Scar Tissue: Red Hot Chili Peppers

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And of course, what I love even more as a Chili Peppers fan is obviously getting to know Anthony Kiedis better. In 2008, it was reported that Kiedis was developing a television series for HBO titled Spider and Son which would be loosely based on Scar Tissue. Anthony lived in Hollywood through some exciting times and has some strange encounters with celebrities that are likely to delight even reluctant starfuckers.

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. 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. in my day our biggest rock heroes were sparse power trios like Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, sometimes fronted by lead singers (Doors, Who).

John Harris of The Guardian believed that the autobiography showed Kiedis to have "hubris, selfishness, the large-scale absence of any sense of humour" as well as "irreparable damage" from his childhood of drug use and sexual experiences. Hillel dies from an overdose and then he launches into a story that has nothing to do with Hillel, other friends die and then he launches into stories of sex with his woman of the day/week/month. Anthony Kiedis Biopic In Works At Universal; Brian Grazer Producing Based On Red Hot Chili Peppers Frontman's Memoir 'Scar Tissue' ".

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? Kiedis released Scar Tissue in 2004, and although it was incredibly honest, revelations in the book have negatively impacted his reputation. We would have been spared reading all those depressing bull-crap chapters if he simple said "I relapsed back into heroin 100 times all the while treating my friends, family and women like dirt". 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.I remember my sister playing Blood Sugar Sex Magik constantly when I was about 9, but since then, I completely lost track of the band.

The writing is just plain bad, and if I had to read about one more sexual exploit that Kiedis had, I was going to throw this book across the room. As the group hit their peak with songs like “Californication”, “Under the Bridge” and the book's namesake, “Scar Tissue”, Kiedis was in a constant tussle with his demons, which can verge on unsettling to read.

All in all I would have given this book 5 stars had the continuous cycle of drug abuse and rehab not gotten a little monotonous. He reflected that it had the best final sentence on the list, as Kiedis reflects that he stays sober for his dog.

However, many people also resonated with his traumatic childhood and understood this was the catalyst which caused his dangerous behaviour. As weird as it may seem, that doesn't make him cool or special, hell it doesn't even make him unique. 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.The fact that Scar Tissue is engaging is surely a testament to Kiedis's co-author Larry Sloman, who shaped a tumultuous life into an accessible story.