Scar Tissue
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
Scar Tissue es la autobiografía del cantante y carismático lider de los Red Hot Chili Peppers, Anthony Kiedis, desde su nacimiento en 1962 hasta hoy. Sus experiencias con la drogadicción y con el estrellato, y las peleas con las que se enfrenta en la actualidad. Criado en el Medio Oeste, se trasladó a Los Ángeles a los once años a vivir con su padre, Blackie, proveedor de pastillas, marihuana y cocaína para la élite de Hollywood. Tras una breve carrera en la Universidad de California se retiró y se sumergió en el mundo de la música underground de Los Ángeles. Formó la banda con tres compañeros de colegio. Recorriendo el país, los Chili Peppers innovaron el panorama musical e influyeron de manera decisiva a toda una generación de músicos.
Más de veinte años después, contra todo pronóstico, se han convertido en una de las bandas más exitosas del mundo. Pero todo tiene su precio y Kiedis nos muestra sus cicatrices, escribiendo con franqueza sobre la muerte por sobredosis de su alma gemela y compañero de banda, Hillel Slovak, o de su propia lucha contra la adicción. Desde la influencia de las mujeres fuertes y hermosas que han sido sus musas, hasta las peculiaridades de tocar en Woodstock ante medio millón de personas o hacerlo únicamente ante el exiliado Dalai Lama, Kiedis comparte una historia convincente sobre el precio del éxito y el exceso.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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, has produced a surprisingly detailed account of his life. Raised in the 1960s and '70s by a drug dealer father who first introduced his preteen son to drugs by mashing them into bananas, the high school delinquent and UCLA dropout seemed destined for a life of rabble-rousing until his high school band cofounded by close friends Michael "Flea" Balzary and Hillel Slovak took off and became one of the most popular groups of the 1990s. Though he peppers his book with little known facts (for instance, the author narrowly missed being named Clark Gable Kiedis), the punk-funk rocker dedicates too few pages to his introspective music-writing process and too many to his incessant drug use and revolving door of girlfriends (which included actress Ione Skye, singer Sin ad O'Connor and director Sofia Coppola). But while Kiedis fails to scratch beneath the surface of his fast-lane life, his frankness is moving, especially toward the end of the book, when his mea culpa turns into a full-blown account of recovery and redemption. (Kiedis has been sober for almost four years.) Though not generally as articulate as Marilyn Manson's similar autobiography, Kiedis's story of childhood drug use, adolescent fame and hard-won maturity will strike a chord with fans of Drew Barrymore's Little Girl Lost.
