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This biography is translated from French and it has
many mistakes because of the translating program, so I am very sorry for that
but otherwise the biography is good. Thanks to RHCP
Anthony Kiedis is the singer and the lyric writer of
Red Hot Chile Peppers. He forms part of the group since tours."J'
have to face my dimension vulnerable, anxious, apprehensive, solitary,
frightens, twisted, distresses, storm and psychotic. I am look at and I said
myself: it is which this patient? But I do not make display of it. People see
only the image of somebody who hopelessly tries to have the normal air and to
have the air on self, in phase with oneself-same."
In 1965, the father of Anthony obtains a purse for etude
the cinema in
Much later, I have start has to look at the maternite in general like etant a
much greater example of than perhaps a hero... The mothers make all kinds of
things discreetly, without making a whole dish of it. They make so that the
child does not miss anything without asking for medaille
for that. It is humbler and more beautiful example of than perhaps a hero. My
own mother has ete a true pillar of stability and
coherence for everyone around it." "We lived has
1973
It is is 12 years old that
it loses its virginite with a friend of Blackie, 18
years agee. The initiative
comes from his/her father. The following year this one offers a French prostituee to him "There was always a dichotomy: of a
dimension, it made sure that I made my duties, it helped me has the school...
But, other dimension it brulait the life by all the
ends and made the fete not stop. One A starts has to
take drugs together. One smoked of grass, especially. One ended up wanting to
test all the possible and conceivable substances ".
"Fortunately, in me there were sufficient serieux
of my mother. With an age enough precoce I am tomb in
love with a girl and I am remainder three years with it. Thus that did not etait as if I etais predestine
has to make the same thing that my father. In same time, I thought that it etait the most beautiful thing in the world to have all
these beautiful women who came the house has and did not etaient
coincees screw has screw of me trainant
with them and having sexual intercourse
with them. You can believe that my friends etaient
rather impress by my situation "When it ecrit
has his mother, Anthony revele nothing of his life
with his/her father .
This one does not meet successes as an actor, but
encourages Anthony has to follow his traces and a name of scene gives him: Cole
Dammett. Its debuts with the cinema will be
disappointing. Engage to play the son of Stallone in "F.I.S.T.", its
role will be reduira has replique
and only its arm will apparaitra has the screen.
It is has
It is as into 1977 as the police force makes a descent
in the apartment of Blackie. Impotent, Anthony assists has the arrest of his
father. It economise to pay
its guarantee. It is found without shelter, squatte a
little everywhere and sleeps by ground. Hillel will take
care of him "Hillel lived has two blocks of the
college. One day, after the school it me A invites at his place to eat sandwiches?uf/salade. We did not
need qu ' one afternoon to know that we would be
friendly for always, for best, for the worst... "
The English prof' of
Anthony, Mrs Vernon, detecte
in him a certain gift for the writing and encourages it has to put it into
practice. It takes its advice and starts with droles
of small poems and love letters has his/her girl friend... It cree then a club litteraire whose meetings turn very quickly in cash of
fetes filled of alcohol and hallucinogens in all kinds. Hillel,
Flea and Jack Will go melt a small group: Anthym In
1980, they leave the college. Anthony is registered has the
In 1982, during an ox in a Coffee of Melrose Avenue,
Anthony, calls sometimes has the time Antwan the
Swan, rappe on one of its poems, "Out In L.A.", which will become the 1ere song of Red Hot
Chile Peppers. To laugh, Anthony enters on scene with the group during a
concert. Right front, they take acid. Their repertoire is confined has a song.
The group, appele for the circumstance Tony Flow and
the Miraculously Magestic Masters of Mayhem, decide
to do one 2nd concert with Anthony. Their repertoire account maintaining to two
songs "One A starts has to play in the small ones
limp, one understood that the girls liked to leave with artists. People interessaient themselves suddenly has our work "1983,
the group plays the Kit Kat Club. The strippers steal the high-speed motorboat
to them. While they wait in the slides, Anthony has a idee (having already done it deprives some before). They
point on scene with Juste a sock of sport enfilee on the sex. The public adores. Just like the
producer present in the room...
