Scar Tissue - Red Hot Chilli Peppers (Flamenco Ukulele)

Sometimes inspiration comes from least expected places... After hearing a ukulele line on YT shorts that sounded somewhere similar to the intro riff from scar tissue I could not rest until the arrangement was finished. Originally there were some extra albenico strums thorwn into the mix that I have eventually decided to remove, hence the final solo seems a little bit out of sync.

"Scar Tissue" is the first single from American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers' seventh studio album, Californication (1999). Released on May 25, 1999, the song spent a then-record 16 consecutive weeks atop the US Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks. It peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and picked up the Grammy for Best Rock Song in 2000.

Frusciante’s melodic guitar opening sets the pensive tenor of “Scar Tissue.” The lyrics reflect on the hardships most people carry around and try to hide. Yet they’re still visible, like scars. 
Scar tissue that I wish you saw
Sarcastic mister know-it-all
Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you, ’cause
With the birds I’ll share

Drug addiction is not literally mentioned in the song. But in the Chili Peppers’ case, their “scar tissue” certainly did stem from substance abuse. They touch on shooting up in bathroom stalls, risky sexual behavior, and the ultimate loss of innocence. Blood loss in a bathroom stall / A Southern girl with a scarlet drawl / I wave goodbye to ma and pa.

“Scar Tissue” specifically addressed singer Anthony Kiedis’ own experience with heroin addiction, which is documented in his memoir Scar Tissue, as well as the individual band members’ own experiences with drug and alcohol abuse. The lyrics read as a metaphor for the relapses addicts often face before sobriety and the moments of loneliness that creep in during the process, with the refrain of With the birds I’ll share this lonely viewin’.
“‘Scar Tissue’ was another song where you open up the top of your head and it comes dusting down from outer space,” said Kiedis in his memoir about fleshing out the Californication track. “Rick Rubin [‘Californication’ producer] and I had been talking about sarcasm a lot. Rick had read a theory that it was an incredibly detrimental form of humor that depresses the spirit of its proponents. We had been such sarcastic dicks that we vowed to try to be funny without using sarcasm as a crutch. I guess I was also thinking of Dave Navarro, who was the king of sarcasm, faster and sharper than the average bear.”
Kiedis added, “All those ideas were in the air when John started playing this guitar riff, and I immediately knew what the song was about. It was a playful, happy-to-be-alive, phoenix-rising-from-the-ashes vibe. I ran outside with my hand-held tape recorder and, with that music playing in the background, started singing the entire chorus to the song. I’ll never forget looking up at the sky above that garage, out toward Griffith Park with the birds flying overhead, and getting a dose of Jonathan Livingston Seagull. I really did have the point of view of those birds, feeling like an eternal outsider.”

//wikipedia
//americansongwriter.com

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