John Frusciante

John Frusciante
John Frusciante in August 2006.
Birth	5 March 1970 (1970-03-05) (age 40), New York
Country of origin	United States
Occupations	Musician Producer
Genres	Funk rock Alternative rock Indie Rock Experimental Rock
Instruments	Fender Stratocaster Fender Jaguar Fender Telecaster Gretsch White Falcon
Years active	Since 1988
Website	http://www.myspace.com/johnfrusciantemusic
Entourage	Red Hot Chili Peppers Ataxia Warpaint

John Anthony Frusciante is a singer-songwriter , guitarist and producer American born on 5 March 1970 at (in the of ) in New York.

It is known to have been for several years the guitarist of rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers , with whom he recorded five albums studio. John Frusciante is also conducting an active solo career. Indeed, he recorded ten studio albums under his own name between 1994 and 2009 , and worked with Joe Lally and Josh Klinghoffer, basing the group Ataxia. His solo recordings incorporate many influences, including experimental rock of new wave , to electronica and ambient.

John Frusciante joined the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1988 after the death of Hillel Slovak , and recorded his first album with the band, Mother's Milk in 1989. Subsequently, in 1991 , the band's popularity exploded after the release of the album Blood Sugar Sex Magik. Because of success coming too fast, John Frusciante sinks into addiction to heroin and cocaine. Bothered by the heavy media coverage of the group and her new rock star status, he left the group in 1992 during a tour of Japan.

After several years away in the group, John Frusciante rejoined for the recording of the album Californication in 1999. Ten years later, he announced that he had again left the band to concentrate on his personal ambitions . In 2010, a survey initiated by the British radio BBC6 Music, John Frusciante means as the best guitarist of the last 30 years .

Biography

Youth and early (1970-1987)

In his youth, John Frusciante is a fan of several guitarists, including Frank Zappa.

John Frusciante was born March 5, 1970 in Queens , in New York. His father , John Sr., is a pianist trained after the Juilliard School , and his mother , Gail, is a singer with promising talent, but gave up her career to be a housewife . After living in New York, Frusciante's family moved to Tucson in the State of Arizona , then in the State of Florida , where his father works as a judge in Broward County . Subsequently, his parents separated when he left then with his mother to Santa Monica in California. Like many young Californians at the time, John Frusciante assists in the development of punk rock , with groups from Los Angeles. Already passionate about music at age nine, he admires the band The Germs , and his album (IM) .

After his ten years, he decided to take lessons in guitar with a teacher who introduces the music of Red Hot Chili Peppers . It also works great pieces of guitarists such as Jimi Hendrix , Jeff Beck , Frank Zappa or even Jimmy Page. After the agreement of his parents, he left school at age sixteen and moved to Los Angeles to improve his game and his musical dexterity . He then joined the Musicians Institute in Hollywood , but left shortly thereafter .

Red Hot Chili Peppers (1988-1992)

Mother's Milk

Frusciante joined the Red Hot Chili Peppers after being interviewed by Kiedis.

John Frusciante attending first to a performance of Red Hot Chili Peppers at the age of fifteen, and quickly became a big fan of the band . He idolizes the guitarist at the time, Hillel Slovak. Subsequently, in 1988 , he became friends with the drummer of the group of hardcore punk of the Dead Kennedys , DH Peligro. Both musicians are now playing regularly, Peligro invited his friend Flea , bassist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Frusciante then made some agreements with Flea and the two men develop an immediate musical chemistry . Flea admits later that he played a leading bass riff Nobody Weird Like Me . At the same time, Frusciante plans to audition for Frank Zappa's group, but changed his mind just before you run, because Zappa is against drug use, while Frusciante wishes to administer it. He said: "I realized that I wanted to be a rock star, do drugs and hang out with girls, and I would not have done if I was in Zappa's group" ^, .

Hillel Slovak, Idol and guitarist Frusciante of Red Hot Chili Peppers, dies of an overdose in 1988. Jack Irons , drummer, is unable to bear his loss, and left the formation. Anthony Kiedis and Flea, the two remaining members , decided however to continue the adventure. They choose to integrate Peligro on drums, and Blackbyrd McKnight , guitar . However, it fails and can not connect his music Parliament-Funkadelic to the group.

Flea then proposed hearing Frusciante . With Kiedis, Flea auditioned the young guitarist. After his performance, the singer and bassist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers conclude on its ability to replace McKnight. Flea when called to announce his inclusion in the group, Frusciante cries of joy, jump against the walls of his bedroom, leaving permanent marks of shoes on it . At that time, Frusciante is already on the verge of signing a contract with Thelonious Monster, a punk rock. Having been caught in the Red Hot Chili Peppers, he decides not to proceed with the contract and joined the group he is a fan .

