Batreleaser, it was apparently in a RHCP biography.

after "Niandra..." I recommand "To Record Only Water For Ten Days" & "The Will To Death"

Just a quick search for this information, I typed in omoide and frusciante into google and this came up:

http://www.geocities.com/erincarlson/john/drugs.html

It's really interesting, it says that Omoide and his solo albums were on the same label.

But I recall a few years back on a Boredoms discussion on this Livejournal (...) message board someone bringing up that John played Omoide for his other band members and such every day to the point of annoyance and that they were one of his favorite bands, which is hilarious.

Anywho, read that article though, it's uh.. interesting.

kind of a sad article. makes me glad i cut opiates loose when i did yknow.

niandra, to record water and an internet only album he released are all fantastic, his newer stuff isnt so great

This is probably the worst post everyneurotic ever made.

I've seen a lot of interviews with Frusciante and yeah he seems arrogant in his early years but he definitely became a completely sincere reserved person as time went on.

And I can't talk for the RHCP stuff, but his solo stuff explodes with talent and his guitar playing is also very tasteful and actually most times very simple barre chords even (Inside a Break is C minor, Bb and F for the WHOLE song!).

I dunno why I'm replying to a post from several years ago but here I am.

That everyneurotic post is still stupid.

But here's some interesting articles from 1996:
http://thedees.tripod.com/johnarti.html

I like the solo stuff I"ve heard. And his work with Chili Peppers is most of their stuff that I think sounds good.

I think his solo stuff is some of the best music ever.

Everyone go to btjunkie and download his discography, it's like 700mb for all his albums and it's well seeded.

That was the worst post marcos ever made, but it was years ago, so...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=213mmXUjOlw

The video for 'Life's a Bath', filmed under the direction of John himself. Includes scenes of him shooting up with bloody arms..

I love the junk albums, their so mental scared and just pure madness most of the time. Trash is also a real pain to watch...

http://www.xguitar.com/guitar-tabs/j.../poppy_man.txt

can't believe there are SMILE FROM THE STREETS YOU HOLD tabs

poppy man is one of the best guitar songs ever!

He always seemed too good for RHCP to me, but I don't like them one bit, so... Anyway, never heard anything of his solo work, but all those references are really interesting and I will definitely get some stuff.

Definitely, I know the whole album nearly. I've always thought about just.. covering the whole album in my own style. Maybe I will someday.

that one track you put on facebook was pretty good, but he isnt very good generally

O rly?

to record only water for ten days semi-rescued my life once upon a time.

going inside is still a magical and strong recording.

anyone ever see this hilarious performance of under the bridge from snl?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq5jFBqKVXo

frusciante plays it totally different in parts, I wish it was instrumental it would've been a lot better.

Yeah the singer said he felt "backstabbed" after that performance. I think it sounds better though.

I'm on such a Frusciante kick. I downloaded that VPRO Interview (the youtube version cuts out a lot), it's actually easy to find via torrents. For some reason a few parts repeat. Uh, anyway, I've watched it 6 times.

I play along to Frusciante's stuff constantly. I actually have downloaded a couple Chili Peppers songs and cut out the vocals with Adobe Audition. It doesn't sound very good. I wish there was some way to just hear the guitar and bass and nothing else.

But yeah I play along to his stuff and am not ripping him off but he's definitely inspiring my new stuff. On the new songs, I've actually come up with what you could actually call "guitar solos" which are modeled after Frusciante's wilder stuff.

The thing is, musically the Chili Peppers have come up with a few really good musical songs as far as mainstream 90's rock goes. Now, vocals are some of the worst of all time, and the lyrics are just garbage. But honestly a song like "Scar Tissue" is amazing. I mean, those solos!

I even, shudder, have downloaded all the Mars Volta albums recently. You really can't tell Frusciante's playing on a few songs, because there are about 9 guitar tracks per song. There's just so much going on, each segment is SO effected/processed and ... god damn, so many layers ... this band gives me a migraine. Only albums harder to listen to is THERE'S NO 666 IN OUTERSPACE (and the double album the band released before that). When did prog become about being annoying as hell? There's no depth to it. I know a lot of people think 500 layers of guitars playing as many notes as possible is "Deep". ANYWAY, on the few songs when you can clearly tell Frusciante's playing (note the word clearly; also note that on songs where Frusicnat plays the whole songs -- not just a solo -- you actually can tell pretty easily, since Frusicnate is a technically good and creatively interesting guitarist, which is the exact opposite of Omar Rodriguez, who often still sounds like an amateur), if you can tune out the garbage, it's good stuff.

I also just got the omar rodriguez (ugh)/frusciante collab album and it's actually pretty cool.

Anyway, this guy is in my top 5 guitarists, he's up there with seeichi yamamoto, gary lucas (from the magic band; also see zoot horn rollo and jeff morris temper; basically, any guitarist the magic band had is a genius, though the bassist was the most "talented" member of the band, listen to the bass playing on decals sometime), trey spruance, and john fahey in my top 5 guitarists ever.


Thanks for turning me onto him all those years back, Derek.

I'd say SMILE FROM THE STREETS YOU HOLD is pretty easily in my top 10 albums of all time.