The bass player with Jane’s Addiction has quit the band, and will reportedly be replaced by former Guns N’ Roses rocker Duff McKagan.

Eric Avery, 44, announced his departure through a Twitter message on Monday, hours after the band completed a seven-date Australian tour in Perth

“That’s it,” he wrote. “With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane’s Addiction experiment is at an end.” Guitarist Dave Navarro confirmed Avery’s departure on Tuesday, saying on Twitter “We wish him all the best!”

Singer Perry Farrell also took to Twitter on Tuesday, offering a more-cryptic perspective: “Slipping out of that shell of a past. Gripping; wow we’re onto something faster now. And so worth the wait. It’s the Art Of Great Escape.”

McKagan, 46, will join Jane’s Addiction in the studio as it attempts to record the follow-up to its 2003 album “Strays,” according to various unconfirmed reports. Avery had previously indicated he was not writing songs for the album.

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