Red Hot Chile Peppers sign with EMI and, in 1984,
leave to them 1st album, without Hillel nor Jack which do not believe in the viabilite
of this group which, for them, is only one entertainment. They preferent to play safety with their group, What is this? , to which they have been devoted for 6 years.
Anthony east overpowers by this decision. The album, too asepticizes,
does not return account of what is the group on scene. Alchemy is not with go.
Red Hot Chile Peppers leave then in tournee promotion
on the western dimension. And a few months later, Hillel
joined the group following the departure of remplacant
sound which A declares fixed price, not being able to support the rate/rhythm
of life of Anthony and Flea.
Freaky Styley ",
produced by George Clinton" an adorable cosmic bear "according to
Anthony, leaves in September 1985 and satisfies more them. The following year,
Jack Will go joined the group has its turn. Red Hot Chile Peppers of origin are
again reunis. The group sets out again in tournee. Unfortunately, drug-addiction gains ground and
several concerts will be cancel following the state of Anthony and Hillel, Flea and Jack etant
measurements more. Anthony is same transfers group during a short lapse of
time. "The Uplift Mofo Party
Plane" fate in March 1987. The censure which hitherto had them be
unaware of imposes "Explicit Lyrics Parental Advisory to them" on the
small pocket, like changing the name of "Party one your Pussy" but
does not ask them to modify the text. But that will not harm of anything to
them since it will be their first album has to enter the charts. "If you
make a list of all the songs which we have ecrites,
there are perhaps 10 percent of them has sexual predominance. But I think that
it is the public which is like Ca. People are avid of all that is ose, and
quickly made allot this typestyle to celebres people.
People are thirsty for provocative incidents.
The correlation between the funk hardware-core and the
sexualite is so undeniable that ecrire
on the subject and to sing it seems the most natural thing in the world. It is
what we did, and will continue us has to do it. The fact that the things are so
different nowadays because of the dangerous character from the sexual
activities does not want to say that you must remove all sexualite.
You owe right more careful and more reasonable being." At the time Anthony
has for girl friend Ione Skye, 16 years English
actress and girl of the Donovan singer. Flea forms part of extraterrestrial
which take it as an hostage in science fiction film
"Stranded". Later, Peppers will ecriront a
song for "Say Anything", another film in which it plays.
In 1988, Anthony and Hillel,
dependant have heroin, are isolated from the remainder of the group. The dependance of Hillel quickly
becomes incontrolable. The group thinks has to
replace it. Anthony their request to wait before making a
decision. Then in tournee in premiere started
from Fishbone, Anthony consults their singer Angelo Moore on this subject. This
one advises to him to remain all the four sets, coute
that coute. Anthony will admit later than this
opinion A deeply affects: "Clings has your friends where necessary, that
it is them or that it is you who need some." "One A discusses our dependance. One etait
on the bad slope. Ca went from evil in worse. There is decide to test arreter has our return of
"Ca would have being me, I etais
more known for my propensity has depasser the
terminals than it etait it itself. When Flea received
the phone call, its premiere reaction has ete
"Anthony died."." Anthony refugie
in a small village of pecheurs, in
Anthony is a large fan of Lakers. With the course a
match it approaches Jack Nicholson with a specimen of "Mother' S esperant Milk" that it forwards it has Magic Johnson,
because a song of the album him east devotes. Nicholson makes him sign of degager. (Anthony is always also fan of this equipe. If a match of Lakers is diffuse when it is in tournee, it is always arranged to have a tele screen geant in its hotel
room.)
Sometimes, it is able to him also to be wounded on
scene. Inter alia,
It is surely our most personal disc. It also should be
announced that it has ete records under quite
particular conditions. We have rents an enormous house on
Same the very young children are attract by the music
of Red Hot Chile Peppers "I sought toys has New York, right before
Christmas, when this small girl it is put has to draw her mother by the coat,
showing me finger and shouting" It is him, it is him." And his/her
mother is precipitee and said to me "Oh, I
wanted to precisely thank you, you really have facilitates the life to
me." It says to me that the only way of obtaining that his/her small
daughter gets dressed the morning, it etait to pass
our disc and to sing to him "Gimmie year ARM, gimme year ARM, gimme year ARM
now." Then it threaded her arm in her tee-shirt, then "Gimme your leg, gimme your leg, gimme your leg now." Ca often arrives, with children
from one year practically. And for me, being apprecie
by a child is tallest of the compliments."
