After reading this bio, fans of Kiedis will likely find that Behind the Music is an endearing, inspiring musician that actually wears very little Scar Tissue in the end. And so whatever shame, pain or difficulty or discomfort I went through,” he continued, “then it was worth it because I get so many people coming up to me saying their kids had read it and got their act together because of it. Also, I didn’t get the sense that you were upset about being such a disappointment to your mother, who seems, along with your sister and stepfather, to have been a well-adjusted, stable citizen and person. I dunno how to explain, maybe it's the Tony Kiedis charm or his Lithuanian roots, but I truly felt the change of him, the more mature and responsible version of him. I can compare this book to a really untasty candy, which has a yummy filling, but too small to get me high.

Raised in Michigan, Kiedis went on to study at UCLA, but dropped out after losing interest, partially due to his abuse of hard drugs. Both crafted mind-numbing lyrics in the City of Light, trolling the back alleys, canyons and mountain retreats of the West Side.The producers include Kiedis, Chilis manager Guy Oseary, and Brian Grazer ( A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13). Universal Pictures has optioned the singer’s 2004 memoir, Scar Tissue, to develop it into a biopic, according to Deadline. The writing is just plain bad, and if I had to read about one more sexual exploit that Kiedis had, I was going to throw this book across the room. SCAR TISSUE far transcends the typical rock biography, because Anthony Kiedis is anything but a typical rock star. The book, which is now a frightening twenty years old, is widely considered to be one of the best rock autobiographies of all time – helped in no small part by the fact that Kiedis has lived such a wild and storied life.

Ultimately, fans of the Chilis will find this book to be essential reading, a perfect accompaniment to Kiedis’ own lyrics and the documentary “Funky Monks” which captures the 1992 recording of Blood Sugar Sex Magik – the Chilis’ genre-busting seminal hit. The road to get Scar Tissue to the screen (big and small) has been a series of stop-starts, having originally been optioned for HBO and FX before the rights landing now on Universal's desk. Well, I guess all I have to say (haha, I’ve already said a lot) is this: I was not a fan of yours when I picked up the book, not even knowing you.

Kiedis continued: “And so whatever shame, pain or difficulty or discomfort I went through, then it was worth it because I get so many people coming up to me saying their kids had read it and got their act together because of it. In 2008, it was reported that Kiedis was developing a television series for HBO titled Spider and Son which would be loosely based on Scar Tissue. I file this book in a long list of narcissistic, fake-ass, non-storyteller, 'autobiographers' which include Gene Simmons, Nikki Sixx, Don Felder, Tommy Lee, Bobby Blotzer and Scott Weiland, all of whose autobiographies suspiciously seem like attempts to dig their respective authors out of various financial holes. Or maybe it was because Anthony Keidis just comes across as a dick and I don't care what he went through.

Also, he is ignorant enough to believe the word "FUCK" is an acronym stemming from For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge when anyone with even the most basic knowledge of etymology knows this is pure bullshit. Anthony Kiedis comes across as a self-centered idiot whose drug-abuse from such an early age has almost certainly damaged his brain in some way. Later, he reveals that he was not actually clean, as he claimed at the time, during the late-nineties Californication era of the band's existence.

It just felt like Anthony Kiedis was looking for some sympathy or trying to spin things to look like he wasn’t such a narcissist. Like many rockagraphies, Kiedis’ story follows a familiar journey: unlikely kid from the track’s Other Side makes friends, friends make band, band gets hot, orgies follow soon thereafter leading inexorably to a 12-step program and the inspiring tell-all. The series is expected to follow the first half of Kiedis's book during his pre teen and teenage years and his relationship with his father Blackie Dammett.

There was no real feeling of remorse or regret for all the drug use and fucked up behavior and infidelity. According to the book, Kiedis's first drug experience was with his father Blackie Dammett, a former drug dealer, at age eleven. A. and, like many a rockstar before him, struggled with drug addiction – meaning that much of Scar Tissue is centred around his battles with substances. Also, though interesting to know about his "relationship" with Flea's sister, I think a little more tact around his oldest friend could have been exercised. Raised in the Midwest, he moved to LA aged eleven to live with his father Blackie, purveyor of pills, pot, and cocaine to the Hollywood elite.All in all, it is an interesting story about a great band and its leader, but Anthony Kiedis didn't suit me as the best choice to present it. I also got a kick out the time he was in his car infront of a seedy Motel trying to score heroin when he sees a family "down on their luck" pull into the Motel, they had a Red hot chili pepper bumper sticker and the young kids were all wearing RHCP t-shirts (this made Tony Baloney feel sad) WHATEVER, liar, liar pants on fire. Sure, I get that a guy's gotta eat, but don't express your faded rock-star economic embarrassment in the form of bad literature. i'm really surprised at how far he's been able to go in life with all the craziness that is described in the book. I realized that the whole point of writing that book wasn’t for me, but to show that somebody can go all the way down and come all the way back and have a productive, successful happy interesting life.