Despite his admiration for the band's music, Frusciante does not feel the soul of a funk guitarist. He said: "I was not really a funk musician before I join the group. I learned everything I needed to associate myself musically to Flea, studying the game of Hillel ^, .

A few weeks after the integration of Frusciante, the band decided to part with its new drummer DH Peligro. Indeed, it consumes plenty of drugs, and musical performances in tarnish . Soon after, Chad Smith takes his place on drums and the quartet is ready to record her new album, Mother's Milk . Initially, John Frusciante does not feel capable of succeeding in Slovak . In addition, the producer Michael Beinhorn's guitarist wants a new style, close to the heavy metal band , absent from group influences. Finally, Kiedis and Flea spend their time making fun of him, while Kiedis felt a strong admiration for him . The record is difficult but for Frusciante goes on in good conditions .

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Producer Rick Rubin

After the success of the album Mother's Milk, the group decided to cease all cooperation with Michael Beinhorn. Kiedis elected as new producer Rick Rubin , and is preparing to record his new album. Upon request by Rick Rubin, Frusciante and others move into a mansion in Laurel Canyon in the hills of Los Angeles between May and June 1991 . It was during this period that the documentary Funky Monks is turned.

Frusciante said then: "I've never taken as seriously in my life and I've never been prouder of anything in life" . The registration happens quickly, the album is scheduled for September. At that time, Frusciante already consumes drugs with Flea . During the six weeks of recording, Frusciante made up over half of the music album . Blood Sugar Sex Magik was released on 24 September 1991 under the label Warner Bros.. Records and quickly won a huge success . Frusciante and Kiedis go to Europe to make the promotion of the album . However, interviews with numerous repetitions and questions from reporters are proving very difficult for the guitarist who wants to return to Los Angeles. The success is overwhelming, and he sinks into heroin . Kiedis Frusciante then begs to return to the U.S. to find his girlfriend at the time, he agreed. So alone that Kiedis is promoting European Blood Sugar Sex Magik. The ensuing tour was a triumph for the group. However, the discomfort of John Frusciante is increasing: it does not want the celebrity to the utmost. In addition, he said mysteriously hear voices in him. He told the magazine Row: "Immediately after completing my guitar parts on Blood Sugar, I had the strange premonition that I had left the band. " .

Meanwhile, the group sympathizes with the Smashing Pumpkins and Pearl Jam , performing their first games on tour . During the tour, the band played Saturday Night Live, an American show broadcast live on television. Rehearsals are going wrong for the group since Frusciante is under the influence of heroin and Kiedis apprehends its passage before the cameras. Thus, while the Red Hot Chili Peppers must interpret the single Under the Bridge , the piece begins Frusciante and Kiedis sings differently false . For the whole group, this evening is a failure, but ironically, the album sales continue to soar and the group is always well received .

However, Frusciante continues to hear voices telling him to leave the tour. In addition, the rock star status in increasingly unbearable . Frusciante decided to leave the Red Hot Chili Peppers . On 7 May 1992 , while the band plays at Tokyo , he refuses to go on stage and announced to the other three members of his intention to leave the group. Kiedis convinces him to play an extra night, which he accepts, but Frusciante returned to the United States the next day and the group must cancel gig following . Kiedis then uses Arik Marshall , who played with the Red Hot Chili Peppers until 1993. Then, after leaving the training, the group recruited guitarist of Jane's Addiction , Dave Navarro .

Addiction and solo career (1992-1997)

Besides his many hits, Johnny Depp filmed a documentary about the lives of Frusciante to the time of his addiction.

Upon entry in the group, Frusciante developed an addiction to drugs, which is increasing over the years. Thus, it consumes marijuana with Flea in 1988 , and then took the heroin after the release of Blood Sugar Sex Magic. When he returned to Los Angeles after his break with the band, Frusciante became depressed, thinking he'll never play guitar or write songs ^, .

During the months that followed, he focuses on painting, and recorded tapes composed of songs written with him in hotel rooms, and during recording of Blood Sugar Sex Magik . To fight against the depression, Frusciante is consuming more and more drugs, including heroin and cocaine .

He declares: "Everything made me unhappy, so I decided one day to spend my life on heroin and cocaine because it was the only way to feel happy. " . In 1992 , Frusciante lives in Los Angeles with his girlfriend in the hills above Los Angeles. Flea however keeps in touch and visit him sometimes makes his home. However, his addiction makes it unstable and dangerous to himself, he inflicted many wounds on the arms, and threatened to burn his own house . In addition, in October 1993, his close friend River Phoenix died of a drug overdose , but Frusciante does not change his habits and continues to administer drugs .

