Red Hot Chili Peppers: Why John Frusciante Quit The Band Twice!

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Today we discuss by John Frusciante and why he left the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

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What's going on my fellow rock n' rollers.Don't forget to hit the bell notification icon to be notified every time i pout out a new video on my channel. By 1992 The Red hot Chili Peppers had already gone through several guitarists including Jack Sherman ( Hillel Slovack and of course their current guitarist John Frusciante whose had three tenures with the band starting in 1988 to 1992, 1998 to 2009 and most recently when he rejoined the band late last year..

Frusciante became a member of the Chili Peppers following the death of guitarist Hillel Slovack in 1988 who passed away because of a drug overdose. Up until this point the chili peppers were relegated to being an LA Club band who hadn’t had their huge big break yet. Frusciante appeared to be the missing piece the band needed to reach the next level of their career. Frusciante was a well studied musician who provided a stark contrast to the current band’s members. He was the son of a juliard trained pianist and he studied guitar and showed a lot of potential by the time he was a teenager.

Frusciante had no prior experience playing in a band before joining the Chili Peppers, but that didn’t matter as he was soon attracting the attention of other musicians as well. He even auditioned for Frank Zappa, but as he put it, it was an easy decision for him to join the Chili Peppers telling the Guitar Player in 1997 they let him“be a rock star, do drugs and get girls,” while Frank Zappa expected clean behavior.

Frusciante counted himself huge a fan of the band prior to joining the group and he had already befriended Flea. It was Flea who would ask the guitarist to join the band following Slovak’s death. He was only 18 when he joined the band. His darker, metal influenced and more straight forward rock sound can be heard on the band’s 1989 record Mother’s Milk,which represented his debut with the group but it really came to the forefront on their 1991 album Blood Sugar Sex Magik, their breakout record.

Flea would highlight the guitar’s musical knowledge and what he brought to the band telling author Jeff Apter for his 2004 book, Fornication: The Red Hot Chili Peppers Story saying

“Fruiscante was a really talented and knowledgeable musician. He knows all the shit I don’t know. I basically know nothing about music theory and he’s studied it to death, inside and out. He’s a very disciplined musician—all he cares about are his guitar and his cigarettes.”

The tour to support the groups 1991 album soon became a whose who of alternative rock with opening acts for the Chili Peppers including Nirvana, Pearl Jam and the Smashing Pumpkins all of whom would soon be headlining their own tours and selling millions of records while altering the landscape of rock n’ roll.

And never one to be a fan of the limelight, Frusciante became increasingly weary of the band’s new found fame following the massive success of their Blood Sugar Sex Magik. What attracted Frusciante to the band initially was the gritty nature of their live shows with the guitarist remembering “The audience felt no different from the band at all.” But the band were now touring big arenas, and that intimacy he initially loved was gone. That transition from clubs to arenas to stadiums was too much for the guitarist to handl as he would tell NY Rock “it was too high, too far, too soon. Everything happened or better everything seemed to be happenedat once and I just couldn’t cope with it." he'd remember

Vocalist Anthony Kiedis saw the change in Frusciante’s attitude explaining in his 2004 autobiography, Scar Tissue, “John would say, ‘We’re too popular. I don’t need to be at this level of success. I would just be proud to be playing this music in clubs like you guys were doing two years ago.”

Only adding to the tension was the escalating drug use within the band and the fact that Frusciante developed a heroin habit And Keidis would remember “Things deteriorated to the point where John and I didn’t talk on the bus, and if we ran into each other in passing, we wouldn’t even acknowledge each other.”

It was that attitude and tension that would be front and center during the band’s tour to support the record and the best example was the band’s performance on Saturday Night Live. The band’s final months with Frusciante were a mess especially when it came to their live shows.

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