Recent clippings on John: Q Magazine, Total Guitar, Les Inrocks
Here’s a little-round up on magazines and websites mentioning John in the recent couple of weeks.
Les Inrocks – second trimestre of 2010
The April/May/June issue of French magazine Les Inrocks is dedicated to Jimi Hendrix (he’s on the cover, alongside a couple of topless ladies) and it also briefly covers musicians and bands influenced by the legend. Of course, John and the Red Hot Chili Peppers get a mention…a somewhat poetic one.
In the 80s, groups as different as Chrissie Hynde’s The Pretenders or the Red Hot Chili Peppers recreated his classics. Among the notable Californians, the guitarist John Frusciante, capable of switching from funk to folk with a slight of hand, is a worthy applicant for the heir title, like Vernon Reid.
Many thanks to Caroline for the scan and Eleni for the passage translation.
Total Guitar, June 2010
The June issue of British magazine Total Guitar (with Bullet For My Valentine on cover), which is not available for purchase yet but subscribers already have it, comes with a free CD. John and Flea are on the CD’s front cover and it is said that the CD contains RHCP guitar and bass tabs, amongst other things. I assume the magazine will be on TG back issues page once it’s available.
If you have any more information on this magazine issue, it will be very helpful. So far, this is the only thing this website’s pet hamsters on giant wheels came up with:
Q, June 2010
In the June 2010 issue of Q magazine (with Paul McCartney on cover), there’s a 25-item list titled “the druggiest albums ever”. Smile From The Streets You Hold ranked 14th and it was probably intended to be funny in some sick, hard to understand-way as it’s made out of quotes from various magazine interviews and mashed up. The article itself is available as one of the clippings supplied with this news item and the following is only the intro to the whole thing:
The lines, lighters and all the stuff that goes with the 20 druggiest albums ever, with who else, but Bez to talk us through comedown of twenty to number one. Q shows you who was taking what, when some of the greatest albums were made. From Primal Scream, to Velvet Underground, and the more recent MGMT and a certain Mr. Doherty. Including the shocking truths about the drug fuelled stars, like John Frusciante, who had only a 12th of the normal blood amount in his body when he overdosed in 1996.
Many thanks to “Pea” for the clipping.
Here are the Q Magazine and Les Inrocks clippings. Click on the thumbnails to go to individual pages or check the whole 2010 misc. cuttings/clippings gallery page.
