In news that makes everybody who’s enjoyed hearing funk-explorations cry tears of inevitability, John Frusciante, one of the world’s best guitarists, has left the band that put him on the map.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers have some of the most recognizable riffs and songs of the last two decades. The reason? Their rhythm section is so tight, they could’ve been backing James Brown. Literally. Chad Smith, Flea, and John Frusciante took the original punk-funk sound of Mother’s Milk, Uplift Mofo Party Plan, and Freaky Styley and pushed in into a place of accessibility and simplicity that music hadn’t encountered yet. Their sound encapsulated influences ranging from Bootsie Collins to the Everly Brothers. Frusciante released a statement to the press.
Over the last 12 years, I have changed, as a person and artist, to such a degree that to do further work along the lines I did with the band would be to go against my own nature.
This marks the second time Frusciante left the band, the first was when he quixotically left right after Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik broke them on the international scene. He then spiraled into a heroin addiction that he fought his way out of, and rejoined in 1998. Frusciante officially left a year ago, when the band went on hiatus.
His slinky-clean riffs and structured chaos will be missed.
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