John Frusciante - 2001 Full Chateau Marmont Interview (audio) 7-18-2001
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- John Frusciante - Chateau Marmont Interview
This is the audio only, working on the master video and hope to restore or bump up the resolution as this was recorded on a SDV-CAM tape in 2001.
In 2001 John was touring to promote TO RECORD ONLY WATER FOR TEN DAYS.
I’d seen him at just about every Los Angeles show and got to know his manager/team.
At a show for the LA Weekly Awards in 2001, John played a short 5 song set.
While in line to get in this night, a tourist visiting from Spain named Nacho Recio was in line with me. We began talking and I told him I’d send him some John bootlegs of current shows. So we exchanged emails. He then asked me what the best approach would be for him to get an interview with John for a Spain TV show he was producing. I suggested he go speak with Louie Mathieu (John’s road manager for this tour) who was standing outside the venue at that very minute. He did, and the two exchanged emails/or numbers. A few days later, Nacho emails me to say he has been granted an interview with John that next day. The problem was, he was a tourist staying in Venice Beach, and he didn’t have a car (I did), he didn’t know where the Chateau Marmont was (I did), and he was not fluent in his English (I was). So, he asked me if I would do him a HUGE favor and conduct the interview and give him a ride to the interview while he worked the camera/sound with his partner Lena. To the contrary, he did ME the biggest favor I could ever dream of.
We arrived to the scheduled interview very early. The front desk rang his room, no answer. So they asked us to wait in the lobby. We hung out for 30min or so and tried him again, this time they said he was available and to go on up to his room. At this point, I got nervous, before this it seemed too good to be true, and I didn’t want to get my hopes up. John answered the door, having just woke up by the phone call. He said he was going to go running but let us in to set up while he got dressed instead, which is why he looks a little disheveled in the video. Surreal is not even the word I would use. We finally got all set up and we started making some small talk and rolled camera/sound. I asked him a lot of questions about his early history, Thelonious Monster audition story from his point of view, as it’s been told so many ways, depending who you speak to about it. The more questions I asked, the more comfortable John became, and really opened up about his come back to the band, music, drug addiction/rehab, working with other artists. I think we ended up taking up about 90min of his afternoon. After the interview, John played us the demo of a song “RICKY NELSON” as he called it then, a song he and Josh Klinghoffer just recorded. He also gave me a CD of unreleased demos, he made me promise to burn and return the CD to him, and be sure I get a copy of the CD to his webmaster Chris Middleton who ran John’s website at the time, www.johnfrusciante.com
He knew his demos were leaking on the internet and had no real plans to officially release them, so he wanted them out on the internet for free. This is now referred to as “From The Sounds Inside” or “Internet CD”. It had no real title, and Chris Middleton held a contest on his web site to name this CD…but it’s not official. Needless to say, I had he CD in my hands, we listened to it all the way to my house in Pasadena. We got to my house, I burned a copy of the interview from DVCAM to VHS, I burned a CD for Nacho/myself/Chris and I drove him back to Venice Beach. We listened to the CD all the way there. Nacho left back to Spain a few weeks later and started to work on the interview for his TV Station. Some clips are on You Tube. I sent the CD to Chris in Canada; he released them on the official John Frusciante web site a few weeks later. Chris and I recently re-connected on Facebook and he’s doing well and still in Canada and we spoke about this time back in our lives. I also hear from Nacho who gave his consent to this audio interview. He's doing amazing things in his career as well.
To sum this up. John was in a great mood that day, reminiscing about the old days. His room was filled with keyboard, synths, digital 8 track, guitars, Hoffner Bass, CD’s everywhere, CD booklets everywhere. His manager Louie stopped in to check in on us halfway through the interview for a little while, he made some calls from John’s kitchen and then took off once it seemed everything was okay.
The band was in the middle of writing songs for BY THE WAY at this time and John would be going to band rehearsal later that day. To me, it was about being at the right place, right time, and knowing my way around Hollywood that helped make this happen.
