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. The lyrics read as a metaphor for the relapses addicts often face before sobriety and the moments of loneliness that creep in during the process, with the refrain of With the birds I’ll share this lonely viewin’.

It is instead a compelling story of dedication and debauchery, of intrigue and integrity, of recklessness and redemption.“Scar Tissue” specifically addressed singer Anthony Kiedis’ own experience with heroin addiction, which is documented in his memoir Scar Tissue, as well as the individual band members’ own experiences with drug and alcohol abuse. But 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.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. He formed the band with three schoolfriends - and found his life's purpose. and plunged headfirst into the demimonde of the L.A. After a brief child-acting career, Kiedis dropped out of U.C.L.A. Raised in the Midwest, he moved to LA aged eleven to live with his father Blackie, purveyor of pills, po. 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.

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