John Frusciante’s longtime guitar tech Dave Lee just lately mirrored on Frusciante’s selection to go away the Pink Scorching Chili Peppers for a second time in 2009. Whereas chatting with Boss, Lee revealed that the guitarist’s exit from the band was something however sudden as he had been planning a hiatus two years earlier than his departure.
“Every thing shut down when he formally left in 2009, however the writing was already on the wall. I bear in mind John and I have been sitting within the dressing room at both the Studying or Leeds Pageant in 2007, and he advised me he was going to take two years off. He stated, ‘After that, I’ll know if I wish to be within the band.’ It was a bummer, however I understood: he needed to do what he needed to do,” Lee recalled.
“Lots of people don’t perceive it. They’re like, ‘How are you going to stop the Pink Scorching Chili Peppers?’ For lots of musicians, being in a band just like the Chili Peppers could be the top. One in 1,000,000 musicians get that sort of success. The probabilities are so slim, even for actually gifted folks.”
When requested in regards to the secret to Frusciante’s success, Lee replied:
“It sounds cliched, but it surely actually is correct: John was true to himself and his artwork. He refuses to let success, or the hope of success, information his artistic world. That’s the one means I can clarify it. When John wrote ‘Below the Bridge,’ for instance, he wasn’t attempting to make a success music; he wrote it as a result of that’s what he felt like doing.”
Lee continued: “That they had launched ‘Stadium Arcadium’ to gigantic success, and he appreciated that. However he actually doesn’t make any music as a result of he hopes it’ll make him cash. And that’s completely true. I’m a pure skeptic, and after I hear folks say issues like, ‘I don’t wish to be a musician for fame and fortune,’ I feel, ‘That’s bullshit.’ However this can be a case the place I actually witnessed it. For actual. The dude walked away from the Chili Peppers after Stadium Arcadium. Now, what does that inform you? One factor’s for positive: he’s not there for the success.”
