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“You could record yourself on a computer”: John Frusciante once wrote Jimmy Page a letter asking him to appear on his best friend’s album

Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante wanted Jimmy Page to appear on The Mars Volta’s Frances The Mute album

Louder

Flea names his least favorite Red Hot Chili Peppers album – and says he wants to re-record it

The RHCP bass icon revealed he has tried to convince the band to take another crack at it, but “can never talk anyone into it”

Guitar World

John Frusciante says he only found his identity as guitar player when Red Hot Chili Peppers wrote Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Frusciante explains how discovering Television's Marquee Moon an epiphany with Keith Richards' solo on the Rolling Stones' Sympathy For The Devil changed everything

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Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea on the meaning of God, the band's worst album and the vice he misses most

"Hey, come see my baby boy!" Flea says excitedly, holding up his iPhone as he stands next to his motorcycle in the parking lot of the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. Dressed in basketball shorts and a red bucket hat, the 60-year-old bassist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers is FaceTiming…

Los Angeles Times

John Frusciante’s guitar teacher once told him he wasn’t a good guitarist – so he learned to play like Steve Vai: “No-one was going to say that to me again”

The Red Hot Chili Peppers guitar hero recalls being criticized because he couldn’t play the blues scale fast enough: “It was about the worst feeling I could imagine”

Guitar World

"I played a blues scale as fast as I could and he said, 'That's not fast, you're not a good guitarist'" – John Frusciante on his depressing encounter with a guitar teacher, and his teenage heroes Steve Vai and Adrian Belew

A new extensive interview with bandmate Flea reveals the iconic Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist's roots

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Improve your rhythm guitar playing now with these three types of chords

12 extended, wide interval and partial chords

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From Prince to John Frusciante via Cory Wong: learn the rhythm approaches of the pop-funk masters

Hone your rhythm chops with examples in the style of the players who took funk in new directions

Guitar World

Flea names the one bassline that he would “go back and fix” from the Red Hot Chili Pepper's 1995 album, One Hot Minute

Flea on the making of One Hot Minute: “I thought it sounded like another stupid white boy trying to be funky!”

Guitar World

The Darkness' Justin Hawkins says Red Hot Chili Peppers' John Frusciante is an "overrated" and "child-like" guitarist

The Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins critiques RHCP guitarist John Frusciante and explains why he thinks he's an overrated player

Louder

Does John Frusciante have a signature Fender Stratocaster in the works? Here’s the truth

After sightings of a replica ’62 Strat prototype and some special deliveries from Fender, the Red Hot Chili Peppers rumor mill has gone into overdrive – we got the real story from Frusciante’s guitar tech

Guitar World

Justin Hawkins explains why he thinks John Frusciante is overrated

In his podcast, The Darkness guitarist discussed why he gets “nothing from John Frusciante’s guitar playing” – and why he thinks no good rock 'n' roll has ever been played on a PRS

Guitar World

How Red Hot Chili Peppers recorded a sweet tribute to Guns N' Roses, but ended up causing beef with Axl Rose instead

Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose wasn’t happy about Red Hot Chili Peppers' "tribute" to his band on their fourth record

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Josh Klinghoffer says Red Hot Chili Peppers made "cooler music" when he was playing guitar in the band

"I honestly think we were doing cooler music...I was shocked when I heard their new record": Josh Klinghoffer casually throws shade at his former band, Red Hot Chili Peppers

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Guitar World

Josh Klinghoffer thinks Red Hot Chili Peppers were making “cooler music” with him: “I was shocked when I heard their new record”

The guitarist says he doesn’t want to badmouth his former band, but the experience of hearing their latest recordings with John Frusciante was “tough”

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Josh Klinghoffer on Red Hot Chili Peppers with John Frusciante: "I never want to sound negative about anyone doing music — but I was shocked when I heard their new record”

The former guitarist argues band were “ doing cooler music” when he was still a member

Guitar World

From swirling Hendrixian arpeggios to fresh solos from one of John Frusciante's favorite modern-day players: here are this week's essential guitar tracks

Celebrate spring's arrival with life-giving guitar goodness from Wolfgang Van Halen, Nita Strauss, Sylosis, Ayron Jones, Ida Mae and Marcus King, Hannah Jadagu, Body Type, Cory Hanson and more

Guitar World

John Frusciante gets struck with cramp, forcing him to stretch his fretting fingers in the middle of a blistering live solo

The 53-year-old succumbed to cramp despite having one of the most intense warm-up routines around, which includes plenty of finger strengthening and a Sous Vide cooking machine

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The Independent UK

‘One of the greatest’: Flea leads tributes to Television guitarist Tom Verlaine, who has died at 73

Guitarist and the main songwriter of rock band Television has died after a ‘brief illness’

The Guardian - UK

Keith Levene, founding member of the Clash, dies at 65

Influential post-punk musician was an original member of the Clash before founding PiL with John Lydon and Jah Wobble

Evening Standard

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Return of the Dream Canteen review: Badly in need of an editor

It’s a case of quantity over quality as the veteran funksters deliver their second album in six months

The Independent UK

Former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist reveals being in rock band was ‘enormously stifling’

Josh Klinghoffer joined the band in 2009 after John Frusciante exited and was later asked to leave the group in 2019 when Frusciante returned

The Independent UK

Red Hot Chili Peppers cancel Glasgow show hours before they were due on stage

The rockers said they were ‘deeply disappointed’ not to perform.

The Guardian - UK

Red Hot Chili Peppers review – still cooking in late middle age

The hits, delivered with astonishing energy by a band in their 50s and 60s, thrill the huge crowd, and even the guitar solos win rapturous applause

Manchester Evening News

Red Hot Chili Peppers captivate fans after six years in the UK wilderness despite finishing early

Red Hot Chili Peppers played at Old Trafford in Manchester

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