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Swahili Blonde’s Man Meat – tracklisting, credits, album art
Swahili Blonde have just revealed the album art and credits for their upcoming album, Man Meat, which will be published sometime this year. As expected, John is playing guitar on all tracks, but he is not involved in producing duties, as it was actually said last year, when Nicole Turley was interviewed for the Tom Tom magazine. However, John is credited for writing of Tigress Ritual, alongside Duran Duran’s John Taylor, while Turley was in charge of mixing and producing all the songs. The album’s mastering was done by another big name – Aaron Funk aka Venetian Snares aka the second half of Speed Dealer Moms. There are two more…
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Win a copy of The Heart Is A Drum Machine DVD!
This week is going to be a fest here on Invisible Movement, for reasons that should be obvious to you if you know what’s coming up on Friday and, for some of you, if you get what else is this week. There will be random surprises here, on Twitter, Facebook, board and, duh, here, so you better watch out! We’re starting this off with a contest. The prize is a copy of The Heart Is A Drum Machine DVD which, as stated last week, features a 25-minute interview with John! Thanks to the nice people from Sneak Attack Media and Lightyear Entertainment, one lucky winner will be chosen on 09th…
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Swahili Blonde press reactions & an alternative order link
Here’s a little digest on Swahili Blonde-related stuff, for everyone who’s interested. I thought this would be more practical than posting these news items each time they appear, especially given how many of you are subscribed to updates (that’s a whole small town out there, ouch!). To all of you who have noticed that Saki.com is delivering the Elixor Fixor 7″ only to USA residents and that their website’s ordering system probably hasn’t been updated in eight or more years as some country names are returned as invalid, check out the listing on Boomkat.com. You cannot obtain the physical vinyl single there, but you can get both tracks in .flac…
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ESPN’s plan to make curling a mainstream sport (satire)
Time for some humour, in hopes that there are creative people around. American sports television network ESPN have a killer plan on how to make curling a mainstream sport. They have an interesting idea of who should be in the USA curling team at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Сочи. Given how popular curling is (not), this was retweeted quite a few times and it got my attention. We’re going on the record right now and beginning a campaign to recruit the Red Hot Chili Peppers to represent the U.S. at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Just think about it for a second – Anthony Kiedis as…
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Flea on John’s departure in The Watt From Pedro show – transcript included
In the most recent edition of The Watt From Pedro Show, Mike Watt is talking to Flea, playing a song by an actual Serbian band Disciplina KiÄme (if you’re curious, check them out – I was really, really surprised to see something from my country in the playlist!), Brother Matt is doing a spin cycle with Flea on bass and, most importantly, Flea is talking about John’s departure and, for everyone who’s interested, Josh Klinghoffer as obviously the newest addition to the Red Hot Chili Peppers family. You can listen to the relevant excerpt right here, though I’m kindly recommending you to download the whole 3-hour-podcast from TWFPS.com [xspf]_start(FALSE, ‘order=92&mode=2’)[/xspf]…
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Can’t Stop and Give It Away in MTV.de Best Videos Ever – Vote!
MTV Germany is running a poll titled Best Videos Ever and they have presented their viewers with a large, alphabetic list of music videos to choose from, amongst them are two Red Hot Chili Peppers’ ones that John’s in as well, Can’t Stop and Give It Away. Here is the voting page. You can vote only for one of them at the time, but the cookie expires every now and then, so you can basically vote over and over again. The final countdown will consist of 150 videos and they will be aired on MTV:NOISE Mondays to Fridays from 29th March to 11th April 2010, from 15:30 to 17:00 CEST.…
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Omar Rodriguez-Lopez on John’s complete body of a musician and more
In a rather lengthy interview on Ultimate Guitar; Omar Rodriguez-Lopez was asked about many things, including John and his appearances on The Mars Volta’s albums, which eventually led to a very interesting and complex answer on two musicians’ relationship and what drives whom in music. Q: Former Red Hot Chili Pepper guitar player John Frusciante has been consistent with contributing guitar on the Mars Volta albums. How important has John been to your musical vision and guitar playing approach? A: John is responsible for raising the bar as the musician that I want and in executing my music. He made me realize there are musicians like him, those who are…
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The Heart Is A Drum Machine on Amazon; featuring a 25 minute John interview!
After its release date was confirmed by its producer, Ryan Page; and as of today, also by Lightyear Entertainment (who explained that there might be a slight delay before it’s on their website – many thanks to Sky for the explanation); The Heart Is A Drum Machine is now available for pre-order on Amazon as well. So far, it’s only on the American site and you can pre-order it by clicking here. The DVD’s running time is 73 minutes and it’s been spiced up by awesome new cover art. Click the post thumbnail to enlarge it and see how good it is. But what is the best thing about this…
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A sneak preview of Neil Zlozower’s “Six String Heroes”
The recently-released book “Six String Guitar Heroes” is a collection of some of the best guitarists’ portraits taken by the legendary photographer Neil Zlozower, also known as “Zloz” in the musicians’ circles. In addition to an interview with the photographer they posted earlier; folks from LA Weekly have now uploaded a selection of photographs from the book itself. The photograph of John can be reached on page five of the selection. To get this book, you can order it from both Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. You might also want to check out LA Weekly’s interview with Neil Zlozower, conduced in December 2009 Photos of John taken by Mr. Zlozower in Guitarist,…
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A feature in March 2010 issue of Guitar Techniques
There’s a feature on John in the March 2010 issue of Guitar Techniques, titled Rock Out With Frusciante. The magazine is mostly dedicated to novice and intermediate players and contains fully-explained guitar lessons and should improve everyone’s playing; so I assume that this will delight those who are struggling to play. There’s a short introduction to Red Hot Chili Peppers’ history, an update on John’s departure and a short analysis of his playing, followed by almost two pages’ worth of example tabs. You can see the scans on their individual pages by clicking on each thumbnail, or view the whole album here. 972169722097223 Here’s a teaser: Frusciante’s playing has always…
