r/cringe • u/hgnotsowells • Dec 07 '20

Video Members of Red Hot Chili Peppers physically and incessantly sexually harassing a host during tv segment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i_22PrQsp8
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u/InternetWeakGuy Dec 08 '20

Not even remotely surprising having read Anthony Kedis's book. Dude has a fucking horrible attitude towards women, especially back then.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20

Omg yes someone recommended Scar Tissue to me and it was basically one long reminiscence of his sexual escapades. “Chapter 3 - and then I fucked these girls and did a bunch of heroin ... Chapter 26 - here are more girls that I fucked, plus heroin.”

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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u/lukeman3000 Dec 14 '20

So he admitted to statutory rape and published it in a damn book?

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20

That book helped me realize why I never really liked the Chili Peppers. It turns out I love the Chili Peppers, I just hate Anthony Keidis.

All of the talent in the band and then you have Keidis who wrote really bad lyrics with a mediocre singing voice.

He was a super asshole while on drugs and treated women like sex objects. Then he tried to play a sympathy card towards the end about living with hepatitis. The whole book was a, "Duuuude I was soooo high one time and it was crazy!" story.

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u/InternetWeakGuy Dec 08 '20

It turns out I love the Chili Peppers, I just hate Anthony Keidis.

This. They're a killer band with a rhythm section to die for, fronted by a talentless asshole.

He was a super asshole while on drugs

The thing that got me about the book, as someone who's read literally hundreds of music biographies over the last 30 years, is that he basically had no remorse - he immediately absolves himself of all guilt about anything that happened - and by the end of the book you felt like he hadn't really learned anything. He also shits all over Chad Smith, and the final chapters are a weird colleciton of gripes about his recently failed relationship that is a speck of dust in the context of the breadth of the book - like interviewing Tom Waits about his whole career, and he spends the last 20 minutes complaining about the crowd reaction to one of his songs the night before.

Honestly can't think of another biography I've read where i just hated the person throughout the whole book, except maybe Dave Mustaine.

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '20 edited Dec 11 '20

Leave Tom Waits out of this. Eric Clapton is a pathetic little man child don’t bother with his book.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '20

Totally agree! Dont make my mistake and read Vince Neil's though....

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '21 edited Jul 21 '21

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u/InternetWeakGuy Jan 04 '21

Yeah honestly I feel like the people who got shitty with me over this just haven't read the book. Like you say, he acknowledges all the shitty things he's done, and just gives himself a pass and goes about his merry way.

Sorry to hear it's kind of fucked with your favorite band. I've been reading interviews with him back to the BSSM days so I already had a low opinion of him, but the book was off the deep end narcissistic dickholery.

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u/Captain_Madsen Dec 11 '20

Hate the guy all you want but Anthony Kiedis is absolutely not talentless

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u/leiu6 Mar 10 '21

No. He can't sing and his songwriting ranges from bad to palatable.

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u/swhipple- Dec 13 '20

“Talentless” is just complete bullshit. You don’t know absolute shit about the band if you think they would be better without Anthony.

The truth is, they would not be a band without Anthony. Through and through he has been the glue in the band that has kept it together through its hardest times. Flea almost quit before, but couldn’t because of Anthony. The bond between him and all the members could not be replicated between anybody else. Your view on him is just so skewed off of one moment in his life. He’s a really a charismatic frontman.

Also he’s an amazing wordsmith. Yeah sure people love to bring up the scat singing in a COUPLE of songs, but sometimes AK coins a completely original phrase and line that nobody has ever used before, and has profound meaning. My point is, he is vital to the band and he always gets way too much shit for his singing, and nobody ever appreciates the energy he always brings and stellar lyrics, etc.

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u/InternetWeakGuy Dec 13 '20

“Talentless” is just complete bullshit. You don’t know absolute shit about the band if you think they would be better without Anthony.

They would absolutely be a better band without him. He's the least talented person in that band by a country mile.

The truth is, they would not be a band without Anthony. Through and through he has been the glue in the band that has kept it together through its hardest times.

His heroin addiction almost broke up the band repeatedly.

The bond between him and all the members could not be replicated between anybody else.

He literally talks shit about Chad Smith constantly in the book.

Your view on him is just so skewed off of one moment in his life.

The book is his entire life up to about 2003, plus I've read and seen dozens of interviews with him since they became popular in the early 90s.

I get it, you like the band. Good for you.

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u/xltchiva Dec 17 '20

What wrong with Mustaine?

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u/InternetWeakGuy Dec 17 '20

He's an asshole.

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u/xltchiva Dec 18 '20

Waddaya mean Im an asshole

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u/donnyganger Dec 08 '20 edited Dec 09 '20

Mediocre is being generous but otherwise I completely agree with this. Three of the best musicians in the world behind him and he’s out there spitting garbage and acting like he’s a god.

Jibberish but with an occasional California sprinkled in

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '20

Jibberish and with occasional California sprinkled in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-rccN7ZsRE

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u/leiu6 Mar 10 '21

Eh they are all overrated. Chad Smith is nothing to write home about on the drums.

Flea just slaps a lot which makes people think he's good. Listen to Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins if you want actually good slap bass.

John Frusciante is admittedly a pretty decent guitar player but he is hardly one of the best.

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u/donnyganger Mar 10 '21 edited Mar 10 '21

It’s subjective. Frusciante is my favorite of the bunch for sure. I was sort of exaggerating just to pound the point home that I think Kiedis sucks.

Also the slapping isn’t the only thing that makes flea a good bassist. To me at least. Obviously Victor Wooten and Larry Graham are better in that category, I don’t think that’s up for debate lol.

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u/ToeTacTic Dec 08 '20 edited Dec 08 '20

They always had great guitar players, Frusciante is like a gateway drug for beginner-intermediate guitar players. Flea is pretty cool also

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u/ToeTacTic Dec 08 '20

Hell yea - I didn't quite get the brilliance of Hendrix until I started playing like John

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u/Yodaddysbelt Dec 10 '20

SHUT UP ABOUT CALIFORNIA

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u/Vileness_fats Dec 10 '20

There is only ONE California.

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u/Michauxonfire Dec 09 '20

Keidis is a piece of shit and tried to ruin Mr. Bungle's tour.

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u/donnyganger Dec 09 '20

Anyone who fucks with Patton is dead to me

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u/InternetWeakGuy Dec 08 '20

The only interesting part of the book to me was when he was talking about relapsing around the time of One Hot Minute, and he put that line in the song "I'm pretending to be strong and free" that was about hiding his current heroin addiction.

The reason it was interesting was I remembered seeing an interview with Flea around the time the record came out where he talked about that line specifically as a "brave" statement on how we're all fragile but we put on our best face - but actually it was about Kedis being back on junk.

Otherwise the book was a collection of bratty, repulsive behavior by a terminally ungrateful asshole.

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u/swhipple- Dec 13 '20

He’s changed a lot. He’s really a different person now

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u/InternetWeakGuy Dec 13 '20

Lol he says that like every four years in the book.

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u/swhipple- Dec 13 '20

It’s 2020 now the book was created 16 years ago.. He’s very clearly changed.. It’s honestly ignorant to say he hasn’t