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- John Frusciante ~ 45 min interview ~july 16th, 2008~ take a piece and pass it on ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
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~ full length interview from the documentary ”The Heart is a Drum Machine.”
i have finally finished transcribing this interview. it is 11 pages long and in adobe pdf format. it took me many, many hours to get this work done, but so many people have asked for it that i felt i had to get it done =)
...i learned a whole lot throughout the process, and i am so happy to be a part of sharing this with you (especially those of you studying the english language) =) just let me know if you’d like a copy.
peace =D
#johnfrusciante #interview #theheartisadrummachine
Hi. CZcams has closed captioning now, so you can put the words on the screen. However, if you’d still like a copy of the pdf to read, the best way to reach me is to send an email - I miss requests within the comment section ✌️
Not a guitarist: a true artist.
guitart-ist!
🤘
A true murderer.
John Frusciante really needs to write a book of some sort. It would do great. I'm so glad Flea is releasing one though, can't wait to pick that up!
Still waiting ..
Still waiting
Flea has a book? Is it out?
@@goodpeopleoftheworldunite It will be published later this year. Google 'Acid for the Children'.
@@victormiller2271 Great! That's a great title too. I hope John does a book too. He has lots of interesting things to say.
Frusciante's a definite introvert; thinks more in theoretical and abstract terms, and is very intellectual. He's also clearly very spiritual and a "sensing" personality type. I can relate to him in a lot of ways, and it's fascinating that he's a humble, introverted guy, but was a huge factor behind the success of RHCP, a mega popular band.
Anthony is a very spiritual person too. If you listen to some of his interviews if not all , he often speaks of something related to spirituality. I guess they are all kinda spiritual people (less obvious for Chad).
I think hes more intuitive than sensing. His perspective is quite abstract.
he's prolly INFP (like cobain)
I agree with everything you said except that he’s a sensing personality type. He’s very clearly an intuitive.
@@Julsies7 I wasn’t thinking of the Myers Briggs personality categories when I wrote that. But after looking into that I think you’re right that he’s intuitive
Think intuitive means abstract thinker, head in the clouds type
The fact that he says his music is often inspired by spirits and ghosts def seems like intuitive personality type
Seems like sensing is more practical and here and now
I could listen to his talking about the same thing for hours. half the time i can't even comprehend it.
2spiritual4mebruh
i want to be with someone with a beautiful mind like this.
me too haha
Adèle Vira hm hm hm hm
Same
read books lol thatll open you up
I have arrived...
I could see why John left the band around this time. He was just in a totally different place mentally, creatively, and spiritually. Wish he would have stayed for one more album but he had to follow his heart at the end of the day.
BigBad Bryant he might had a change of heart since he rejoined the rhcp
Vasiliki D haha
And here he is back again :)
He is a 🐍
Very beautiful minded person, i hope to meet Frusciante someday.
jimi i guess you've already got his phone number ;)
I feel the same way man.
;)
Jimi Hendrix Looking forward to meet you too.
ok
He is just unloading everything in his brain for 45 minutes.. Awesome. This interviewer is GOOD man....
I think the only thing John's high on these days is life
Tanner H totally agree
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the fact that he struggles so much to express a though,only proves how sincere he is at the moment-the though is stuck in his head and he struggles to formulate it to be as clear to us as it is to himself.
recognizing his willing to cherish his music talent and to improve himself as a musician,made me want to do the same with my writting skills.
One more thing that I find really inspiring to be,is John overcoming his demons.
Really interesting how one person can stimulate you in many different ways but also sad that he ll never be aware of it.
Nice post. He is a true artist. He cant really express himself too well through words, so musical is his vehicle.
To me it just shows how fucked up he is by the drugs. It's not bad though
I just replied to a 5 year old comment
u changed my life years ago with this interview john im gonna be great someday because of you
I believe you're great already man
luv u liespewer
edgelord
the things he says are really really really important
and makes sense its number 4 my opinion drugs make you or brake you and he reached the 4th level 4 elements of life thats as far i know the limit of spiritualty
"The force that created us, is expressing itself through our existance"
man, this is just too fuckin epic for me to handle
How do you explain the Ukraine war then?
