![]() It’s the complete cliché: Sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll. It’s an honest, seemingly truthful recollection (as truthful as possible given the amount of drugs consumed along the way) but the problem is its repetitious nature, built on a cycle of drug binges, failed attempts to get clean, and more drug-taking, interspersed with accounts of chaotic relationships, typical rock ‘n roll sexual encounters and tour bus stories. Keidis talks in the same candid, straight-forward style to describe his journey from reckless teenager to petty thief, confirmed junkie and lead singer of one of the biggest rock-funk bands in the world. He goes on to describe it as “like going to the Rolling Stones mall”, a “horrible” experience where you play as “85,000 wealthy, bored-out-of-their-minds fans are slowly finding their seats”. “I can’t recommend it to anybody…the fact is the Rolling Stones audience today is lawyers and doctors and CPAs and contractors and real estate development people. He writes that opening for the Rolling Stones is a “shite job” despite the opportunity to play with the second greatest band after The Beatles: ![]() ![]() It’s when Keidis talks about the Chilli Peppers playing as the opening act for the Rolling Stones in the late 1990s. ![]() About the most interesting revelation in the 460 odd pages of “Scar Tissue”, the autobiography of Red Hot Chilli Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis, occurs about 330 pages into this tedious, self-centered tale. ![]()
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