r/RedHotChiliPeppers

So when I was about 14 I started being obsessed with the red hot chili peppers and the 90s in general. I tattooed “AK” on my belly with a sewing needle that year and when I found Scar Tissue I fell in love with it. I read it back to back to back.

Since age 10 I had been obsessed with drugs especially anything IV and opioids in particular. I watched so many documentaries about it and loved it, totally didn’t get the right (cautionary) message a single time.

And the same thing happened when I read the book. No matter how many times I read the extremely warm ending about AK’s sobriety and his puppy saving his life, and all the horrors he put himself through… both things that should have made me never want to touch drugs… I couldn’t help but be so fascinated and in love with his speedball stories.

I started going to bars at 16 and when I was offered cocaine it felt like finally I was living the life I had been obsessed with for so long. I sought it out and found a guy that could provide me with it. At 17 I landed myself in the psych ward where I was bored and wanted to read. So I reread Scar Tissue.

I came out of that psych ward and went straight to the pharmacy for needles. I knew I needed to do it.

It took a while to get the hang of IVing but eventually I was shooting cocaine daily in high school sometimes going through over a gram a day. Eventually I got suspended from this but weaseled my way out of my parents finding out by convincing them the syringes found were for a blood painting I was making.

I kept reading it every day. I wanted to do a fuckin’ speedball. But I wanted to be like Anthony. I wanted that good shit, that 90s southeast Asian China white heroin, none of the fent street bullshit available these days. I sought it out like crazy but no one had it. Only fent.

Eventually I gave up and decided to stick to ruining my veins with coke instead. But one day I stumbled across a guy selling 5gs of coke online for $180. I had $200 cash left and usually that would get me 2gs—I needed the 5.

Turned out he lived in my city. We met up, I pay him for the coke, but he says he has to order it and doesn’t have it on him. He then gives me a line of H and… oh my fucking god

I won’t glorify it here but yeah I knew it was my destiny. He and I agreed when my coke came we would meet and do speedballs. And do speedballs we did.

Since that day a bit over a year ago I have ODd 7 times, been to rehab, in and out of mental institutions, got sepsis in my arm from IV and ruined my relationship with my family. But I’d like to think i rebuilt everything. I’m super healthy now, in college, on good terms with my family, etc., after getting clean.

Then I read Scar Tissue again a few months ago. Guess what I did

Relapsed

I’m sweating out withdrawals in my dorm now. Don’t let kids read scar tissue, they’re too retarded to understand the message and just think “drugs cool!!” like me. Fuck me man

Thanks for reading

Edit: for all you hiveminds saying this story is fake i posted photographic evidence in the comments go look at your own risk and THEN tell me i’m lying. Tw: gross

Thoughts on Fleas new album Honora?

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Now, THIS is what I call an amazing concert! Here's the band, in its full glory, with spectacular performances, amazing sound and video, incredible setlist, with songs like Can't Stop, Charlie, Me and My Friends, Don't Forget Me, and of course, the beautiful rendition of How Deep Is Your Love? from the Bee Gees by Frusciante. Check this concert out, it's easily Top 10 from the band's history.

I have no connection to this, just found it on YouTube. I think it’s a pretty good cover, and Dosed covers are a rarity.

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Look, I know this has been discussed before and it's not even a question. I just need to vent with likeminded people.

So, I woke up this morning and IG spoon fed me some awesome moments where Flea was just playing the funkiest shit ever.

Any person with ears and a functioning brain would enjoy these sounds entering their brain and agree that Flea is a good bassist — notice, I'm not saying the best/fastest/virtuoso/better than XYZ, because that comes down to personal taste, but he is undoubtedly a better bass player than 99.9% of the living beings who've held a bass in their hands.

The thing is, a lot of the comments were just mean for no reason, stating imaginary "facts" to prove how bad Flea is as a bass player. Someone even called him a **pedo**, which goes to show that people have an agenda that they're pushing everywhere, regardless if it's true or not.

I'm old enough to not give a shit about internet comments, but I've been listening to the RHCP since the late '90s and grew up listening to Flea and Chad's lessons — which I still strongly believe to be some of the funkiest videos ever recorded.

I totally understand that apart from hardcore fans, a lot of people don't give a shit about the RHCP or they are straight up annoyed by their existence. But I don't understand why people would go out of their ways to watch a video about someone they dislike and then comment negative stuff about them.

I don't watch Metallica videos if I don't like Metallica — I actually used to be a big fan and saw them live a few times, so this is just an example — and comment stuff like "James is lame for drinking mate", "Lars' drumming is worse than my MIL's farts", "these are the guys that KILLED Cliff Burton", "they destroyed Jason Newstead", "My grandma could shred better than Kirk. And she looks less like a grandma than him too" etc.

And it's not even that, really. I totally get silly jokes but with RHCP people are constantly trying to prove that everyone who listens to the Chili Peppers has a lower IQ because they can't hear how bad they are. Why don't they just fuck off and jerk off to the music they like with their high IQ buddies?

What's the point on hating what other people like? And I get that some are just trolls, but others engage in endless theoretical discussions where they are trying hard to prove everyone else wrong, no matter what.

Anyway, sorry for the rant. To me, the RHCP is an amazing live band and their jams simply make me feel something special. They are also, so much more than the only three songs every hater knows. Some of their best songs have never even been played live or released on LPs. Their B-sides are far better than most bands' entire discography and heck, their in the moment jams are better than what other artists can come up with after 5 years of intense writing.

To whoever read this whole shit, thank you, much love!

TL;DR: Love the Peppers, fuck the haters.