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Eric Edward: No Eric Avery. No Jane's Addiction.

Dave Navarro: Listen, I have heard this many times from many different people. My feelings are this. Had he been fired or asked to leave I would agree with you. The truth is he chose to do something else on 2 separate occasions. Even AFTER seeing how much people loved having him back, he opted to pursue his own thing. I respect that decision and wish him the best of luck with it. However, I disagree that we have to stop being a band we have all worked so hard on for many years simply because he has different interests. We have all had many issues with one another and have gone to do different things and broken up and etc... Still, the 3 of us love the band we are in and either come back to it or work out differences as they come. I will give you the point that JA isn't the same band as it was in the 80s and 90s, yet we can't help but change over the years and grow and evolve and become influenced by different things and life experiences. We still had those years, we still made that music and it isn't going anywhere. If you are suggesting we should change the name of something we have put more energy and time into than anything else in our lives because one member decided to leave, then it is clear to me that any answer I give you won't make much sense. I think the statement alone that you made is illogical and minimizes the collective love we have for each other and the work we have done. The good news is that you still have the music that the original four of us recorded and it's pretty easy to not listen to the work we continue to make.