In March 1994 , John Frusciante released his first solo album, entitled Lades and Usually Just Niandra a T-shirt. A few months before its release, several of his friends like Flea, Johnny Depp , Gibby Haynes and Perry Farrell had encouraged him to record a solo album . The disc, released under the label American Recordings is composed of tapes in his own home . The album is split into two parts: the first was recorded during the sessions for Blood Sugar Sex Magik, between May and June 1991. The second is between late 1991 and early 1992. Lades and Usually Just Niandra a T-shirt features a psychedelic atmosphere punctuated by many guitar effects and a poor song .

After its release, it is a commercial failure since only 45 000 copies sold ^, . In addition, Frusciante is accused of being under the influence of drugs while recording, it shade. He declares: "This album was recorded while I was not an addict. He was released when I was an addict. "

Moreover, Frusciante conflicts with the label of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Warner Bors. Records, which claim the copyright of his songs. Indeed, the guitarist is no longer part of the group but the clause in the contract Frusciante's departure provides that rights are for the production house. However, John Frusciante manifest opposition to what Warner Bors. Records holds the copyright. His former label ends up assign its rights to Rick Rubin's American label Recording .

Frusciante, while still in addiction, an article in New Times LA described as a "walking skeleton" . His arms are indeed many sequelae of drug use . Frusciante spent the next three years in his house in the hills of Los Angeles. Every wall of this is covered in graffiti . Meanwhile, Johnny Depp and Gibby Haynes, her close friends visit him and filming a short documentary about the living conditions in his home Frusciante ^, . In the months that followed, his house caught fire, and he suffered several burns. In addition, his collection of guitars and many albums were destroyed in the fire . In 1996 , John Frusciante is an overdose victim who lacks the killing .

In 1997 , he decided to release his second solo album. On 26 August 1997 , Smile From The Streets You Hold appears under the label Birdman Records. Frusciante admits that the money raised by sales of this disc will be used to procure drugs . Characterized by a dark and mystical atmosphere, most songs are written by Frusciante before recording the album. Two songs are co-written with his close friend River Phoenix ^, .

Detoxification and reintegration of Red Hot Chili Peppers (1997-2002)

Frusciante rejoined the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the request of Flea.

In November 1997, John Frusciante gave an interview in Guitar Player magazine in which he admits to feeling better. However, his speech is still regarded as delusional, given the degree of his addiction . The same year, when he was still serious problems with drugs and alcohol, he decides to take control of their health . Advised by his longtime friend Bob Forrest, Thelonious Monster member, he joined in January 1998 Las Encinas clinic, a rehabilitation center in Pasadena , California. He also receives many dental for repairing extensive damage by drugs , and a skin graft to his arm . A month later, Frusciante left the clinic in good health .

After his experience, he decided to completely change his past habits. Cured of drug addiction, he looks first to a lifestyle tending towards the ascetic. In addition, it radically changes its mode of feeding and practicing yoga and Vipassana Bhavana ^, . To focus on music, Frusciante chooses the sexual abstinence . These changes allow many to be not only healthy but also to avoid a possible relapse into drug use . Despite his past as an addict, Frusciante does not consider these years as a "dark period" of his life. He feels that now lives a "renaissance in which he emptied his mind. " .

In April 1998, the Red Hot Chili Peppers split with guitarist Dave Navarro, with whom they recorded One Hot Minute in 1995 . While the group is on the brink of dissolution, offers Kiedis Flea John Frusciante of return, freed from his addiction . Anthony Kiedis and Flea approves Frusciante goes home to tell him the news. This gives him in response: "Nothing could make me happier in the world. " . John Frusciante rejoined the official Red Hot Chili Peppers, and the group plans to record his next album .

Californication is recorded in 1999. The return of Frusciante on guitar harmonizes the life of the group, let alone the cast recording. Frusciante makes others discover his new lifestyle, and reveals more of its unconditional love for music. Drummer Chad Smith said: "He breathes art and music day and night is its raison d'etre. " . Frusciante confessed several times that the work he has done on Californication is the preferred . The album won a big hit with fans, and Frusciante has again an international reputation . During the international tour that followed, John Frusciante continues to write his own songs, to release a new solo album ^, . After two years of touring, he recorded To Record Only Water for Ten Days . Although Frusciante is no longer dependent on drugs at that time, the disc features the same style as the previous two, mixing melancholy and cryptic texts ^. However, the sound is better than his two previous albums and includes more influenced electro and new wave ^, . Indeed, in addition to many guitar effects, John Frusciante experimenting the use of synthesizers .

