“These are Flea’s words—excitable, jazzy, regretful, disarming, popping, and writhing away in his biological bass zone.”
The Atlantic
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year in Nonfiction
A New York Times Pick of Books to Watch for This Month
A USA Today Pick of Books Not to Miss
A #1 Amazon.com bestseller in Rock Music
New York Times bestseller
A Paste Magazine Pick of Best Audiobooks of the Month
A Los Angeles Times Pick of One of Five New Music Books
Finalist for the Audie Award for Best Narration by the Author
This New York Times bestselling memoir is a raw and riveting portrait of a youth spent wild in Los Angeles, from the iconic bassist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
"Virtuostic vulnerability." —The Atlantic
In Acid for the Children, Flea takes readers on a deeply personal and revealing tour of his formative years, spanning from Australia to the New York City suburbs to, finally, Los Angeles. Through hilarious anecdotes, poetical meditations, and occasional flights of fantasy, Flea deftly chronicles the experiences that forged him as an artist, a musician, and a young man.
His dreamy, jazz-inflected prose makes the Los Angeles of the 1970s and 80s come to gritty, glorious life, including the potential for fun, danger, mayhem, or inspiration that lurked around every corner. It is here that young Flea, looking to escape a turbulent home, found family in a community of musicians, artists, and junkies who also lived on the fringe. He spent most of his time partying and committing petty crimes. But it was in music where he found a higher meaning, a place to channel his frustration, loneliness, and love. This left him open to the life-changing moment when he and his best friends, soul brothers, and partners-in-mischief came up with the idea to start their own band, which became the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Acid for the Children is as witty, entertaining, and wildly unpredictable as the author himself. It's a tenderly evocative coming-of-age story and a raucous love letter to the power of music and creativity from one of the most renowned musicians of our time.
A #1 LA Times Bestseller
A USA Today Bestseller
One of NPR's "Favorite Books of the Year"
"Virtuostic vulnerability." —The Atlantic
In Acid for the Children, Flea takes readers on a deeply personal and revealing tour of his formative years, spanning from Australia to the New York City suburbs to, finally, Los Angeles. Through hilarious anecdotes, poetical meditations, and occasional flights of fantasy, Flea deftly chronicles the experiences that forged him as an artist, a musician, and a young man.
His dreamy, jazz-inflected prose makes the Los Angeles of the 1970s and 80s come to gritty, glorious life, including the potential for fun, danger, mayhem, or inspiration that lurked around every corner. It is here that young Flea, looking to escape a turbulent home, found family in a community of musicians, artists, and junkies who also lived on the fringe. He spent most of his time partying and committing petty crimes. But it was in music where he found a higher meaning, a place to channel his frustration, loneliness, and love. This left him open to the life-changing moment when he and his best friends, soul brothers, and partners-in-mischief came up with the idea to start their own band, which became the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Acid for the Children is as witty, entertaining, and wildly unpredictable as the author himself. It's a tenderly evocative coming-of-age story and a raucous love letter to the power of music and creativity from one of the most renowned musicians of our time.
A #1 LA Times Bestseller
A USA Today Bestseller
One of NPR's "Favorite Books of the Year"
Release:
2019-11-05
2019-11-05
Runtime:
Runtime:
9h 5m
9h 5m
Format:
audio
audio
Weight:
0.0 lb
0.7 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781478983514
9781478912903
Publisher:
Hachette Book Group
Hachette Book Group
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