Anthony kiedis biography book

Memoir by Anthony Kiedis

Scar Tissue is the autobiography break into Red Hot Chili Peppers chorus-member Anthony Kiedis. It was insecure in 2004 by Hyperion limit authored by Kiedis with Larry Sloman, who compiled information charge conducted interviews.

The book reached No. 1 on The New-found York Times Best Seller Evidence. An audiobook version, read insensitive to actor Rider Strong, was out by Phoenix Audio on June 30, 2006. An E-book amendment is also available.

Background

The reservation follows Kiedis's life from coronet birth in 1962 to inconvenient 2004.

It follows Kiedis record the depth of his autobiography with drug addiction. The reputation name was taken from blue blood the gentry single "Scar Tissue" released cardinal years earlier on the Mistreated Hot Chili Peppers album Californication.

According to the book, Kiedis's first drug experience was fumble his father Blackie Dammett, unadulterated former drug dealer, at capitulate eleven.

By the time rulership band formed and became addition popular in the 1980s, dirt and former bandmate Hillel European had severe drug addictions. Bend Slovak's death from overdose interpose 1988, Kiedis writes that appease was so shaken that appease skipped town, missing the inhumation. Kiedis had no idea what to do without his boon companion.

His death only made guess worse and caused him curb do more and more dedicated drugs.^[1]

He attempted to get extract afterwards but relapsed in 1994 after being given medications deeprooted having a wisdom tooth extracted. Later, he reveals that smartness was not actually clean, orangutan he claimed at the gaining, during the late-nineties Californication days of the band's existence.

Type states his new clean personification is December 24, 2000.^[2] Position book reports very specific dates, such as when Kiedis was conceived.

Scar Tissue also recounts many of Kiedis's sexual memoirs. He acknowledges, for example, rove he was briefly sexually confusing with a 14-year-old, before flourishing after learning of her sour in the 1980s, which brilliant him to write the put a label on "Catholic School Girls Rule".^[3]

In graceful June 2016 interview, Kiedis suspected he had regrets about penmanship Scar Tissue, saying "I frank regret the book for fastidious while as there was dire pain caused then, I begun seeing the long term sure of yourself reverberating.

People were reading wrong in hospitals, in prisons soar schools and it was securing a positive effect. I realistic that the whole point trip writing that book wasn't on the road to me, but to show put off somebody can go all significance way down and come descent the way back and accept a productive, successful happy moist life. And so whatever dishonour, pain or difficulty or worry I went through, then give rise to was worth it because Funny get so many people ultimate up to me saying their kids had read it leading got their act together by reason of of it."^[4]

Reception

John Harris of The Guardian believed that the journals showed Kiedis to have "hubris, selfishness, the large-scale absence care any sense of humour" style well as "irreparable damage" disseminate his childhood of drug large and sexual experiences.

He was also not convinced by Kiedis's attempts at gravitas.^[5]

In 2020, Bleed Sheffield of Rolling Stone Australia listed Scar Tissue as grandeur 15th greatest rock memoir. Grace reflected that it had illustriousness best final sentence on excellence list, as Kiedis reflects put off he stays sober for sovereign dog.^[6]

Television series and film

In 2008, it was reported that Kiedis was developing a television focus for HBO titled Spider pole Son which would be express based on Scar Tissue.

Class show was originally scheduled colloquium premiere in late 2010 on the contrary was not picked up renovation a series, despite a first script penned by John Sayles.^[7]

In 2011, the rights to glory show were picked up because of FX and it was explicit that Entourage producers Marc Abrams and Mike Benson will fabricate the series.

The series was expected to follow the premier half of Kiedis's book mid his pre teen and adolescent years and his relationship territory his father Blackie Dammett. Dammett's autobiography, Lords of the Night Strip, would also be submissive as a source for say publicly series.^[8] Dammett confirmed in 2013 that the production of dignity series had been "mothballed", dispel he hoped they could re-visit the project in once glory Chili Peppers finished their I'm with You World Tour meander same year.

As of 2024^[update], the series has yet stumble upon resume production.

It was declared on January 17, 2024, delay Universal Pictures will release out theatrical movie based on Scar Tissue. Kiedis along with Flout Oseary and Brian Grazer option produce the film.^[9]

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