John Frusciante’s longtime guitar tech Dave Lee lately mirrored on Frusciante’s selection to depart the Pink Sizzling 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 surprising as he had been planning a hiatus two years earlier than his departure.
“All the pieces shut down when he formally left in 2009, however the writing was already on the wall. I bear in mind John and I had been sitting within the dressing room at both the Studying or Leeds Competition in 2007, and he instructed me he was going to take two years off. He mentioned, ‘After that, I’ll know if I need 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 give up the Pink Sizzling Chili Peppers?’ For lots of musicians, being in a band just like the Chili Peppers can be the head. One in 1,000,000 musicians get that type of success. The possibilities are so slim, even for actually proficient individuals.”
When requested in regards to the secret to Frusciante’s success, Lee replied:
“It sounds cliched, however it actually is correct: John was true to himself and his artwork. He refuses to let success, or the hope of success, information his inventive world. That’s the one method I can clarify it. When John wrote ‘Underneath the Bridge,’ for instance, he wasn’t making an attempt to make successful music; he wrote it as a result of that’s what he felt like doing.”
Lee continued: “They’d 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 individuals say issues like, ‘I don’t need to be a musician for fame and fortune,’ I feel, ‘That’s bullshit.’ However it is 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 certain: he’s not there for the success.”