domenica, maggio 28, 2006

download || audio Rhcp Live @ Alcatraz, MI, IT || 29/04/2006

Setlist (as broadcasted by MTV)
01 Intro
02 Can't Stop
03 Charlie
04 Tell Me Baby
05 John Solo: For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her (Simon & Garfunkel cover)
06 Me And My Friends
07 Dani California (including outro)
08 Scar Tissue
09 By The Way
10 Give It Away

Part 1 http://www.megaupload.com/it/?d=1KOU6DHB
Part 2 http://www.megaupload.com/it/?d=2IIU4SJD

download || Rhcp Live @ Irvine, CA || 13/05/2006

13 Maggio 2006
Irvine [California] - USA, Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, KROQ Weenie Roast Y Fiesta

Setlist:
01. Can't stop
02. Charlie
03. Scar tissue
04. Dani California
05. By the way
06. How deep is your love (John solo)
07. Snow (Hey oh)
08. Me and my friends
09. Desecration smile
10. Don't forget me
11. Tell me baby
12. Californication
13. Right on time
14. Give it away

url http://www.sendspace.com/file/mzjs1f
dimensioni 160MB
formato .asf

giovedì, maggio 25, 2006

video in streaming || Rhcp Breaking the Record: RAW || 05/2006

Breaking The Record: RAW is a special, uncut, behind the scenes footage of your favorite bands. This week, catch the Chilis in a candid state of mind.

Dani California Live @ Fuse Studios
Scar Tissue Live @ Fuse Studios
+ 6 interview video clips

http://fuse.tv/rhcp.php

collaborazione || Frusciante & Mikah Sykes

This is not a story about a Eugene kid moving to a major city and making it big. But now that Mikah Sykes is working with a famous guitar player down in Los Angeles, people pay more attention to his mu- sic. Sykes lived in Eugene and Springfield up until about a year and a half ago. He moved to Portland first, then to Southern California, where he decided the only way to afford to pursue music was to be homeless.
For the past six months, he’s been staying with friends and sleeping in his tent. During that time he has worked on an album with John Frusciante, guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The CD was supposed to be done before he left for this tour, but it’s not.
“I’m pretty much disorganized and all over the map,” he says. “I can’t keep up with what it takes to be a musician.”
Sykes did manage to book a 20-date tour to spread the word on his songs. So far, Sykes says people are most impressed he’s working with Frusciante. He played three shows in Eugene last weekend, and he returns to Sam Bond’s on Thursday for his final local gig. The music appeals to musicians and girls, he says, but it’s also apt background music.
“I want to become a wall,” he says. His lack of ego or ability to tell people his music is great may be getting in the way of his success as a musician. “I like blending in with the ambience in the room.”
Frusciante first heard Sykes play at Sam Bond’s when the Chili Pepper was in town with his girlfriend, Emily Kokal. Like Sykes, Kokal is a South Eugene High School grad. Kokal sings “I Would Not” with Sykes on the album. He plans to have some form of the self-titled release available at the show. The work in progress has many Eugene connections. South grads played violin and pedal steel guitar, and another recorded a track before Sykes started working with Frusciante. Sykes has self-released several homemade recordings. He says that in the eighth grade, he even recorded a tape with schoolmate Mat Kearney trying to sing the blues. Like Kearney, Sykes is the son of a Christian preacher.
Their takes on religion are different, something that created a rift in their friendship near the end of high school, Sykes says. Kearney sings about his faith and the good it’s done him. Sykes, through his song “2,000 Chews,” expresses only a desire to be more confident in his beliefs. Frusciante gave Sykes access to his home recording studio and plans to overdub some of his guitar work onto the album, which will be available through www.mikahsykes.com.
Also unlike Kearney, who has major label backing and a mainstream, accessible sound, Sykes’ music is more arty than catchy. He doesn’t write songs with verses and choruses, at least not on purpose. Sykes believes that if the music is good, people will find it. You can hear what he means on tracks now posted on www.myspace.com.
Sykes says he is blown away by the effectiveness of Myspace in disseminating his music far and wide. A guy in Europe has one of his tracks as his profile song - the height of a Myspace musical compliment.
“There’s really no point to it whatsoever,” he says of his music. “It’s just what I do. I’m not looking for some big out

Article taken from www.registerguard.com
written by Serena Markstrom.

