Scar Tissue: Red Hot Chili Peppers

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He reflected that it had the best final sentence on the list, as Kiedis reflects that he stays sober for his dog. Raised in Michigan, Kiedis went on to study at UCLA, but dropped out after losing interest, partially due to his abuse of hard drugs. The tales from the early days of the Hollywood punk scene, the overdose death of Hillel Slovak, the bouts with rehab, the disappointments, the descriptions of lyrics and personal struggles .

However, many people also resonated with his traumatic childhood and understood this was the catalyst which caused his dangerous behaviour.My only real concern is that Antony Kiedis 'quit' doing drugs 'for the last time' fairly late into the book. A. and, like many a rockstar before him, struggled with drug addiction – meaning that much of Scar Tissue is centred around his battles with substances. Harrowingly, the singer was first introduced to Class A substances after moving to Hollywood with his father at 12, and at 14, he first tried heroin after mistaking it for cocaine.

I mean, he apparently suffers a severe case of LSS (that would be Lead Singer Syndrome for those of you unfamiliar with the term). People get passionate about their favorite band, and since this is a real person and not a fictional character, I've decided it's not worth the toxicity on all sides.Of great interest to rock fans will be the insights into contemporary artists – most notably producer Rick Rubin (the hip hop Brian Eno), River Phoenix, Kurt Cobain and Eddie Vetter. As a child he was a disrespectful bully and petty criminal, as an adult he was a drug-addicted jerk and by the way he had so much sex! Tony is then invited to a prayer meeting which is ONLY for those who have studied for 50 years, but of coarse Tony is invited and is seated in the front row, then leaves after the first lesson, WTF.

The impression I got was that she was in denial of sorts, so she didn’t have that much to say about your lifestyle? I guess you did mention several times that druggies only care about drugs, and that you don’t care about other people when you’re drug-hungry, and it’s those moments of insight into how you affect the world at large that made me like you and have sympathy for a very unsympathetic person. However, he would never look at a woman twice because according to him, he prefers 16 year old jail bate. All insane drug usage, clueless relationships with teenagers and women and pointless abstinence make a mess and leave an unpleasant taste, which lasts for the biggest part of the book for me.

The book cuts off in 2004, so whether the film will carry into the present day, where the Chili Peppers continue to release albums and embark on global tours, is up in the air. It went something along the lines of- "You don’t have to like the person to enjoy the book and find some worth in it. The producers include Kiedis, Chilis manager Guy Oseary, and Brian Grazer ( A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13). According to the book, Kiedis's first drug experience was with his father Blackie Dammett, a former drug dealer, at age eleven.