“You’re pushing me away to decay like the day that I loved”
Untitled #3
Lyrics, Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt (1994)
John Anthony Frusciante is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and producer best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers across three stints . He has recorded five studio albums with them.
Frusciante has an active solo career, having released twelve solo albums and seven EPs; his recordings include elements ranging from experimental rock and ambient music to new wave and electronica. Frusciante also released two acid house albums and one EP under his alias Trickfinger. He has also recorded with numerous other artists, including the Mars Volta, for whom he was a studio guitarist from 2002 until 2008; Josh Klinghoffer and Joe Lally, with whom he released two albums as Ataxia; and various collaborations with both Klinghoffer and Omar Rodríguez-López. He has also produced and/or recorded with Duran Duran, Wu-Tang Clan, Swahili Blonde, Black Knights, The Bicycle Thief, Glenn Hughes, Ziggy Marley, Johnny Cash, George Clinton, Johnny Marr, Dewa Budjana and others.
At the age of eighteen, he joined the Red Hot Chili Peppers, first appearing on the band's 1989 album, Mother's Milk. The group's follow-up album, Blood Sugar Sex Magik , was a breakthrough success. Frusciante became 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 solo recordings: Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt and Smile from the Streets You Hold . In 1998, he successfully completed drug rehabilitation and rejoined the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Their next album, Californication , would eventually go on to sell 15.4 million copies. His album To Record Only Water for Ten Days was released in 2001. A fourth album with the Chili Peppers, By the Way, was released in 2002. On a creative spree, Frusciante released six solo albums in 2004; each album explored different recording techniques and genres. 2006 saw the release of his fifth album with the Chili Peppers, Stadium Arcadium. In 2009, Frusciante released The Empyrean, which features Flea and Josh Klinghoffer, and announced he had again parted ways with the Chili Peppers.
Frusciante has received critical recognition for his guitar playing, ranking at number 18 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" in 2003; and again in a second list published in 2011, where he ranked at number 72. He was ranked as number 42 in Gibson's list of the "50 Best Guitarists of All Time". He was voted "The Best Guitarist of the Last 30 Years" in a 2010 BBC poll called "The Axe Factor". Frusciante was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers on April 14, 2012, but did not attend the ceremony. In December 2019, Frusciante again joined Red Hot Chili Peppers, resulting in the departure of Klinghoffer.
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“You’re pushing me away to decay like the day that I loved”
Untitled #3
Lyrics, Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt (1994)
“All around they is to
feel and watch you
they make patterns
to peel the sound”
Moments Have You
Lyrics, To Record Only Water for Ten Days (2000)
On "Californication" video audio commentary - Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Videos
On "The Heart is a Drum Machine" Documentary
“The curtains were made for moving
Cause you know sometimes you're not always there”
Curtains
Lyrics, Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt (1994)
On "Higher Ground" video audio commentary - Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Videos
“I've been in pain hope it doesn't show
I've been insane well the time is slow”
Been Insane
Lyrics, Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt (1994)
“Well, I don't need protection
One life begins, another dies
Bad timing
I won't last”
Heaven
Lyrics, The Empyrean (2009)
“I fail to do
What I'm trying
I've been these walls
And everyone who dies
Hears other times”
In Rime
Lyrics, To Record Only Water for Ten Days (2000)
Every Person
Lyrics, Shadows Collide with People (2004)
Going Inside
Lyrics, To Record Only Water for Ten Days (2000)
“Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.”
On "By The Way" Documentary
Ah Yom
Lyrics, The Empyrean (2009)
“Dream that you died
It takes you out of your mind
The black walls of space
Take me all the way”
Wind Up Space
Lyrics, To Record Only Water for Ten Days (2000)
“I have seen the world enough
I've drowned in my thoughts alot
I canceled heaven
I concede”
Wednesday's song
Lyrics, Shadows Collide with People (2004)
“I've never been very smart
but I connect you with your shadow”
Untitled # 11
Lyrics, Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt (1994)
“Dedicating all of before
to now
emphasizing these things
that won't allow”
Omission
Lyrics, Shadows Collide with People (2004)
“I guide my fate
And what it's good for
There's no telling
It's blood
It's a flood”
The Slaughter
Lyrics, Shadows Collide with People (2004)
High Times Magazine, July, 1995, http://www.invisible-movement.net/articles/1993-1997/1995-07-hightimes
After the Ending
Lyrics, The Empyrean (2009)