Your wife, Etty, sings back-up vocals in the band, how is it to work with her on a professional basis? For me, to be a musician means more than anything. To be a troubadour, a traveling minstrel. There's no greater experience with music than the live

TOO SEXY At left, Farrell on stage with wife Etty at the 2007 Coachella Music Festical. At right, Farrell performing at the KROQ Weenie Roast in 2001

Your wife, Etty, sings back-up vocals in the band, how is it to work with her on a professional basis?
For me, to be a musician means more than anything. To be a troubadour, a traveling minstrel. There's no greater experience with music than the live experience, so to have a person who I love and adore and we work out our stage and our song together and work out our marketing strategies together, to me, we're like the modern Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.

What happens when girls throw their panties at you on stage?
They don't throw panties anymore, what they do is heave their cleavage. I get that all the time but we giggle about it because we're sexy beings. We probably both get a little jolt out of seeing good cleavage. The last press conference we did there were three or four female reporters who were doing the interviews and all of them had these beautiful swelling, heaving breasts. But we look at each other and always giggle about it because you're right, gals do like to put themselves out if they're interested. I think they do it too because they have a nice set of breasts and they wanted to show them off anyway so it's just a good occasion.

When you were first starting out you said that you wanted to be like David Byrne of the Talking Heads. Have you accomplished that?
I said that? Well, I still have ambitions with Satellite Party. We're only getting started now. The first phase is purely the music. We do a great stage presentation in terms of our personal performance but I would love to see this grow into a feature film and have a theatrical presence whether it be on Broadway or in Las Vegas.

Broadway?
Yeah, I would love to have big props and incredible lights and dramatic scene changes. I have 120 storyboards for Satellite Party that I put together using Photoshop and images that I've been saving and collecting. I would absolutely love to make this a theatrical performance. But Etty said to me, "You know what? If you came rolling out in a hospital bed in a hospital gown singing, people would throw tomatoes at you, so just count yourself a front man for now and don't even think about it because it would look so corny."

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She might have a point there. Why would you be in a hospital gown?
It's the scene where the cops batter the chief Solutionist and so he gets sent to the hospital where he meets his love interest, the night nurse. That's why I laugh because for that scene, when he's taken to the hospital, they would roll him out in a bed and he'd be in one of those hospital gowns with an IV in his arm—hopefully it would be something good like some morphine—and then he would start to talk to his friends and they break out in song. So Etty started laughing so hard, she goes, "there's no way I'm going to allow you to come out on stage with your ass hanging out, I don't think so." I think it could be good though.

Jane's Addiction was originally backed by a prostitute named Bianca, are you still in touch with her?
I haven't seen Bianca for a long time. She was just on the edge of insane. I loved her to death, but you never knew where she was going. A great gal and those were fantastic times, but we've gone on and she's never tried to contact me. I mean, you do have the Internet; people could get in touch with you if they're around and in shape. It just seems like Bianca, well, she'll know where to find me online, maybe she should reach out. It'd be fun.

Maybe MySpace can help. Can you give us one good drug-fueled story from your heyday for the road?
I don't know ... perhaps standing on a rooftop in a towel and with a bat. That kind of sums it up, doesn't it?

Hmm ... not really. Where and why were you doing that?
[Scoffs.] My house. I was trying to ward off evil spirits. Maybe I did!

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