The discography of John Frusciante, who is best known as the guitarist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, consists of thirteen solo albums, two internet only release albums, seven EPs, as well as two albums with collaborators Joe Lally and Josh Klinghoffer under the name Ataxia and two EPs and three studio albums under the alias of Trickfinger. After recording Mother's Milk and Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Frusciante left the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1992 when he got tired of the growing success of the band.[1] He released his first solo album, Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt, in 1994 on American Recordings. His second record, Smile From the Streets You Hold, was released in 1997 and later taken off the market at his request in 1999. After returning to the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1998, Frusciante recorded Californication with the band and subsequently released his third solo album, To Record Only Water for Ten Days, in February 2001 on Warner Music Group.
Red Hot Chili Peppers released By the Way in 2002, with Frusciante taking a central role in the songwriting.[2] Following the album's tour, Frusciante released Shadows Collide with People in 2004; it became his first solo album to influence a music chart[3] and is his only solo album to date featuring Chad Smith. In 2004, Frusciante switched from Warner Brothers to the Record Collection label and released a series of six records in six months. Four of six included collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Josh Klinghoffer[4] and the period produced collaborations with Fugazi members Joe Lally and Jerry Busher, and producer Ian MacKaye, as well as Carla Azar and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez.
Frusciante began working with Omar Rodríguez-López in 2001 and has since collaborated on many recordings under both artists' names. Frusciante also was considered an honorary member of The Mars Volta from 2002 to 2008, occasionally performing live with the band from 2003 to 2006. Frusciante served as executive producer on Rodríguez-López's first film, released in 2010, The Sentimental Engine Slayer, which was filmed in 2007.
In 2006, the Red Hot Chili Peppers released their Grammy Award-winning[5] double album Stadium Arcadium. Frusciante began work on his tenth solo record, The Empyrean, shortly thereafter and subsequently released the album in early 2009.[6] In December 2009, Frusciante revealed that he had left Red Hot Chili Peppers more than a year earlier, during their hiatus. Since then, he has gone on to release 2012's Letur-Lefr EP and Sect In Sgt EP (the latter recorded under the alias of Trickfinger), the full-length follow-up PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone, its experimental sequel, 2014's Enclosure, his 2015 album, Trickfinger and more recently Trickfinger II. Frusciante has also gone on to collaborate as Speed Dealer Moms with Venetian Snares, and with Swahili Blonde and Kimono Kult with his now former wife, Nicole Turley, as well as with the Black Knights. He has also released a number of solo tracks on his bandcamp and soundcloud pages.[7] In December 2019, Frusciante again re-joined the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and their twelfth album Unlimited Love was ultimately released on April 1, 2022 and was followed soon after by their thirteenth album, Return of the Dream Canteen on October 14, 2022. Frusciante continues to release solo albums under his own name and under the Trickfinger name with three new releases in 2020.
Solo material
editStudio albums
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| Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt |
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| Smile from the Streets You Hold |
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| To Record Only Water for Ten Days |
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| Shadows Collide with People |
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| The Will to Death |
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| Inside of Emptiness |
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| Curtains |
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| The Empyrean |
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| PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone |
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| Enclosure |
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| Maya |
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| II |
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Internet albums
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| From the Sounds Inside |
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| Renoise Tracks 2009–2011[18] |
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EPs
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| Estrus EP |
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| Going Inside |
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| The Brown Bunny |
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| DC EP |
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| Letur-Lefr |
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| Outsides | |
| 4-Track Guitar Music | |
| Foregrow |
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Singles
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| The Special 12 Singles Series |
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| "Wayne" |
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| "Fight for Love" |
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| "Medre" |
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Trickfinger
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| Sect In Sgt |
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| Trickfinger |
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| Trickfinger II |
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| Look Down, See Us |
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| She Smiles Because She Presses the Button |
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With Josh Klinghoffer
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| A Sphere in the Heart of Silence |
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Ataxia
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| Automatic Writing |
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| AW II |
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With Red Hot Chili Peppers
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| Mother's Milk |
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| Blood Sugar Sex Magik |
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| Californication |
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| By the Way |
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| Stadium Arcadium |
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| Unlimited Love |
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| Return of the Dream Canteen |
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Live, compilation and other albums
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| What Hits!? |
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| Greatest Hits |
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers Live in Hyde Park |
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| George Clinton and His Gangsters of Love |
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| Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Covers EP |
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With The Mars Volta
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| De-Loused in the Comatorium |
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| Frances the Mute |
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| Amputechture |
