With his six-string skills best described as a merger between heavy metal, psychedelia and modern rock, Dave Navarro became one of alternative's first true guitar heroes with such notorious bands as Jane's Addiction and The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Born on June 7th, 1967 in California, Dave became mesmerized by the guitar as a teenager due to his discovery of the incomparable Jimi Hendrix. This led to an appreciation of a wide variety of musical styles. In fact, when he met singer Perry Farrell initially, he was in a speed metal band with drummer Stephen Perkins. Navarro, Perkins, Farrell, and bassist Eric Avery formed Jane's Addiction in the mid-80's and alt-rock hasn’t been the same since. Dave was one of the first rock guitarists to not just confine his playing to one style, which is something that had become commonplace in the 90's, but was virtually unheard of in the 80's. His playing on such landmark albums as Jane's Addiction’s 1988's “Nothing's Shocking” and 90's “Ritual De Lo Habitual” was like a breath of fresh air. Navarro knew when to shred away and when to lay low and add textures to the compositions. Unfortunately, the band split up by 1991.

Later, he and Avery resurfaced with the experimental band Deconstruction, which issued a self-titled debut in 1994, but broke up soon afterwards. Dave kept himself busy with session work in the meantime, starring as a guest on Nine Inch Nails' “Further Down the Spiral”, Alanis Morissette's mega-seller “Jagged Little Pill”, Porno For Pyros' “Good God's Urge” and others. In 1994, Dave joined another immensely popular band, The Red Hot Chili Peppers. His studio debut with the Peppers, 1995's “One Hot Minute”, was a hit but proved to be lackluster. After a lengthy worldwide tour of arenas, Dave re-joined Jane's Addiction's for a brief United States’ tour in 1997, recording a few new tracks with them.

Dave abruptly quit The Red Hot Chili Peppers soon after the Jane’s Addiction reunion tour wrapped up. He immediately threw himself into his next musical project entitled “Spread”, and started work on a biographical account of a year in his life. “Trust No One” marked his solo debut in the summer of 2001. In 2002, Jane’s Addiction reformed and started working on a new album. The band entered the studio with veteran rock producer, Bob Ezrin and toured with Lollapalooza 2003 in support of the album. At the same time that Jane’s Addiction was busy in the studio, Dave was also busy working with Camp Freddy. Camp Freddy is a large rock jam comprised of well known rock musicians Matt Sorum, Donovan Leitch, Billy Morrison, Dave Navarro and recent addition Chris Chaney. They played select shows from 2003 to 2006, playing with the likes of Ron Wood, Steven Tyler and many other talented musicians. In 2003, Dave and his then fiance, Carmen, agreed to have their wedding preparations filmed for an MTV show entitled, “‘Til Death Do Us Part”. The show was a great success and was released on DVD in the fall of 2005. Dave’s book “Don’t Try This At Home” was released October 5th, 2004 on ReganBooks and became a Los Angeles Times Bestseller. Dave co-hosted the Mark Burnett reality series “Rockstar: INXS” and “Rockstar: Supernova” with Brooke Burke. Dave and his band, The Panic Channel, with Stephen Perkins, Chris Chaney and singer Steve Isaacs released their album “One” in August of 2006. They recently toured with “Rockstar: Supernova” in January and February of 2007.

Dave’s newest extension of his creativity is the Internet television station about avant-garde subjects, including arts and the human condition, called Dave Navarro's Spread.

Todd Newman was born and raised in New York. He studied drama and writers workshops at NYU. Once he arrived in California he studied at the Groundlings Theater and other improvisational troupes and has been working in the entertainment industry for the past 17 years.

Starting his career as an actor, he made the transition into screen and teleplay writing for such shows as “Married With Children”. Several of his other works, from sitcoms and dramatic features to horror and children’s animated features have been optioned and produced by major production companies. This enabled him to shift gears into directing and editing. He is the video biographer/director for the rock group, Camp Freddy, as well as The Panic Channel.

Sharing the same artistic sensibilities, and cut from the same cloth in regards to humor, Todd Newman and Dave Navarro began collaborating on INDIE’s 103.1 Camp Freddy Radio and Navarro’s Internet radio program, Spread Radio Live. Todd is currently a co-host and segment producer on Dave Navarro’s Spread TV, a live Internet television show on maniaTV.

While Todd and Dave carry on breaking ground and pouring content into new mediums, Todd continues to write for the screen and has recently created, and produced the pilot directed by Adam Goldberg titled, Shamrock Social Club.