fonte frusciante.net

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Friday, April 28, 2006
Recording Today
started the recording last night. pretty cool. until about 10 minutes ago when the leaf blower guy showed up in the middle of recording. i am kicking off my west coast tour next friday, beginning at spaceland (see profile picture). spaceland has always been a little hit and miss for me as far as performing goes...but they got nice sound. then up to the make out room in s.f., then oregon...wow...if i dont move back to l.a. in june then i am moving to new york city in august. acutally i have already agreed to move into an apartment in williamsburg, brooklyn. i have never been there. to the apartment or to brooklyn. i love l.a., but...i never been to ny. so why not, eh? i miss the northwest so much but i know if i move there i will be bored out of my mind. i love l.a. but i want to see ny. all in all really all i care about is ellies dog, i will miss him the most. thats the only thing making me hesitate on the east coast thing. in the mean time me and anthony (the engineer) are waiting for the gardeners to leave, they are being way to loud to record. and the take they inturrupted was golden...john (Frusciante, ndr) and emily (Kokal, ndr) s cat was making all this noise in the background. we are mic-ing the guitar with a vinatge nueman ksm124 small condenser, we are using neve pre-amps, and an old 48 channel api mixer. also we are using a big plate reverb unit, its about 8 feet long by 4 feet tall. its in emilys bedroom. pretty cool. i have to give an official shout out to emily kokal and john frusciante for providing me with one of the most amazing opportunities in my life. em i know you will probably read this (better watch what i say...) so i will thank you again. i will thank john later.
tratto dal blog di Mikah Sykes
E' inoltre possibili ascoltare e scaricare gratuitamente il brano "I Would Not" (la vce femminile è quella di Emily Kokal) ed altrie due canzoni dal MyspaceMUSIC di Sykes all'indirizzo:

mercoledì, maggio 24, 2006

Joe Lally + Massimo Pupillo + Gioele Pagliaccia || Live in Italia 07/2006

Joe Lally, membro dei Fugazi nonché degli Ataxia, suonerà quest'estate in Italia per quattro date durante le quali si esibirà accompagnato da Massimo Pupillo (ZU) e Gioele Pagliaccia.

Questa la notizia presa dal sito di Lally:

On the following July 10 - 13 dates Joe will be accompanied by Massimo Pupillo (of Zu) on bass and Gioele Pagliaccia on percussion.

July 10: Livorno, Italy - TBA
July 11: Ravenna, Italy - Bronson
July 12: Milano, Italy - TBA
July 13: Roma, Italy - TBA

fonte http://alkem.org/joelally/

mercoledì, maggio 17, 2006

collaborazione || Frusciante nel nuovo album di Perry Farrel || 15/05/2006

Due Peppers ed un Black Eyed Pea nel nuovo album di Farrel

15 Maggio 2006, 15:45
Wes Orshoski, N.Y.

Il frontman e fondatore dei Jane's Addiction/Porno For Pyros, Perry Farrel sta ultimando i lavori dell'album di debutto del suo nuovo gruppo, i Satellite Party, di cui fa parte anche l'ex chitarrista dei Extreme, Nuno Bettencourt.

Farrel sta ipotizzando alla pubblicazione entro la fine dell'estate per il disco dall'omonimo titolo (Satellite Party, ndr) nel quale figurano ospiti come Flea e John Frusciante, basso e chitarra nei Red Hot Chili Peppers (nel brano "Hard Life"); la cantante dei Black Eyed Peas, Fergie; il bassista dei New Order, Peter Hook e la moglie di Farrel, Etty.

"Sarà un gruppo molto solido con elementi sia femminili che maschili," dice a Billboard.com, "e sarà molto vivo ed energico. Ma vogliamo aggiungerci anche una buona dose di energia femminile, soprattutto voci femminili, perché sono bellissime per le parti corali. Siamo pieni zeppi di fantastiche canzoni."

Farrel ha debuttato con il suo progetto la scorsa estate a Lollapalooza, Chicago. Nel corso dello show, lui e Bettencourt furono raggiunti sul palco dal bassista Tony Kanal (No Doubt) che ha però abbandonato il progetto. Mentre pensa a chi possa rimpiazzarlo, Farrel dice che sia Flea che Bettencourt hanno suonato la maggior parte delle parti di basso nell'album. Alla batteria c'è Kevin Fig, un amico di Bettencourt.

