Red Hot Chili Peppers – Biographies

John Frusciante – Trivia

• The first concert he went to was AC/DC at the LA Forum.
• In the fifth grade, John went to his first rock show at the Whiskey-a-go-go where he saw the Sensible Shoes and Martha and the Muffins.
• John is of Italian descent.
• John went to audition for Frank Zappa’s band at the age of seventeen, but left before he actually auditioned.
• John admitted that he used the funds from his second solo album – Smile from the streets you hold – for drugs, which is why he is ashamed of it. He took the album off the market in 1998 and even has copies of it at home, which he never lets family or friends hear.
• In The Red Hot Chili Peppers video for Scar Tissue guitarist John Frusciante is driving the car but he doesn’t have his licence and doesn’t intend to get it.
• John Frusciante practices yoga and paints.
• Lead guitarist John Frusciante is # 18 on the Rolling Stone’s List of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.
• He has two brothers, Erik and Michael and two sisters, Anna and Lily.
• Recorded a song called ‘Height Down’ with the late actor River Phoenix.
• Made a short film about his house called “Stuff” in 1993 with actor friend Johnny Depp and Butthole Surfers singer Gibby Haynes. The film was shown on Dutch TV directly after an interview special John did for a Dutch TV channel in 1994. It featured slow-motion film of the inside of his house, over-dubbed music and John reading some of his poetry. It also featured a cameo by LSD hero Timothy Leary and “flower-arrangement” (according to the end credits) by Jane’s Addiction singer Perry Farrell.
• His father works as a judge
• John Frusciante has released ten solo albums.