![]() It’s about taking care of yourself and realising when you need to change. Inspired by Portishead, and the bassline owes itself to Radiohead’s Nude, this track just came so naturally. I had set up a little studio in the back of my garden and would often take myself there on evenings with numerous bottles of wine. ![]() (I said I’d never write the P word again, but for honesty's sake). I don’t think we’d ever regard ourselves as a political band, but it’s hard not to escape the constant depression that has been imposed on this country this year, and how I feel we’re all just trying to cope but are seemingly forever moving backwards.īe Careful was written during the pandemic. While driving through such a beautiful place, but still being plagued by the constant feed of negative news coming through from back home. The theme of the track is one of despair. I started with the percussion and went from there. We were driving through the Swiss Alps (hence the title) and I was inspired by a mix by Thom Yorke for CRACK Magazine. Flea’s previous guests have included Stewart Copeland, Tenacious D and Margo Price.Alps was written whilst on tour with Mogwai. And subscribe to the This Little Light podcast here. You can check out the full conversation between Frusciante and Flea above. That is as great a guitar solo as a guitar solo could be.’ Listening to what he was doing, and how sloppy it was, I just threw everything out the window,” he said. “I was listening to the Stones one day, I was listening to Sympathy For The Devil, and I was like, ‘No guitar solo’s better than that. ![]() Keith Richards’ solo, tracked in the summer of 1968, at Olympic Studios, in London, demonstrated that guitar playing didn’t need to be perfect to be perfect Revisiting a Rolling Stones classic also taught him a valuable lesson. Somehow, I had missed that album, and when I got it it made a huge impression on me.” “I got into that Television Marquee Moon album and I heard how powerful guitar soloing could be that didn’t depend on having a thick distorted kind of tone, that you could say a lot by playing really simply and almost in a feminine sort of way. “When we started writing it that I just relaxed,” he said. When it came time to work on Blood Sugar Sex Magik, he knew just what to do. ![]() But then the big epiphany arrived when he got Television’s Marquee Moon, and Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd’s soloing styles changed how he looked at the electric guitar. Another was connecting with Syd Barrett’s songwriting. One was having a conversation with his stepbrother that helped him see the world in a more positive light. It was only after the touring for Mother’s Milk had finished that Frusciante had the opportunity to think about what he wanted to do on the guitar, that he found an identity with the instrument. Just stick to the feeling of the band that I loved.” I just knew to put every ounce of energy, play every note like I mean it, play every note like it’s my last. I didn’t know who I was or what I had to say, what I could contribute to the band. “There was a fight or flight mode kind of thing. “I was so nervous I was just depending on my energy,” he said. When he joined the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the age of 18, Frusciante knew how to play but not what he wanted to play as a guitarist. ![]()
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