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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. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. March 1970
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Famous John Frusciante Quotes

“You’re pushing me away to decay like the day that I loved”

John Frusciante

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”

John Frusciante

Moments Have You
Lyrics, To Record Only Water for Ten Days (2000)

“I guess this is the first time in a video that I ever showed my arms since my arms have been scarred, 'cause my arms are-are pretty badly scarred. I guess people are always wondering so I might as well say that, um, that the way that my arms got the way that they look, um, is was from abcesses, which came from shooting huge amounts of drugs. The results could have been a lot worse, so I'm happy to have the scars from a period of my life where I was living destructively, just as a… as a sign of what I've been through. And, uh, these days, I-I'm, you know, being healthy and taking care of my body is so important to me. But looking at it here, is seems like my arms have gotten better since then, so… That's nice to see.”

John Frusciante

On "Californication" video audio commentary - Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Videos

“A child has this relationship to a creative force, you know? Yeah, your parents gradually, you know, they gradually shove your face in the concrete, and so do your teachers and school system and…everything’s working against you, but…but…but the force of creativity nature is not working against you - it’s right there for you, at any time! You just…you know, you just have to be ready not to judge yourself and to be open to whatever’s gonna come through you and to-to be ready to not…to not…eeeh to not judge what comes through, but be alright with it, whatever it is, cause it’s just the universe of expressing yourself.”

John Frusciante

On "The Heart is a Drum Machine" Documentary

“I think any music of any worth has been done by people who were very interested in the internal process of their soul and their mind that's taking place while they're writing music.”

John Frusciante

On "The Heart is a Drum Machine" Documentary

“The curtains were made for moving
Cause you know sometimes you're not always there”

John Frusciante

Curtains
Lyrics, Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt (1994)

John Frusciante Quotes about time

“I can't say that I'm crazy, you know, about watching this. I don't like the person who I was back at this time, and-and, uh… I think I had all my priorities in the wrong places and I think if I were to spend to much time playin guitar as I did picking out stupid shorts and stupid hats and stupid, you know, overcoats, I would've… I would've been able to write some good songs, you know? I can't watch this version of myself and be at all happy about it. I want to… I want to strangle myself when I see this video. I was 18 years old. 18-year-old that deserved to be slapped upside his head.”

John Frusciante

On "Higher Ground" video audio commentary - Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Videos

“I'm dreading the time that is not near
As a man on a cross I have no fear
I can't believe these words I'm saying
You've got to feel your lines”

John Frusciante

Central
Lyrics, The Empyrean (2009)

“I've been in pain hope it doesn't show
I've been insane well the time is slow”

John Frusciante

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”

John Frusciante

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”

John Frusciante

In Rime
Lyrics, To Record Only Water for Ten Days (2000)

“You know this moment in time
Is all my life
Every day is each
day that's passed
Every person alive
is everyone's who's died”

John Frusciante

Every Person
Lyrics, Shadows Collide with People (2004)

John Frusciante Quotes about life

“You don't throw your life away
Going Inside
You get to know
who's watching you
And besides
you resides
in your body”

John Frusciante

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.”

John Frusciante

On "By The Way" Documentary

“Well, I don't even know how to drive in this life, so I'm pretty far from ever having the life of being a stuntdouble. I liked- I had an Evil Knievel doll when i was a kid, that's about it!”

John Frusciante

On "By The Way" Documentary

John Frusciante Quotes

“We have the ability to change our own reality.”

John Frusciante

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“A slave in the fields one night
He's running along
Gets far enough to be a free man
And he's feeling so strong”

John Frusciante

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”

John Frusciante

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”

John Frusciante

Wednesday's song
Lyrics, Shadows Collide with People (2004)

“I've never been very smart
but I connect you with your shadow”

John Frusciante

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”

John Frusciante

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”

John Frusciante

The Slaughter
Lyrics, Shadows Collide with People (2004)

“Pot put me in a position where I could walk far away from my playing and hear it in the second person. It helped me step away from myself. I stopped seeing the guitar as a thing I'm holding in my hands and started seeing it as a thing that's at one with outer space and nothingness.”

John Frusciante

High Times Magazine, July, 1995, http://www.invisible-movement.net/articles/1993-1997/1995-07-hightimes

“Everything is eternal
Nothingness does not exist
No thing has ever become nothing
And nothing has never become something
What is has always been and will always be”

John Frusciante

After the Ending
Lyrics, The Empyrean (2009)

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