Dave Navarro
Dave Navarro
David Michael "Dave" Navarrois an American guitarist, singer-songwriter, and actor. He is best known as a founding member of the alternative rock band Jane's Addictionand as a former member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He also released one solo album Trust No One. Navarro has also been a member of the Jane's Addiction spin-off bands, Deconstruction and The Panic Channel. Allmusic's Greg Prato described him as "one of alternative rock's first true guitar heroes," with an eclectic playing style...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth7 June 1967
CitySanta Monica, CA
CountryUnited States of America
When a new person comes in, you can't help but evolve. Steve comes from a singer/songwriter background, whereas Perkins and I come from more of a jamming and experimental background, and I think what we came up with is a great combination of songs and musicianship.
I'm not the type of player to sit home and practice scales and work on runs.
I've always recorded the same way. I put down as many ideas as I have, then strip them away at the mixdown. It's better to have too much music than not enough.
Men are much more agressive with their advances.
I never have a realistic sense of self. I either think everything I do is terrible and I'm the worst guy on the planet, or from time to time I'll think I'm the greatest gift to music and the coolest guy who ever lived, but that happens maybe an hour out of the week. Some days I'm more concerned with how my hair looks than what my guitar sounds like.
Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now.
Yeah, I can read music and I know the names of chords.
And I've also come to the conclusion that, as far as guitar solos and things like that are concerned, it's more important to complement the music rather than take away from it.
For me, it doesn't matter how difficult something is, it doesn't matter how impressive it is, it's what sounds best that really counts.
Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.
As a viewer of television if there's something I don't like or find offensive, I just don't watch it.
I'm either shooting nine grams of coke a day or spending two hours at the gym. There's no middle ground.