@@404errorpagenotfound.6 how do you explain animals fighting? It's part of nature, mankind just takes it to an extreme
@@chomplu doesn't sound like some creative force expressing itself thru us or whatever drug induced hippy horse shit way you want to put it - we are just animals f#$king and fighting right.
@@404errorpagenotfound.6 It's part of the Nature too, like a tsunami or a Vulcano, we have chaos and peace in ourselves, always a balance.
Could listen to him talk forever
John is sensitively immune to beings that some humans will never be able to experience. His mind is beautiful and creative, and he feels these ineffable things. He is special to experience these beautiful unexplainable things.
He is a 🐍 that murdered RIVER PHOENIX
This guy is so wise and I like him more an more with every video/interview I watch.
I have this interview on my phone. And I listen to this everyday before I sleep :)
+Indi Sugar Taufik
Get a vibrator, it would be more stimulating.
+Indi Sugar Taufik I like listening to his calm, melodic voice.
Anne Dworak Me too :)
:)
I learn so much from listening to him...
me too!
"The person is not the star, the imagination is the star."
Can relate so much with John. Alot of what he says is worth taking in.
I am in love with this man
wow.
this was the most honest, deep, spiritual interview ever!
i love the fact that he actually confessed his philosophical views on camera.
this makes me feel like i know him a little more.
He needs to confess he murdered River Phoenix
This guy is just the F...in Bomb, man I wish there were more of him walking the streets
Erick Pardi Well, but he wouldn't be that special if every third person talked like him. That's why he's so great.
Musicians, take note. Thanks for translating john ;) Legend...
This interview is in true form, John is my hero when it comes to my feelings as a guitarist. I lose interest and creativity when I am pressured into writing or learning. Shape and color my friends.
''... teachers , school system , everything is working against you , but the force of creactivity , nature it's not working against you , it's right there for you at any time , you know you just have to be ready to not judge your self and open to whatever comes through you , and to not judge what comes through but be alright with whatever it is because is just the universe expressing itself , nothing is expected of you .. you know , you just have to be there for it ...'' WOW
Real things that nobody talks about
🤘
"Music doesn't start in your brain. It starts somewhere else." Speechless!
I just can't be bothered arguing, debating or whatever, I am glad john is still with us... he almost died, yet came back to play with 'The Chili's' and played great music with them plus his solo career... love ya John.
A humble musical genius
I couldn't keep up with half of the things he said but I just love listening to him. I believe all of John's fans are my soul mates ha!
Honestly I want to see him do a TED talk
does anyone have tabs??????
Ryan Beckenbaugh This comment was underappreciated.
:)
Orange Sunshine or Purple Haze?
eh, it's the top comment now. I feel appreciated. :P
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergot (do not try this at home)
Psilocybin spores are legal in most states.
Salvia is legal but...it's not what you are looking for.
I love how this interviews are always like 5 or 6 questions, but the video last 45 whole minutes because he is so passionate about the things he says that he can't stop talking
Omg the deeper u get into the video the more profound his ramblings get, it's awesome
I understood exactly every word he said. He is So into music god i love him, i totally relate to feeling that music is somthing more than we think. and every word helped me so much as a musician, i felt like he was talking directly to me about the recording process and practice. im a guitar player and producer with my own studio.
best JF interview ever
He was 21 when he made BSSM. Let that one sink in.
