Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell talks Taylor Hawkins, touring without Dave Navarro
nypost.com“Spirits on Fire” tour kicks off Sunday at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, and wraps Nov. 19 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.
Queens of the Stone Age guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen will be filling in for Navarro, with potential other surprise guests to be announced at a later date.“How do you go about finding a guitar player to fill the shoes of Dave Navarro?
We had to put the word out to people that we knew, that we loved, and Troy fit the bill the best of all the people that we considered,” Farrell told us.“I feel like we got the right guy.
He’s got the vibe, he’s got the style. I just find him to be a gentleman, a consummate professional and an incredible player.”Farrell said Van Leeuwen, 52, also has “a raw, vicious rock tone” that reminded him of when Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page was playing with The Kinks in the ’60s.“We’re not going to have to perform the songs exactly like we did when Dave was in the band.
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