You can say you are sorry all you want, but people do not have to accept it. Maybe they see the attempt to apologize as half-hearted, and that does no one any good. In the case of Jane's Addiction, no matter what Perry Farrell might say, it does not matter to Dave Navarro.
Let's travel back a bit. At a concert in Boston in 2024, Farrell seemingly had a meltdown on stage. The singer began shouting at guitarist Navarro and then aggressively bumped into him and punched him. The concert and the rest of the band's tour were over after that. They had personal issues that needed to be fixed.
They seemingly won't be. In a recent interview with Guitar Player, Navarro was asked about the best and worst shows of his career, and he unsurprisingly named the Boston show the worst. How could it not be? How many times has he been attacked on stage? If the answer is more than one, there are real problems.
Dave Navarro unofficially officially announces the death of Jane's Addiction
Beyond just saying the concert was his worst experience, he expounded by saying that he could not discuss the Boston incident as freely as he would otherwise, as other innocent people are involved. Still, he felt sure of how he thought about the situation. He didn't see Jane's Addiction ever performing together again.
The band has only had Farrell as its lead singer, so if he isn't involved, there likely isn't a band. The same could be said about Navarro.
The guitarist told Guitar World, "I have to speak in broad strokes here, because there are other individuals involved...There was an altercation onstage, and all the hard work and dedication and writing and hours in the studio, and picking up and leaving home and crisscrossing the country and Europe and trying to overcome my illness — it all came to a screeching halt and forever destroyed the band’s life. And there's no chance for the band to ever play together again."
In most cases, a band calling it quits over some interpersonal issues does more of a disservice to fans. People have to be people, of course, but many bands succeed even when they don't all get together. With Jane's Addiction, though, playing together no more after the Boston breakdown makes sense.
Fans wouldn't want to see a potential revamp of how Farrell acted. Maybe he will never do that again. We don't want to see him take that chance.