The Red Hot Chili Peppers are a band whose greatness is linked to personal turmoil. But Flea said this one record cut through ...

Any artist's job is to entertain with any project, but these albums had their teeth out and refused to apologise for a second. Read more about them here.

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I took up the bass guitar and joined his band ... According to Diffuser's report, in 1988, Flea asked then-18-year-old John Frusciante to join their band. In December 1988, drummer Chad Smith ...

and lead guitarist John Frusciante. "I met Hillel when I was 17. He played me some Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin records, and I started really getting into rock music. I took up the bass guitar ...

be it the spiritual piano and cello in ‘Passing Clouds’ or the John Frusciante-esque guitar solo in closer ‘Rolling Stone’. Already certified masters of their craft, ‘Hallucinating Love ...

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Creed may be hyping the 'Summer of '99,' but let's reflect on what exactly did happen over the summer months of that year.

The blame lies squarely on the demons of guitarist John Frusciante, who is visibly out of it throughout the performance, and whose barely-there guitar-playing drags the entire song down with him.