And thanks for the insights into the 3 lifestyles of yours (sex, drugs, rock n roll) I knew very little about. 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.

Also, I didn’t get the sense that you were upset about being such a disappointment to your mother, who seems, along with your sister and stepfather, to have been a well-adjusted, stable citizen and person.

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. a raging heroin/coke addict, you had sex with every female you wanted to + more (probably) and you were a pretty good rocker—when you weren’t in a hotel shooting heroin, which seemed like 90% of the time. Keidis’ book, cowritten with Larry Sloman, found him reflecting on his dad, who introduced him to drugs, the death of founding Chili Peppers guitarist Hillel Slovak of a heroin overdose, the many relationships he had over the years, and how he and bassist Flea kept the band going through all the turmoil.

In “Life,” Richards’ clearly reveres Mick in spite of their creative differences and wildly contrasting life philosophies. Universal Pictures has optioned the singer’s 2004 memoir, Scar Tissue, to develop it into a biopic, according to Deadline. The more interesting incidents are not really covered in much detail, their meaning is never explained or delved into but anything involving drugs gets the full treatment to the detriment of all else.

As a child he was a disrespectful bully and petty criminal, as an adult he was a drug-addicted jerk and by the way he had so much sex! The story of a primitive drug addict who, lucky to him, is in a successful band and can’t keep your interest till the end of the book: it just becomes monotonous. The title name was taken from the single " Scar Tissue" released five years earlier on the Red Hot Chili Peppers album Californication. Raised in the Midwest, he moved to LA aged eleven to live with his father Blackie, purveyor of pills, pot, and cocaine to the Hollywood elite. 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.

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. 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. 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.The producers include Kiedis, Chilis manager Guy Oseary, and Brian Grazer ( A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13). Kiedis was his own worst enemy and yes its great that he's sober and doing well now, and at least he admits he is an egomaniac but damn. Drug addiction is a monster that many people deal with and it is nothing to be taken lightly, and I felt like he just didn't bring enough attention to the seriousness of it all. Anthony talks about the infamous Under the Bridge performance on SNL, how lots of William Burroughs was being read (surprising, right?