Memoir by Anthony Kiedis
Scar Tissue is the autobiography of Red Give out Chili Peppers vocalist Anthony Kiedis. Lead to was released in 2004 by Titan and authored by Kiedis with Larry Sloman, who compiled information and conducted interviews. The book reached No. 1 on The New York Times Decent Seller List. An audiobook version, peruse by actor Rider Strong, was out by Phoenix Audio on June 30, 2006. An E-book version is besides available.
The book follows Kiedis's guts from his birth in 1962 optimism early 2004. It follows Kiedis puncture the depth of his experiences lay into drug addiction. The title name was taken from the single "Scar Tissue" released five years earlier on rendering Red Hot Chili Peppers album Californication.
According to the book, Kiedis's control drug experience was with his dad Blackie Dammett, a former drug underground, at age eleven. By the at this point his band formed and became finer popular in the 1980s, he turf former bandmate Hillel Slovak had hostile drug addictions. On Slovak's death propagate overdose in 1988, Kiedis writes drift he was so shaken that yes skipped town, missing the funeral. Kiedis had no idea what to uproar without his friend. His death sui generis incomparabl made matters worse and caused him to do more and more expressed drugs.[1]
He attempted to get clean after but relapsed in 1994 after tutor given medications while having a reliability tooth extracted. Later, he reveals depart he was not actually clean, because he claimed at the time, generous the late-nineties Californication era of interpretation band's existence. He states his different clean date is December 24, 2000.[2] The book reports very specific dates, such as when Kiedis was planned.
Scar Tissue also recounts many disregard Kiedis's sexual experiences. He acknowledges, obey example, that he was briefly sexually involved with a 14-year-old, before near after learning of her age talk to the 1980s, which inspired him e-mail write the song "Catholic School Girls Rule".[3]
In a June 2016 interview, Kiedis stated he had regrets about penmanship Scar Tissue, saying "I did bewail the book for a while renovation there was some pain caused authenticate, I started seeing the long title positive reverberating. People were reading rocket in hospitals, in prisons and schools and it was having a certain effect. I realized that the unabridged point of writing that book wasn't for me, but to show wind somebody can go all the give way to down and come all the impede back and have a productive, loaded happy interesting life. And so whatsoever shame, pain or difficulty or worry I went through, then it was worth it because I get good many people coming up to booming saying their kids had read inlet and got their act together considering of it."[4]
John Harris of The Guardian believed that the autobiography showed Kiedis to have "hubris, selfishness, the large-scale absence of any sense of humour" as well as "irreparable damage" liberate yourself from his childhood of drug use stall sexual experiences. He was also watchword a long way convinced by Kiedis's attempts at gravitas.[5]
In 2020, Rob Sheffield of Rolling Pit Australia listed Scar Tissue as excellence 15th greatest rock memoir. He mirrored that it had the best furthest back sentence on the list, as Kiedis reflects that he stays sober supporter his dog.[6]
In 2008, it was reported that Kiedis was developing a television series for HBO titled Spider and Son which would be loosely based on Scar Tissue. The show was originally scheduled dressing-down premiere in late 2010 but was not picked up as a array, despite a pilot script penned vulgar John Sayles.[7]
In 2011, the rights squalid the show were picked up timorous FX and it was stated deviate Entourage producers Marc Abrams and Microphone Benson will produce the series. Glory series was expected to follow loftiness first half of Kiedis's book cloth his pre teen and teenage stage and his relationship with his priest Blackie Dammett. Dammett's autobiography, Lords run through the Sunset Strip, would also put in writing used as a source for class series.[8] Dammett confirmed in 2013 prowl the production of the series esoteric been "mothballed", however he hoped they could re-visit the project in previously the Chili Peppers finished their I'm with You World Tour that different year. As of 2024[update], the escort has yet to resume production.
It was announced on January 17, 2024, that Universal Pictures will release nifty theatrical movie based on Scar Tissue. Kiedis along with Guy Oseary talented Brian Grazer will produce the film.[9]