Kiss’s Paul Stanley shared his thoughts on the recent on-stage fight between Perry Farrell and Dave Navarro.
“Cardinal rule. You don’t hit and you don’t bring your problems on stage,” the Kiss guitarist said when asked how his band would react in a similar situation. “You leave your ego, well that’s more difficult, but you leave your anger and your resentment at the bottom of the stairs. We would go on stage and have a great time sometimes playing and then walk off stage and not be talking to each other. The audience doesn’t deserve that. The audience paid.”
“It goes back to that same philosophy of being the band we never saw. People get one chance to see you possibly on a tour. It doesn’t matter about last night or about the night after, that’s their night, and for them to see you not interacting with your bandmate that’s kidsh*t. That’s disrespectful to the people who paid. There were a few times where there were two people who wouldn’t be talking to two other people. Go up on stage and rock out and have a great time. Then you walk off stage and you don’t have anything to do with them, it’s your job,” he added.
Many rockers have reacted to the on-stage fight, and most of them did not find Farrell’s comments reasonable.
“Perry doesn’t show up for rehearsals, sound checks, writing, etc. He jumps in late with sh*tty lyrics. Some I [sic] had to tell him were terrible. Unprepared, wild-eyed, not present, high. Motherf*cker does it over and over again,” said Porno for Pyros bassist Martyn LeNoble about Farrell.
“I saw Perry Farrell’s excuse. It’s bullsh*t and F*ck Perry,” Tracii Guns also reacted on X. “Guitar frequencies are directional meaning they point forward only. They do not flood the stage. If it was to loud in his monitors or in ears that is his own fault or monitor engineer failure. He knows this.”
After Farrell’s attack on his bandmate, technician Dan Cleary confirmed that Farrell also attacked Navarro backstage. Cleary said Farrell appeared troubled during their shows and noted that Farrell began screaming lyrics at the band before punching Navarro again.
