During an appearance on the ‘Your Mom’s House’ podcast, Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor was asked to share his thoughts on the recent onstage fight between Jane’s Addiction members Perry Farrell and Dave Navarro. After sharing his thoughts, he recalled almost killing his bandmate Sid Wilson in a similar onstage fight.
“I know bands that have been around for five years that have that sh*t happen. You just never know. When you spend that much time on the road with people, and you go from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows and everything in between, shit’s gonna get personal, and you just never know what’s gonna happen on any given day,” he explained.
“Sid and I, who is one of my best friends, he’s my brother, I almost killed him one night,” Taylor then recalled the fight. “We were recording [the] ‘Disasterpieces’ [concert video in February 2002] at — I wanna say it was London [Dockland] Arena, but I might be wrong. And he did exactly what we told him not to do. And I was so f*cking pissed. I was also hammered, so that didn’t f*cking help anything. There’s a clip online and it’s so taken out of context.”
“Most of us had body cameras. So what he would do is he would go out into the middle of the audience when we would do the sitdown part during ‘Spit It Out.’ And we told him not to do it this time, because we didn’t want people to steal those cameras. And he did. And they did,” he added. “And he didn’t understand why we were mad. And he comes back and he goes — I’m f*cking livid; I’m just, like, ‘Aaargh.’ And he goes, ‘Dude, you’ve gotta tell them to give the f*cking camera back.’ And I just whipped around on him. I was just, like, ‘Shut your f*cking…’ It was one of the most evil moments of my life, and I just didn’t give a sh*t. And to this day I feel bad about it. And it’s a very real moment that’s out there for everybody to see. And taken out of context, it’s so f*cking horrible.”
The rocker recalled the fight in a different interview too, and it seems like he is not proud of it and tears up thinking about it.
At Philadelphia’s Monster Mania Con, Taylor answered a fan’s question about past issues with Wilson. While sharing the story, he got emotional talking about how they made up.
“When I had my spinal surgery, [Sid] was the first one to call me and [pauses] he just said, he was, like, ‘I’m so sorry,’ and I said, ‘I am so sorry.’ And I said ‘I love you.’ He was, like, ‘Are you okay?’ And I was, like, ‘I’m all right. It’s all good.’ And just like that, nothing mattered other than me and my brother.”
Perry Farrell bumped into Dave Navarro’s shoulder and yelled at him. Navarro put his hand up to keep some space, and Farrell looked like he tried to throw a punch. Someone else stepped in and broke it up.
Farrell later apologized to his bandmates, fans, and family, saying his ‘breaking point resulted in inexcusable behavior,’ and took full responsibility.
When Navarro, bassist Eric Avery, and drummer Stephen Perkins announced the tour’s early end, they said they had ‘no choice but to discontinue the trek’ because of the ‘continuing pattern of behavior and the mental health difficulties of our singer Perry Farrell.’ They added, The band added that they were worried about their bandmate’s health.