A part of successes of the album is also has
"Under the bridge", which them A propel in the signal-ten. In this
piece, Anthony speaks about his master key of junkie, the feelings of
loneliness, vacuum and inutilite which lived it then,
in a way extremement touching. Another piece is
addressed has Hillel and has the ecoute
of "My Lovely Man" the people being unaware of all master key of Red
Hot Chile Peppers Chile Peppers, of saying that we follow some continuite logical or conceptual. Our words and our music
correspond has sudden changes of mood, that it is by the means of the love,
hatred or the dislike to see the world autodetruire. Each title recele in him a message,
whether it is sexual for example, or more spiritual. The totality of
these messages represente in fact that the reflection
of my own experiments, good or bad, and it is impossible so much in a few words
of the resumer all this is complex. To
include/understand each direction, each insinuation, each contrast, in short
each donnee, it would be necessary to live
unceasingly has my dimensions, which is not hardly
realizable. Each one can find causes and consequences for each detail, it is Ca
and nothing other which makes the music enthralling... I try not not to too much intellectualize our demarche, we do not
leave in crusade with or against anyone, our only etendard
is freedom, and this
freedom passes by a whole flopee of
stages intermediaires which in my opinion can be
transmitted only by the fun and the originalite...
The music that we play ecoute not that with the ears,
but with the spirit, the heart, the body and same the sexual organs, each part
of the body is affectee by our sound... The sound is
a universal language, which makes of it in my opinion the force compared to the
words which generally are included/understood reellement
only in the country of origin. I can ecouter a type
triturate his guitar simply, and to feel feelings stronger than if he said
simply something to me, as just as is the wire of its pensees...
" Anthony
is also interested in the design of the albums. "I work for example all
particularly has the development of our small pockets of discs, which N ' is
not negligible, considering it is the premiere idee
which degage work. It is another way of exterioriser, I also try to draw same if generally I is not hardly
satisfied with the result "It is also a collector of art. It dedicates
also a great admiration has El Salvador Dali: "So much what degage is
powerful and out of the beaten paths." From now on Anthony has enough
money not to have more has of inquieter: "During
years, Flea and me let us have traine
with the four corners of the city without least the idee
of or we could go to be able to eat with the dejeuner or the dinner. When we
have meeting for the premiere time our manager, we said to him "If you
want to manage us, you must make sure that we eat tous.les.jours.
It etait most important.
Never we had had money personally, or of house, or car, or something of this
kind. But these dernieres years, all has radically
changes. Us let
us gain much money, we have all achete houses and
cars, and we can occupy ourselves of our families. I have just bought a house has
my father; I take care of my mother and I take care of my sisters. I have pay the college of my sister the year derniere.
For me, it is an enormous change to be able to occupy me of my family and to
come to assistance has my friends if they need some." Anthony prefere clearly to be in his skin of Red Hot Chile Peppers
that in that of an actor. "At the United States, the cinema is put on a piedestal but the majority of films deaden me. When I think
that that coute of the million dollars, what a waste!
Moreover, I do not find that gratifying to make three sentences per catch and
to start again, and so on: the success is more gratifying, because one does not
have the right has I ' error." It makes only rare cinematographic
appearances, as in "Point Break".
Anthony has from now on the hair until in bottom of
the back. And with its matt skin, its long black and
stiff hair, its tattooings (Chief Joseph, Sitting
Bull), adds to the contents of some of its texts, it is not necessary any more
so that some conclude from it that it is Indien. If
it avere that it has indeed some Indian ancestors of
the dimension maternal, its ancestors is mainly Lithuanian (of or its name),
Dutchman, Irishman, English, Spaniards, Ecossais and
also Germans. Red Hot Chile Peppers leave for long a tournee.
