Scar Tissue: Red Hot Chili Peppers

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His autobiography is the story of a narcissistic characterless hustler, written by a narcissistic characterless hustler. Scar Tissue” is a rather conventional rock n' roll autobiography from the lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Anthony Kiedis. However, many people also resonated with his traumatic childhood and understood this was the catalyst which caused his dangerous behaviour.

It was a crime that I hadn’t read this book yet, but I was scared to pick it up, because I knew it would contain things that were unsavoury.It really does all come across as quite pathetic and laughable for the biography of a man well into his 40s. I believe this is the first bio that I had could not bring myself to reading the last chapter (btw, I really wanted to like him) what an arrogant, bullshitting asshole this jerk is. I finished Scar Tissue a few days ago, but I keep wanting to pick it up and find there are still a few more chapters for me to read. probably because the testimony of Anthony Kiedis in Scar Tissue proclaimed that there is a lot of pain and bitter experience behind the music. Anthony Keidis happily retells how he wasted his life on drugs, screwed and screwed over countless women, friends and collegaues and ended up alone - not even his closest friend Flea talks to him any more.

The tome is far less tragic than comparable rock bios like “No One Here Gets Out Alive” Sugarman’s defining story of Jim Morrison and “Hammer of the Gods,” which forever established Led Zeppelin as bulging deities in the rock pantheon. The more interesting incidents are not really covered in much detail, their meaning is never explained or delved into but anything involving drugs gets the full treatment to the detriment of all else. The story of a primitive drug addict who, lucky to him, is in a successful band and can’t keep your interest till the end of the book: it just becomes monotonous. Also, though interesting to know about his "relationship" with Flea's sister, I think a little more tact around his oldest friend could have been exercised. He reflected that it had the best final sentence on the list, as Kiedis reflects that he stays sober for his dog.

And the best thing of all is that some of the Chili Peppers songs that I love the most are among those that Kiedis gives you more inside information on. All in all I would have given this book 5 stars had the continuous cycle of drug abuse and rehab not gotten a little monotonous. I dunno how to explain, maybe it's the Tony Kiedis charm or his Lithuanian roots, but I truly felt the change of him, the more mature and responsible version of him.