It is instead a compelling story of dedication and debauchery, of intrigue and integrity, of recklessness and redemption. But there s a price to pay for both success and excess and in SCAR TISSUE, Kiedis writes candidly of the overdose death of his soul mate and band mate, Hillel Slovak, and his own ongoing struggle with an addiction to drugs.SCAR TISSUE far transcends the typical rock biography, because Anthony Kiedis is anything but a typical rock star. Crisscrossing the country, the Chili Peppers were musical innovators and influenced a whole generation of musicians. He formed the band with three schoolfriends - and found his life's purpose. For a musician who has spent the better half of his life either intoxicated or on a drug high, Kiedis, the lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Over 20 years later, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, against all odds, have become one. with their own unique brand of cosmic hardcore mayhem funk. In 1983, four self-described 'knuckleheads' burst out of the mosh-pitted mosaic of the neo-punk rock scene in L.A. This is the first outing for Ollie Ollerton into fiction rather than biography, self-help and motivational books. SCAR TISSUE is Anthony Kiediss searingly honest memoir of a life spent in the fast lane. and plunged headfirst into the demimonde of the L.A. Book Review Scar Tissue by Ollie Ollerton Blink Bonnier Books 7 out of 10. After a brief child-acting career, Kiedis dropped out of U.C.L.A.

Scar Tissue is Anthony Kiediss searingly honest memoir of a life spent in the fast lane.

Raised in the Midwest, he moved to LA aged eleven to live with his father Blackie, purveyor of pills, po. Scar Tissue is a story of dedication and debauchery, of intrigue and integrity, of recklessness and redemption - a story that could only have come out of the world of rock. In SCAR TISSUE Anthony Kiedis, charismatic and highly articulate frontman of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, recounts his remarkable life story, and the history of the band itself.

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