The Grape Jam claim that John predicted their formation
Many thanks to Dolfina of RHCP Universe for this unusual news.
In their interview for Nuevo.net, The Grape Jam claim that John predicted their formation. Here’s the article bit mentioning that and you should definitely check out their music.
The band’s Chili Pepper-esque style has much to do with the direct influence that comes with repeated listening (Sipes referred to the Chili Peppers’ Live at Slane Castle as The Bible on DVD). But Burns believes that Chili Pepper guitarist John Frusciante predicted the band’s formation through some prophetic words.
“I read an interview when I was a sophomore in high school with John Frusciante, right after Blood Sugar Sex Magik, maybe during the time he was recording Niandra LaDes [Frusciante’s debut solo project] and such,” Burns explains. “In the interview he said that spirits told him that his music was going to influence two people who were children at the time of the interview and that his music was nothing compared to theirs. The interview was around ’94. In ’94, I was 5; Bruce was 4. We are the chosen ones.”
Frusciante said something similar, though slightly more opaque, in an interview with the website While You Were Sleeping in 2004: “I was told five years ago by a spirit that my music needed to be here so two other people could hear it. [Those two] were just little kids when I was being told the information, but they were eventually going to be something great.”
To remind you, the article from WYWS can be found at this address, given that WYWS, sadly, no longer exists.
