I dunno how to explain, maybe it's the Tony Kiedis charm or his Lithuanian roots, but I truly felt the change of him, the more mature and responsible version of him. However, many people also resonated with his traumatic childhood and understood this was the catalyst which caused his dangerous behaviour. For fans of the band this book was written after the album Californication, which represented the band’s resurgence and ushered in their platinum decade. I do think that losing Hillel and worrying that you aren’t a good singer, and having to fire band members, and contracting hepatitis weren’t easy things.

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. I can compare this book to a really untasty candy, which has a yummy filling, but too small to get me high. 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. Anthony talks about the infamous Under the Bridge performance on SNL, how lots of William Burroughs was being read (surprising, right? I finished Scar Tissue a few days ago, but I keep wanting to pick it up and find there are still a few more chapters for me to read.

I did know that both she and my 24 year old son love Red Hot Chili Peppers and I knew you were in it. Thus, the band was formed and played together right up to their first truly exceptional album “Mother’s Milk. I appreciated the way you spoke of these things, because they made you, a real monster in a way, more human.

Furthermore, the frontman lost his virginity, aged 12, at the hands of his dad’s girlfriend, who was then 18. I liked it less this time around (and I'm knocking it down a star), perhaps because I'm older and cynical-er and I don't find tales of rockstar excess quite so glamorous anymore. Luckily, the bromance continues with childhood bros Flea and the doomed Hillel Slovak, the core of “the Chilis. What a big fat LIAR, gee, maybe if you posted that picture I would have bought this load of horse crap. The writing isn't very difficult to follow, as this book reads like someone telling you their life story.

Tony is then invited to a prayer meeting which is ONLY for those who have studied for 50 years, but of coarse Tony is invited and is seated in the front row, then leaves after the first lesson, WTF. There was no real feeling of remorse or regret for all the drug use and fucked up behavior and infidelity. I believe this is the first bio that I had could not bring myself to reading the last chapter (btw, I really wanted to like him) what an arrogant, bullshitting asshole this jerk is. 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. It was released in 2004 by Hyperion and authored by Kiedis with Larry Sloman, who compiled information and conducted interviews.