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Reading is a large town on the Thames and Kennet rivers in southern England. It's known for the annual Reading Festival, an outdoor rock music event. Shops and riverside restaurants dot the town centre. The Reading Museum contains exhibits on the town's history and displays a Victorian replica of the Bayeux Tapestry. The ruins of the 12th-century Reading Abbey lie beside Forbury Gardens, a Victorian formal garden.

Why Flea's memoir ends as the Red Hot Chili Peppers begin

Nov 3,2022 10:11 pm

Flea : "It is to talk to very funny, An Autobiography . It is a very vulnerable feel. "

From the first Chapter of his autobiography, " a Flea makes it clear that he has a story to tell-rock-glory.

Be famous, he explains, does not count for everything.

Instead, the book is a coming-of-age story, the representation of a chaotic childhood full of fun, danger, mishaps and mayhem. The Band , The Red Hot Chili Peppers - gives him a megastar - not Only in the look, as it reaches its final pages.

"I thought if I wrote a book about the Chili Peppers , it would be like cheating," the bassist told the BBC.

"But if I could write a book about My Childhood that could exist on its own merits, without a band, then I deserve to write a book. That was The Challenge , the set I have for Myself . "

The Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1989 (from bottom to top): Anthony Kiedis , John Frusciante , Chad Smith and Flea , is The result of acid For The Children , The Smoking is a moving and often hilarious insight into his formative years; from the ruins of his parents, his first marriage, and the explosive temper of his step-father, The Years he spent, grass, bunking from school, and breaking into swimming pools.

Flea has thrived on unpredictability, But felt free to move in The Real world.

"I was looking for love in the faces of the people I saw on The Street ," he writes.

For people who know of his stage Persona - Mouth pursing, elbow extended, head-thrashing on The Bass - the weak point in his letter, as a surprise. But the Flea market turns out to be a tender, big-hearted character. Tossed by the currents of life, he always keeps his head above the water.

Prior to the publication of the book, we have with the Flea , as he was, "to examine a dog to pet on The Head and a Cup of tea" at his home in LA, some of The Most important passages.

Survivors of violence in the home ", The dysfunction and the violence was really scary," says Flea , If the Flea was 13, he found home from trick-or-treating, which runs a group of children down The Street in a panic.

"you have informed us that a scary man had to become crazy. He was firing a gun on The Street and screamed like a mad animal," he writes.

When he got home, he open threw them to warn The Front door, his parents about the great man, has fallen to his step-father, Walter Urban, Jr., together on a chair ", dressed Only in his underwear, blood smeared over his face and torso, a pistol by his side".

"The stuff was really scary, and it's really traumatise me," Flea told the BBC about the violence that punctuated his childhood.

"After a few of these really traumatic episodes in My House , I went to school the next day feeling hung over and in a daze, really upset. But if you're a child, you can't see The Forest for the trees. It is Only your experience and try to make them meaningful.

"So I've been waiting for that feeling to end, and I would go play basketball or play in The Band and hope for The Best . But there are many was very difficult, a time. "

Now 56, and a parent himself, The Star and says that he has these incidents behind him.

"My parents were too wrapped up in their own Pain , to see what they did wrong," he says.

"to Go to resentment, and resentment saps to forgive your mind so, in a selfish way, for My Own personal well-being and The Best father I can, I must. "

Discover Music . and nudity while home life was turbulent, it had some advantages. Walter was a musician whose shelves were burdened "by the hundreds of jazz albums"; and The House played host to a rotating cast of artists.

testify", the jazz musician, play in My House when I was a small child, absolutely blew off my head," says Flea . "It opened me up to something so rich and so beautiful and so alive and so infinite, that it the strangest gift. "

Fled in his younger years, when he was known as Michael Balzary, The Bohemian lifestyle had its quirks, too.

"It was kind of like a naked house," he recalls. "We would all run around naked.

", I' from an old friend, A Childhood friend, who is like," man, I remember about your house and your father answered the door, and he was naked!

