‘The Red Hot Chili Peppers: An Oral/Visual History by the Red Hot Chili Peppers’
The following quotes are from Flea's introduction to 'The Red Hot Chili Peppers: An Oral/Visual History by the Red Hot Chili Peppers'.
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Looking through all these pictures triggers a multitude of emotions for me. The first and most shallow one is vanity, wondering if I look good. Hahahahaha.
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But that passes pretty quickly and I am struck by the moment of the photo, the feeling of the time it was taken, and where we were at on our beautiful and happysad journey.
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It's pretty fucking heavy actually, like thinking how much we have changed over the years, and all the different dynamics of our lives that shaped us, and also realizing so clearly that nothing has changed at all — we?re all still just trying to get it on, make something great.
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I am overpowered by the love that is inside me. I always have been. Sometimes I have been able to use it to great effect, and other times I have been terrified by it to the point of total paralysis.
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Looking at these photographs though, the love that I feel for my bandmates is complete. The tears that well up in my eyes as I type right now come from my most profound and highest self.
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Hillel Slovak, the great artist and friend, without whom I never would have played the bass guitar and whose earthly presence I miss every day.
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John Frusciante, the master musician who I am so fortunate to have connected with in the deepest mind-melding kind of way, who taught us how to take our band to a higher level.
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Chad Smith, the lovable behemoth of the drum crushing who is my true partner in rhythm, who grounds us from floating off into the sissy-boy ether.
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And Anthony Kiedis, my brother from another mother, the dynamic whirlwind from whom the energy from the center of the earth flows like a fucking tornado…
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and without whose persistence and poignant loyalty the Red Hot Chili Peppers would have dissolved long ago. Jack Irons, the original funky beat we hung our hats on, I love you. These guys are my truest and most real family . . . oh, and I love myself, too.
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When we first decided that we would make a picture book I imagined a nice thing for people to flip through, just a picture book, nothing serious or in-depth like a real book of literature.
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But looking at this thing, I realize these pictures tell more than words ever could. I can't speak for the others, but — though I try my best to express myself? when I look at my quotes, I always feel that my words fall short.
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I can never really get to the heart of the matter, but when I look at the photographs, it is all there, nothing can hide.
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All the honesty, the pretense, the courage and one-of-a-kindness, the unbridled joy, the melancholy, and the shields we put up to shelter our scared, vulnerable little selves, it's all there. Whoa.
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I want, on behalf of my bandmates, to thank our friend, the late great Brendan Mullen, whose spirit permeates every bit of pulp and ink that make this book. We love you, Brendan.