Scar Tissue: Red Hot Chili Peppers

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He is just incredibly full of himself from childhood to adulthood and everything in between, and it was hard to sympathize or feel bad for any of the stupid situations he got himself into. And that little talk stood me in good sted because I think I found the book even more fascinating after having accepted that Kiedis is not a very good person and seems startlingly oblivious to the fact. Thus, the band was formed and played together right up to their first truly exceptional album “Mother’s Milk.

But there are other elements to the memoir, too: an unconventional father-son relationship, child acting roles, partying way before you should be partying (who goes to clubs when they're 12?If you have a beer in your hand, you have to toss it at someone rather than allow them to hold it for you.

I believe this is the first bio that I had could not bring myself to reading the last chapter (btw, I really wanted to like him) what an arrogant, bullshitting asshole this jerk is. Anthony Kiedis comes across as a self-centered idiot whose drug-abuse from such an early age has almost certainly damaged his brain in some way.Edited to add for full transparency: I've deleted my original review and the entire comments section as I was tired of fielding comments about a memoir I didn't finish seven plus years ago.

Considering the rights have literally just been announced, no casting details (or, I'd imagine, decisions) have been made. People get passionate about their favorite band, and since this is a real person and not a fictional character, I've decided it's not worth the toxicity on all sides. I feel sorry for anyone who looks up to this pathetic failure of a man almost as much as I feel sorry for anyone who thinks this book is good.

All in all I would have given this book 5 stars had the continuous cycle of drug abuse and rehab not gotten a little monotonous. In 2020, Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone Australia listed Scar Tissue as the 15th greatest rock memoir. Scar Tissue chronicles the life of Kiedis with the help of co-author Larry Sloman, taking us through, in sometimes extremely minute and candid detail, the entire life of the Red Hot Chilis frontman up until 2004 when it was written. It just felt like Anthony Kiedis was looking for some sympathy or trying to spin things to look like he wasn’t such a narcissist.