Solo: John Frusciante
Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 3:48 am
aaron wrote:what was the ep he did with ian mackaye?
Hiwatt wrote:horseshit
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Solo: John Frusciante
Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 10:15 am
john frusciante wrote:
The DC EP was recorded in Washington,DC at Inner Ear studios. It is owned by Don Zientra and it is where Fugazi and most of the other Dischord artists record. My friend Ian Mackaye had been encouraging me to come out and record, and I had been wanting to do these songs with Jerry Busher playing drums. I first met Jerry in the spring of 1999 at the same time I met Fugazi. He was their tech as well as playing the second drum set on some songs. He is one my favorite drummers. He is in currently in a group called French Toast (with James Canty of the Make Up) and he has another group called The All Scars.
The sessions were produced by Ian. It was interesting for me to leave a lot of the production type ideas to someone else. Even though we recorded and mixed four songs in two days, it was a very relaxed session and more like a vacation than work. Ian is one of the only living people who I really respect and look up to, so it was an honor and a pleasure as well as a great learning experience to hear his perspective. It was also interesting for me to do a recording without any of my equipment…the lesson being that it still sounds like me.
For the solos I borrowed Guy Picciotto’s Les Paul Junior from the Rites of Spring days. This guitar was played through Ian’s Marshall head that is pictured on the cover of Fugazi’s Red Medicine. This EP is also unique in that it is the only album I have done in the last five years with no synthesizer whatsoever. Jerry, Ian and I all hope to make more music together.
ATAXIA-Automatic Writing is the second album in John Frusciante’s five record series coming out this year on Record Collection. A collaboration with Josh Klinghoffer (Bicycle Thief) and Joe Lally (Fugazi), ATAXIA is a five song full length clocking in at 44 minutes.
Solo: John Frusciante
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:51 am
currently blasting this DC EP. regardless of what i expected before i got it, (and what i would have expected had i read the above description before i got it) it sounds like he's channeling the 70s. i can see how you might call this streamlined/average. i was hoping for some more of his supernatural eccentric stuff, but that's why you put out 6 records in a year; to sample a little bit of everything. i read a recent interview where he said he's becoming more interested in standard chord voicings as a way of revealing what he really wants to say. this has to be what happens to people that spend a year away from their band. he's probably getting more comfortable with writing and not feeling the need to be eccentric all the time.
Solo: John Frusciante
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 9:14 am
There should have been a third poll option of:
Sometime shit/Sometimes not shit
Sometime shit/Sometimes not shit
Solo: John Frusciante
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 12:44 am
Saturday Night Live in '91 or '92 The R.H.C.P. with john f. wailing
the back-up vocal for the song "under the bridge". Completely out of tune
and totally out of his fucking mind. Ruining the majesty of this hit, shit ballad.
I recomend sitting through this if you get the chance.
pRICELESS. noT cRAP.
the back-up vocal for the song "under the bridge". Completely out of tune
and totally out of his fucking mind. Ruining the majesty of this hit, shit ballad.
I recomend sitting through this if you get the chance.
pRICELESS. noT cRAP.
Solo: John Frusciante
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 1:13 am
i saw him open up for Blonde Redhead a few years ago -
he just made a bunch of noise with his ridiculous amount
of expensive equipment,...which was kind of interesting for
the first 5 minutes,
then turned into painful and boring. Crap.
and more crap for being in the RHCP
he just made a bunch of noise with his ridiculous amount
of expensive equipment,...which was kind of interesting for
the first 5 minutes,
then turned into painful and boring. Crap.
and more crap for being in the RHCP
Solo: John Frusciante
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 1:54 am
glynnisjohns wrote:Saturday Night Live in '91 or '92 The R.H.C.P. with john f. wailing
the back-up vocal for the song "under the bridge". Completely out of tune
and totally out of his fucking mind. Ruining the majesty of this hit, shit ballad.
I recomend sitting through this if you get the chance.
pRICELESS. noT cRAP.
Seconded. I remember taping this episode, particularly the ripping version of "Stone Cold Bush" they started off with, and John's off-key falsetto - or whatever it was - was marvelous. Also my first exposure to the idea of sticking your cigarette in the headstock of your guitar while playing.
Solo: John Frusciante
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 4:26 am
ironyengine wrote:glynnisjohns wrote:Saturday Night Live in '91 or '92 The R.H.C.P. with john f. wailing
the back-up vocal for the song "under the bridge". Completely out of tune
and totally out of his fucking mind. Ruining the majesty of this hit, shit ballad.
I recomend sitting through this if you get the chance.
pRICELESS. noT cRAP.
Seconded. I remember taping this episode, particularly the ripping version of "Stone Cold Bush" they started off with, and John's off-key falsetto - or whatever it was - was marvelous. Also my first exposure to the idea of sticking your cigarette in the headstock of your guitar while playing.
That is a moment of TV legend!
On Stone Cold Bush where a ripping Hendrix-esque solo is surposed to happen John plays slow and clean.
On the pretty ending of Under the Bridge John hits the distortion and screams like a madman.
The look on Kiedis' face is priceless!
Solo: John Frusciante
Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 6:18 am
Well, this isn't a great thing to say, but I liked him better when he was on drugs. 
Solo: John Frusciante
Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 6:22 am
I think he is an ideal musician, totally commited to his craft. As a guitar player, he is totally his own man. I can think of no other player that sounds anything like him. His early work is so brutally honest. "Niandra Lades..." is like a cosmos of music. I also think his album "A sphere in the heart of silence" is sublime, one of the best ones of last year. Sometimes he is off, but I don't care. He takes chances. Releasing seven records in a year is not something a record executive is going to advice you.
No no, not crap.
No no, not crap.