Scar tissue
By: Anthony Kiedis with Larry Sloman
Contributors: Sloman, Larry
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 465
ISBN-13: 9781401307455
Subjects: Red Hot Chili Peppers (Musical group); Rock musicians; Biography
Description: "For a musician who has spent the better half of his life either intoxicated or on a drug high, Kiedis, the lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, has produced a surprisingly detailed account of his life. Raised in the 1960s and '70s by a drug dealer father who first introduced his preteen son to drugs by mashing them into bananas, the high school delinquent and UCLA dropout seemed destined for a life of rabble-rousing until his high school band-cofounded by close friends Michael "Flea" Balzary and Hillel Slovak-took off and became one of the most popular groups of the 1990s. Though he peppers his book with little known facts (for instance, the author narrowly missed being named Clark Gable Kiedis), the punk-funk rocker dedicates too few pages to his introspective music-writing process and too many to his incessant drug use and revolving door of girlfriends (which included actress Ione Skye, singer Sine ad O'Connor and director Sofia Coppola). But while Kiedis fails to scratch beneath the surface of his fast-lane life, his frankness is moving, especially toward the end of the book, when his mea culpa turns into a full-blown account of recovery and redemption. (Kiedis has been sober for almost four years.)" - product description.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: "Me, I'm from Michigan"; title: Spider and son; title: Fairfax High; title: Under the zeron one sun; title: Deep kicking; title: The red hots; title: Groundhog year; title: The organic ant-beat box band; title: Refourming; title: Funky Monks; title: Warped; title: Over the wall; title: Nothing; title: Welcome to Californication; title: A moment of clarity.