Scar Tissue: Red Hot Chili Peppers

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It's now been announced that a biopic is in the works for Scar Tissue, the 2004 autobiography Kiedis penned about his early life and rise to fame with the Chilis. I’m not particularly squeamish, but I recoiled in horror more than once at the things Anthony manages to do to his body over a 20 year period. I appreciated the way you spoke of these things, because they made you, a real monster in a way, more human. As central as Frusciante is to the band’s funk-dipped, ska-infused melody mosh, in “Scar Tissue” he is only a supporting player in Kiedis' LALAland opera. A realllllyyyyyy complicated process of reading this book, I really made up variuos reason how to escape "The Scar Tissue", that's why I read it for a really long time for me, 9 days, ouch!

A pretty fascinating, no-holds-barred look into the life of the vocalist of one of my favourite bands. I personally felt bad for the guy and couldn't help but feel horrible for the guy when he struggled to get his life back together.Like many rockagraphies, Kiedis’ story follows a familiar journey: unlikely kid from the track’s Other Side makes friends, friends make band, band gets hot, orgies follow soon thereafter leading inexorably to a 12-step program and the inspiring tell-all. In fact, some of his stories are so damned grandiose that I honestly do not believe what he is writing is what actually happened. What a big fat LIAR, gee, maybe if you posted that picture I would have bought this load of horse crap.

Anthony Kiedis is not my favourite member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but his voice is clearly front and centre in my mind when I think back to the most memorable moments of my life with their music (at this point, it has been about 16 years – maybe a bit more). In “Life,” Richards’ clearly reveres Mick in spite of their creative differences and wildly contrasting life philosophies. However, he would never look at a woman twice because according to him, he prefers 16 year old jail bate.He reflected that it had the best final sentence on the list, as Kiedis reflects that he stays sober for his dog. Later, he reveals that he was not actually clean, as he claimed at the time, during the late-nineties Californication era of the band's existence. Anthony Keidis happily retells how he wasted his life on drugs, screwed and screwed over countless women, friends and collegaues and ended up alone - not even his closest friend Flea talks to him any more.

Scar Tissue chronicles the life of Kiedis with the help of co-author Larry Sloman, taking us through, in sometimes extremely minute and candid detail, the entire life of the Red Hot Chilis frontman up until 2004 when it was written. I laughed out loud when I read the part about Tony going to meet the Dali Lama, he was told that the Dali was booked for 3 years so it would not be possible! The tome is far less tragic than comparable rock bios like “No One Here Gets Out Alive” Sugarman’s defining story of Jim Morrison and “Hammer of the Gods,” which forever established Led Zeppelin as bulging deities in the rock pantheon. Keidis’ book, cowritten with Larry Sloman, found him reflecting on his dad, who introduced him to drugs, the death of founding Chili Peppers guitarist Hillel Slovak of a heroin overdose, the many relationships he had over the years, and how he and bassist Flea kept the band going through all the turmoil.While showing himself as a selfish, unkind and destructive person in the past, Anthony Kiedis still managed to turn into a kind, generous and lovable character (I don't say "man", 'cause there's a possibility that this book can be just too good to be true ). In it he mentioned his time working with the Chili Peppers and he made it sounded really special time.

Like many Southern Californian offspring of Acquarian-age parents, Kiedis grows up in a non-traditional atmosphere living hand-to-mouth, loosely guided and misguided by part-time parents who vacillate from child rearing to communal kibbutzing and moments between punctuated by light criminal high jinx.His autobiography is the story of a narcissistic characterless hustler, written by a narcissistic characterless hustler. Kiedis released Scar Tissue in 2004, and although it was incredibly honest, revelations in the book have negatively impacted his reputation. 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. I dunno how to explain, maybe it's the Tony Kiedis charm or his Lithuanian roots, but I truly felt the change of him, the more mature and responsible version of him. Still, the funny thing is that what I liked the most is that the book made me listen to the music with new ears, so to speak.