In seguito al nuovo contratto discografico ("Se noi siamo la linea del traguardo, ora siamo ad un passo dal traguardo", afferma Farrel) il primo singolo dell band, "Dogstar", è stato messo in lista per essere pubblicato in estate. I Satellite Party sperano anche di poter partecipare anche quest'anno a Lolapalooza, a Chicago dal 4 al 6 Agosto.

"Sarà qualcosa di diverso da quello che avete visto se eravate a Lolapalooza lo scorso anno." dice "E' un ibrido: Facciamo combinare tra loro elementi rock, parti corali ed una buona sana dose di rock'n'roll.E' lussureggiante e bello e sexy e colmo di energia."

Nel frattempo Farrel dice che la Warner Bros sta lavorando ad un box set dei Jane's Addiction da mettere in catalogo. L'etichetta sta anche pensando alla pubblicazione in un DVD di un suo cortometraggio del 1989, "Soul Kiss", e del suo morboso e controverso film, "Gift" (1993).



Two Peppers And A Pea Join Farrell Album

May 15, 2006, 3:45 PM ET
Wes Orshoski, N.Y.

Former Jane's Addiction/Porno For Pyros frontman Perry Farrell is finishing up work on the debut album from his new group, Satellite Party, which also features ex-Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt.

Farrell is eyeing a late summer release for the self-titled effort, which boasts guest appearances from Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea and guitarist John Frusciante (on the track "Hard Life), Black Eyed Peas vocalist Fergie, New Order bassist Peter Hook and Farrell's wife, Etty.

"It's going to be a solid group with both female and male players," he tells Billboard.com, "and it's going to be very live and very powerful. But we want to add a nice, healthy dose of female energy into it, especially female voice, because it's wonderful for chorus. We're chock full of great, grand songs."

Farrell debuted the project at last summer's Lollapalooza in Chicago. During that show, he and Bettencourt were joined by No Doubt bassist Tony Kanal, who is no longer a member of the group. While mum on Kanal's replacement, Farrell says both Flea and Bettencourt played a lot of the bass on the album. Kevin Fig, a friend of Bettencourt's, is playing drums.

With a "major" new deal ("If we're a goal line, we're an inch from the goal line," Farrell says) in the works, the group's first single, "Dogstar," is being penciled in for release this summer. Satellite Party is also hoping to reappear at this summer's Lollapalooza, set for Aug. 4-6 in Chicago.


"It's going to be a little different version from what you saw if you were at Lollapalooza last year," he says. "It's a hybrid: We combine some rock elements and elements of choir and a big healthy dose of rock'n'roll. It is lush and beautiful and sexy and loaded with energy."

Meanwhile, Farrell says Warner Bros. catalog arm Rhino is working on a Jane's Addiction box set. The label is also prepping the DVD releases of his 1989 short film, "Soul Kiss," and his morbid controversial 1993 movie "Gift."


fonte billboard.com

domenica, maggio 14, 2006

foto || Rhcp Live @ Alcatraz by Roberta Accettulli || 29/04/2006

Alcune foto del concerto all'Alcatraz di Milano (29 aprile 2006) scattate da Roberta Accettulli

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grazia (cit.) a Roberta per avermi autorizzata a pubblicare il link :)

articolo || Guitar World Magazine || 07/2006 (?)

Ecco l'articolo completo pubblicato sulla rivista Guitar World Magazine:
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sabato, maggio 13, 2006

lettera scritta da John || 03/2006

Many of the gods, goddesses, angels, demons and elementals of the universe have conspired to send messages from beyond through the Red Hot Chili Peppers for the current civilization. After a year and a half of channeling and organization these messages have taken the materialized form of the double album Stadium Arcadium.

Silence has curled up next to the band and taught them her song. If you let go and let this music take you by the hand, it will take you flying through skies of sound. It will zoom you up well above outer space and it will show you around planes of existence that do not share the laws and conditions of this reality. And when it brings you down to earth it will dig deep into that shit. It will also teach you to fall back without landing on your ass and to fall forward without falling on your face. Let go and you can be two places at once, you can be as big as the whole universe and as small as an atom simultaneously. You can experience time forwards, backwards and sideways. You can unite with a star or a plant. You are everything you see around you and the ideas in this music may get you to start realizing what a great power that can be.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are learning all these things with whoever wants to come along. They are letting the invisible glorious kingdom of music give them shelter. They have crawled inside the body of music and they are inviting you inside.

