By the time his band formed and became more popular in the 1980s, he and former bandmate Hillel Slovak had severe drug addictions. He cannot get thru a single paragraph without telling you how awesome he is at everything, stealing from somewhere or being a complete dickhead to people, doing some kind of drugs because it makes him all spiritually enlightened, fucking a bunch of random girls and cheating on his "soulmate" who he loves more than anything. Anthony Kiedis Biopic In Works At Universal; Brian Grazer Producing Based On Red Hot Chili Peppers Frontman's Memoir 'Scar Tissue' ".

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. Let's say this book was a REALLY long picaresque: I did this; then I did that; then this; then that; oh, and repeat it.

Also, I didn’t get the sense that you were upset about being such a disappointment to your mother, who seems, along with your sister and stepfather, to have been a well-adjusted, stable citizen and person. And so whatever shame, pain or difficulty or discomfort I went through,” he continued, “then it was worth it because I get so many people coming up to me saying their kids had read it and got their act together because of it. The only problem I found while reading this book was the fact that Kiedis is such a lucky pretentious fuck. 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.

It just felt like Anthony Kiedis was looking for some sympathy or trying to spin things to look like he wasn’t such a narcissist. 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? A. and, like many a rockstar before him, struggled with drug addiction – meaning that much of Scar Tissue is centred around his battles with substances.Anthony Kiedis, I didn’t know you at all when I picked up this book that belongs to my 20 year old daughter. 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. The tales from the early days of the Hollywood punk scene, the overdose death of Hillel Slovak, the bouts with rehab, the disappointments, the descriptions of lyrics and personal struggles . However, Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis left no stone unturned, and he later regretted his decision. He reflected that it had the best final sentence on the list, as Kiedis reflects that he stays sober for his dog.

All in all, it is an interesting story about a great band and its leader, but Anthony Kiedis didn't suit me as the best choice to present it. 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. autobiography I've come across where the author not only admits how awful he may have been at points, but also makes no excuses for it.He has done nothing for the betterment of humanity despite millions of dollars, instead he wasted it away and has seemingly no regrets. Back in 2002, Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis sing-screamed “Choose not a life of imitation” in the song “ Can't Stop”.

Then I noticed that this autobiography was available and I thought it would be interesting to see what it was like working with Rick Rubin. He is a predator when it comes to young girls, and the way he talks about women in this book is either based all on looks and whether he would want to have sex with them, or they were the love of his life that he just couldn't stop cheating on and then they were crazy. Although I was a fan of RHCP during this time (early 1990s), I, like others, was more drawn to the perceived grit and power of Nirvana in a manner similar to my admiration of the Wu-Tang over the Paul's Boutique-era Beastie Boys. The series is expected to follow the first half of Kiedis's book during his pre teen and teenage years and his relationship with his father Blackie Dammett. probably because the testimony of Anthony Kiedis in Scar Tissue proclaimed that there is a lot of pain and bitter experience behind the music.Both crafted mind-numbing lyrics in the City of Light, trolling the back alleys, canyons and mountain retreats of the West Side. As weird as it may seem, that doesn't make him cool or special, hell it doesn't even make him unique. Whereas some books I have read I needed to be in a certain mood to enjoy them, I read this book at a variety of different times.