Gradually certain a faintness starts has to settle
between John and Anthony. This last is happy to be clean, likes to let it know
and is limiting intolerant on this subject. "It always has ete critical towards me with regard to drugs" will
tell to John "Anthony, it etait a little the bad
waves which entered a part has each time somebody smoked a joint or had drunk
too much alcohol a little! I feared it like my father!" The rate/rhythm in
the concerts does not leave them the leisure analyze
the situation and the climate deteriore. "One
did not pretait same any more attention the ones with
the others..." John will be
replaces in the urgency by Arik Marshal which, "emotionnelle connection not etant
to go" will be replaces by same Jesse Tobias replaces to him three months
later by Dave Navarro. At the end of 92, Anthony traverses the island of Borneo
with Hank Schiffmacher, aka
Hanky Panky, has who Anthony owes his tattooings.
"Wound, reached various infections, attacks by all crawling vermin, sucker
of blood, which bites and which pricks, Schiffmacher
and Kiedis are traines has through the jungle,
seeking the origins of tattooing." Hank Schiffmacher
made a report of this almost catastrophic voyage in its book "Of grote
Flea is epuise by the tournees and the seances of
recordings accumulees to the wire of the years. It is
victim of a chronic syndrome of tiredness and the group sees itself obliging to
cancel the tournee festivals of the ete 1993. Anthony falls also sick after his forwarding has
One proposes has Anthony to make an advertizing for the preservatifs.
The spot will be refuses by the authorities which have judge that it did not etait adapts like spokesman, following its judgment in
Kurt Cobain etait
my favorite lyric writer of these 15 dernieres years. I
etais constantly impress by the character and his
talent." The moral one of Peppers did not etait
shining. "My Friend" decrit well their
state of mind has this time. "All my friends had the moral one with low
has this period. Suicidal, some are fall down in drug. It etait one unbearable time." This
deprime ambient impregne
the new album and bathes One Hot Minute of a very dark tonality. Contrast is
total compared to the joy in life of "Blood Sugar Sex Magik".
In 1994, it is the 25 years commemoration of
It will however end up reagir:
"See somebody to die, to intend people to beg you, that
is not enough has to make you arreter.
Something in me A gives itself desire for ceasing of me detruire."
In 1996, Anthony starts a cure of desintoxication.
"To become clean it is probably the hardest thing which I ever made of my
life. But in same time, when I finally became clean, Ca has ete
the most beautiful feeling which I ever had." It decide
of eloigner of its daily environment. During four
months, it traverses the world. In
The tournee of 1997 will
have to be also annulee, following a serious accident
of motor bike, in July, during which Anthony breaks the arm and the wrist in
several places. (Showing a fine scar which runs on the top of sounds front armlever): "My wrist will remain engourdi
has life, I will not have more the same feelings. My arm functioned
well better front. That limits me in some practise
sexual, my wrist does not yield more towards the arriere,
I cannot be held more on the hands, etc, Enfin, I
adapt."
Peppers will give only one concert this year. It will
be the last with Dave. Anthony and John meet has a concert of Jane' S
Addiction. "Anthony has very sympathetic ete
with me, and Ca made me hot in the heart Ce day it,
it saw that I did not go well because of drug and it has just ete nice with me... It etait very
positive and understanding... It then came to see me has the hospital, like Ca,
to support me. I do not have anything asks to him and it is him which took the
first step, proving to me thus that its glance had evolue."
Flea: "the day or I am return of Costa-Rica, Anthony and John sounded has
my door of entree. They are marraient like kids and
John held up a guitar that Anthony had just offered to him. They had starts has
to compose during my absence, I did not arrive has y to believe! It etait
a truth reve... The derniere
time that I had seen them together it etait in Viper
Room or John made a concert alone. He me A invites has
to play a piece on scene with him and, he put himself has gueuler:
"Anthony, be to you a large loser!" And me, I knew more or me foutre. I said to him discreetly: "Your mouth, closes your mouths!" Thus you can think that to
see them above arm, arm below, it etait almost irreel! A few minutes after, I had give up the idee my disc solo and Red Hot etaient
set out again of more beautiful... " At the end
of April 98, John joined the group. Alchemy functions has
new and in June 1998, Red Hot Chile Peppers are put has to them 7eme album:
"Californication".
"
Anthony wishes to tie a relation major and durable
"There were so many women young and attracting in our house, it etait a continuous flood in the life of my father whom I etais expose has all kinds of opportunites,
that went from the friendship to the sexual intercourse. With this age one
copies his behavior on that of his father, and its example said that the more
there was, better that to me etait. But I have depasse this stage, I did not
follow well a long time the example of my father. The desavantage
of this way of life, it is that you find yourselves in a situation or you are
likely never really not to meet the soul mate, never
not to meet the partner ideale and to age together.