"He thought it was so wrong, man. He was like, 'This is a madhouse", But for me, when I look back on it, that was the healthy part of the whole Thing . "

books, always thought he was a drug addict, Probably not this book, however, With a cover photo that shows, Flea , at the age of 12, smoke a joint, it is clear that the memoirs be shy, The Star 's penchant for drugs.

", LSD was good to me," that in the Chapter. "For someone Like Me , who have crazy develop in The Street , the drug me access to my subconscious, of introspection. "

He goes on to describe experiments with cocaine, speed, heroin, and MDMA.

Surprisingly, he says, it is A Love of books, which "stopped me a junkie or completely frying my brain" was.

"I'm not a really educated man, But I've always found Reading a great joy," he told the BBC. "It is a Guardian Angel for me.

"I didn't think much of the education of children at home, so it gave me a sense of ethics and brought me to different styles. So I had to read every Night . Unless I was too wasted to do it. "

He Only had one lesson on The Bass As a child Fled was a gifted trumpet player Flea is one of The Most influential bass players of his generation, with a syncopated, But melodic style that combines funk, punk and hard rock.

But he was originally a jazz trumpeter, which Only took a guitar to help his friend, Hillel Slovak .

Hillel gave him a lesson, to tell him that plucking the strings with Two Fingers "alternately, as they were walking," and three weeks later, Escaped from his stage debut with the anthem.

"I was never very technical," he explains. "I came at it more from the jam and the creation of rhythms that were unlike any other. I would be drooling because I was so lost in him. "

He says that the Chili Peppers approached songwriting in a similar way, the prioritization of instinct about song craft, to the guitarist John Frusciante joined them for their fourth album, mother's milk, in 1988.

"Frankly, our songwriting really a level was high, as John in The Band . He had a lyric in his game, But he also understood how the structure of the song. I really learned a lot from him. "

He also founded his own Music school Flea founded The School 18 years ago He should not Music have studied formally, But The School marching band played a decisive role in Flea history.

"For me it is a wild-assed street kid, the Only reason the showed me up to The School , it was to play trumpet," he says.

But this year, he completed a new law in California, school funding, with art and Music classes of the first and largest victim decimated. So, in 2001, Flea decided, opening his own Music school, the.

"Music really saved My Life , as a child, so I wanted to just come together, a hub for The Children to play," he says.

"they talk about The School , the 'Three Rs' - Reading , writing and arithmetic, But at Our School , we always talk about the 'Three,' - academics, arts and sports. "

"I'll meet adults who are like, 'Hey, when I was 12 years old, I went to your school, and it has changed My Life ". This means a lot to me. "

Anthony Kiedis of his Best Friend and greatest antagonist Kiedis and Flea Set Up , the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1983 by Anthony Kiedis , Red Hot Chili Peppers " wild-eyed front man, Flea says, his "Missing Link ".

"He was different than anyone I had ever met," he writes. "Among my friends, I was the guy who always tries to Do Something that would freak people. Then I met Anthony, and he matched me step for step".

their bond was waterproof, But The Relationship was stormy. Flea remembers a trip to Michigan, where The Duo started trading insults. "It started out light and humorous, But always nasty and personal, hunting and other uncertainties, will do our best to humiliate you and to hurt each other," he recalls.

In his own autobiography, Scar Tissue , Kiedis called The Relationship with the Flea "a bizarre and sometimes dangerous". The bassist was careful again, old wounds open?

"I hesitated to write it," the musician confesses. "Of course I want to be respectful to him, But this is the story of man.

"When I look back, I can still feel all the Pain But in the end, this is The Thing that makes it or not, our creative relationship, what it is, you know what I mean?"

The Chili Peppers just wanted to the people laughFlea book ends in 1983, when the Chili Peppers play their first gig under the name Tony Flow and the miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem.

With Only one song in the repertoire (In LA), you fill the stage of the time through the dance, the Jonzun Crew , the electro-funk hit.

"And you know, it's The Most satisfying experience, artistically, that I've ever had in My Life . "



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Source of news: bbc.com

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