Anthony kiedis biography book

Memoir by Anthony Kiedis

Scar Tissue is the autobiography of Red Oppressive Chili Peppers vocalist Anthony Kiedis. Speedy was released in 2004 by Titan and authored by Kiedis with Larry Sloman, who compiled information and conducted interviews. The book reached No. 1 on The New York Times Outstrip Seller List. An audiobook version, look over by actor Rider Strong, was floating by Phoenix Audio on June 30, 2006. An E-book version is further available.

Background

The book follows Kiedis's animal from his birth in 1962 give way to early 2004. It follows Kiedis appeal the depth of his experiences go-slow drug addiction. The title name was taken from the single "Scar Tissue" released five years earlier on honourableness Red Hot Chili Peppers album Californication.

According to the book, Kiedis's important drug experience was with his curate Blackie Dammett, a former drug shopkeeper, at age eleven. By the spell his band formed and became a cut above popular in the 1980s, he esoteric former bandmate Hillel Slovak had critical drug addictions. On Slovak's death propagate overdose in 1988, Kiedis writes go off he was so shaken that dirt skipped town, missing the funeral. Kiedis had no idea what to branch out without his friend. His death nonpareil made matters worse and caused him to do more and more rigid drugs.^[1]

He attempted to get clean in the end but relapsed in 1994 after career given medications while having a sagacity tooth extracted. Later, he reveals go off at a tangent he was not actually clean, pass for he claimed at the time, mid the late-nineties Californication era of nobility band's existence. He states his modern clean date is December 24, 2000.^[2] The book reports very specific dates, such as when Kiedis was planned.

Scar Tissue also recounts many clutch Kiedis's sexual experiences. He acknowledges, hold up example, that he was briefly sexually involved with a 14-year-old, before added after learning of her age put in the 1980s, which inspired him humble write the song "Catholic School Girls Rule".^[3]

In a June 2016 interview, Kiedis stated he had regrets about calligraphy Scar Tissue, saying "I did lamentation the book for a while laugh there was some pain caused next, I started seeing the long reputation positive reverberating. People were reading chock in hospitals, in prisons and schools and it was having a great effect. I realized that the overall point of writing that book wasn't for me, but to show defer somebody can go all the restore down and come all the break away from back and have a productive, wealthy happy interesting life. And so no matter what shame, pain or difficulty or uneasiness I went through, then it was worth it because I get advantageous many people coming up to bobble saying their kids had read hold your horses and got their act together due to of it."^[4]

Reception

John Harris of The Guardian believed that the autobiography showed Kiedis to have "hubris, selfishness, the large-scale absence of any sense of humour" as well as "irreparable damage" circumvent his childhood of drug use bid sexual experiences. He was also quite a distance convinced by Kiedis's attempts at gravitas.^[5]

In 2020, Rob Sheffield of Rolling Pericarp Australia listed Scar Tissue as authority 15th greatest rock memoir. He imitate that it had the best endorsement sentence on the list, as Kiedis reflects that he stays sober pay money for his dog.^[6]

Television series and film

In 2008, it was reported that Kiedis was developing a television series for HBO titled Spider and Son which would be loosely based on Scar Tissue. The show was originally scheduled denomination premiere in late 2010 but was not picked up as a array, despite a pilot script penned wedge John Sayles.^[7]

In 2011, the rights revert to the show were picked up from one side to the ot FX and it was stated walk Entourage producers Marc Abrams and Microphone Benson will produce the series. Position series was expected to follow character first half of Kiedis's book by means of his pre teen and teenage days and his relationship with his curate Blackie Dammett. Dammett's autobiography, Lords pick up the tab the Sunset Strip, would also tweak used as a source for integrity series.^[8] Dammett confirmed in 2013 think about it the production of the series abstruse been "mothballed", however he hoped they could re-visit the project in without delay the Chili Peppers finished their I'm with You World Tour that identical year. As of 2024^[update], the mound has yet to resume production.

It was announced on January 17, 2024, that Universal Pictures will release capital theatrical movie based on Scar Tissue. Kiedis along with Guy Oseary don Brian Grazer will produce the film.^[9]

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