Inspired by the recent Broken Record John/Rick Rubin interviews. Richard Alan White videos and Sonja Farrell photos all recently coming out.
ENJOY! More to come! - Ralph Paredes - เพลง
In early internet era 2001 without all of john’s history readily available with a few clicks, you guys really did your homework and asked questions that a genuine fan would want to know. And from that this became one of the best John interviews ever. For anyone interested in John’s early solo albums this is a gold mine. Thank you guys!
Thank you, it's been in the vault for too long.
I was at the 97 Viper Room show. It was a really interesting evening. At the time most people in the area (aside from his friends) had not seen or heard John in person and I remember a sort of subtle shocked feeling in the room when he came out because his appearance and virtually everything about him had changed so much. I know there were definitely some people there that night who expected some sort of return to form funk style show to take place. I knew Niandra Lades very well at that point and I cant recall if I had heard the Smile album yet or of it came out shortly after.. but I definitely knew we were not going to get this Funk/Punk guitar heavy performance. When John came out people cheered but there was a lot of whispering going on after between audience members concerning how fragile he looked. It seemed like there was a collective guilt in the audience because we were watching this man loved perform even though we knew he very clearly wasn't in good shape. I have listened to a recording of the many times since as well. Though John was still in a pretty weak physical state due to years of drug abuse etc there is still a broken and dark beauty to that show. I love the albums he released during that period (as disjointed and difficult as they may be)...and that live show was pretty trippy because that music was so intimate I never thought I would be standing in a crowded club watching him perform those songs publicly. It was a cool yet bizarre experience. I remember when I left the club my friends and I all talked for a long time about what we had just seen. Half of us saw it as John making a return and the other half thought we may have just seen a man perform for the final time. I definitely remember how blown away I was when I saw how much better he looked and sounded just 2 years later when he rejoined the Chili Peppers. I couldn't believe he rebounded that much in such a short time...but I am so grateful he had gotten healthy.
Definitely feel fortunate to have seen the show...a bit of a surreal memory but one I have pretty distinct memories of even after all these years.
was it at this show where one guy from the audience started in the middle of the set telling john why was he leading himself to his self-destrutction and that he was a "guitar god like jimmy page", something like that, and then john just started discussing with the guy. I remember listening to this in the bootleg of this show
@@Veras1231 Yes that was the show. If you listen the guy in the audience was actually trying to compliment John...he wasn't trying to be mean at all but John totally misunderstood his point and then he got the audience to say "Fuck this guy"...and the guy just got really quiet and looked totally defeated.
I recall people after the show talking with that fan outside and they said "Man...we knew you were not trying to talk bad about John..it just all got taken totally wrong and spiraled the wrong way"
It was a cool but very strange show. So happy I was there to see it...but like I said...sort of felt guilty like we should have been asking John to get help and get himself healthy instead of standing there watching him in a pretty fragile state etc.
Hard to believe that was 25 years ago. Cheers my friend
Thanks for the memory man! I notice how people based on LA has this more deep personal connection with the music scene and the artists based there. Like you could go to viper room on a Friday night and see frusciante doing a show, or like the times the chili peppers would do free shows. I'm from Rio, Brazil, so that's pretty far for myself hahahh. Thanks again for the insight, I always had a curiosity for these dark times of John
I remember knowing about the Viper Room 1997 show, and it was the one night I had to work really late. I was so mad, and thought about just leaving and going to the show....I really wish I would have gone instead. I don't remember ever seeing video or photos from this Viper Room show...I've heard the audio. Can you both @antonioveras describe his appearance? I read a review that said he had make-up on. This would have been a month before the SMALLS show with Bob Forrest that I was at. Chad had that good story on Rick Rubins Broken Record podcast where he said he went backstage to that Viper Room show and didn't recognize John at all...standing 2 feet away from him.
@@Strangewaystribute I totally lucked out because I was only staying there with a girl I was dating at the time and I was recording some music with a band at the time...and the girl I was with knew a lot of people at the Viper Room so she scored us tickets. There were definitely some celebrities in the crowd but thats not uncommon to see on LA (especially in the 90s).