All is illusion which gives us all the wonderful opportunity to play with everything in existence. In the words of one of the supreme gods of funk, "Nothing is good unless you play with it." The Red Hot Chili Peppers have twisted up nature into a decidedly psychedelic form. They have made music that can drive you to a place where nothingness is motion and movement and stillness are one. They have played with light, darkness, sound, silence, form, air, and space to make music that plays with the listener. Born four separate people they have successfully become one. Their music is proof that four minds can become one, which prompts the question, why not a billion minds? They recommend that you shut off your mind and let Stadium Arcadium fly you away to place where everything and nothingness are one. They recommend that you let the music take you away to a place where everything is OK.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers and their holy guru Rick Rubin have put together music that can take you out of your body, so come inside the great outdoors. Breathe the water. Drink the air. Sleep on a cloud. Run up the beam of light from a star.

You are free. Close your eyes, open your mind, and let this music in and you will see that this is true.

# # #

This album was recorded primarily in Laurel Canyon in the Blood Sugar mansion. The recording and mixing was a year long project as it involved finishing 38 songs, 28 of which were chosen to become Stadium Arcadium. The album features Chad Smith on drums, Anthony Kiedis on lead vocals, Flea on bass, and John Frusciante on guitar and background vocals. They also all do this that and the other thing. Rick Rubin watched over the big picture and worked his brand of magic on the music, giving it balance whenever it might have fallen off the edge of the earth. The songs were written at the Alley in the Valley which is where BloodSugar was written. They were written over the course of six months. The band and the producer all had mates with whom they were in love through out this whole project. That love, heart, and warmth is in the music. You are also hearing the sound of analog tape, may it live forever.

--John Frusciante, March 2006


fonte http://totalassault.com/team.php?team_id=168

***LA TRADUZIONE SARà DISPONIBILE AL PIù PRESTO***

giovedì, maggio 11, 2006

recensione || Stadium Arcadium || 05/2006

Recensione di Andrea Morandi
per ROCK STAR - maggio 2006 n.309

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mercoledì, maggio 10, 2006

foto || Emily Kokal e John Frusciante

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La 'famosa' ragazza di John, Emily Kokal, cantante dei Verbena che ha recentemente collaborato con Tricky.

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download || Rhcp Live @ La Cigale, Parigi FR || 20/04/2006

download || tibetan freedom || 1998

http://www.webalice.it/loryhack/tibetan98.rar

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traduzione intervista || Clarin.com || 04/2006

L’Hotel Chateau Marmont, nella famosa Sunset Strip, era solito essere il luogo in cui I musicisti rock perdevano il controllo. Proprio l’, Anthony, Flea, Chad e John raccontano la storia del loro nuovo album, in uscita il 9 Maggio. Stadium Arcadium contiene 28 canzoni, che, loro stessi assicurano, sono le migliori di tutta la loro carriera. Molte di queste parlano d’amore: semplicemente Flea e Chad si stanno godendo i loro figli ed Anthony ha scritto un brano dedicato alla sua attuale ragazza, una modella diciottenne.

John non può fare a meno di parlare della sua importantissima altra metà, la cantante Emily Kokal (che ha recentemente collaborato on Tricky). Dice che lei è quella che lo ha fatto uscire dalla crisi. Sdraiato nel letto con dei capelli tristissimi, ci riceve, ed inaspettatamente comincia a parlare senza più fermarsi, a volte concentrato su quello che sta dicendo, altre prendendo una scorciatoia per qualche labirinto interno che solo lui conosce.
Stai per iniziare un nuovo tour. Sei nervoso? Pensi che potrebbe accadere nuovamente qualcosa come successe nel 1992, quando hai lasciato la band?

“Lasciare il gruppo non è contemplabile. Non rinuncerò. In passato era diverso, stavo cercando di abbandonare il gruppo già dal momento in cui finimmo la registrazione di Blood Sugar Sex Magik, e finii con il mollare nove mesi dopo mentre eravamo in Giappone. Ma in quel caso, volevo davvero andarmene. Ora invece non c’è assolutamente niente a motivarmi. Probabilmente mi piacerebbe prendermi un po’ di riposo ma non lasciare la band. Assolutamente.”
Ci sono moltissimi assoli di chitarra nell’album. Non suona forse un po’ antico?