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| The Bedlam in Goliath |
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| Octahedron |
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With Omar Rodríguez-López
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| A Manual Dexterity: Soundtrack Volume One |
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| Se Dice Bisonte, No Búfalo |
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| Calibration (Is Pushing Luck and Key Too Far) |
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| Omar Rodriguez Lopez & John Frusciante |
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| Sepulcros de Miel |
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| Arañas en la Sombra |
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| Cell Phone Bikini |
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With Speed Dealer Moms
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| Speed Dealer Moms |
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| SDM-LA8-441-114-211 |
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| Birth Control Pill |
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With Swahili Blonde
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| Man Meat |
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| Psycho Tropical Ballet Pink |
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| Covers EP |
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With Kimono Kult
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| Hiding in the Light |
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With Black Knights
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| Medieval Chamber[36] |
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| The Almighty |
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| Excalibur |
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| TBA |
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Other contributions and guest appearances
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| Kristen Vigard (Kristen Vigard) |
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| Divine Love, Sex and Romance (Nina Hagen) |
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| Give Peace a Chance (Peace Choir) |
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| Anytime at All (Banyan) |
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| Rev (Perry Farrell) |
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| You Come and Go Like a Pop Song (The Bicycle Thief) |
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| Fishbone and the Familyhood Nextperience Present: The Psychotic Friends Nuttwerx (Fishbone) |
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| A System for Shutting Everything Out (Kevin Haskins & Doug DeAngelis) |
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| Demos of Milla Jovovich |
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| Blowback (Tricky) |
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| The Id (Macy Gray) |
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| 24 Hour Party People Soundtrack (Various) |
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| American IV: The Man Comes Around (Johnny Cash) |
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| We're a Happy Family: A Tribute to Ramones (Various) |
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| Dragonfly (Ziggy Marley) |
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| Underworld OST (Various) |
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| Unearthed (Johnny Cash) |
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| Tempo Technik Teamwork (Ekkehard Ehlers) |
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| The Word Is Live (Yes) |
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| Music for the Divine (Glenn Hughes) |
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| Modern Folk and Blues: Wednesday (Bob Forrest) |
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| Samurai Workout |
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| Ultra Payloaded (Satellite Party) |
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| The Dub Room Special (Frank Zappa) |
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| Hourglass (Dave Gahan (Depeche Mode singer)) |
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| 8 Diagrams (Wu-Tang Clan) |
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| Digi Snacks (RZA) |
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| George Clinton and His Gangsters of Love (George Clinton) |
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| The Spirit of Apollo (N.A.S.A. (North America/South America)) |
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| Exquisite Corpse (Warpaint) |
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| Vol. 1 (VAGENDA / Nicole Turley) |
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| DOXXOLOGY (BIG DOXX (Kehinde "Doxx" Cunningham & Nicole Turley)) |
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| You're the Father of My Songs (Amanda Jo Williams) |
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| Vol. 2 (VAGENDA / Nicole Turley) |
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| Pleasure Pyramid (Sexual Castle (Ivory Lee Carlson & Nicole Turley)) |
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| Paper Gods (Duran Duran) |
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| A Raw Youth (Le Butcherettes) |
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| Mahandini (Dewa Budjana) |
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| The Problem Of Leisure (Various artists) |
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| The Album (AcHoZeN) |
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DVDs and videos
editSolo music videos
edit| Year | Title | Director(s)[47] |
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| 1997 | "Life's a Bath" | M. Polish |
| 2001 | "Going Inside" | Vincent Gallo |
| 2005 | "The Past Recedes" | Mike Piscitelli |
| 2020 | "Brand E" | Amalia Irons |
Additionally, the entirety of John Frusciante's album To Record Only Water for Ten Days was made into a series of short experimental films directed by Vincent Gallo in 2001. This film was never given any official release, though the videos were shown on MTV2.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
editDVDs
edit| Title | Album notes |
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| Funky Monks | |
| Off the Map | |
| Live at Slane Castle |
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Music videos
edit| Year | Title | Director(s)[48] |
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| 1989 | "Higher Ground" | Drew Carolan |
| "Knock Me Down" | ||
| 1990 | "Taste the Pain" | Tom Stern and Alex Winter |
| "Show Me Your Soul" | Bill Stobaugh | |
| 1991 | "Give It Away" | Stéphane Sednaoui |
| 1992 | "Under the Bridge" | Gus Van Sant |
| "Suck My Kiss" | Compilation footage from Gavin Bowden | |
| 1999 | "Scar Tissue" | Stéphane Sednaoui |
| "Around the World" | ||
| 2000 | "Otherside" | Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris |
| "Californication" | ||
| "Road Trippin'" | ||
| 2002 | "By the Way" | |
| "The Zephyr Song" | ||
| 2003 | "Can't Stop" | Mark Romanek |
| "Universally Speaking" | Dick Rude | |
| "Fortune Faded" | Laurent Briet | |
| 2006 | "Dani California" | Tony Kaye |
| "Tell Me Baby" | Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris | |
| "Snow ((Hey Oh))" | Nick Wickham | |
| 2007 | "Desecration Smile" | Gus Van Sant |
| "Hump de Bump" | Chris Rock | |
| 2022 | "Black Summer" | Deborah Chow |
| "These Are the Ways" | Malia James | |
| "Tippa My Tongue" | ||
| "The Drummer" | Philip R Lopez |
References
editGeneral
- Kiedis, Anthony; Sloman, Larry (2004-10-06). Scar Tissue. Hyperion. ISBN 1-4013-0101-0.
