Wow, it has been a while, but I am determined to finish the Red Hot Chili Peppers timelines. This one is for: Josh Klinghoffer!
(Was just informed about this picture and had to include it! Thanks frushead!)
(Woah, really young)
(Cutie!)
(Josh and Jenny!)
(He looks like a model)
(Josh and John)
(ā¦.What?)
(His hair!)
(Forever alone)
(I really like these guitars)
(Just being choked by Billie Joe Armstrong. No big deal)
(Quick, Josh, donāt look happy)
(Rocking with a broken foot)
(Word canāt describe how much I love this picture)
So there it is! I am sorry if all the pics are not in exact chronological order. I will do a few more timelines for some former members of the band. Here are the other RHCP timelines:
One of my favourite shots of John Frusciante from 2004. I think it really captures a special moment of vulnerability and strength. He had been crying in the interview shortly before and you can still see his tears on his t-shirt.
ā Scarlet Page
āI had so many years of terrible, terribleā¦ā He breaks down. āIām sorry,ā he says, turning the tape recorder off and drying his eyes. āSometimes I get into situations of just being so overwhelmed by what Iāve been through, so many years of regretting everything, all the things I could have done when I was 22 years oldā¦ā The tape is back on. āBut I was totally incapable of it, I had just so many mental problems. It wasnāt until I was 28 that my brain actually felt like a spacious place. When I was 18, 19, 22, my brain was just clogged all the time ā non-stop voices. I couldnāt figure out what was going on. There was a lot of confusion inside me, this flood of voices, often contradicting each other, often telling me stuff that would happen in the future and then it would happen, voices insulting me, telling me what to do. I might have made things a bit more balanced if my head had been a little clearer, but it wasn't the amount of pot I smoked ā 24 hours a day by the time I was 20. I had this feeling that there was something else I needed to do for myself the inside that had nothing to do with my outward presentation to the world, so playing in the Chili Peppers was making me severely depressed. If I had quit at the end of Blood Sugar, I think I could have gone through this stuff easier, without becoming a drug addict. But by the time I did leave, hard drugs were the only way I could be happy enough to live and not just be the most hopeless person who canāt even listen to music and is about to die. I took a clear-cut decision that I was going to be a drug addict.ā
ā MOJO magazine, July 2004
Even just reading this is extremely painful and terrible, I can't imagine what it's like to live with this feeling.
"The mind is the only place that anything can be truly said to exist. The outside world is only known to us as it appears within us by the testament of our senses. The imagination is the most real world that we know because we each know it first hand."