One can only imagine how difficult it would be to reunite with a band you had broken up with nearly 20 years ago. And I can believe it would even harder if the lead singer of said band was Perry Farrell.

Unfortunately,it seems that the bitterness and arguments that tore Jane’s Addiction apart on their Lollapalooza tour in 1991 is rearing its ugly head once again. Farrell,who performed this past weekend at Coachella,has gone on record that things are not so shiny in the JA world. The band,who recently reunited and began working on new music with the four original members,has apparently found themselves back where they started,with another issue brewing between bassist Eric Avery and Farrell as the main cause of the issues. Trent Reznor has attempted to mediate the issues,while he has been producing the bands’latest musical endeavors,and since his band,Nine Inch Nails,will be touring with Jane’s this summer,there is a lot at stake to the squandering of the twenty year old beef.

Perry told Reuters this weekend that,“I’m not going to tell you it’s been all smooches and hugs,but it shouldn’t be because that would be a bore. I just talked to Eric man-to-man. We’re different people,that’s okay. I’m overjoyed that we’re working together. I don’t care that we butt heads as long as when we hit the stage we blast on people.”Farrell also said that the band will be following Reznor’s lead and offering new material,such as “Embrace the Night”,for free download on their site in upcoming weeks.

As a fan and a ticket holder for a few of Jane’s upcoming shows,I hope that they can keep it together long enough to perform the music that helped usher in a change for the music industry and assisted in creating the alterna-nation in the 1990s. Even if a show ends up in a fist fight,which has been known to happen,I will be happy to see this electricity on the stage.