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Ist er nicht seit Jahren gänzlich frei von allen Drogen und nurnoch berauscht durch Gott und seine Meditation?
Er hält auf dem Bild ne Kippe in der Hand...
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Ist er nicht seit Jahren gänzlich frei von allen Drogen und nurnoch berauscht durch Gott und seine Meditation?
Ich dachte er hat Yoga wegen seines Rückens aufgegeben. Auch wenn ich nicht weiß wie er Meditiert, kann ich mir kaum vorstellen, dass das schlecht für seinen Rücken ist.
@Butzi: Wenns keine FENDER Signature von ihm gibt, wird eine Yamaha SG Signature wohl noch unwahrscheinlicher sein, haha Fender hat 2003/4 ja schonmal bei ihm angefragt, aber er wollte keine "mass production" von so einem emotional wichtigen Teil von ihm.
So mach ich das auch. Es lohnt sich allein vom Klanglichen her die Originalscheibe zu holen.Empfehlen könnte ich natürlich alle. Hör doch auf Youtube ein bisschen durch, da findet man einiges.
Und wenn dir etwas besonders taugt hol dir die CD ;-)
Da hast du recht, es geht ja nur darum die Scheibe anzutesten, was man durchaus auch auf Amazon machen kann (teilweise).Ja also Youtube schön und gut, aber ich finde immer es ist ein Erlebnis eine CD von vorne bis hinten durch zu hören. Ich werd mich mal auf die Jagd begeben.
Ok, here's my JF story...from BEFORE the RHCP.
When you read his "bio" it always says he was a huge Chili Peppers fan in high school before joining them, and had never been in a band before them. Well, that's all bullshit.
I knew him in high school. My friend Matt and I used to jam with him, and Matt was in a band with him called Ike. They never played more than a few parties and were never successful, but they were a band for a while.
Back then John was a HUGE fan of Steve Vai and that style of instrumental noodly guitar rock. He was also, at like 16 years old, as good as Vai was. He would sit and play along note for note with the flexi disc of this song that came with an issue of Guitar Player magazine:
He also hated the Chili Peppers style of music - I took him to see Firehose (Mike Watt's post-Minutemen band) and he said the funky starts and stops were just so the fans could feel cool bobbing their heads at the right time or something like that. Of course, that's not far off from the RHCP's modus operandi of the time. It was certainly a shock to me when he joined the Peppers a couple years later. He was always a technically incredible guitarist who could shred with the best of them, but he dialed it back immensely with the RHCP and concentrated on a much more tasteful, soulful style much to his credit.
One other thing to note was he had a custom guitar made at Performance Guitar in Hollywood. It was a strat-style guitar but he had cut out Playboy photos from the 60's and 70's and collaged them all over the guitar, it was beautiful and unique. You'd think it would have been perfect for the Peppers, but once he joined them all I ever saw him play was vintage stuff since he could afford it now.
Just some back story that his fans may find interesting.
Well it was so long ago, and we were never great friends or anything. I honestly doubt he'd even remember who I was now, we only hung out every so often and this was over 25 years ago (!!!!). However, every word I typed is true, no matter what you may have read about him. That's the typical publicist spin that happens after you get famous.
This was in Chatsworth, a suburb in the northwest corner of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles...a strange mix of wealthy and white trash. He was a nice guy, but even then he was pretty anti-social and withdrawn. He never smoked pot or other drugs back then, and hated that we did. It was really surprising and sad to see him fall so far down that hole.
He really was a tremendous guitar player. I had been playing for a while and was better than anyone else I knew until I met him, and he blew me FAR out of the water. Amazing technique and proficiency.
Not much more to tell, really. I think by the time he got the call from the Chilis, he had definitely been immersing himself in the LA alternative scene. I heard Bob Forrest from Thelonius Monster was the guy who introduced him to RHCP, and Bob was a staple of weird, alternative stuff before it was even called alternative. So it makes sense he would have been stoked to get that call. Musical tastes can change a hell of a lot over the course of a couple years, as he definitely was NOT into that kind of music when I knew him. Maybe taking him to that Firehose show planted a little seed of alternative in him...haha. I take all the credit for his success!
Something in him obviously came to realize that flash and technique alone do not make a guitar player great, it comes from feel, tone and soul. His style in RHCP was so drat tasteful, for a band that was known for excess he really reeled it in.
He also definitely had an air of "future rock star" around him, even back then. He wasn't an arrogant jerk or anything, he just had talent and cool to burn and it was only a matter of time before he found success. I wasn't expecting it to be at quite that level, but he definitely worked HARD for it (I think he used to practice at least 6-8 hours a day) and deserved it.
Letur-Lefr for me signifies the transition of two becoming one, notably symbolized by the first song on the album being the sequel to the album's last.