“Avrei voluto ci fossero state molte più persone a suonare le parti soliste. Insieme con Omar Rodriguez (chitarrista dei Mars Volta e suo migliore amico) stiamo cercando di suonare assoli e di recuperare parte dello spirito di gente come Carlos Santana o Jimi Hendrix. Jimmy Page ed Eric Clapton facevano assoli e la gente andava a vederglielo fare. Era parte dello spettacolo. Corriamo di nuovo il rischio! Non dobbiamo aver paura di mostrare quello che siamo in grado di fare! Possiamo imparare dal passato. A mio parere il suono della chitarra, da quando questa è stata suonata da Jimmy Page, non è mai più progredito.”


L’elettronica sta lasciando I chitarristi senza lavoro?

“Ho lavorato sulle sonorità della mia chitarra, creando effetti con un sintetizzatore come Omar Rodriguez che ha qualcosa tipo un migliaio di effetti nella sua pedaliera. Stiamo entrambi tentando di creare delle trame consistenti sfruttando le varie sonorità. Io amo i ritmi dell’hip-hop percui ho cercato di applicarle alla musica rock. Not tutto deve essere perfetto come il suono che queste persone ottengono al computer. Io dico: Lascia stare il computer e concentrati su ciò che puoi fare da solo. Negli anni 60 gli album de Rolling Stones contenevano ogni sorta di percussione, chitarre e batteria, e all’ascolto erano ottimi. Penso che la buona musica non riesca ad arrivare alla gente mentre il pop più banale sì.”
I Green Day, criticando Bush, hanno avuto un grandissimo successo. Come mai la musica dei Red Hot Chili Peppers non parla di politica?

“Non mi interesso di politica. Anthony e Flea lo fanno, ma non vogliono che le loro idée politiche facciano parte della nostra musica. E’ giusto che ci siano persone che si preoccupino d ciò che ci sta accadendo intorno ma tutto questo non fa per me. Quando qualcuno viene a chiedermi come facciamo a mantenerci così al passo coi tempi posso dire che il mio metodo è, proprio come quando stavo registrando Californication, guardare i film degli anni 40, gli stessi che guardavano Hendrix e Lennon. Non guardo la televisione, non ascolto neppure la radio. Probabilmente se ascoltassi sempre le notizie sarei una di quelle persone che fanno queste cose (cioè parlare di politica, ndt).

Anthony Kiedis ha scritto la sua autobiografia, tu scriverai la tua?

“Scrivo moltissimo, ho tutte le mie cose salvate nel computer, forse nei prossimi cinque anni ci dedicherò un po’ di tempo… Ma per ora sono ancora nella fase in cui devo capire quali sono i miei veri pensieri. Non credo che scriverò alcuna autobiografia, salvo che non riesca a trovare una qualche chiarezza interiore. Mi sono successe delle cose davvero incredibili ma non riesco a ricordarle in maniera così chiara da poterle mettere nero su bianco. Non ancora. Ogni giorno passo un’ora meditando ed ogni volta, quando leggo qualcosa che ho scritto, cerco di mettere in ordine i miei pensieri.”

Frusciante dice che oltre a suonare e cantare canzoni, scrivere è un’altra delle cose che ama. Inoltre ha già pronte 17 canzoni per il suo nuovo album, il più introspettivo che abbia mai scritto ed è sicuro che riuscirà a registrarlo entro un anno.
“A volte scrivo per nascondere me stesso. Penso questa sia la prima volta che ho tentato di abbattere i miei muri interni. Se sei mio amico voglio mostrarti come sono veramente. E con me non è sempre stato così.”
La sua (o il suo?) assistente ci interrompe per informarci che l’intervista è finite ma non riesce a strapparlo ai suoi pensieri. “Ho imparato tantissimo dalla mia ragazza, lei mi ha insegnato come avere, per la prima volta in tutta la mia vita, una relazione splendida con una donna. Lei ha un effetto meraviglioso sulla mia musica.” tiene ad aggiungere.

martedì, maggio 09, 2006

video || lezioni di chitarra in streaming || 2006

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=697903522&n=2

da: Guitar World Magazine, 07/2006 (?)
John Frusciante suona alcune parti di chitarra e commenta

durata: 16,42 min

video || intervista in streaming || 04/2006

http://www.kwmusica.kataweb.it/kwmusica/pp_scheda.jsp?idContent=131335&idCategory=2028

