It is instead a compelling story of dedication and debauchery, of intrigue and integrity, of recklessness and redemption. SCAR TISSUE far transcends the typical rock biography, because Anthony Kiedis is anything but a typical rock star. Crisscrossing the country, the Chili Peppers were musical innovators and influenced a whole generation of musicians.īut there's a price to pay for both success and excess and in SCAR TISSUE, Kiedis writes candidly of the overdose death of his soul mate and band mate, Hillel Slovak, and his own ongoing struggle with an addiction to drugs. He formed the band with three schoolfriends - and found his life's purpose.

and plunged headfirst into the demimonde of the L.A. Register for free to build your own book. Raised in the Midwest, he moved to LA aged eleven to live with his father Blackie, purveyor of pills, pot, and cocaine to the Hollywood elite.

After a brief child-acting career, Kiedis dropped out of U.C.L.A. What Should I Read Next Book recommendations for people who like Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman. In SCAR TISSUE Anthony Kiedis, charismatic and highly articulate frontman of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, recounts his remarkable life story, and the history of the band itself. I really did have the point of view of those birds, feeling like an eternal outsider.In SCAR TISSUE Anthony Kiedis, charismatic and highly articulate frontman of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, recounts his remarkable life story, and the history of the band itself. I’ll never forget looking up at the sky above that garage, out toward Griffith Park with the birds flying overhead, and getting a dose of Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

I ran outside with my hand-held tape recorder and, with that music playing in the background, started singing the entire chorus to the song. In SCAR TISSUE Anthony Kiedis, charismatic and highly articulate frontman of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, recounts his remarkable life story, and the history of the band itself. It was a playful, happy-to-be-alive, phoenix-rising-from-the-ashes vibe. Kiedis added, “All those ideas were in the air when John started playing this guitar riff, and I immediately knew what the song was about. I guess I was also thinking of Dave Navarro, who was the king of sarcasm, faster and sharper than the average bear.” We had been such sarcastic dicks that we vowed to try to be funny without using sarcasm as a crutch. Rick had read a theory that it was an incredibly detrimental form of humor that depresses the spirit of its proponents. “Rick Rubin and I had been talking about sarcasm a lot. “‘Scar Tissue’ was another song where you open up the top of your head and it comes dusting down from outer space,” said Kiedis in his memoir about fleshing out the Californication track. Scar Tissue (English, Paperback, Kiedis Anthony) Genre Biography & Autobiography ISBN 9780751535662, 9780751535662 Edition 2005 Pages 480 Imprint.

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