"I'd do this meditation where I would, try and imagine the smell of chocolate, and imagine the smell of chocolate and just hold it in mind... "the smell of chocolate".. Haha(laughs) ... "The TASTE of chocolate".. Lol I fucking love johns personality, cracks me up, such a free and mellow spirit. And so smart it blows my mind, that all the things he says and, how he has trouble saying it because its hard to articulate the current/energy feeding through us, its so hard to explain. And it makes you feel dumb and stutter just trying to explain something. I can relate 110% to everything he says in this video as a musician. I've noticed ive learned ale this great knowledge through a combination of my influences and music theory I've learned combined with the feelings I can produce and have made, all are feelings that speak to me indirectly without words, but with a feeling that tells me and the feeling is so strong you just know the answers and essential guidelines that you follow to tap into it and its really just as simple as "if the feeling you get feels right after playing something" and the intensity of it will tell you the significance of the piece of music should be discovered further and to keep improvising unto you've explored all the possibilities and routes the feeling\sound can possibly go. Then you have all the components and foundation for the song that came through you. And then you use your conscious mind to put the song structure together like a puzzle." I swear I feel like the music I create and things I know and pit out are greater than me, mainly because a conscious human mind couldn't think up or make something so beautiful and the intense energy that radiates from all of it as a piece of art. Truly a precious gift learned through my dedication and passion and opening my mind for things flow in and out and to speculate and experiment with new sounds and vibes gradually learning the great pure knowledge of truth John speaks of in this video.
I really relate to John when he said he listened to one guitarist for awhile, then getting into someone else... I play guitar myself, and love all sorts of guitarist's...(and music) my partner (who I met when I played in the same band as her 6 years ago) is a classic trained musician (has her degree) and a multi Instrumentalist, really opened my mind. like the great Frank Zappa said... "your mind is like a parachute, it wont work unless it's open".. ok, some are open a little more than others... mine is wide open... I am 56years old now and don't want to miss anything.
I think he listened to more than one guitarist at a given time. He was just more into one at a time I guess. It happens to me, I go from listening to rock, funk, blues, folk guitarists all the time but that doesn't mean I stop listening to other people when I do.
André Kiste Yeah, I guess so... I play guitar and do the same thing.
+Ziggy „Frappanised“ Zappada LOL, I didn't know the Zappa quote. Like it a lot!
Anne Dworak It's a great quote isn't it... that's our Frank. :-)
This man is the reason I first picked up a guitar 9 years ago. Owe him more than he'll ever know
I got here because I really like his first two solo records. It makes me happy to listen to him talk about the things that are so relevant to all of us.
He really is a calming presence.
I've listened to this before I sleep for the past year and it knocks me out within 5 minutes EVERY SINGLE TIME. He has an incredibly soothing voice. Thank you John Frusciante with every piece of my soul
I really admire Johns creative wisdom, and it has certainly helped me in my work.
I feel like he's saying what I want to say.... No flashy stuff here. I appreciate that beyond words.
Frusciante's my guy and this interview is gold, thanks.
This helps me think in a more positive way about allot of things, im happy i found this :)
Wow so inspirational, he's speaks from the heart in both his music and speech, incredible.
John Frusciante is one of the most intelligent people in music today. He doesn't care about money or fame but is truly willing to follow what interests him. Every time I hear him speak I'm impressed with his views on life and music.
28:32 "Consistently stuttering, I mean studying, the laws of science.." oh my god he's adorable!
he started talking like this after rehab
richi360 He might have regenerated (if you believe in this stuff).
anne - he's a profoundly different personality. I think there might be something in that theory as he is so different to when he was young. Obviously people are immature when they are 19 and that cockiness he had in the early days may have been a front but it is so different it's not the same person. I do think my overall traits between myself at 19 and now aged 50 are as vast. This video has been quite something for me... inspirational and in a way comforting. My life hasn't been that rosey at times and it's been almost permissive for me to be truer to myself and as a somewhat stifled musician put things into perspective as to what I can gain if I change my approach to what I do.
Never seen Funky Monks, the documentary? He was definitely talking like this, even during BSSM.
