Jane’s Addiction Dave Navarro: Classic Lineup Will ‘More Than Likely’ Release New Album
Jane’s Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro recently sat down with Rolling Stone magazine and you’ll be happy to know that he told them they’d likely release a new full-length album, “That’s more than likely going to happen. I mean, we have recorded material. I don’t know specifically the model, if it’s going to be a song at a time, or if we’re going to drop a song, and then a record, or I don’t really know. I kind of stay out of that stuff. What matters to me most is that this stuff is on vinyl. I don’t know anything about streaming or anything like that.”
Navarro added, “I’m 57 years old. I’ve been in this band since I was 17 or 18, and it’s the same band, and we have some of the same hurdles, and we have other obstacles that are no longer there. There’s always hurdles in collaborative creative efforts, but overcoming those hurdles is where the solution happens, and the solution, should it reveal itself, can be pretty exciting.
“The songwriting process has really changed thanks to technology. Everything was on reel-to-reel before, and so all four of us would have to be in the recording studio to get something down. There’s something really magical and special about that, because all the tapes are live, and everybody’s playing together, and tempos fluctuate, but it’s human, and it feels good. But the state of technology now allows us to individually, to work on ideas, away from the room, and then when we come into the room, have a way more concrete concept of where we want to go rather than fishing.”
Navarro talked about being sidelined from the band due to his battle with long COVID, “The jury’s still out on what’s the right treatment for long COVID. How do you get rid of it, if you can get rid of it? But I’m in a stronger place, where I can at least get through a 90-minute show, and I can definitely sit in a studio chair for eight hours, because that’s not very exhausting.”
The new song above, “Imminent Redemption”, was recorded by the ‘classic’ lineup: singer Perry Farrell, guitarist Dave Navarro, drummer Stephen Perkins and bassist Eric Avery.
Prior to “Imminent Redemption”, Avery’s last time in the studio with the band was for their ’90 album, “Ritual De Lo Habitual”.
Meanwhile, Jane’s Addiction and Love And Rockets are currently touring together. The 23 city trek started on August 9 at Fontainebleau Las Vegas and wraps in St. Louis at Evolution Festival on September 29.
The prospect of a new Jane’s Addiction album sounds killer! Can’t wait to hear what they have come up with!
