Red Hot Chili Peppers Members - D.H. Peligro, John Frusciante, Flea, Hillel Slovak, Jack Irons, Anthony Kiedis (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: D.H. Peligro, John Frusciante, Flea, Hillel Slovak, Jack Irons, Anthony Kiedis, List of Red Hot Chili Peppers band members, Dave Navarro, Chad Smith, Josh Klinghoffer, Arik Marshall, Cliff Martinez, Jesse Tobias, DeWayne McKnight, Jack Sherman. Excerpt: John Anthony Frusciante (, Italian pronunciation: born March 5, 1970) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, record producer and film producer. He is best known as the former guitarist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, with whom he recorded five studio albums. Frusciante has an active solo career, having released ten albums under his own name, as well as two with Josh Klinghoffer and Joe Lally as Ataxia. His solo recordings include elements ranging from experimental rock and ambient music to New Wave and electronica. Influenced by guitarists of various genres, Frusciante emphasizes melody and emotion in his guitar playing, and favors vintage guitars and analog recording techniques. Frusciante joined the Red Hot Chili Peppers at eighteen years old, first appearing on the band's 1989 album Mother's Milk. The group's follow-up album, Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991), was a breakthrough success. However, he was overwhelmed by the band's new popularity and quit in 1992. He became a recluse and entered a long period of drug addiction, during which he released his first recordings: Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt (1994) and then Smile from the Streets You Hold (1997). In 1998, he successfully completed drug rehabilitation and rejoined the Red Hot Chili Peppers with the album Californication (1999). His solo album To Record Only Water for Ten Days was compiled in 2001. On a creative spree, Frusciante released six solo albums in 2004; each album explored different recording techniques and genres. In 2009, Frusciante released The Empyrean and again parted w...