So spiritual and so much insight into music! I love listening to every word he has to say, love listening to all his music. He is so humble with a beautiful, loving and brutally honest soul. like Hendrix before him, I never thought I would hear another guitarist like Jimi (Hendrix) until JF came along, and I am a huge Hendrix fan! but lets not take anything away from Jeff Beck... Eric Clapton... Steve Vai... Joe Satriani... and many others I don't have time to mention now, who are still with us
Johns opinions on life are both mad and amazing
I like that this great musician can be humble and recognize that the source of music is beyond the individual and shouldn't be made package to order by Hollywood. I like what he has to say, it seems honest and not regurgitated.
i have divine cosmic connection to this man. he is such an amazing spirit, words cannot express my gratitude for him just being present.
he has such a beautiful way of explaining it.... life, music, creativity. I think he is very close to the great being itself. Feels like he understands the purity of life
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His way of explaining things is so pure and interesting :)
I wish John wrote a book
I love the last few minutes where John talks about how an audience bonds during a show because of the shared experience. That's one of the reasons I still go to shows even though I'm in my fifties. It's like a massive musical love-in amongst hundreds or thousands of strangers. It's a natural high that no drug can compete with! Both of my sons have had the privilege of seeing John play in small, intimate performances. I hope someday to see John with them. What a beautiful thing that would be.....
""The Laws of Acoustics"" BEAUTIFUL
this interview makes so much sense and it gives me so much hope
John should really write a book. I absolutely love & agree with his thoughts.
I think he is hypersensitive to emotion and sound. A blessing and a curse. It can take most of a lifetime coming to terms with the things that make you different than everyone else. It can be lonely, beautiful, maddening....
John's just like Socrates: wise and passing his knowledge and wisdom through not written ways
I'd really love if a "Plato" would live so that we could read a book about John"s philosophy
He's really a fucking genius :)
From 5:42, It's like he's expressing things he's said in his music. "All of the fucked things you do, are the product of what's happened to you." That's a real artist.
you shouldn't thank the interviewer for letting him speak, if you have such a person infront of you that's what you should do
He chooses interesting notes, note combinations, and chord progressions. He uses repetition and building emotion very well. Master of tone and effects. I hear Hendrix, Gilmour, Zappa.
I can’t wait to have a conversation with John one day in our final form... 🕊
So amazing, he sums it up so eloquently,and his voice to my senses is just so honest it’s like listening to your best friend on the coach and just loving the way his voice expresses with integrity, honesty, wisdom
I really loved this interview, it´s my first time watching it but for sure it´s not the last.
Thank you so much for sharing it.
Luv to all - LEGALIZE JÁ!!
Do you want to understand??????
Close your eyes and listen to his music with an open heart.
Once you see the love that emanates through his music, you have found the solution.
I for one think John has found peace and made his peace, I love him and his music that contributes to the excellent creative sound that the RHCP have evolved, I don't think the group will be the same obviously but the music that the old boy's and that's you too Flea, will keep the group in sync, the next guitarist will not bring to the table the amount of lead guitar that is needed, but the remaining Anthony, Flea and Chad will hold the group together if not for the better!
Oh yeah, I'd love to know what John thinks of the Edgar Winter song " Frankenstein " ? I hope that's the name of that song, going on a assumption.
do you know that, john leaving is kinda Flea´s fault?
No I read that Flea ( had a feeling he would leave) John was showing signs for example he, Flea I lessoned to, said that John was a lot more distant, quiet, not the same as before, no this was John's own desision for sure or even his wife, but even though John's guitar playing is so fking awesome and , and I was listening to the song I think it's " other side" John double jumps cords and it's stuff like that that singles him out!
he is the greatst, but I read that John was really excited about the future of the RHCP, but flea suggested a longer hiatus, so john started workin in his own stuff and couldnt stop, imma find that and post it to you, its really sad
here it is: "So it was always something that I wanted to do but we were so well-received as a band that it didn't really occur to me to quit until Flea came to me at one point and said, 'I want to take a two-year break after this tour,'" he explained. "And he said that to me about halfway through the [2007 "Stadium Arcadium"] tour, and when he said it I was kind of shocked, 'cause I thought we were on a roll, let's just keep moving with this, you know? But once he said it to me, my mind started thinking, 'What would I do with that two years if I had two years to just do whatever I wanted?'" (John Frusciante)
This mans ability to speak coherently and concisely for such a length of time, shows his genius. The more I listen and hear, the more I love him.
If you transcribed all the “and thens” from 26:06 onward you’re the most amazing transcriber ever!
