But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music as a band. When he came back I felt it again, instantaneously.

Peligro the former drummer of the punk rock band Dead Kennedys was a friend of John Frusciante an eighteen-year-old guitarist and avid Red Hot Chili Peppers fan. On Mother's Milk (1989) Kiedis wrote more melody-driven songs rather than the basic rhythm and beat style of funk. We found each other and it turned out to be the longest-lasting friendship of my life.

In 2004 he publiAnthony Kiedisd an autobiography entitled Scar Tissue. S.