Specific
- ^ Kiedis, Sloman, 2004. p. 284.
- ^ "Tattooed Love Boys – John Frusciante unofficial – Invisible Movement – Page 3". Archived from the original on 2012-07-22. Retrieved 2013-03-18.
- ^ "Shadows Collide with People charting". Billboard. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-08-31.
- ^ The Will to Death, Inside of Emptiness, A Sphere in the Heart of Silence liner notes.
- ^ http://www.grammy.com/nominees/search?artist=Red+Hot+Chili+Peppers&title=&year=All&genre=All%7C [dead link]
- ^ "John Frusciante to release The Empyrean on Record Collection 1.20.2009". RedHotChiliPeppers.com. November 12, 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-13.
- ^ "John Frusciante Soundcloud". November 4, 2017.
- ^ "Smile from the Streets You Hold". Johnfrusciante.com. Archived from the original on 2006-07-02. Retrieved 2006-09-04.
- ^ Raggett, Ned. "Smile From the Streets You Hold review". Allmusic. Retrieved 2007-09-22.
- ^ "A Little Message from John to the Fans". Johnfrusciante.com. March 16, 2005. Archived from the original on December 14, 2005. Retrieved 2006-06-08.
- ^ Shadows Collide with People liner notes.
- ^ a b c "Billboard positions". billboard.com. Retrieved 2 May 2009.
- ^ a b "UK Chartlog". zobbel.de. Retrieved 12 January 2009.
- ^ "UK Chartlog 2009-02-07". zobbel.de. Retrieved 2 May 2009.
- ^ GmbH, musicline.de / PhonoNet. "Die ganze Musik im Internet: Charts, Neuerscheinungen, Tickets, Genres, Genresuche, Genrelexikon, Künstler-Suche, Musik-Suche, Track-Suche, Ticket-Suche – musicline.de".[permanent dead link]
- ^ "John Frusciante – Enclosure". Ultratop.
- ^ "Official downloads". Johnfrusciante.com. Archived from the original on 2007-06-25. Retrieved 2007-09-15.
- ^ a b c "John Frusciante". Archived from the original on 2016-11-07. Retrieved 2015-11-27.
- ^ "Renoise Tracks 2009–2011, by John Frusciante". Archived from the original on 2015-11-28. Retrieved 2015-11-27.
- ^ "The Brown Bunny 180g reissue". Archived from the original on 2014-02-21.
- ^ "New upoming release, Outsides – John Frusciante unofficial – Invisible Movement". 11 July 2013. Archived from the original on 3 October 2013. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
- ^ "Archived copy". CDJapan. Archived from the original on 2013-08-12. Retrieved 2013-07-11.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "4-Track Guitar Music, by John Frusciante". Archived from the original on 2015-11-27. Retrieved 2015-11-27.
- ^ "John Frusciante". Archived from the original on 2016-04-28. Retrieved 2016-04-11.
- ^ "Sect In Sgt, by John Frusciante, Trickfinger". Archived from the original on 2016-01-06. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
- ^ "Look Down, See Us, by John Frusciante, Trickfinger".
- ^ "She Smiles Because She Presses The Button, by John Frusciante/Trickfinger".
- ^ "Automatic Writing information". Johnfrusciante.com. Archived from the original on 2007-08-20. Retrieved 2007-09-12.
- ^ "AW II album info". Johnfrusciante.com. Archived from the original on 2007-08-20. Retrieved 2007-09-12.
- ^ Kiedis, Sloman, 2004. p. 295
- ^ Kiedis, Sloman, 2004. pp.398–400
- ^ "Red Hot Chili Peppers Biography". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
- ^ One Hot Minute liner notes
- ^ "SDM-LA8-441-114-211, by Speed Dealer Moms".
- ^ "Evar016 - Speed Dealer Moms - Birth Control Pill".
- ^ "About — Black Knights". Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-03-09.
- ^ "The Almighty Instrumental Mixes | John Frusciante". Archived from the original on 2016-12-04. Retrieved 2016-12-07.
- ^ "John Frusciante".
- ^ jelmerdebom (4 August 2010). "Banyan and John Frusciante – La Sirena [High Quality] 1998". Archived from the original on 2021-12-19 – via YouTube.
- ^ "YouTube". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2014-04-27.
- ^ "Vol. 1, by VAGENDA".
- ^ "DOXXOLOGY, by BIG DOXX".
- ^ "You're The Father of My Songs, by Amanda Jo Williams".
- ^ "Vol. 2, by VAGENDA".
- ^ "Pleasure Pyramid, by Sexual Castle".
- ^ "Duran Duran Timeline". Duran Duran. 24 April 2014.
- ^ "John Frusciante music videos". Music Video Database. Retrieved 2007-09-15.
- ^ "Red Hot Chili Peppers music videos". Music Video Database. Retrieved 2007-09-24.
External links
edit- Official website
- Official discography
- John Frusciante at AllMusic
- John Frusciante discography at Discogs