While I don’t condone a lot of Anthony’s actions (i.e. consistently dating underage girls) I love rhcp and thoroughly enjoyed the progression of the band as seen through his eyes - from inception to Californication. As a fan learning the backstory of many of my favorite songs makes me fall in love with them again. Also really enjoyed the candid discussion of addiction from the POV of someone both being affected by others and being in active addiction himself, as well as how he battles to overcome it daily.

How did this ever become so popular? The lack of self awareness is insane. It's as if it's written by a 13 year old. Am now questioning anyone who recommended this!!! 😂

Sucker for musical bio picks. What i like about the piece is that it doesn't always try to hide Anthonys obsession with drugs and womanizing personality traits, neither does he seem to shy away from them. A man made for doing drugs seems to have done a lot of damage to his personal development as a musician and a person since the early age (in a conventional way at least), yet gained as much inexperience and audacity to share the stage with the great of Flea and John Frusciante - maybe even being around to stitch the two together to produce one of the most memorable pop-rock moments on the cross of the centuries. However, poorly it does provide a brief overview into a psyche of a somewhat functioning drug-addict (we are talking about speedballing throughout 90s and still looking legit on stage). Some might call a man a pretentious con artist and wouldn't be far from my feelings, yet an Artist at large. Fun read, but don't expect to much details into how the songs were written (Keidis couldn't find his way on an instrument at the time of writing the bio), it falls a bit short on depth and outlook on the music industry (much more at a drug-infused party scene), yet made fund by the authors, sometimes surprising with peculiar adjectives, and grounded into reality romanticism of the prose.

Sucker for musical bio picks. What i like about the piece is that it doesn't always try to hide Anthonys obsession with drugs and womanizing personality traits, neither does he seem to shy away from them. A man made for doing drugs seems to have done a lot of damage to his personal development as a musician and a person since the early age (in a conventional way at least), yet gained as much inexperience and audacity to share the stage with the great of Flea and John Frusciante - maybe even being around to stitch the two together to produce one of the most memorable pop-rock moments on the cross of the centuries. However, poorly it does provide a brief overview into a psyche of a somewhat functioning drug-addict (we are talking about speedballing throughout 90s and still looking legit on stage). Some might call a man a pretentious con artist and wouldn't be far from my feelings, yet an Artist at large. Fun read, but don't expect to much details into how the songs were written (Keidis couldn't find his way on an instrument at the time of writing the bio), it falls a bit short on depth and outlook on the music industry (much more at a drug-infused party scene), yet made fund by the authors, sometimes surprising with peculiar adjectives, and grounded into reality romanticism of the prose.

"she was the most beautiful woman i'd ever seen..." "It was more drugs than i'd ever consumed..!" "she was the most beautiful..." repetitive. probably still worth reading though.

I have read this book twice now and still have only good things to say. Anthony's story is a great example of learning from your experiences and finding good in bad situations. Even though I can't personally relate to all of his specific experiences, I still really connected to them. This is one of my favorite books and I'm so glad to have learned more about Anthony Kiedis and The Red Hot Chili Peppers.

I love the Chili Peppers so I went in reading it already supporting Anthony and just wanting to learn further about a band that I've been growing with throughout my life.

really great for fans of the Chili Peppers, even though the history-of-various-songs stuff gives way to the tale of addiction and wild romance most of the time. really cool to see where this band is coming from.

I really like The Red Hot Chili Peppers. This could have been cut in half, in my opinion, but was interesting the entire read.

I actually listed to this as an audiobook. It was read by Rider Strong. People SHAWN HUNTER read a book and he did a fantastic job.