I caught John at another solo show in New York a few years later and I saw the Chicago date of the Nutstalk tour in summer 97 (it was a pretty bad show...the whole thing was very thrown together and there was a very small crowd at the House of Blues) Lots of great memories of cool shows and definitely cool to hear this interview after so many years.
Wish I had a time machine to go back and revisit a lot of things from back then.
Thanks for watching. I am "off-mic" so you can barely hear my questions. Hope you enjoy this lost gem - Ralph Paredes
Thank you for keeping it this long. It's wonderful of you to treat us.
Thanks bro ,love it from Australia
This is brilliant, thank you for sharing
Thanks for uploading. I'm a huge fan of John's music.
Thank you for this awesome interview. I recently started learning guitar because of him :)
great interview. This era of his music means a lot to me and Its really great to hear him talk about it with clarity. thank you.
THANK YOUUUU
Godamn. I've been waiting years. Thank u brother. U just made lot of ppl happy. Tadadada dada
This is a gem, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for doing this. And thanks to everyone who gave permission.
This is really fantastic man. The video, and ‘Ricky’ playing was a great unexpected surprise. Perfect ending.
thank you for uploading!!
beautiful man, beautiful story, thank you !!!
So glad you released this! Thank you!
You're welcome, long overdue.
this is a fantastic interview with great insight into Johns mind at the time. thank you 🤘🤘
Thanks for listening
This is gold! Cool footage at the end too... THANKS SO MUCH FOT THIS!!! 🤟❤️✨
Thanks for listening/watching
This is a really insightful interview, and you let John have space for all his answers rather than interrupting him. And he is so honest. I love when he talks about one of the advantages of giving up drugs: "That week you made fifteen people smile." Simple, yet profound. Thank you for this.
Thank you, I had 3 pages of notes/questions...but he really expanded each answer. We hung out in his room for awhile talking without the cameras rolling too.
@@Strangewaystribute man. I'm so jealous. Been a dream to meet him since he first joined the peppers. Going to see them again in London next year. Been lucky enough to see him with them 15 times. I went twice in 2022. But its his solo stuff that I really love.
Thanks for posting this, really nice interview
Thank you, history for sure. There was no You Tube in 2001....so it's finally seeing the light of day. It's only been seen in Spain TV in clips. Enjoy! Listen to the Rick Rubin podcast with John on Broken Record too....those have been incredible, and reminded me of this lost interview I had in the vault.
This is history. Thanks, man.
Exactly, needs to be released before it's lost and forgotten.
Amazing thanks for this, great insight to the time, this when i was heavily getting into john and his solo music, great pictures and the footage at the end is ace.....thanks agian....big ups from Ireland!
Thank you!!
Thank you for this, brilliant interview
Thank you, appreciate the feedback.
Johns a legend
would be so cool if you got to do another interview with john : )
This is a great material! I remember looking some clips on TH-cam a few years ago from this interview but it's great to listen to all of it! Also a question maybe someone can answer me, did John quit smoking in this time too? Because I saw pictures of John smoking in 2009 but not in the by the way era
can you activate AUTO CAPTIONS for this video? thx!
if anyone here has contact with Toni Oswald let her know we want to buy a copy of Desert In Shape if it ever became possible
I've seen it, and it's pretty trippy. Clara is in it as a child of course. The ending is where you see John dressed up as Rose, it has John's song "Enter a Eh" and "Breathe" from Smile from the Streets you Hold along with just guitar/EFX noise. At least the version I saw did.
I ask her on Instagram if she plans to release it and she said "I'm sorry, I don't think that will happen in the near future"
It's ironic to hear John Frusciante speak so passionately about the freedom of creativity and the absence of authoritarianism about creative collaboration in this interview, especially considering it was conducted during the recording of 'By the Way.' From what I understand, Frusciante took a rather controlling approach during the album's production, going so far as to write all the bass parts himself and limiting Flea's creative input. The contrast between his words and actions during this period is quite thought-provoking.
