on overcoming JA’s “unthinkable” time without Dave Navarro and his brief stints with Metallica and Smashing Pumpkins

Eric Avery.

Time has been kind to Jane’s Addiction: their songs were – and are – awesome. Jane Says, Been Caught Stealing and Three Days are just a few of their early calling cards, delivered before the original lineup of Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro, Stephen Perkins and Eric Avery broke up in 1991.

There’s been more music from Jane’s over the years, with 2003’s Strays and 2011’s The Great Escape Artist. But those albums featured bassist Chris Chaney; Avery, the man Navarro calls the backbone of the band, was nowhere to be found.