Scar Tissue: Red Hot Chili Peppers

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In 1983 four self-described "knuckleheads" burst out of the neo-punk rock scene in LA with their own unique brand of cosmic hard-core mayhem funk. Although I was a fan of RHCP during this time (early 1990s), I, like others, was more drawn to the perceived grit and power of Nirvana in a manner similar to my admiration of the Wu-Tang over the Paul's Boutique-era Beastie Boys. I realised that the whole point of writing that book wasn’t for me, but to show that somebody can go all the way down and come all the way back and have a productive, successful happy interesting life.

Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis‘ stories of drug addiction and unusual relationships are making their way to the silver screen.Using the stage name Cole Dammett (adapted from his father's stage name, Blackie Dammett), he landed a number of small roles in television and film as a teenager in the late 1970s. He reflected that it had the best final sentence on the list, as Kiedis reflects that he stays sober for his dog. I think I've mentioned this before but writing about sex should never come across as dull unless that is completely 100% the intended effect, which I'm pretty sure is the opposite of what's being described here. Scar Tissue is Kiedis's searingly honest memoir - a story of dedication and debauchery, of intrigue and integrity, of recklessness and redemption.

I found myself trying to remember where I’d seen some girl’s photo, and thinking, “Wait, that should be in the 3rd grouping of photos because he’d screwed her after so-and-so. The title name was taken from the single " Scar Tissue" released five years earlier on the Red Hot Chili Peppers album Californication.

Artistry aside, as much as I appreciate the body of work of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Anthony Keidis is just not an interesting person.

But with a compelling enough story(with all that money and drugs it's got to be worth a few pages) I'd recommend.Anthony Kiedis comes across as a self-centered idiot whose drug-abuse from such an early age has almost certainly damaged his brain in some way. it always reminded me of the playground jive talk and dissin I used to hear at our heavily intergrated high school except it was set to a boring backbeat. Halfway through I realized I really didn't care much, and started skimming and skipping over chunks that truly did not matter. And that little talk stood me in good sted because I think I found the book even more fascinating after having accepted that Kiedis is not a very good person and seems startlingly oblivious to the fact. And so whatever shame, pain or difficulty or discomfort I went through,” he continued, “then it was worth it because I get so many people coming up to me saying their kids had read it and got their act together because of it.