By the time he was 16, John Frusciante had mastered all of Frank Zappa’s guitar solos and had even auditioned for Zappa’s band, a sobering experience that drew him up short.
“I was sitting there thinking, do you want to be a rock star and write your own songs and draw all the girls,” he told Mojo magazine, “or do you want to be in Frank Zappa’s band, where you’ll be told what to do all the time, not allowed to take drugs, and it’s kind of a square band so there’s not going to be a lot of girls at the shows?”
Kind of a square band. Ha!
Wow!… but unfortunately the link does not work…
Balint: weird — works overhere… how’s this?
Geee.. it might not arrive to this far-east part of the world. It says to me: “A lap nem jelenÃthetÅ‘ meg.” :-) How can it be?
What does that mean?
See if you can select the article from this page, it’s the “The hottest band in the world” link…
What’s going on with zappa.hu? I get a screen that says “Problem With MySQL Server”
I’m computer illiterate, so does this problem just affect people in this little part of the world, or is this a global Zappa-community crisis?
Hmmm… I’m getting:
Some scriptkiddie trying to hack you guys, Balint?
Oh yes, it’s been hacked a few times by some turkish “friend” of ours… So we (=the guy who is a webmaster of sorts) decided to stop it for a while (a few days, maybe), and we’ll be back in DRUPAL instead of Nuke. At least that is what we hope. The text above says: “Dear Ladies and Gents, searching robots and MySQL-injection scripts!” :-)
Huh…
Drupal: excellent decision.
This Frusciante guy sounds like a real puss to me. His name even sounds like a fruit flavored soft drink for little girls.
So, this Frusciante twerp failed the audition. Big deal!
I don’t remember the exact link, but you can find a 20 second video of him playing some fast inca roads part, it’s not so impressive, but I like the fact that he was so involved with zappa.
(try “frusciante” “zappa” “video”)
how about this one… youtube.com/…
Oops…I messes up your design. Sorry, Barry!
Not anymore it doesn’t! :)
frusciante shits all over ‘inca roads’ in the you tube clip. if he loves zappa, you can’t tell it from that performance. anthony kiedis (or is it ‘ei’) is such an asshole. he just exudes it from his pores. the red hot chili peppers have sucked for ages, which is probably why so many people like them now. they should have collectively o.d.’d after ‘freaky styley’.
Yikes, dude.
I mean, you’re right, but yikes. That was a shitty rendition of a beautiful song. He should be ashamed of himself.
Is he the guy who wears his briefs on his head?
Give monsieur mcnastie a Kewpie Doll – this clip is the only explanation needed as 2 why this squawking creature was voted off Zappa Island – please note th’ heavy-duty confab preceding this abortion, in addition 2 only half of ’em even being able 2 do a LAME accompaniment 2 his, uhh, “Unique” vocal spasms … holy shite is that shot of the “personal trainer” a larf ‘r what – hah – like the generic Top40 hair-farmer rock they poot out is just so freakin’ HARSH that th’ poor guy’s gotta undergo actual on-stage Physio., lest th’ pinkies on his tattoo’d tentacle suddenly explode ‘r some such … thus this wee abomination becometh quelle anthropologically piquant by default, eh wot Holmes???
yeah jim, thanks for the virtual kewpie doll. it’s a good thing i wasn’t around frusciante when he was trying to off himself by injecting any and every controlled substance possible into his veins…i would have given him a 90 minute mixtape of every version of ‘suicide chump’ in my collection. now he’s just a chump, of course – a chump who made more money last week than i will see in the next 10 years (most likely-don’t want to write myself off yet). the current music industry supports douchebag posers like never before. their new album comes out tuesday…what a fucking nightmare. a double album of anthony keidis’ atonal warbling over the requisite pop-punk-funk mishmash…FUCK THAT.
I wish to second this emotion.