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Jane's Addiction
Jane's Addiction
US band
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Porno for Pyros
Porno for Pyros
American band
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Dave Navarro
Dave Navarro
American guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known as a founding member of the alternative rock band Jane's Addiction
3
Perry Farrell
Perry Farrell
American singer and musician
4
Martyn LeNoble
Martyn LeNoble
Dutch musician
5
Street Sweeper Social Club
Street Sweeper Social Club
American rap/rock supergroup
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Taylor Hawkins
Taylor Hawkins
American musician, rock drummer
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Thomas Pridgen
Thomas Pridgen
American musician
8
Duff McKagan
Duff McKagan
American rock musician
9
Thomas Johnson
Thomas Johnson
American audio engineer, producer, and musician
10
Flipper
Flipper
American band
11
Tribal Seeds
Tribal Seeds
reggae band
12
Satellite Party
Satellite Party
american band
13
D Generation
D Generation
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David J
David J
British alternative rock musician, producer, and writer
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Flea
Flea
American-Australian bassist
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Jack Irons
Jack Irons
musician, songwriter
17
Dave Kushner
Dave Kushner
Rhythm guitarist for Velvet Revolver
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Unified Theory
Unified Theory
band
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Daniel Ash
Daniel Ash
English musician, songwriter and singer
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Suicidal Tendencies
Suicidal Tendencies
American crossover thrash band
21
Matt Sorum
Matt Sorum
Rock drummer, percussionist, most notably with Guns N' Roses
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Social Distortion
Social Distortion
American punk rock band
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Nate Mendel
Nate Mendel
American rock musician
24
Ilan Rubin
Ilan Rubin
American musician
25
Eric Burdon
Eric Burdon
English singer-songwriter
26
Abbath
Abbath
Norwegian band
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Faber Drive
Faber Drive
band
28
Guttermouth
Guttermouth
American punk rock band
29
The Vandals
The Vandals
band
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Dressy Bessy
Dressy Bessy
band
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Face to Face
Face to Face
American punk rock band formed in 1991
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Nick Oliveri
Nick Oliveri
American rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter
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Minutemen
Minutemen
punk rock band from San Pedro, California, USA
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24-7 Spyz
24-7 Spyz
band from the South Bronx
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Sublime with Rome
Sublime with Rome
American reggae rock band
36
Senses Fail
Senses Fail
American post-hardcore band
37
Bradley Nowell
Bradley Nowell
American musician
38
Dave Grohl
Dave Grohl
American rock musician and singer-songwriter
39
The Felice Brothers
The Felice Brothers
American folk rock/country rock band
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Nikki Sixx
Nikki Sixx
American musician
41
The Suicide Machines
The Suicide Machines
American ska punk band
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Dave Lombardo
Dave Lombardo
Cuban-American drummer
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Econoline Crush
Econoline Crush
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Tommy Bolin
Tommy Bolin
American guitarist
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The Misfits
The Misfits
American horror punk band
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Deathray
Deathray
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Design the Skyline
Design the Skyline
American experimental metalcore band
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
American rock band
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Ian Wallace
Ian Wallace
English drummer
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Class of '99
Class of '99
band
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Confide
Confide
American band
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Members, past and present

Deconstruction was a band formed by former Jane's Addiction members, guitarist Dave Navarro and bassist Eric Avery. Originally their former Jane's Addiction bandmate drummer Stephen Perkins was slated to be Deconstruction's drummer but instead joined Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell's new band Porno for Pyros. Drummer Michael Murphy was instead recruited for percussion duties.

The band, all Los Angeles residents, recorded material in a studio somewhere along the Big Sur coastline in California and released a self-titled LP in 1994 to little public appeal and varied critical acclaim. This came in marked contrast to Porno for Pyros, who were consistent with their lukewarm reviews, despite their relative popularity.

Deconstruction released only one self-titled album and one promotional single, "L.A. Song", and did not tour due to Eric Avery reportedly being still weary from extensive touring in Jane's Addiction.

A British band of the same name sought to legally stop Eric Avery and company from using the name Deconstruction, but dropped threats of legal action when they were assured the Californian trio's album would be a one-off project.

Dave Navarro went on to join the Red Hot Chili Peppers later that year and participate in Jane's Addiction reunions in 1997 and 2001. Eric Avery remained in the background for fifteen years prior to joining the high-profile resurrection of the original Jane's Addiction line-up in 2009. In between times he played bass for Garbage and Alanis Morissette's band, he auditioned for the vacant bass chair in Metallica after Jason Newsted's departure (a position since filled by Robert Trujillo), but mainly focused on writing and recording in his band Polar Bear, and his own solo work thereafter.

Today, the Deconstruction album is considered a cult masterpiece. In the book, Don't Try This at Home, written by both Neil Strauss and Navarro, Navarro describes the band as "more of an artistic experiment than anything else. We didn't have songs; some people viewed us as geniuses and others viewed us as fools. And, personally, I could see the rationale behind both points of view very clearly."