Scar Tissue: Red Hot Chili Peppers

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In “Life,” Richards’ clearly reveres Mick in spite of their creative differences and wildly contrasting life philosophies. 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.

I’m also honestly not sure whether it’s titillating or uncomfortable to read Anthony’s fairly frank descriptions of his sex life, especially with some barely-legal girls.I also just could not get over the fact that not once did he condemn his father who essentially got him into doing drugs at age 11 but would make snippy little comments about band mates and girlfriends at every turn for relatively inconsequential things.

The sissy troubles are all trifles, as they realize that love and friendship are the only two things that can carry you through the little eye of the needle. Don't get me wrong, he's not a bad front man, he can carry a tune and some women would consider him eye candy. 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. Also, though interesting to know about his "relationship" with Flea's sister, I think a little more tact around his oldest friend could have been exercised.

Now in paperback, the New York Times bestseller by one of rock's most provocative figures Scar Tissue is Anthony Kiedis's searingly honest memoir of a life spent in the fast lane. 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. Rogers with them, ensconced in a cookie-cutter neighborhood and playing at Gymboree and in parks while you were scoring with dealers and women and living in your lonely mansions.

The book is about friendship and how the ups and downs over the years shaped the band and how they inspired the amazing songs they produced. Luckily, the bromance continues with childhood bros Flea and the doomed Hillel Slovak, the core of “the Chilis.My only real concern is that Antony Kiedis 'quit' doing drugs 'for the last time' fairly late into the book. Anthony seems to have become totally at peace, self aware and completely grown up while retaining a wonderful child-like innocence which is pretty amazing considering how wild his life has been.