It is an experiment which me seduit more than to pass
from girl as a girl. I had a multitude of sexual experiments. I am likely to
still be able to find some interest with the sex."
It is in 1998 that Anthony meets Yohanna
Logan which works then in Balthazar, a restaurant
connects of New York. It shows very proud resister has temptation to break as
soon as a dissension settles in their couple. It thinks of having finds the
soul mate. As to mark the new era which is announced, for Red Hot Chile Peppers
and itself, Anthony makes cut his celebre criniere, with the large injury of certain admirors. "Californication" leaves in June 99.
The album will make a paperboard in the whole world. The tournee
according to the exit of the album passes by Woodstock III. Anthony, always egal has to him same deconnade
question, request with the girls having their rules to balance their plugs on
scene. They will be one year and half on the road. The anxiety presente at the beginning of tournee
finishes by disparaitre. They are happy to play. The energy which degage of the group is positive. The moral
one is with beautiful fixed. From now on Anthony (of same that John and Flea)
takes care of his health. He A gives up has the meat and has alcohol. Like John
and Flea, it practises yoga.
"I am vegetarien. I
begin each day by drinking water, then a trick powders some based on enzyme,
then a theiere of the green. I try not to eat the
evening too late. James Brown said once that one of the cles
of its successes it etait anything to eat after 6
hours of the evening." Per moment, it follows a mode bases on the compatibilite certain food with the various blood groups.
It finds that Ca gives him fishing particularly when it does it in spring.
Before the concerts one sees them taking a mixture of gingko biloba, ginseng and honey, as well as spiruline
and decoctions of grass. Same Chad, much less convinced, threads a cup of the to the ginseng (while grimacant)
between two Dutch beer gorgees. Anthony is very attaches has nature. He admires Julia Butterfly Hill,
founder of the "Circle of Life Foundation" which is restee 738 days is more than 5 meters height in the
branches of an old sequoia so that the world becomes aware of the situation desesperee in which old the drills are.
Julia "Butterfly" Hill is a modern Jeanne of
Arc. She is 25 years old and a few years ago she fought against the loggers in
California of north. It is the genocide of our generation, decimant
our old, irremplacables drills of sequoia. That
causes an unsoundable pain and that made shame, that
our planet is traitee thus right for money. It has
thus decide to fight against them. I assois in a corner and cries over their fate and deprime because of that, and this girl installs a hut in
the branches has 270 feet in the sky and remains the two years. She is never
descended and they could not cut down this tree, not more than the drill
around. She has eleve our conscience and she A
motivates people for her cause... One of my friends, Woody Harrelson, visited
him and said that it etait like returning visit has a
supernatural being; it etait if filled of energy and
love. It etait hypnotizes."
It is also emerveille in
face of the natural phenomena:"A my great
consternation, I cuts spleen the earthquake. I take
really pleasure with the natural acts that people call disasters. For me, they
are divine. The other natural disaster that I adores they are the tornadoes.
The visual beauty of has tornado me stupefie. There
were these small, ondoyantes, sexy, sinuous black
tornadoes which move to their hips of has dimension has the other, and there
were broad barrels, white, broad cylinders walks from there has through the
ground. I like also the hurricanes and the floods and all these kinds of
things. I find Ca beautiful." To Be maintained in
form and preparer the following tournee, it leaves to
walk its dog before small the dejeuner. They leave its house At
the signal of the hills of
In 2001, Red Hot Chile Peppers preparent
to them huitieme album, "By the way". And
it is during the recording that Anthony and Yohanna decident to break. Anthony wishes to have children.
Unfortunately for him, Yohanna prefere
privilegier the trade of designer to which it is
devoted from now on. "I want to move towards a life of family, which for
me is easy because I am find, and I have find what I
wanted to do, and it is to some extent decouvrir who
it am and to seek her marks creativement speaking. It
is thus, we are returned has periodes different from
our lives, unfortunately." He is understanding, but bitter: "I am endow when it is a question of losing. It is one of my specialities." This rupture thus takes place at the
time or Anthony records the songs that it has inspirees
to him. "These feelings are always... That gives you this additional
dimension of sadness which returns the fact of singing even deeper and more
gratifying." The impressionist texts of Anthony sound more personal
manner. It decrit majority of the pieces of "By
The Way" like etant love songs: "In a way
obscure, not very obvious, I feel that
many the pieces speaks either to be in love or with the desire to be in love.
