Scar Tissue: Red Hot Chili Peppers

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It just felt like Anthony Kiedis was looking for some sympathy or trying to spin things to look like he wasn’t such a narcissist. Concurrently, I was also reading a different rockstar memoir, which was so turgid and filled with flavourless lists of events that it became unreadable. He has done nothing for the betterment of humanity despite millions of dollars, instead he wasted it away and has seemingly no regrets. My music years were not the 80’s, as by the mid-80’s I was having babies, listening to Barney and Mr.

I also got a kick out the time he was in his car infront of a seedy Motel trying to score heroin when he sees a family "down on their luck" pull into the Motel, they had a Red hot chili pepper bumper sticker and the young kids were all wearing RHCP t-shirts (this made Tony Baloney feel sad) WHATEVER, liar, liar pants on fire. It takes Anthony yeeears – dozens of rehab stays, hundreds of promises to stay clean – before he finally kicks his drug habit. I finished Scar Tissue a few days ago, but I keep wanting to pick it up and find there are still a few more chapters for me to read.

The resulting shamelessness, when accompanied by a modicum of ability and talent, can work wonders on a stage and make "rock-stars" out of the average. A. and, like many a rockstar before him, struggled with drug addiction – meaning that much of Scar Tissue is centred around his battles with substances. And so whatever shame, pain or difficulty or discomfort I went through, then it was worth it because I get so many people coming up to me saying their kids had read it and got their act together because of it. I've read other Rock Star bios and I've watched real world people travel the highs and lows of addiction.

Kiedis admirably negotiates his way through the detritus of shattered veins, scattered needles and broken hearts. I'm a sucker for a celebrity biography, especially one packed with lurid details of drug use and ill-advised sexual escapades. Raised in Michigan, Kiedis went on to study at UCLA, but dropped out after losing interest, partially due to his abuse of hard drugs.Scar Tissue” is a rather conventional rock n' roll autobiography from the lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Anthony Kiedis. I laughed out loud when I read the part about Tony going to meet the Dali Lama, he was told that the Dali was booked for 3 years so it would not be possible! As weird as it may seem, that doesn't make him cool or special, hell it doesn't even make him unique.