Dave Navarro To Host Spike TV’s New Series Ink Master

Jane’s Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro is having a good year.  The former Red Hot Chili Peppers member is not only basking in the glory of a fourth studio album, but a new television gig where he will play host for Spike TV’s new show Ink Master.  The series, scheduled to debut next year on the popular network’s line-up, will feature Navarro running the show and judging a competition between a group of creative tattoo artists. 

Joining the heavily inked rocker to judge the eight episode competition is Miami Ink’s Chris Nunez, and tattoo master Oliver Peck, who is well known for his Guinness World record breaking talents.  Ink Master will premiere in January 2012 with a $100k grand prize on the line, as well as a spread in Inked magazine. Navarro seems to be a perfect candidate for the Spike reality series with his own range of tats paying tribute to his mom, his battle with heroin, his ex Carmen Elektra, and more.

When it comes to Navarro and the other members of Jane’s Addiction, their new album is due out on September 27th and is titled 'The Great Escape Artist'.  Recently talking to Zoiks, Navarro called their latest creation different “because the band went in a new direction.”  The forty-four year old also added that “we haven’t been in before but at the same time there are many familiar threads of where we used to come from. It’s an evolution from where we were but always remembering where we came from.”

Musically evolved since their last album, Strays, that was released back in 2003, Jane’s Addiction (in the words of Navarro) “intended to broaden the depth of the music by introducing a new space that we hadn’t experimented with before. It’s an evolution from where we were without forgetting where we came from. Ultimately we are just having a great time doing what we are doing, which is making music and playing it for people.”