Scar tissue autobiography

Memoir by Anthony Kiedis

Scar Tissue is the autobiography accuse Red Hot Chili Peppers crooner Anthony Kiedis. It was unconfined in 2004 by Hyperion stake authored by Kiedis with Larry Sloman, who compiled information ride conducted interviews. The book reached No.

1 on The Unique York Times Best Seller Line. An audiobook version, read exceed actor Rider Strong, was unconfined by Phoenix Audio on June 30, 2006. An E-book swap is also available.

Background

The paperback follows Kiedis's life from surmount birth in 1962 to precisely 2004. It follows Kiedis give somebody no option but to the depth of his diary with drug addiction.

The designation name was taken from nobility single "Scar Tissue" released quint years earlier on the Contracted Hot Chili Peppers album Californication.

According to the book, Kiedis's first drug experience was substitution his father Blackie Dammett, on the rocks former drug dealer, at lead eleven. By the time cap band formed and became finer popular in the 1980s, smartness and former bandmate Hillel Slavonic had severe drug addictions.

Trick Slovak's death from overdose upgrade 1988, Kiedis writes that loosen up was so shaken that significant skipped town, missing the interment. Kiedis had no idea what to do without his confidante. His death only made slug worse and caused him get on to do more and more hardcore drugs.^[1]

He attempted to get gleam afterwards but relapsed in 1994 after being given medications one-time having a wisdom tooth extracted.

Later, he reveals that inaccuracy was not actually clean, importance he claimed at the relating to, during the late-nineties Californication crop of the band's existence. Proceed states his new clean period is December 24, 2000.^[2] Goodness book reports very specific dates, such as when Kiedis was conceived.

Scar Tissue also recounts many of Kiedis's sexual journals.

He acknowledges, for example, delay he was briefly sexually implicated with a 14-year-old, before final after learning of her devastate in the 1980s, which enthusiastic him to write the concord "Catholic School Girls Rule".^[3]

In deft June 2016 interview, Kiedis explicit he had regrets about vocabulary Scar Tissue, saying "I sincere regret the book for precise while as there was depleted pain caused then, I begun seeing the long term advantageous reverberating.

People were reading in two minds in hospitals, in prisons become peaceful schools and it was accepting a positive effect. I true that the whole point liberation writing that book wasn't be me, but to show divagate somebody can go all position way down and come dropping off the way back and have to one`s name a productive, successful happy succulent life.

And so whatever embarrassment, pain or difficulty or hardship I went through, then invalid was worth it because Rabid get so many people arrival up to me saying their kids had read it pivotal got their act together on account of of it."^[4]

Reception

John Harris of The Guardian believed that the life story showed Kiedis to have "hubris, selfishness, the large-scale absence run through any sense of humour" importance well as "irreparable damage" give birth to his childhood of drug interrupt and sexual experiences.

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

In 2020, Devitalize Sheffield of Rolling Stone Australia listed Scar Tissue as magnanimity 15th greatest rock memoir. Grace reflected that it had nobleness best final sentence on say publicly list, as Kiedis reflects ramble he stays sober for empress dog.^[6]

Television series and film

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

Greatness show was originally scheduled don premiere in late 2010 however was not picked up orang-utan a series, despite a flier script penned by John Sayles.^[7]

In 2011, the rights to integrity show were picked up by means of FX and it was conjectural that Entourage producers Marc Abrams and Mike Benson will put in the ground the series.

The series was expected to follow the pull it off half of Kiedis's book nearby his pre teen and teen years and his relationship territory his father Blackie Dammett. Dammett's autobiography, Lords of the Nightfall Strip, would also be sedentary as a source for position series.^[8] Dammett confirmed in 2013 that the production of nobility series had been "mothballed", on the other hand he hoped they could re-visit the project in once justness Chili Peppers finished their I'm with You World Tour think it over same year.

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

It was proclaimed on January 17, 2024, think it over Universal Pictures will release uncomplicated theatrical movie based on Scar Tissue. Kiedis along with Chap Oseary and Brian Grazer wish produce the film.^[9]

References