Acid For The Children - Vzpomínky – Flea (2024)

The renowned bassist and co-founder of the Red Hot Chili Peppers shares his fascinating story from youth, filled with all the dizzying highs and steep lows you would want to hear from a street rat from L.A. who became a world-famous rock star. Acid for the Children is a deeply personal confession in which Flea guides the reader through his early teenage years, during which he moved from Australia to the suburbs of New York and then to Los Angeles. Through a mix of funny anecdotes, poetic reflections, and phantasmagorias, he describes the events that were formative for him as a musician and a young man. His dreamy, jazz-soaked prose presents Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s with all its grit, danger, and fun. In a community of musicians, artists, and junkies living on the fringes of society, young Flea, who was trying to escape an unstable home, found a family. He enjoyed parties and committed minor acts of mischief. He found deeper meaning only in music, which provided him with a space to express his frustrations—loneliness and love—and brought a crucial life change when he formed a band with his best friends, which eventually became the Red Hot Chili Peppers. These memoirs include a foreword by Patti Smith...