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 David
Michael Navarro was born in Santa Monica, CA on June
7, 1967
His
mother was Constance Colleen Hopkins and his father
is "Mike" (James Raul) Navarro. His father's father
came to America from Spain (illegally). When Dave was
born, his parents lived on Horseshoe Canyon Road in
Los Angeles. Dave has lived his entire life in LA. (He
grew up with his mother in Bel Air). He now lives in
West Hollywood. He has been married in a pagan ceremony
and with a legal certificate but is currently divorced.
Dave was the only child for many years until around
October 1994 when Dave's father had a son and named
him Gabriel James. (Another addition of a sister around
late 1998.) Baby Gabe can be heard crying on the Red
Hot Chili Pepper's album One Hot Minute (One Big Mob).
Dave used to carry a small tape recorder with him and
one day recorded his baby brother crying. This may seem
crude as far as recording techniques go, but it fits
perfectly.
When
Dave was about 11 or 12 his father bought him an acoustic
guitar at a garage sale. Dave's cousin Dan (you know,
of Lowen & Navarro) played guitar and showed Dave a
few things.
Dave's
parents' marriage wasn't going very well and they got
divorced when Dave was 7. Dave lived with his mother
until March 1983 when he was 15 because sadly, his mother
and aunt were killed by Constance's jealous ex-boyfriend.
Around
this time Dave was still new to the guitar and while
at a skateboard park and could hear what he thinks was
either Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Chile" or "Purple Haze"
over the intercom system. The moment that he heard that
song, it changed his life. It was then that he decided
he wanted to could create those kind of sounds. It wasn't
long before Dave started playing electric guitar. This
is when he began to practice constantly, to the point
where he became isolated from the rest of the world.
Shortly after Dave played in his first band, South Dakota
Railroad. They mainly did covers of Cream, Jimi Hendrix,
and Led Zeppelin. Also in this time period it can be
noted that Dave went to John Thomas Dye elementary school
with Eric Avery and dated his sister Rebecca in junior
high.
Dave
attended the private Catholic Notre Dame High School
in Sherman Oaks. In marching band he met Stephen Perkins
and together they formed a short lived speed metal band
called Dizastre. Dave didn't do well in school--he and
Stephen were well known for their drug use. Eventually
Dave was kicked out for bad grades, long hair, and questionable
ties to the LA drug community during 11th grade. He
then enrolled in public school and well, he never really
attended. Thus, his clasmates were the class of 1985,
he was the one who didn't graduate. Though, later Dave
did get his G.E.D. (Dave eventually moved into his own
apartment in Westwood. He lived there the entire length
of his membership in Jane's Addiction.)
I
think Dave was known as a musician with superb skills,
for example; the main influence to him was Jimi Hendrix,
for skills, he learned it from Van Halen. For speed
problems, Dave listens to Iron Maiden and some punk
bands (he and Stephen Perkins were in a speed metal
band called Dizastre) then he moved on to intellectual
English music (for the sound). He learned from guitarists
like Daniel Ash (Bauhaus, Tones On Tail, Love and Rockets,
and solo work) and Robert Smith (The Cure, Siouxsie
and the Banshees, The Glove) thatguitar playing didn't
have to focus on skill or the technical side, but rather
on simplicity of sound. Without a lot of technique Daniel
Ash can play all sorts of hauntingly beautiful melodies.
He is quite skilled at using an EBow and he is most
likely the one to have influenced Dave on developing
his own EBow skills. (Luckily for Dave all of the members
of Love and Rockets live in Los Angeles now. Jane's
Addiction even opened for Love and Rockets and at one
show Love and Rockets joined Jane's on stage. In addition,
all members of Love and Rockets contributed to Porno
For Pyro's "Porpoise Head". Dave attended the private
Catholic Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks. In
marching band he met Stephen Perkins and together they
formed a short lived speed metal band called Dizastre.
Dave didn't do well in school--he and Stephen were well
known for their drug use. Eventually Dave was kicked
out for bad grades, long hair, and questionable ties
to the LA drug community during 11th grade. He then
enrolled in public school and well, he never really
attended. Thus, his clasmates were the class of 1985,
he was the one who didn't graduate. Though, later Dave
did get his G.E.D.
Dave
introduced Stephen to Eric's sister and Stephen began
to date her. Eric met Perry Farrell through the now
legendary "Jane" and he joined Perry's dwindling band
Psi Com for one hot minute. They then decided to play
under the name of Jane's Addiction. Their drummer was
a good friend of Eric's and was in another band at the
same time. He decided to leave Jane's for the other.
In need of a bassist, Eric's sister kept raving about
her boyfriend and thus Eric brought along Stephen. They
did have a guitarist but he left.
So much has been written on Jane's Addiction that I
feel there is nothing I can say. Simply, their first
gig was in 1986 and their last gig was in 1991.Things
seemed to go well for Jane's Addiction, drawing a large
following in Los Angeles and eventually other major
cities.Eric became disillusioned with music and the
industry after the Jane's Addiction experience, but
still wanted to continue with music and asked Dave to
join him in a project. They formed Deconstruction and
only recorded one album, Deconstruction, and one video,
"LA Song". Due to disagreements, one of them being as
to whether they should tour or not (Eric was against
it, Dave was for it), Deconstruction deconstructed.
Dave had been asked to consider joining the Red Hot
Chili Peppers to help them with their 1992 Lollapalooza
tour, but he declined because he wanted to be part of
a writing process and not just play old songs, he had
just toured Lollapalooza the previous year, and he was
committed to the Deconstruction project. Dave was sought
by other bands, including Guns 'N' Roses. Finally, though,
the timing was right when the Red Hot Chili Peppers
asked again and Dave became an official member on September
5, 1993. His first gig with them was at the second Woodstock
in 1994.
