Pushkin

We're back with the third episode in our John Fruixante returns series.

Over the last couple of months, Rick Rubin and John Fruixante of the Red Hat Chilli Peppers

have come together to tape an ongoing series of conversations that dives deep into

John's philosophical and practical approach, trotting music and playing guitar.

If you haven't heard the previous episodes, I highly recommend going to check them out.

Today, we'll hear John talk about his love of electronic music and how he struggled to

fall back in love with guitar-based rock before recording the Peppers latest set of albums.

He also talks about the process of making California Cation and near the end of the interview

picks up a guitar to play through some of his most well-known guitar parts from that album.

This is Broken Record.

Liner notes for the digital age.

Here's Rick Rubin and John Fruixante from Shangri-La.

Have you ever taken a principle that you've learned in painting or from another art form

and brought it into music?

I think so, but it's not specific.

It's not specific.

Not conscious.

Not that I can think of anyways, but those years that I was just painting and drawing and writing

in notebooks, that's what made me see how I could make music again because I thought I was

done making music.

It was through doing that and realizing that I was realizing what I was incapable of in

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