Surf fight breaks out onstage at Jane’s Addiction concert as songbird Perry Ferrell punches lead shredder Dave Navarro near face

Fast Times in Boston.

If there was one bit of news that cheered nostalgic Gen Xers, this year, it was the reunification of iconic alt band Jane’s Addiction. The band, formed in the mid-1980s and featuring Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro, Eric Avery and Stephen Perkins has had many ups and downs throughout the years. Breakups, reformations with different members, hiatuses etc. Then in May of this year, the clouds parted and all four originals made up and the aforementioned young bloods toasted Capri Suns while smiling broadly.

The Imminent Redemption Tour kicked off almost exactly one month ago in San Diego, California with a bang before swinging oddly around the United States until landing in Boston on ominous Friday the 13th.

And it was there, at the Leader Bank Pavilion, that a surf fight broke out onstage between the two most famous members of the band, songbird Farrell and lead shred Navarro.

Video of the incident features Farrell pacing back and forth across the stage like a caged animal, grunting at the audience before moving over to Navarro, giving him the classic surf shoulder check. Navarro absorbs it before raising a classic surf forearm to Farrell’s chest. Farrell responds by barking in Navarro’s face, classic surf, and throwing a poorly time off-the-mark classic surf punch that might land somewhere in Navarro’s chest.

The whole business was broken up by Avery, though the media is citing bad blood has been brewing for months, Variety reporting, “This emotional explosion — coming on the heels of some ‘off’ moments in other cities that have already been a subject of discussion in reviews and on social media — has some fans waiting to see whether the remaining gigs on the band’s long-awaited reunion tour, their first in 14 years, will proceed as scheduled.

All, and once again, classic surf.

But do you recall the time I surfed with Perry Farrell in North County, San Diego?

It was 10 years ago, now. The waves were small but fun, the water warm, the sun too hot. We bobbed next to each to each other waiting for set waves, which took forever to appear. He caught some lefts. I caught some lefts. I couldn’t see how good his backhand approach was (he is a regular foot) because I always waited for the better waves but I could see his head moving very very very slowly down the line. He rode a thick, too long egg. I rode my wife’s (and Dane Reynolds’) Neck Beard.

We did not fight but, afterward up near the showers, his wife yelled at their kids.

A possible sign of things to come.