The same year, Frusciante and the rest of the group preparing the registration of a new studio album, By the Way . At that time, Frusciante considers to be in the best period of his life . As for Californication, he began to write songs during the performance of By the Way to the record on his next studio album . Meanwhile, By the Way was released on 9 July 2002 in the U.S. .

A dual career (2002-2007)

Frusciante was a time worked with Joe Lally in a musical project parallel to the Red Hot Chilli Peppers.

John Frusciante wrote many songs during the By the Way tour. In February 2004 , he started a side project to the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Indeed, he met Joe Lally , the group Fugazi and Josh Klinghoffer in a group he called Ataxia. The three men meet for about two weeks and recorded nearly ninety minutes of music together ^, . After two days of studio recording, Ataxia play two concerts in Hollywood , then returned to the studio, before splitting . The same month, Frusciante released his fourth solo album entitled Shadows Collide With People . In this album, Frusciante pays tribute to several of his friends, with the participation of Flea, Klinghoffer, or Chad Smith . In June 2004, Frusciante announced that he wants to record six solo albums in six months .

The first album, entitled The Will to Death , published in June 2004 . Then it follows index.php? title = Automatic_Writing & action = edit & RedLINK = 1 "class =" new "title =" Automatic Writing (non-existent page) "> Automatic Writing in August , Inside of Emptiness in October , A Sphere in the Heart of Silence in November , and Curtains in December . Each album is the result of a multitude of songs written by Frusciante between December 2003 and June 2004. According to the album They comprise four and twelve titles ^, . With the completion of Curtains Frusciante produces its unique music video, shot for the song The Past recede. For each album, Frusciante confesses his desire to quickly record, avoiding new technologies, and additional charges .

In early 2005 , Frusciante returned to the studio with the Red Hot Chili Peppers to work on his fifth studio album with the group, Stadium Arcadium.

Departure of Red Hot Chili Peppers and collaborations (2007-present)

John Frusciante has recorded a song with the band Blonde Swahili for an album in tribute to David Bowie in September 2010. The guitarist also released an album in 2010 called Sepulcros Honey, in collaboration with one of his closest friends, guitarist of 'The Mars Volta: Omar Rodriguez Lopez (which can also hear on the album Inside of Emptiness).

Discography

With Red Hot Chili Peppers

• 1989 Mother's Milk
• 1991 Blood Sugar Sex Magik
• 1992 What Hits!?
• 1999 Californication
• 2002 By the Way
• 2003 Greatest Hits
• 2004 Live in Hyde Park
• 2006 Stadium Arcadium

With Omar Rodriguez Lopez

• Omar Rodriguez Lopez & John Frusciante
• Sepulcros Honey

(Albums released since the website Rodriguez Lopez Productions)

With Ataxia

• 2004 Automatic Writing
• 2007 2 Ataxia - Automatic Writing 2

Solo

Albums studios

• 1994 Lades and Usually Just Niandra to T-Shirt
• 1997 Smile From The Streets You Hold
• 2001 To Record Only Water for Ten Days
• 2004 Shadows Collide With People
• 2004 The Will to Death
• 2004 DC EP
• 2004 Inside of Emptiness
• 2004 A Sphere in the Heart of Silence
• 2005 Curtains
• 2009 The Empyrean

EP

• 1997 Estrus EP
  • Track A: Estrus - 2:15
  • Track B: Outside Space - 6:27

Only 400-500 copies of this EP were made and were sold by Birdman Recordings. The first song, Estrus, was later sold as the last song Smile From The Streets You Hold, Estresse. The riff Outside Space can also be heard at the end of the song from the album Mascara Lades and Usually Just Niandra a T-shirt. songs can be downloaded from the member section of the site Frusciante.net , with permission from Birdman Records.

