"Most religions to me are like an exclusive country club. I'm not into that. I've read a lot of Buddhist books and stuff, but I've never been a Buddhist. I just like the idea of the Buddha. The same way I like the idea of Jesus. I like the idea of someone who is completely giving in their every breath. I just try to live my life like that every day. Try."
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"I once tried to sell Anth's pubes on Ebay, they didn't go for much."
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Rock stars are really good people to look up to.
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Anthony: That may seem like a strange thing to say, but . . .
John: It is?! Who else you going to look up to? The President
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Dressed in dark trousers and a pale wool jumper, the guitarist is wandering around the luscious furnishings and chromium steel coffee pots of his interview suite trying to remember which hotel room he slept in last night. "l can't remember the number," he says, to no-one in particular. A quick call to reception and the answer is found. He mumbles his thanks and wanders out of the room. "Bless him," says a member of the band's entourage.
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"One time a guy from a "Guitar Magazine" came over here and I was in my robe naked. Just spreading my legs to him on the couch with my dick barely covered up and then I go 'Hold on a second', and I go into the kitchen and threw up all over the place and came back out with puke all over me and went like, 'Don't worry about it... Flea pukes all the time', ... I think I really came off weird... "
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JF: "What magazine are you from?"
Interviewer: "Bikini."
JF: "Oh, I thought you were from guitar player... I was going, 'Why isn't this guy asking me guitar questions?'"
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JF: "All I want is to go home, hang out with my girlfriend and play clarinet."
GS: "Clarinet?"
JF: "I don't play guitar unless I'm on stage. I play clarinet now. I'm much more serious about it than the guitar, to be honest."
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Immediately after the first song, By the Way, Frusciante threw up his hands and ranted to roadies and singer Anthony Kiedis. After doing this a few times, he motioned to fans apparently upset about the sound: "You people down here keep complaining, and it's distracting me."
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Dear people who care enough about what we do to write us a letter, I feel like a terrible, inconsiderate rock star writing a generic letter like this to everyone who has written to us. But at the same time, for us to write an individual response to everyone would be a physical impossibility. We've been on tour for the last nine months which makes it hard to even speak a coherent sentence. Also I've never written a letter to anyone my whole life. Sometimes if a person who has written an interesting letter leaves their phone number we call them. But most of you don't leave your #'s (and probably for good reason). I would like to take this opportunity to write a few aphorisms of mine just so you don't feel like this letter was written by someone we hire:
1. Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.
2. Music is the face of God.
3. The best service you can do for mankind is mind your own biznis.
4. Don't ever trust a man who sasys "I am going to kill you in the name of God."
5. Buy an Eric Dolphy record.
Love, John Frusciante (Froo-shon-tay)
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"When I smile at the audience, I'm not smiling because I was told that you're supposed to smile to the audience. I smile because they're all smiling at me, and it's a great feeling to see all these happy people out there, and it makes me happy to see them happy..."
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On being asked what he would like to be rembered for: "Hmm, I don't think anybody will remember me. Do you think anyone will remember me?"
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"I'd rather hear someone play the best their capable of with the minimum amount of technique than someone with a lot of technique who plays without feeling."
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On why he's releasing six albums: "Because I'm a f***ing musician."
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JF: "But I'm glad I have a girl cuz I write a lot of songs where I want a girl's voice on them, and now I know I don't need to find a girl, I can just use Josh."
Interviewer: "Excellent, how does he feel about it?"
JF: "He's fine. He's at my disposal. He's at my service."
*Interviewer translates in German*
JF: "Did you say anything nasty?"
Interviewer: "Yes, I made a comment on you saying that Josh is at your service, and I wondered, I was thinking to myself, rhetorically question myself, to what extent that service might go."
JF: "The same extent your mother gives to my cock."
Interviewer: "Oi oi oi oi oi!"
*Interviewer translates, John laughs his ass off*
The interview almost ended as it began. John Frusciante starts talking about the 6 records he's putting out over the course of 6 months, and then he stops. "You guys are making me uncomfortable," he tells the photographer and myself as he walks back to the car that drove him to the scenic overlook on Mullholland Dr.
"You're not allowed to take any more pictures of me until I get my shirt," he snaps at the photographer.
He's suddenly shaken about the appearance of his forearms, which look dry and opaque and old-lady blue in spots where he scabbed them up with needles of smack and coke more than half a decade ago. It's not pretty, but this is puzzling. Frusciante has always been open about his drug-addled past, not proud of it, and certainly not defeated by it. And who cares about scars when those arms and hands make music that's both popular and admirable? What's a scar when you're a star? What's a scar when you are a master of the guitar? He relents and sits back on the bench.
"I thought you were staring," he says.
I hadn't even noticed, I tell him.
"I am insecure about it, but I shouldn't be," he admits, and we continue, talking about things that do matter, like music and the spirits.
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"Most religions to me are like an exclusive country club. I'm not into that. I've read a lot of Buddhist books and stuff, but I've never been a Buddhist. I just like the idea of the Buddha. The same way I like the idea of Jesus. I like the idea of someone who is completely giving in their every breath. I just try to live my life like that every day. Try."
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"I once tried to sell Anth's pubes on Ebay, they didn't go for much."