It is without any doubt what I felt the year passee. A major desire of love in my daily newspaper."
"Don' T Forget" treats Me
of a kind of love universal, mystical, which supported Anthony through the
blackest hours of its dependance has drug. "Ca
speaks about this spirit of universal love and the spirit of God. No matter
what that can mean for you. I do not want to speak at all about that with the
religious direction. Let us call just that Energie or
Beauty. This energy is everywhere. It does not turn the back on people under pretexte which they have shit, that they have echoue and which they are toxicos.
For me, this beauty always has ete the, same one when
I etais bursting. It is infinite. It is in the cells
of the prisons. It is in the ocean. It is in us all. It is when you are born
and it is awaiting you when you will die."
"I put less sexual agressivite
in the songs and tries to give them more heart. I any
more the need to hide me derriere does not feel an image. I am what I am. I am
not a bete of sex. I am human, a spiritual being and
there is nothing evil has to leave paraitre its
emotions. The things change and people change. Now, I feel able to be sensitive
without that being a weakness. I see that like a force. Same my words are much
more personal by far and, well on, because of that, more emouvantes."
In the opinion of other Peppers, the aptitude of Anthony has to communicate
remarkably has evolue these dernieres
years. According to John: "Anthony has exchange in manner nutcase. He
realized that he had the capacity to wound people or to bring something to
them. Front, you never knew - a day it etait your
friend, the next day it did not etait it more."
Anthony and John record the songs with the Marmont
Castle: "We have rent a room with the septieme etage, have the arriere or it is
less noisy, and install the computer Pro
Tools in a part and the microphone in the room and we have decore
the room has our taste. I have bring a heap of poster of old films of the
Forties and Fifties of which I made collection. I had "the strange
creature of the black lake", "Hired killer", the original. I had
"the voyages of Sullivan". I had a painting of Andy Warhol representant Jean Cocteau. I had another poster that John
had offered to me for my birthday... " Anthony
often has ete critical for his lack of tessiture, but it takes lessons only for proteger its throat of the damage which could cause him the
fact of singing. "I do not want to learn and etudier
of too if not after that I will start has to sound like somebody of
other." However, for this album, Anthony is really exceeds on the level of
the song. John also finds that Anthony traversed a long way as a lyric writer
since the recording of "Californication". "All the melodies chantees on this new album are of Anthony. Sometimes they
have ete suggerees by the guitar, or
which I know. But by the master key there were more interaction between him and
me until A what one changes the chantees
parts per Ci by. And I did not really do anything of
such on this album. I preferais to reflechir has what I was going to
do from the harmony point of view."
"You know, I like the new album, but I can hear
innumerable fans protest," But or is the funk? "Oh, the funk is
always. It is always in trimmings, but it is dirty fucks up the ass. It does
not howl you any more under the nose "I am here! "It
approaches you quietly, tapit close to you and
attacks you when you expect it less. The funk will always inspire ""
This group to us is very for me, and I think that I can speak in the name of
each one among us when I say Ca. There is a chemistry in action when we enter
all the four a part which I never have remarquee with
somebody of other. We have car of the lessons of our errors and our experiments
grew us, and I note only that this group goes better and better. I note only
that this group will still remain in trimmings a good end of time ""
Yes, definitively, I believe being in one of the most enviable positions. As an
individual, I seldom saw fortune more, of a point of sight moral good evidemment,
I do not speak here at all about money. . I believe that an angel, a god, or
this kind of gugusse, made me a great favour while enabling me to live such as I do it. To make
music with my best pals gives me more satisfaction than N ' imports what of
other in this foutu world, I never knew anything
besides of other, since I am master key without transition from the school has
the music; my position is only more privilegiee
still! "" I espere to age
with grace. People have if fear of aging would be this only a little. It
is a species of shame. Particularly in this city. .
Everyone is however mortally frightens to age, but it is so beautiful to age,
do you know?
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