Perry Farrell talks Eric Avery
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2013 5:44 pm
Not sure If this has been posted here before ... but
Jane’s Addiction frontman spoke candidly about former Jane’s Addiction bassist Eric Avery in a new interview with Jay Mohr.
On nicknames in Jane’s Addiction: “I had one I used to call Eric Avery behind his back, Sisyphus. Want to know why? He was trying to pick up on a girl, we used to all sleep in the same room on the road. So you’re hearing all these guys pick up lines and everything. He would use the same line, he would be like with a girl on a line and he’d be like [does Eric Avery impression], ‘I feel like Sisyphus rolling a rock up a hill with you.’ So I started call him, I’d go like ‘Where’s Sisyphus?’”
“You’re getting a hard on and you’re thinking about Sisyphus?”
For those wondering what Sisyphus is here is a description from Wikipedia, “In Greek mythology Sisyphus was a king of Ephyra punished for chronic deceitfulness by being compelled to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, and to repeat this action forever.”
On Jane’s Addiction’s 1991 breakup: “It worked out like this, originally I left Jane’s Addiction because I didn’t like Eric Avery, to be honest with you. I just didn’t enjoy being around the guy, I don’t want to get into all of the details. The truth is I didn’t want to hang out, I didn’t want to write music, I didn’t want to travel, I didn’t want to see a miserable face. I didn’t want to think about it, all of the betrayal what’s being said what’s being blocked, it sucks. I knew that if I just take a break and think things over. It’s funny the day after I came back from the very last show we ever did, it was in Hawaii. I partied my ass off in Hawaii, I lost my mind I stayed over after the show for like 5 days. All this time I’m thinking to myself it’s over it’s really over that was the last show. I flew into LA and I got off the plane and I was standing there on the curb where cars come to pick you up and I thought to myself, ‘Am I a schmuck?’”
On Eric Avery leaving Jane’s Addiction in 2010: “There’s people that don’t like you, you can tell. You can’t change their mind so don’t try, that’s what Etty always says to me. You know what they don’t like you, they don’t want to like you, you can’t change that so don’t want your time trying.”
“I tried to be very nice to him, it didn’t work.”
Perry Farrell claimed that former Jane’s Addiction bassist Eric Avery blocked Jane’s Addiction from releasing the two songs they recorded with Trent Reznor producing in 2009: Embrace The Darkness and I’ll Protect You.
Farrell said, “There have been Jane’s Addiction songs that were really good that they didn’t want to do at all. I have two of them right now in the can.”
He described the conflict he had with Avery during the Reznor sessions, “It’s not even the lyrics, [Eric Avery and I] got into an argument about parts. A particular chord. As far as I’m concerned, the way it goes with music today, how easy it is to record music, try it. Don’t sit there like [in a baby voice] “Oh I don’t know I don’t want to because that’s not what I, I wouldn’t.” Look man why don’t we do this? Give me 5 minutes, have a little confidence. If we don’t like it [fine], but give me a chance here let me try it.”
Farrell added, “At the end [Eric Avery] didn’t enjoy that I would say, “Hey can we try this chord? I hear this one chord.” He would get all huffy, like he didn’t want to try it. The song got recorded anyways, Trent Reznor recorded them actually, so it would have been fuckin awesome. But he vetoed it and wouldn’t let the songs out.”
Jane’s Addiction frontman spoke candidly about former Jane’s Addiction bassist Eric Avery in a new interview with Jay Mohr.
On nicknames in Jane’s Addiction: “I had one I used to call Eric Avery behind his back, Sisyphus. Want to know why? He was trying to pick up on a girl, we used to all sleep in the same room on the road. So you’re hearing all these guys pick up lines and everything. He would use the same line, he would be like with a girl on a line and he’d be like [does Eric Avery impression], ‘I feel like Sisyphus rolling a rock up a hill with you.’ So I started call him, I’d go like ‘Where’s Sisyphus?’”
“You’re getting a hard on and you’re thinking about Sisyphus?”
For those wondering what Sisyphus is here is a description from Wikipedia, “In Greek mythology Sisyphus was a king of Ephyra punished for chronic deceitfulness by being compelled to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, and to repeat this action forever.”
On Jane’s Addiction’s 1991 breakup: “It worked out like this, originally I left Jane’s Addiction because I didn’t like Eric Avery, to be honest with you. I just didn’t enjoy being around the guy, I don’t want to get into all of the details. The truth is I didn’t want to hang out, I didn’t want to write music, I didn’t want to travel, I didn’t want to see a miserable face. I didn’t want to think about it, all of the betrayal what’s being said what’s being blocked, it sucks. I knew that if I just take a break and think things over. It’s funny the day after I came back from the very last show we ever did, it was in Hawaii. I partied my ass off in Hawaii, I lost my mind I stayed over after the show for like 5 days. All this time I’m thinking to myself it’s over it’s really over that was the last show. I flew into LA and I got off the plane and I was standing there on the curb where cars come to pick you up and I thought to myself, ‘Am I a schmuck?’”
On Eric Avery leaving Jane’s Addiction in 2010: “There’s people that don’t like you, you can tell. You can’t change their mind so don’t try, that’s what Etty always says to me. You know what they don’t like you, they don’t want to like you, you can’t change that so don’t want your time trying.”
“I tried to be very nice to him, it didn’t work.”
Perry Farrell claimed that former Jane’s Addiction bassist Eric Avery blocked Jane’s Addiction from releasing the two songs they recorded with Trent Reznor producing in 2009: Embrace The Darkness and I’ll Protect You.
Farrell said, “There have been Jane’s Addiction songs that were really good that they didn’t want to do at all. I have two of them right now in the can.”
He described the conflict he had with Avery during the Reznor sessions, “It’s not even the lyrics, [Eric Avery and I] got into an argument about parts. A particular chord. As far as I’m concerned, the way it goes with music today, how easy it is to record music, try it. Don’t sit there like [in a baby voice] “Oh I don’t know I don’t want to because that’s not what I, I wouldn’t.” Look man why don’t we do this? Give me 5 minutes, have a little confidence. If we don’t like it [fine], but give me a chance here let me try it.”
Farrell added, “At the end [Eric Avery] didn’t enjoy that I would say, “Hey can we try this chord? I hear this one chord.” He would get all huffy, like he didn’t want to try it. The song got recorded anyways, Trent Reznor recorded them actually, so it would have been fuckin awesome. But he vetoed it and wouldn’t let the songs out.”