Episode #154 | 12.5.23
Jane’s Addiction: Taking Risks, Enduring Pain, and a Killer on the Loose
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In this episode
Jane’s Addiction’s Dave Navarro was only 15 years old when his mother was brutally murdered in her apartment by her ex-boyfriend. The killer escaped, and for eight long years eluded capture. During those years, Dave Navarro couldn’t shake the pain of his mother’s death or the fear of knowing that the man responsible was at large. He became addicted to heroin. He nearly died when he OD’d in a London flat. And his addiction helped drive a rift in his band just as they were reaching a critical and commercial height.
Sources
Mourning Son (2015, dir. Todd Newman)
Don’t Try This at Home: A Year in the Life of Dave Navarro, by Dave Navarro and Neil Strauss
Cashing In (SPIN)
Love in Vein (SPIN)
SANTA MONICA : Man Convicted of Killing Ex-Girlfriend, Woman (LA Times)
Dave Navarro interview (US Magazine)
A Woodstock for the Lost Generation (NY Times)
Tommy Conwell and Jane’s Addiction: Local Heroes (Rolling Stone)
Nothing’s Shocking: Meet L.A.’s Wildest New Band Jane’s Addiction (Rolling Stone)
Hardly a Plain Jane (Rolling Stone)
In Deep with Jane’s Addiction (Music Connection)
Just How Shocking Is Jane’s Addiction? (Guitar Player)
Dave Navarro On Heroin: 'I Knew Goddamn Well All The Possible Consequences' (HuffPost)
DAVE NAVARRO Recalls Near-Death Experience (Blabbermouth)
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