By his own admission, he is a swordsman par excellence and gushes over his conquests, yet maintains a modicum of respect for them. I do think that losing Hillel and worrying that you aren’t a good singer, and having to fire band members, and contracting hepatitis weren’t easy things.

And the best thing of all is that some of the Chili Peppers songs that I love the most are among those that Kiedis gives you more inside information on. Having read at least 50 rock bios over the course of my life (the lifestyle, decadence and the road are can do you in. I've read other Rock Star bios and I've watched real world people travel the highs and lows of addiction.

Yes, the pictures are cool and so is reading about the early workings of the Chili Peppers since I do love a lot of their music, but otherwise, who cares? What I don’t understand is why some people feel they don’t have to abide by the simple rules of society that say drugs are a bad idea, and sleeping with a ton of women is a bad idea. I finished Scar Tissue a few days ago, but I keep wanting to pick it up and find there are still a few more chapters for me to read. You get tired of Anthony relapsing yet again—how could he think it’s possibly a good idea to look for black tar heroin to take off the edge for a weekend?

I feel sorry for anyone who looks up to this pathetic failure of a man almost as much as I feel sorry for anyone who thinks this book is good. 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. Sure, I get that a guy's gotta eat, but don't express your faded rock-star economic embarrassment in the form of bad literature.Don't get me wrong, he's not a bad front man, he can carry a tune and some women would consider him eye candy. 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. 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. I do think that parts of the near endless sex could have been removed - not in the interests of toning it down, at all, but merely because they served no purpose to telling his story. 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.

However, he would never look at a woman twice because according to him, he prefers 16 year old jail bate. 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.Raised in Michigan, Kiedis went on to study at UCLA, but dropped out after losing interest, partially due to his abuse of hard drugs. And thanks for the insights into the 3 lifestyles of yours (sex, drugs, rock n roll) I knew very little about. There was no real feeling of remorse or regret for all the drug use and fucked up behavior and infidelity.

This isn't because of the writing because you do realize that this of course is how his life was at that point. It was announced on January 17, 2024, that Universal Pictures will release a theatrical movie based on Scar Tissue.Also, though interesting to know about his "relationship" with Flea's sister, I think a little more tact around his oldest friend could have been exercised.