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sukladno tome, objavljujen biografiju mog najdražeg gitarista.
John Anthony Frusciante (March 5, 1970 – ) is the guitarist of the Californian band Red Hot Chili Peppers, with whom he has featured on five studio recordings (Mother's Milk, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Californication, By The Way and Stadium Arcadium), two greatest hits packages (What Hits!? and Greatest Hits) and one live album (Live In Hyde Park). He also has an active solo career, having released eight albums as well as collaborations with friends Josh Klinghoffer of The Bicycle Thief and Joe Lally of Fugazi.
Childhood
Frusciante was born in Queens, New York, but he moved to Los Angeles at age 12. His father, John Frusciante, Sr., was a Juilliard-trained pianist, and his mother, Gail, was also a promising musician who gave up her career to become a homemaker. Gail would later lend her voice to the Red Hot Chili Peppers song, "Under the Bridge".
The Frusciante family would relocate to Tucson, Arizona and later Florida. After the separation of his parents, John and his mother would move to Santa Monica, California. John grew to adore punk music and listen to many of the bands and artists that would become influences in his musical career, artists such as Elton John, Jimi Hendrix, Captain Beefheart, and Frank Zappa.
John left high school at the age of 16 after taking a proficiency test with his parents' permission. Within two years he was playing lead guitar for the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
John Frusciante first heard the Red Hot Chili Peppers song "Yertle the Turtle" off their second album, Freaky Styley, on a mixtape a classmate made for him in high school. He then saw the Chili Peppers in concert in 1985 and they instantly became his favorite band. John began to hero-worship Hillel Slovak, the original guitarist for the band, learning every guitar and bass part from their first three albums. Hillel, however, died from a heroin overdose in 1988 and drummer Jack Irons left the band due to personal problems. Bassist Flea and singer Anthony Kiedis eventually regrouped to continue with the band.
John had become good friends with D. H. Peligro (drummer for The Dead Kennedys) around 1988, and they often jammed together. One day, Peligro invited Flea to jam with them. Flea was so impressed by John's skill, and since he was looking for a new guitarist (their current replacement for Hillel, Duane "Blackbird" McKnight, was not working out for the band) he called Anthony Kiedis over to watch John play. It was a unanimous decision: John was in. John was about to sign a contract with Thelonious Monster at the time (and had actually been playing with them for two weeks), but Flea and Kiedis immediately fired McKnight and hired Frusciante. Drummer Chad Smith would join the band two weeks prior to recording their first record together.
Around this time, Frusciante also auditioned for Frank Zappa's band, but left before the final try-out due to Zappa's strict prohibition of illegal drug use amongst musicians in his band. In an interview, he said, "I realized that I wanted to be a rock star, do drugs and get girls, and that I wouldn't be able to do that if I was in Zappa's band."
When John was asked to join the Chili Peppers he was thrilled, claiming to have "boot marks five feet high on the wall in my room for months after that call."
Departure and solo career
After the massive success of Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Frusciante started to intensely dislike the popularity and status of the band. While at age 18, he enjoyed the band's hedonistic rock star lifestyle, Frusciante changed his attitude: "But by the age of 20, I started doing it right and looking at it as artistic expression instead of a way of partying and screwing a bunch of girls. To balance it out, I had to be extra-humble, extra-anti-rock star." He began intentionally disrupting performances by changing his style against the way the rest of the Peppers were playing, and had difficulty getting along with the other members.
Frusciante later expressed that the band's rise to popularity was "too high, too far, too soon. Everything happened or better everything seemed to be happening at once and I just couldn't cope with it." Following a Japanese concert performance on May 7th, 1992, Frusciante left the band.
By this time, he had developed steady drug habits as a result of touring with the band in the past 4 years, as both Kiedis and Flea had addictions of their own. Performing with them as a teenager, Frusciante was inspired to take drugs as he looked to the others as his role models, saying an interview, "The kids who smoked pot just seemed like burnouts to me. I was practicing ten to fifteen hours a day. But I never felt like I was expressing myself. When I found out Flea was stoned out of his mind at every show, that inspired me to be a pothead."
Upon leaving the band, Frusciante fell into a deep depression, unable to write music. For a time, he focused on painting and producing various 4-track recordings he had made during his time with the Chili Peppers. By shooting heroin, he felt able to progress with his life, more emotionally and spirtually connected to his music once again, and subsequently spiralled into a life-threatening four-year addiction.
In 2002, he remarked, “When I originally decided to become a drug addict, it was a clear decision,” he said. “I was very sad, and I was always happy when I was on drugs; therefore, I [thought I] should be on drugs all the time. I was never guilty — I was always really proud to be an addict.”
An infamous article published by the LA New Times in 1996 described in wrenching detail the decadent state John's life fallen into. Frusciante was described as "a skeleton covered in thin skin." At the height of his addictions, Frusciante was literally on the verge of death, having almost died earlier in the year due to a blood infection. His arms became scarred from improperly shooting heroin and cocaine into his arms, leaving permanent abcesses. The walls of his Hollywood Hills home were broken down and covered in graffiti, before an accidental fire would later burn it down. Frusciante told the reporter, "I don't care whether I live or die."
Johnny Depp and others once ventured to John's house and filmed a short documentary depicting the rather barren conditions in which John was living, along with Bob Forrest. The documentary was called "Stuff". -OVO SIGURNO NISI ZNA :p
Return
By 1997, Frusciante had decided to quit his drug addictions cold turkey, later entering a rehabilitation facility and beginning his full recovery. Part of his physical recuperation involved removing and replacing all of his teeth with dentures to avoid a lethal infection.
