I did regret the book for a while as there was some pain caused,” he told The Sun newspaper in 2016. Ultimately, fans of the Chilis will find this book to be essential reading, a perfect accompaniment to Kiedis’ own lyrics and the documentary “Funky Monks” which captures the 1992 recording of Blood Sugar Sex Magik – the Chilis’ genre-busting seminal hit. This actually ended up with me feeling much more sympathetic towards him than if he'd just been saying how awful he'd been with no attempt at apology, OR constant explanations along the lines of "yes I was awful but only because i=of the drugs" etc. But with a compelling enough story(with all that money and drugs it's got to be worth a few pages) I'd recommend. While showing himself as a selfish, unkind and destructive person in the past, Anthony Kiedis still managed to turn into a kind, generous and lovable character (I don't say "man", 'cause there's a possibility that this book can be just too good to be true ).

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. So, it doesn't matter how cool, high or sexy you think you are, you will never reach the level of Anthony Kiedis, in a bad meaning mostly. Anthony Keidis happily retells how he wasted his life on drugs, screwed and screwed over countless women, friends and collegaues and ended up alone - not even his closest friend Flea talks to him any more.

Like many Southern Californian offspring of Acquarian-age parents, Kiedis grows up in a non-traditional atmosphere living hand-to-mouth, loosely guided and misguided by part-time parents who vacillate from child rearing to communal kibbutzing and moments between punctuated by light criminal high jinx. Back in 2002, Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis sing-screamed “Choose not a life of imitation” in the song “ Can't Stop”.

The impression I got was that she was in denial of sorts, so she didn’t have that much to say about your lifestyle? My music years were not the 80’s, as by the mid-80’s I was having babies, listening to Barney and Mr. And of course, what I love even more as a Chili Peppers fan is obviously getting to know Anthony Kiedis better. 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.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? In addition to this his sexual conquests read with all the excitement, detail and believability of an eleven year old trying to convince his friends he had a threesome last night.

The film is also set to be produced by Brian Grazer, known for his work on films like A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13 and Frost/Nixon. The book, which is now a frightening twenty years old, is widely considered to be one of the best rock autobiographies of all time – helped in no small part by the fact that Kiedis has lived such a wild and storied life. In fact, some of his stories are so damned grandiose that I honestly do not believe what he is writing is what actually happened. In 1983 four self-described "knuckleheads" burst out of the neo-punk rock scene in LA with their own unique brand of cosmic hard-core mayhem funk. 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.

I guess you did mention several times that druggies only care about drugs, and that you don’t care about other people when you’re drug-hungry, and it’s those moments of insight into how you affect the world at large that made me like you and have sympathy for a very unsympathetic person. 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. 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've read other Rock Star bios and I've watched real world people travel the highs and lows of addiction.

By the time his band formed and became more popular in the 1980s, he and former bandmate Hillel Slovak had severe drug addictions.

The source material, one of the greatest rock memoirs of all time, could provide a story that’s far darker than most music biopics. 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. Or maybe it was because Anthony Keidis just comes across as a dick and I don't care what he went through. 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.