Lol, yeah, I did. And thank you 😊
I go to sleep listening to this, he has such a pure and profound understanding of music as an entity and its purpose in our lives.
Reminds of the dude except he doesnt talk shit.
His perspective on life, time and our relationship to it is so unique and endlessly fascinating to me. I'm so used to the polished, boring media images we're fed and to see and hear someone who is so in tune with themselves and honest about it is a nice wake up! I'm coming back in my next life as one of his cats.
I'm not a musician but I am an artist and everything john says about where creativity and inspiration comes from I absolutely agree with. Music touches people in a way nothing else can, it can invoke such a huge emotional response and has done some wonderful things in life from inspiring others to create their own art to actually saving lives. I've seen that beautiful connection with both loved ones and strangers when I share my art, I can't see where the inspiration comes from when I paint but I can physically see on their faces that emotional connection and its a beautiful and humbling experience.
This is perfectly explained. I actually hear the music in my head and I try to play it on my bass guitar and it actually sounds good. If that's what happens when I'm 13, then I wonder what will be in the future.
This is probably one of the best interviews ever!
I'm only 7 minutes in and I'd have to say this is the most coherent and forthcoming I've seen John in an interview, he seems so much more at ease here than in the past. Love John so much.
Yeah bro, I respect John because he's so honest. I don't know about you but I don't meet many honest people in my life. It seems most people put on a false face and are afraid to "say something wrong", i.e., say something their peers might reject or ridicule. I say to thine own self be true and John seems to embody that philosophy in everything he does. It takes courage.
i was watching this and 10 minutes into it i heard scratching on my door, it was my cat. he sat in my lap and watched the whole thing and didn't go to sleep or move a muscle...woah cats really do like johnny fru
This interview is a gift to the universe. Everything he says about creating is right on, exact truth. Everyone who wants to create should listen to this as much as possible. He is such a gift to us!!!!
Джоник мой муж!!! я живу с ним в ЛА!! мы очень счастливы!!!!! Любим друг друга!!! он поет мне песни , а я наслаждаюсь!!!
JF - such an incredible artist...the most beautiful soloist i've ever heard......MY FAVORITE MUSICIAN EVER!
Amazing human, honest and a critical thinker , the world needs more people like him
This is so beautiful. It makes me cry everytime because if the way he connects to everything spiritually with things that go on in reality.
Man this was painful to listen too. He rambles on like someone who is fighting a massive panic attack. This actually made me feel stressed out cause I feel so sorry for him. John is an amazing musician and sometimes I wonder if he is not on the spectrum .
It's always the ones who seem crazy that are truly geniuses. The next generation may understand him better than this one.
i remember when this vid only had like 2000 view, i"m glad to see its growing.Truly he is a master off his craft. A beautiful soul witch emits love, creativity, spirituality, honesty,and passion along with much much more, i'm extremely happy we live in a world with John Frusciante after all "it could be so many other ways"
Beautiful language (as in linguistics) he speaks. Abstract but easy to grasp. What a lovely person. Could listen to his view on life for days.
FRU I LOVE U!!!!
Thank you so much for posting this! When I first saw The Heart Is a Drum Machine I knew that there had to be more John interview and I'm so glad that now I'm able to hear more of his thoughts. He is such on inspiration to me. Meeting him and talking to him was one of the most amazing experiences I've ever had.
26:10:
He's pretty much Jesus Christ smoking a cigarette.
Lol..🤘
Thanks for upload this :) I also enjoyed the chikens in your other vids hahahaha
You’re welcome 😉 and thanks for checking out my other videos!
My god, what a beautiful person he is, such a philosopher and a wonderful perspective of life I wish I could be that profound about anything in my life, it makes me happy and sad at the same time listening to him.
I like how he stutters or fumbles with his words when talking normally because he has so much going through his mind, but when singing it's flawless and he says what he wants to say while making a great song
What an amazing opportunity to let the man speak. Thank you for uploading it and thanks to the interviewer for allowing him to express himself.
This is my church, love Frusciantism