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Rock stars are really good people to look up to.
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Anthony: That may seem like a strange thing to say, but . . .
John: It is?! Who else you going to look up to? The President
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Dressed in dark trousers and a pale wool jumper, the guitarist is wandering around the luscious furnishings and chromium steel coffee pots of his interview suite trying to remember which hotel room he slept in last night. "l can't remember the number," he says, to no-one in particular. A quick call to reception and the answer is found. He mumbles his thanks and wanders out of the room. "Bless him," says a member of the band's entourage.
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"One time a guy from a "Guitar Magazine" came over here and I was in my robe naked. Just spreading my legs to him on the couch with my dick barely covered up and then I go 'Hold on a second', and I go into the kitchen and threw up all over the place and came back out with puke all over me and went like, 'Don't worry about it... Flea pukes all the time', ... I think I really came off weird... "
LAUT: Do you have an opinion regarding "One Hot Minute"?
John: To be honest, I haven't listened to it from beginning to end. I do only know the hits on it.
LAUT: Does it hurt when you hear these songs?
John: It's strange for me. It's about as if you are watching your ex-girlfriend having sex with another man. It's unpleasant cause you know that you should be there. And the things that I've heard are not really my favourites, they sound unbalanced to me.
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"...I was in my girlfriend's car (Toni) listening to R.E.M.....I was in her car night and day 'cause I couldn't smoke pot in her house so I had to smoke pot in her car!"
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'Hi, this is John Frusciante and you're watching Studio Brussel!' (Studio Brussel is radio) kak se o?ejmal siro?ek
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'Let's give us strenght to show that...uh... this people tonight that we.. love them, and ..uh..show them that we care about... ourselves.'
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"Everybody I ever met I would tell them, 'The Chili Peppers' are my favorite band, I love them."
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Well let me just tell you something about Anthony: If you were to ask me to rate his oral sex capabilities, I would say that he gives the greatest head in Hollywood."
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had such a big period of time in my life where I didn't do anything at all, Now that I know what it feels like to not have music coming through me. Now that the spirit is in me, I consider it my responsibility to write and record as many songs as I can, and to put every bit of energy into music.
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Don't ever let anybody tell you music is stupid. Fucking assholes!!
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"The kids who smoked pot just seemed like burnouts to me. I was practicing ten to fifteen hours a day. But I never felt like I was expressing myself. When I found out Flea was stoned out of his mind at every show, that inspired me to be a pothead. I hadn't had that image of a pothead, he's certainly not a burnout.
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"Pot put me in a position where I could walk far away from my playing and hear it in the second person. It helped me step away from myself. I stopped seeing the guitar as a thing I'm holding in my hands and started seeing it as a thing that's at one with outer space and nothingness."
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The Valley is the worst fuckin place on the planet....Nothing but malls. Shopping is God. But I am glad I grew up there because I just locked myself in my room and played guitar".
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I write lyrics, I play the guitar, if the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead"
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intervieuwer: "You work together with josh Klinghoffer on a new solo project at the moment right? Well, does he serve you well?"
John: "Josh serves me as your mother serves my dick."
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John and Chad are watching people starting to queue for their evening show:
Chad is commenting and talking about how many people will attend the concert.
John - "100 thousand..."
Chad - "Nah... Not a 100 thousand..."
John - "100 thousand, is what we were told !!"
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"When people say that they can't play with their heart....
You know, it just makes me want to puke."
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john is speaking about the ghosts...
interviewer: *laughs*... do you really speak to ghosts?
John: yes
interviewer: when?
john: i like to watch people when they?re asleep... the persons left their body so the ghosts can go in it... they move their bodies and speak to me..and... and sometimes i feet them with candy or cigarrets... so.. the persons are very suprised when they wake up and see the cigarrets next to their bed...
interviewer: -silence-
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The interview almost ended as it began. John Frusciante starts talking about the 6 records he's putting out over the course of 6 months, and then he stops. "You guys are making me uncomfortable," he tells the photographer and myself as he walks back to the car that drove him to the scenic overlook on Mullholland Dr.
"You're not allowed to take any more pictures of me until I get my shirt," he snaps at the photographer.
He's suddenly shaken about the appearance of his forearms, which look dry and opaque and old-lady blue in spots where he scabbed them up with needles of smack and coke more than half a decade ago. It's not pretty, but this is puzzling. Frusciante has always been open about his drug-addled past, not proud of it, and certainly not defeated by it. And who cares about scars when those arms and hands make music that's both popular and admirable? What's a scar when you're a star? What's a scar when you are a master of the guitar? He relents and sits back on the bench.
"I thought you were staring," he says.
I hadn't even noticed, I tell him.
"I am insecure about it, but I shouldn't be," he admits, and we continue, talking about things that do matter, like music and the spirits
JF: "What magazine are you from?"
Interviewer: "Bikini."
JF: "Oh, I thought you were from guitar player... I was going, 'Why isn't this guy asking me guitar questions?'"
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JF: "All I want is to go home, hang out with my girlfriend and play clarinet."
GS: "Clarinet?"
JF: "I don't play guitar unless I'm on stage. I play clarinet now. I'm much more serious about it than the guitar, to be honest."
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