• 2001 Going Inside EP
• 2004 DC EP

Other

• 2001 Sounds From The Inside (Album released free from his website)

Equipment

Guitars:

Electrical:

• Fender Stratocaster 1962 ("sunburst" 3 tone ...)
• Fender Stratocaster maple-necked '55 ("sunburst" 2 tones) of handle he said he is the best he has played
• Fender Stratocaster 1961 (olympic white)
• Fender Stratocaster 1961 (fiesta red)
• Fender Telecaster Custom 1963 ("sunburst" 3 tones) used mainly for recording of By the Way
• Fender Telecaster Custom 1965
• Fender Jaguar 1962 (fiesta red) that he uses to warm the fingers before going on stage
• Fender Jazzmaster 19? (Light blue)
• Fender Mustang Dakota Red L Series 1965 (First guitar bought after the fire in his house, which he uses to warm up before concerts)
• Fender Duo-Sonic 1965 Olympic White, rosewood fretboard
• Gibson Les Paul Custom 1969 Black Beauty 2 pickup
• Gibson ES-three hundred and thirty-five in 1956 Sunburst
• 1961 Gibson SG Custom Cherry Red
• Gibson SG 1961 sunburst (Used for Joy Division Tribute Concert)
• Gretsch White Falcon 1955 (used for Californication and Otherside, voted most beautiful guitar in the world).
• Fender Precision Bass Olympic White (rosewood fretboard)
• It has many other less prestigious Fender Stratocaster that he used to experiment (including some microphones have the right and left reversed burdened for the treble and bass support)

Acoustic

• Martin 0-15
• Martin 1940 (acoustic)
• Maton Messiah 12-string acoustic
• Mosrite St. George Gold (12 metal strings)
• Taylor ES 314 EC -

Amplifiers:

• Marshall Major 200W With KT88 Tubes
• Marshall Silver Jubilee 2550

Bran Crunch:

• Silver Jubilee of 100W

Others:

• Fender Brownface (with his Gretsch)
• Vox AC-30 of the sixties (for his solo concerts and sometimes in the studio)

• He used a Marshall superlead mkII for the album Blood Sugar Sex Magik.
• He used a Marshall JCM800 for Mother's Milk.

Picks:

• Jim Dunlop Tortex 0.6 mm

Strings:

• D'Addario XL .046 .10 s-except ^the 1st string is November 1

Effects Pedals:

• BOSS CE-1
• BOSS DS-2 Turbo Distortion
• BOSS DS-1 (with his Gretsch White Falcon mainly)
• BOSS FV-50H volume pedal
• BOSS Super Shifter
• BOSS FZ-3 Fuzz
• 2x Digitech PDS-8000
• Electro-Harmonix Franais Muff'n
• Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail Reverb
• Electro-Harmonix Electric Mistress Flanger
• Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi
• Ibanez WH10 Wah
• Line6 FM4 Filter Modeler
• Line6 DL4 Delay Modeler
• Moog MF-105 MuRF
• Moog MF-105B Bass MuRF
• 3x Moog MF-101 Low-Pass Filter
• Moog MF-103 12-Stage Phaser
• Moog MF-102 Ring Modulator
• 2x Moog Controlli Processor
• 3x Moog Expression Pedal
• Mostrite FUZZrite
• Guyatone VT-X Tube Tremolo
• MXR Micro Amp
• MXR Phase

Collaborations

• 1988 Kristen Vigard of Kristen Vigard
• 1999 Anytime at All by Banyan
• 1999 Rev. of Perry Farrell
• 1999 You Come and Go Like a Pop Song of The Bicycle Thief
• 2000 Psychotic Friends Nuttwerx of Fishbone
• 2001 Blowback to Tricky
• 2001 The ID of Macy Gray
• 2002 American IV: The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash
• 2003 Dragonfly by Ziggy Marley
• 2003 De-Loused In The Comatorium by The Mars Volta
• 2003 Unearthed by Johnny Cash
• 2004 A Manual Dexterity: Soundtrack Volume One of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
• 2004 soundtrack to The Brown Bunny Film Vincent Gallo
• 2005 Frances the Mute by The Mars Volta
• 2005 GSL Special 12 Singles Series november edition with Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
• 2006 Amputechture The Mars Volta
• 2007 Saw Something by Dave Gahan
• 2007 The Heart Gently Weeps Wu-Tang Clan
• 2009 Octahedron The Mars Volta
• 2010 Omar Rodriguez - Lopez and John Frusciante of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
• 2010 Honey Sepulcros of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Quartet
• 2010 Yan's of Yanick Kebci

Notes

Bibliography

• (En) Rob Fitzpatrick, Red Hot Chili Peppers Words for Words, Flammarion, 2004, 143 p. ( ISBN 2-08-011320-8 )
• (En) Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue, Flammarion, 2007, 439 p. ( ISBN 978-2-0806-8802-6 )
• (En) Florent Mazzoleni, The Journey of the Rock Off Collection, 2007, 333 p. ( ISBN 978-2-258-07438-5 )
• (En) Jean-Marie Leduc, The Rock A to Z, Albin Michel, 1999, 795 p. ( ISBN 2-226-11035-6 )

References

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