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“As a player, I like to get down on my knees, turn delay knobs and make a bunch of noise. That does not work for Guns N’ Roses”: Dave Navarro on the time he turned down joining Guns N’ Roses

After Jane's Addiction split in the early 1990s, Navarro's six-string services were on the market. At the same time, GNR were also looking for a replacement for the outgoing Izzy Stradlin

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“I am in the Gene Simmons business. I am the biggest fan of Gene Simmons”: Happy 75th birthday to Gene Simmons, Kiss bassist and unrepentant asshole

Self-confessed “asshole”, politically incorrect philanderer, money-obsessed businessman, rock superstar – god bless Gene Simmons

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“We have a completed, mastered album, but this might be a little soon.”: Dave Navarro talks unreleased material from NHC featuring Taylor Hawkins and Chris Chaney

The Jane's Addiction guitarist is hopeful that the songs will see a full release eventually

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“They were all about Joy Division. They weren’t about Limelight.” Dave Navarro admits that he's been sneaking his love of Rush into Jane's Addiction songs for years without his bandmates ever realising

“Rush were my earliest childhood influences.” Dave Navarro comes clean on his life-long love of Rush

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“I was determined to avoid hailing him as the future of shred, but I simply cannot do it”: July 2024 Guitar World editor's picks

From an eight-string chug-a-thon with blues licks to make Eric Johnson blush, to a baritone turn from the hottest guitar player on the planet right now, this month was soundtracked by some top-tier guitar action

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“Three songs in, we got into a physical altercation and I decided, ‘I’m done playing this show.’ I took all my Ibanez guitars and threw them into the audience”: Dave Navarro on why he switched to PRS – and Jane’s Addiction’s unlikely rebirth

Navarro stopped playing guitar after his battle with long Covid was compounded by grief following the passing of his friend and bandmate Taylor Hawkins. He reveals how he came back from the brink to join a once-more reunited Jane’s Addiction for new music and a new sonic approach

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“Let's make some good trouble!” Jane's Addiction share new single Imminent Redemption, the first single from the original line-up in 34 years.

“Welcome to the next chapter of Jane’s Addiction”

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“I called John immediately and said, ‘Dude, you have to join us for a song. I’m not going to let you not play with us’”: Dave Navarro on how he and John Frusciante finally played together for the first time after decades of friendship

The former Red Hot Chili Peppers and current Jane’s Addiction guitarist has long had a close relationship with Frusciante, but they didn’t play together until 2020

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“We mixed and mastered it, and then we lost Taylor. It was actually very painful for me to pick up the guitar after that.” Jane's Addiction's Dave Navarro on the 'lost' album he recorded with Taylor Hawkins and a member of AC/DC

Dave Navarro mourns the loss of his dear friend Taylor Hawkins

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“When we lost Taylor, it was very painful for me… I'll be honest, I didn’t pick up the guitar for about a year”: Dave Navarro finished an album with Taylor Hawkins – then he lost his friend, his band and his love of guitar playing

The returning Jane's Addiction guitarist opens up on his struggles to play guitar after the tragic passing of his collaborator in supergroup NHC

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"It just so happens that we've run across a very, very dear old friend of ours." Watch Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello join Jane's Addiction onstage in Germany

Tom Morello reunites with old pals from the "world of oddballs" which changed his life in the 1980s

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“I was trying to be Dave Navarro or Vito Bratta – those moments where you go into the spotlight with wind blowing”: Terry Corso on how he finally fused ’80s shred with nu metal for Alien Ant Farm’s surprising comeback

Writing shreddiest record yet, Mantras, was like a debut album experience for Corso. He reveals why he’s reveling in building his own guitars, loves surprising audiences with Strandbergs, and the guitar lessons he learned from Stone Temple Pilots’ DeLeo brothers

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"I can tell you one thing: it’s been one of the most exciting times of my life, because these songs are that good": Jane’s Addiction's original line-up returns to the stage as North American tour announced

Jane's Addiction original line up return live. Plus they announce North American tour

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Jane's Addiction's original line-up announce co-headlining tour of North America with Love And Rockets

Following their first shows together in 14 years, Jane's Addiction's original line-up unveil dates in the US and Canada

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The Guardian - UK

Jane’s Addiction review – original lineup, same thrilling riff-driven thrashers

A feral Perry Farrell, a prowling Eric Avery and Dave Navarro making his guitar sound like a chainsaw – the alt-rock band flex their rediscovered mojo

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“I hear there’s an election coming. Don’t vote for that Conservative p****!” In praise of Jane’s Addiction, the band who invented the 90s

Topics covered: Jane's Vs Guns, some of the greatest lyrics ever written, the birth of the "Alternative Nation" and other Gen X angst…

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“Dave was peak-Navarro”: Dave Navarro plays with Jane’s Addiction for the first time in 3 years following his long Covid battle – and the band debuted new material

The band's classic lineup have reunited for their first show together since 2010 – and they marked the occasion with a brand-new song

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“We're back.” Watch Jane's Addiction's classic line-up debut new song Imminent Redemption at tiny London club show

With Dave Navarro recovered from his long Covid illness, Jane's Addiction premiered a new song for 400 fans in London last night, May 23

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"He’s always waiting for body parts to fall off": Al Jourgensen says Dave Navarro once offered him $20,000 for his amputated toe

After stepping on a needle, Ministry frontman Al Jourgensen's toe got so infected it required amputation - and almost became part of a curio collection

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"I have on my rider that I need two bottles of fine red wine. I won't accept anything that costs less than 100 dollars!": Jane's Addiction on breaking up, getting back together, tour life and the lure of Beyoncé

Jane's Addiction's Perry Farrell and Dave Navarro on the things they did so that you didn't have to

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“I remember running over to Carlos Santana and asking him to bless my pick to allow me to cross through the portal of his powers”: Porno For Pyros are NOT over – but Peter DiStefano already has a lifetime of tales from the band

DiStefano has lived a thousand lives: he refused to join Jane’s Addiction, wrote his band’s first hit about a murdered school friend, escaped a junkie death through an out-of-body experience, and cried with Perry Farrell after announcing their (no longer a) farewell tour

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Flea names the one bassline that he would “go back and fix” from the Red Hot Chili Pepper's 1995 album, One Hot Minute

Flea on the making of One Hot Minute: “I thought it sounded like another stupid white boy trying to be funky!”

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Jane's Addiction: Ritual De Lo Habitual - Album Of The Week Club review

Ritual De Lo Habitual became the first ‘alternative’ record to sell a million, inspiring a generation of bands who would ultimately kill the idea of ‘alternative’ stone dead

Chicago Sun-Times

Smashing Pumpkins, Jane’s Addiction tour a double dose of rock that has endured for decades

Over three hours and 27 songs at the United Center, it was hard not to recall the first time you heard ‘Today’ or saw the ‘Been Caught Stealing’ video.

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