Damn you were one of the first people to ever hear Ricky which was eventually released in 2004
Yes. We also got to hear the CD (Internet Album), 22 songs on the car ride home that day. We were in disbelief.
Weird! I was lucking for the full version of this interview yesterday. A big bunch of this i remember seeing on youtube like 10 years ago. Was there ever a full video version online?
No, only clips have been released. I have a few on my channel too, but the quality is not great. Working on a remaster once we source that master tapes. Thank you for listening/watching.
would be super interested to see the remater full video@@Strangewaystribute
I like the part where he says that music should be an expression of freedom and not an expression of fascism, where you are constanly told what to do. min 48
Just here to ask if the video Rubin wanted to utilize John and Toni's footage for eventually became "Soul to Squeeze"? Makes sense that it happened that way since both have similar vibes down to costume choice and makeup, as well as Rick's known enthusiasm for the song and his petitioning for it to make the cut for BSSM.
I'm pretty sure Rick Rubin wanted them to make a video for a song from Niandra LaDes album. Toni's movie is called "Desert in a Shape", and does feature songs from John in it, mostly from Smile from the Streets and strange guitar noises by John.
when he told the story of his first solo live gig 14:40 , the night that River Phoenix died, he had to laugh about puking on Gibby Haynes, did anybody else found this a little weird? I do not mean the puking but being able to laugh about that night although one of his best friends died there?
I dont know where i heard this and dont know if its true but theres alot of blame on his death by john or flea or something like that
John gave river a drink spiked with a leathel amount of drugs (according to sources) John has in subsequent interviews made light of his death. I found his reaction odd as well
Interesting to hear about what Circles of You is
There are only live recordings of that song from 1997
What’s the song playing during the intro?
Untitled instrumental outtake from To Record Water,
th-cam.com/video/5L62knXuTTc/w-d-xo.html
Thanks man thanks for uploading this. Been wanting to hear the full interview for the longest time.
13:32
if you need help remastering it we can do it with AI.
Captions done, hope it works. I was trying to use RUNWAY software, but my video quality is pretty bad so we are trying to source the master tapes and digitize it, then do a remastering. If you have a good affordable source, I'd be interested in what it can do. Thanks for watching!
@@Strangewaystribute I have a license for TOPAZ VIDEO AI. it's not perfect but works well, if you're interested
He said he blacked out during a show. What did he mean by that?
He was drinking something that night and doesn't remember what happened. I was at that Santa Barbara show, it was sad to see him like that on stage in front of thousands. He was opening up for Jane's Addiction.
Someone needs to do personality studies of bands. All guitarists (like myself) are studious (guitar takes more study than all the other players combined to excel at) introverts (hide behind instrument drawn to tools, but also secret egomaniacs inclined to drug abuse to overcome shyness, kind of broken outcasts often tight with their extroverted lead singer they write songs with and ultimately become envious of, sleeping with their wife/girlfriend (physical sex appeal)for revenge and falling out with them. Bass players are the chillest of them all and jokers. Drummers are egomaniacs or crazy simple fine fellows. Something like that. Guitarists have serious social problem and labor their whole lives to connect to the world. Keith Richards was a solemn addict until about 50 when he became a warm inviting personality. Thank god I got out of music I don’t want to be a damaged guitar player.
*promo sm* 👊
this video and descr is why i have internet
last 3 minutes are the gemmest shit ever
like a happy alternate reality vpro lmao
It's funny you say that, I went into this interview thinking this is the 180% of what the VPRO should be. His life had turned around so much....and would continue to evolve. Remember this is 2001, on his 3rd solo and Chili Peppers record release.
What’s the song playing in the intro ??
Outtake from To Record Only Water, th-cam.com/video/5L62knXuTTc/w-d-xo.html
Untitled instrumental
@@Strangewaystribute thank you 🙏