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David Michael “Dave” Navarro (born June 7, 1967) is an American guitarist who plays in the alternative rock band Jane’s Addiction and cover band Camp Freddy. He has also played with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Panic Channel, and many others.
Navarro was born in Santa Monica, California, to James Raul Navarro and Constance Colleen Hopkins. Dave spent a lot of time with his brother Joe Navarro, who currently resides in Fort Wayne Indiana. Navarro’s paternal grandparents were Mexican immigrants.[1] His mother Constance worked as a model, appearing on the television show Let’s Make a Deal. Navarro was the only person in his paternal family who did not speak Spanish. This was a result of James and Constance’s divorce when Navarro was 7, and he spent the majority of his time with his mother. He attended Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, CA. He later transferred to University High School in Los Angeles, CA.
Constance Navarro was murdered by her boyfriend, John Riccardi, eight years after the divorce. Her killer was arrested in 1991,[2] thanks to a viewer tip after Navarro appeared on the television series, America’s Most Wanted. After his mother’s death, he moved in with his father.[citation needed]
Professional career
Early career
On his Instructional Guitar DVD Navarro tells how he started playing guitar at the age of 7 after hearing a Jimi Hendrix song at a skate park.
1986-1993
Navarro joined the band Jane’s Addiction in 1986 as the lead guitarist after he was recommended to vocalist Perry Farrell by drummer Stephen Perkins, who was a childhood friend of Navarro’s. The band became successful and was popular in the alternative-rock music scene. Personal tensions, however, led to their breakup in 1991. The Lollapalooza festival was created by Farrell as a farewell tour for Jane’s Addiction.
After the departure of Guns N’ Roses’ original rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin in August 1991, Navarro was the first choice of lead singer Axl Rose to replace Stradlin. However, despite four attempts to have him come in and play with Slash, he never showed up. However, he later went on to play on the 1999 Guns N’ Roses song “Oh My God”, which was featured on the End of Days soundtrack. In 1993, Navarro formed Deconstruction with Jane’s Addiction’s Eric Avery on vocals and bass and Michael Murphy on drums, and the band put out one self-titled album in 1994. Rick Rubin was involved in the production and Butthole Surfers singer Gibby Haynes makes a guest appearance. They did not tour due to Avery’s exhaustion after Jane’s Addiction.
1993-1998
Navarro joined the Red Hot Chili Peppers in September 1993. His first large-scale performance with the band was at Woodstock ’94. The only album in which Navarro played with the Red Hot Chili Peppers – One Hot Minute – was released in 1995. The album was seen as a commercial failure (even though it sold over 8 million copies worldwide) and fans were disappointed that Navarro didn’t have the same sound as former guitarist John Frusciante, the album received mixed reviews despite producing three hit singles. After two years of touring on and off, and his subsequent heroin relapse, Navarro was fired in 1998.
2001-2005
The album Trust No One marked his solo debut in the summer of 2001. In 2002, Jane’s Addiction reformed with bass player Chris Chaney, and started work on a new album. The band entered the studio with veteran rock producer, Bob Ezrin resulting in the album Strays and the Lollapalooza 2003 tour in support of the album. In 2002 Michael Jackson performed at Apollo Theater, and Dave played guitar for his hit song “Black or White”
Navarro began working with Camp Freddy during this time. In 2003 Dave and his fiancé, Carmen Electra, agreed to have their wedding preparations filmed for an MTV show entitled, Til Death Do Us Part. Camp Freddy played at the reception. The show was a great success and was released on DVD Fall 2005. Dave’s book, Don’t Try This At Home was released on October 5, 2004 with Regan books, and quickly became a Los Angeles Times bestseller.
On a lighter note, Navarro appeared in two tournaments on Celebrity Poker Showdown in 2004. In the third tournament of the series, he won his qualifying game and appeared in the championship round. In the fourth series, he appeared only in a qualifying round.[3]
2006-2011
Dave co-hosted with Brooke Burke, 2 seasons of the Mark Burnett television series: Rock Star: INXS and Rock Star: Supernova. Dave and his band, The Panic Channel, released their album One, in August 2006. They toured with Rock Star Supernova (the band formed from the series) in January/February 2007. During this time Dave began his own internet radio station: SPREAD RADIO LIVE. He soon broadened his creativity with an internet talk show called: Dave Navarro’s SPREAD TV which was broadcast on Maniatv.com and is currently available for download on iTunes. The show highlighted a myriad of avant-garde subjects, artistry, and the human condition. Videos from the series are also available on Navarro’s YouTube channel.
Navarro in 2007
In 2007 Navarro also teamed with Teravision to direct his first adult movie Broken starring Sasha Grey in the first of a planned series of celebrity-directed adult movies.[4] This effort won “Best High End All-Sex Release” at the 2008 AVN Awards.[5] Navarro has also made appearances in Season 1 and Season 2 of Z Rock[6] with Brooklyn-based band ZO2 on IFC.[7]
Jane’s Addiction reunited once more in 2008 with all of the original members. The notoriously tumultuous band’s reunion was widely credited to NME magazine for choosing Jane’s Addiction as the recipient of their “Godlike Genius Award for Services to Music”. Soon after performing together for the first time in 17 years at the NME Award ceremony in Los Angeles, the band was contacted by Trent Reznor. Trent began working with Jane’s Addiction in his studio; they remixed and released two songs (Chip Away & Whores) online.(NINJA 2009 Tour Sampler) This time together in the studio led directly to the pairing of Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s Addiction for a worldwide tour in 2009. The tour was branded the NIN/JA tour by fans.
During August 2009, Navarro toured southern California as part of the Billy Corgan-led band Spirits in the Sky.
In 2011, Navarro appeared as the ‘Director’ of a Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp, playing a complicated passage for a ‘camper’ to emulate, in a commercial for Citibank.[8][9]
Navarro featured on the track ‘Girls/Fast Cars’ on the album The Wombats Proudly Present: This Modern Glitch by indie rock band The Wombats