Music
evolves as the people who create it evolve. We can only
wait to see what their next album will bring. Unfortunately
this will not happen as Dave officially left the Chili
Peppers on April 3, 1998. He was going to pursue Spread
with Chad Smith full time and possibly due a small scale
tour, that is, until Smith left Spread. As you may know,
Dave's current musical experience started as a side
project between him and Chad Smith. It was known as
Swallow at first (but there already is a group by that
name) and then changed to Spread. This side project
has now become Dave's full time endeavor as Chad has
opted to fully commit to the Peppers and is no longer
a member of Spread. The album's name is also Spread.
One
of the greatest rock sidemen of the last two decades
is dead. With Trust No One, Dave Navarro steps out on
his own for the first time, emerging as one of the most
significant new solo artists of the 21st century after
having carved out a legendary reputation as a showman
and guitarist with Jane's Addiction and the Red Hot
Chili Peppers. Though known as one of the best axemen
of the last dozen years, Navarro's first solo project
is not the guitar-hero album that fans may have expected.
Instead, it is a deeply personal reflection on love
and loss that features Navarro on vocals, bass, guitar,
piano, and some programming.
Trust
No One begins with the single "Rexall", a slow-building,
heart-rending cry for help named after the pharmacy
in Los Angeles where his parents met. Navarro gets more
specific on "Mourning Son", which, he explains, is "just
me dealing with the loss of my mother, which is a pivotal
part of where my initial issues involving trust come
from because she was killed by someone I trusted. That
led me to believe that even people close to you are
capable of the most inconceivable things."
Despite
the darkness of the themes, the album moves through
many moods and colors, full of sudden dynamic shifts,
hard-driving rock, swatches of ethereal ambience, dozens
of hummable melodies in a single song, and so many different
layers and sounds in some tracks that headphones are
necessary.
The
album and title, Navarro says, aren't meant to be taken
cynically. They are simply a reflection of a time of
darkness and self-masochism, one reason for a cover
of the Velvet Underground's "Venus in Furs", a song
inspired by the masochistic fiction classic of the same
name by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. "The ultimate message
of the record is one to myself," Navarro says. "Yeah,
I can focus on all this darkness, but the reality is
that I'm going to miss any potential for light in doing
so."
That's
why the album ends on a note of lightness, "Slow Motion
Sickness". Where earlier on the album Navarro lashes
out and blames others for betraying and abandoning him,
here he looks inward and accepts responsibility for
the first time, ending the album with a coda, sung in
high Beach Boys-like harmony, "Sometimes I don't feel
so good."
some portions were taken fron Dave's Official Site.
no Copyright infringement intended.
Floundering
(1994)
Sexual
Intent (1994)
SOUTH
DAKOTA RAIL ROAD
DIZASTRE
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JANE'S
ADDICTION
- Jane's Addiction (live at the Roxy in Los Angeles,
CA
January 26, 1987)
- Nothing's Shocking
- Ritual de Lo Habitual
- Live and Rare (Japan release)
- Kettle Whistle (Jane's Relapse) |
DECONSTRUCTION
Deconstruction
RED
HOT CHILI PEPPERS
One
Hot Minute
PORNO
FOR PYROS
Good
god's urge
SPREAD
Spread
DAVE
Solo : Trust No One (June 2001)
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01. Rexall
02. Hungry
03. Sunny Day
04. Mourning Son
05. Everything
06. Not For Nothing
07. Avoiding The
Angel
08. Very Little
Daylight
09. Venus In Furs
10. Slow Motion
Sickness
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Rexall ~ single |
walking
on a wire - lowen & navarro [1990]
dedicate:a
tribute to the greatfull dead [1991]
broken
moon - lowen & navarro [1993]
only
- sun 60 [1993]
janet
- janet jackson [1993]
1000
fires - traci lords [1995]
means
to an end: the music of joy division [1995]
jagged
little pill - alanis morissette [1995]
working
class hero: a tribute to john lennon [1995]
1996
grammy nominees [1996]
sutras
- donovan [1996]
small
circle of friends [1996]
private
parts [1997]
alright
- jamiroquai [1997]
end
of days [1999]
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GIBSON
LES PAUL SERIES
Dave uses this Les Paul for a long time, this
black Les Paul has it's bridge hambucker pickup
modified.
Gibson
Official Site |
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IBANEZ
RG SERIES
This Guitar was ment to be for the Rock n' Roll
world, and so Dave uses it for many times too
Ibanez 2000 Official Site |
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FENDER
STRATOCASTER
The most famous Guitar and the best guitar ever
made. The 'God' Jimi Hendrix and the Peppers'
John Frusciante abuse this Guitar exclusively.
And Dave just can't take his hands off this mastered
piece.
Fender
Official Site |
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PRS
/ PAUL REED SMITH guitars
This kind of Guitars are wellknown with its heavy
sound and Dave uses it on the Jane's era.
PRS
Official Site |
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PARKER
NITEFLY
Parker NiteFly was an outstanding masterpiece,
the clean sound that creates perfect atmosphere.
Dave use it for several tracks in One Hot Minute.
Parker
NiteFly Official Site |
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MODULUS
GRAPHITE
The maker of FLEA BASS made these series. It's
Durability are unquestionable. The Free Tibetan
Concert was the witness of Dave with this guitar
Modulus
Guitars Official Site |
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