In the years following, he also began to live a more spiritual, ascetic lifestyle, changing his diet and practicing yoga. His attitude on taking drugs completely changed: "I don't need to take drugs. I feel so much more high all the time right now because of the type of momentum that a person can get going when you really dedicate yourself to something that you really love. I don't even consider doing them, they're completely silly. Between my dedication to trying to constantly be a better musician and eating my health foods and doing yoga, I feel so much more high that I did for the last few years of doing drugs."
Despite this harrowing experience, Frusciante has cited in several interviews that he does not view this time as a "dark period" in his life. “I don’t look at it like that. That was the period that I learned, when I got my mind straight about everything that I needed to know. I really value that period of time,” he said in one 2006 interview.
Musically, with the following albums he also began to move away from his guitar virtuoso influences, emphasizing new wave sounds, chord changes and tones over his previous stylistic work on hard rock and heavy metal solos. During Californication, Frusciante was influenced by musicans he had been listening to at the time, including Matthew Ashman from Bow Wow Wow and Joy Division's Bernard Sumner. For By the Way, he mentioned his desire to emulate guitar players such as The Durutti Column's Vini Reilly, Johnny Marr, John McGeoch, and XTC's Andy Partridge, or as he put it, "people with good chords."
His solo recordings
Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt (1994)
Smile From the Streets You Hold (1997)
To Record Only Water for Ten Days (2001)
Shadows Collide With People (2004)
The Will to Death (2004)
Automatic Writing (2004)
Inside of Emptiness (2004)
A Sphere In The Heart Of Silence (2004)
Curtains (2005)
Guitars
Frusciante is known to use mostly vintage guitars, including:
Two 1940s Martin acoustics
1950s Gibson ES-335 Two Color Sunburst
1955 Gretsch White Falcon
1957 Fender Stratocaster Two Color Sunburst, maple fretboard
1960s Gibson SG Sunburst
1961 Fender Stratocaster Two Color Sunburst, rosewood fretboard
1961 Gibson SG Custom Cherry Red
1961 Fender Stratocaster, Olympic White, rosewood fretboard
1962 Fender Stratocaster, Three Color Sunburst, rosewood fretboard
1962 Fender Jaguar Fiesta Red
1963 Fender Custom Telecaster, rosewood fretboard
1965 Fender Custom Telecaster, rosewood fretboard
1965 Fender Duo-Sonic Olympic White, rosewood fretboard
1969 Fender Mustang Fiesta Red (Practice Guitar)
1969 Gibson Les Paul Black Beauty
Ibanez RG 250 DX (used during Mother's Milk)
Maton Messiah 12-string acoustic (which can be heard on "Breaking the Girl")
Mosrite St.George Gold 12-string electric
Fender Precision Bass Olympic White, rosewood fretboard
His 1955 Stratocaster was used in the recording of Blood Sugar Sex Magik, and the 1962 Stratocaster was given to him as a present by bandmate Anthony Kiedis after he returned to the band. He has also been seen playing a Gibson Les Paul Black Beauty guitar, mainly during the Red Hot Chili Peppers tour in 2004 for the cover song, "Black Cross", he also can be seen playing a Gibson SG Custom in the music video for "Fortune Faded".
John has been seen playing a Toronado in the video for "Can't Stop", although on a commentary audio track for the music video included on the DVD that accompanied the 2003 RHCP Greatest Hits album, John states that he only used the guitar for the video because the director asked him to.
As of 2006, John has been seen playing a number of different guitars in the Red Hot Chili Peppers' music video for "Dani California", involving the band paying tribute to several bands including The Beatles and Nirvana. Towards the end of the video, the band "become" themselves and John plays a white 1961 Fender Stratocaster, with its visible wear and tear. It is similar to a white Stratocaster Jimi Hendrix used, who is one of John's major influences.
John uses his beat up red Mustang to warm up before a concert. One of his original Jaguars was stolen back in the early '90s, though it is not certain if the blue or green one was stolen. John also has a white Fender Precision Bass, which is seen in the "Past Recedes" video. Most likely, it is a vintage pre-'65 P-Bass. Also visible in the video is a miniature acoustic.
Guest appearances
Kristen Vigard by Kristen Vigard (1988)
Anytime at All by Banyan (1999)
Rev by Perry Farrell (1999)
You Come and Go Like a Pop Song by The Bicycle Thief (1999)
Fishbone and the Familyhood Nextperience Present: The Psychotic Friends Nuttwerx by Fishbone (2000)
Blowback by Tricky (2001)
American IV: The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash (2002)
Dragonfly by Ziggy Marley (2003)
De-Loused In The Comatorium by The Mars Volta (2003)
The Brown Bunny OST (2003)
A Manual Dexterity: Soundtrack Volume One by Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (2004)
Frances The Mute by The Mars Volta (2005)
Music For The Divine by Glenn Hughes (2006)
Ruffneck Blues by The CMA (2006)
Amputechture by The Mars Volta (2006)
Trivia
Previous girlfriends include Toni Oswald, actress Milla Jovovich and Stella Schnabel (his ex-fiancee, daughter of artist and film director Julian Schnabel) and who was featured on the cover of By The Way. He is currently dating singer Emily Kokal. John is a keen art collector, possessing works by Marcel Duchamp and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
John is a huge fan of legendary musician Frank Zappa and has said that his collection of Zappa records, which he is still trying to complete, is one of his most prized possessions.
John has two cats, Aztec and Maya.
The first song John ever wrote was called "Fuck You to Jose" when John got into a childhood fight during a baseball game. This was also the last time John has played a sport, according to him.
John is the godfather to Flea's daughter Sunny Bebop.
John has said that the only television shows that he likes are Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Simpsons The Office (UK tv series) and Chappelle's Show.