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🗓️ 20 December 2022
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Today we have part four of our John Frusciante Returns series. This is the latest installment of Rick Rubin’s on-going series of in-depth interviews with the Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist. And if this is the first interview you’re hearing, make sure to go back and check out the first three parts.
On this episode we'll hear John Frusciante play through more of his guitar parts, and he’ll explain how he came up with some of the best guitar melodies in modern rock history. John also talks about how playing along to classic heavy metal albums from Black Sabbath and Van Halen, as well as dancing all night at drum and bass clubs helped shape his style on the 2002 album, By The Way. He also explains how listening to Brandy, Destiny’s Child and Wu-Tang Clan helped influence his playing on Stadium Arcadium.
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0:00.0 | Pushkin |
0:11.3 | Today we have part four of our John Fushon Taber Turn series. |
0:15.8 | This is the latest installment of Rick Rubin's ongoing series of in-depth interviews with the Red Hat Chili Peppers guitarist. |
0:22.3 | If this is the first interview you're hearing, make sure to go back and check out the first three parts and also John's appearance from earlier in the year promoting unlimited love. |
0:30.8 | Today we'll hear John Fushon Taber play through some more of his guitar parts, then he'll explain how we came up with some of the best guitar melodies and modern rock history. |
0:39.3 | John also talks about how playing along the classic heavy metal albums from Black Sabbath and Van Halen, along with Dancing All Night at Drum and Bass Clubs, helped shape his style on the 2002 album, by the way. |
0:51.3 | He also explains how listening to Brandy, Destiny's Child, the Wu-Teng Clan, helped influence his playing on Stadium Arcadia. |
1:01.3 | This is Broken Record, line of notes for the digital age. I'm Justin Mischman. |
1:06.3 | Here's part four of Rick Rubin with John Fushon Taber from Shangri-La. |
1:10.3 | So over the course of Torrent for California Cation, did you feel like you came back guitar-wise to where you could play like you could before in terms of your strength? |
1:20.3 | I did, but when it came time to record, by the way, I didn't want to go back to that kind of Jimmy Hendrixy way of playing. |
1:30.3 | To style change. |
1:31.3 | Yeah, like I wanted to go even further with what I felt were the real developments on California Cation. |
1:38.3 | I was really into 60s music at the time. I was really into surf guitar style. |
1:43.3 | I'd learned about certain things because I played a bit that way on California Cation, mainly being inspired by the guy from Bawa-Waow and stuff. |
1:54.3 | But I guess Johnny had shown me the ventures and stuff. |
1:57.3 | And then Jerry from Fugazi showed me the shadows, which I didn't know about. |
2:05.3 | And Johnny wasn't super familiar with either. |
2:08.3 | And they were really good. It was just like an English version of surf guitar music. |
2:13.3 | They were really popular in England from all the Beatles stories I hear. |
2:18.3 | Yeah, especially because they were Cliff Richards backing band. |
2:21.3 | He was the biggest rocker. |
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