John Frusciante parla del nuovo album, di come concilia progetti solisti e band ed in generale del suo rapporto con la musica e con gli altri membri del gruppo.

di Paolo Gallori

durata: 15 min

intervista || Clarin.com || 04/2006

Clarin interview with John, April 2006

Source: Clarin.com, Argentina
Date: April 2006
Thanks to: Isa from Spain for the translation and Rodrigo from Argentina for directing me to the right article

The Chateau Marmont Hotel, in the famous Sunset Strip, used to be the place where the rock musicians lost control. There, Anthony, Flea, Chad and John talk about the story of the new album, wich is going to be released on May 9th. Stadium Arcadium has 28 songs, wich, they insure, are the best of their career. A lot of them, talk about love: It's just that Flea and Chad are enjoying their babies and Anthony wrote a song to his girlfriend, a 18 year old model.

John can't stop talking about his significant other, the singer Emily Kokal (who has just recorded Tricky). He says she was who got him out of the crisis. Laying in the bed with melancholic air, he receives us, and surprisingly he starts to talk without stop, sometimes centred in what he's saying, and sometimes taking a shortcut through internal labyrinths, that only he knows.

You are going to start a new tour. Are you nervous? Do you think that something like what happened in 1992 could happen again, when you left the band?
"Left the band is not a possibility. I'm not going to renounce. That was different, I was looking foward to leave since we finished the recording process of Blood Sugar Sex Magik, and I'll end leaving nine months later while we were travelling in Japan. But by then, I wanted really to leave. That's anything that motivates me now. I'd like maybe to take a rest but not to leave the band. No way".

There're a lot of guitar solos on the album. Wasn't it old-fashioned?
"I wish there're more people playing solos. With Omar Rodríguez (The Mars Volta guitarist and his best friend) we're trying to play solos and to recover part of the spirit of guys like Carlos Santana or Jimi Hendrix. Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton played solos, and people went to see them doing it. It was part of the show. Let's take risks again! Don't be afraid to show what we can do! We can learn of the past. For me, guitar has never progressed since Jimmy Page played it".

Is electronic leaving guitarist without work?
"I've been working in the sound of my guitar, creating effects with a synthesizer like Omar Rodríguez, who has like a thousand of effects in his pedal. We both are trying to create textures with the sound. I love the rhytmical expression of Hip-Hop so I've been trying to apply it with rock. Not everything have to be perfect like the sound that those guys get with their computers. I say: Leave the computer and look what you can do yourself. In the 60's the Rolling Stones' albums had every kind of percussions, guitars and drums, and they sounded good. I think good music isn't reaching the people, and the bad pop is".

Green Day have been very successful, speaking badly of Bush. Why The Red Hot Chili Peppers' songs don't talk about politics?
"I'm not interested in politics. Anthony and Flea are, but they don't want their political ideas to be part of the music we do. It's fine that there're people worried about what's happening around but it doesn't work for me. When people come and ask me about how we do to be so well with the time I can say that my method is, like when I was recording Californication, watch films from the 40's, the same ones that Hendrix and Lennon had seen. I don't watch TV, I don't listen to the radio. If I'd always listen the news I'd be like the people who do it".

Anthony Kiedis has written his autobiography, will you write yours?
"I write a lot, I have my things in the computer, maybe in five years I'll dedicate it more time...But by now I'm still in the process to understand what my true thoughts are. I don't think I'm going to write any autobiography, except if I get some internal clarity. Some incredible things had happened to me but I can't remember them sufficiently clearly to write it. Not yet. Every day I spend an hour meditating and always, when I read something I've written I try to clarify my thoughts".

Frusciante says that besides play songs and sing them, writing is another thing he loves. He even has already 17 songs for his new solo album, the most personal that he has ever written and he's sure he'll be recording it in a year. "Sometimes I write to hide myself. I think it's the first time I've tried to break the internal walls. If you're my friend I want to show you how I am really. It hasn't always been like that with me". His assistant interrupts to inform that the interview has finished but he doesn't get to take him out of his thoughts. "I learnt so much from my girlfriend, she's teaching me how to have, for first time in my life, a good relationship with a woman. She has such a good effect in my music..." he gets to add.

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