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John Frusciante
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American guitarist
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John Anthony Frusciante is an American guitarist and record producer who began his professional career in 1988. Born on March 5, 1970, in Astoria, Queens, New York City, he resides in Los Angeles. His musical work spans alternative rock, art rock, experimental rock, indie rock, and rock. He has performed with the bands Ataxia, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and The Mars Volta, and has also been involved in acting.
Frusciante plays the guitar, voice, and ARP 2500. He has been influenced by Jimi Hendrix and uses the pseudonym Trickfinger. His discography includes the work "The will to death." He is associated with the record label Warner Music Group and speaks English.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- The will to death (9362488002)
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
John Anthony Frusciante (born March 5, 1970) is an American guitarist, singer, producer and composer. He is best known as the guitarist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, from 1988 until 1992, from 1998 until 2009, and once again since 2019. He recorded five studio albums with them. Frusciante has an active solo career, having released eleven solo albums and five EPs; his recordings include…
Known for
- The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel — Self - Guitar2026
- FireAid Benefit Concert — Self2025
- Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird — Self2024
- Paris 2024 Olympic Closing Ceremony — Self (Red Hot Chili Peppers)2024
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Live at Tokyo Dome 20232024
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Live at Tokyo Dome2023
- Red Hot Chili Peppers live at Estadio River Plate, Buenos Aires, Argentina November 24, 2023 — Self - Guitar2023
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Austin City Limits Festival 2022 — Self2022
- Love, Death & Robots — John Frusciante (voice)2019
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self2014
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Los Angeles
- Active from
- 1970
Discography
Member of
- Red Hot Chili Peppers1988–1992
- Red Hot Chili Peppers1998–2009
- The Mars Volta2002–2008
- Red Hot Chili Pepperssince 2019
- Omar Rodriguez‐Lopez Quartet
- Ataxia
- Thelonious Monster
- Speed Dealer Moms
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,075,256
- Total plays
- 59,255,740
Tags
John Anthony Frusciante (born March 5, 1970) is an American musician and songwriter, and the guitarist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. He has released 11 solo albums and seven EPs, including several albums of electronic music. Frusciante joined the Chili Peppers at the age of 18 after the death of guitarist Hillel Slovak, and first appeared on their album Mother's Milk (1989). His second album with the band, Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991), was their breakthrough success. <a href="https://
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,552x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,600x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,901x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 35,568x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 29,128x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Sexual frustration is the single most powerful force in the world. We are the only species where that frustration affects things like the amount of money given to the poor and the length of welfare lines. I hate that the fact that George Bush's wife is an ugly old piece of shit could cause suffering among millions and could cause wars. I don't think it's any coincidence that Kennedy was the last president who had a wife worth fucking and he was the last good president.”
- “Pot put me in a position where I could walk far away from my playing and hear it in the second person. It helped me step away from myself. I stopped seeing the guitar as a thing I'm holding in my hands and started seeing it as a thing that's at one with outer space and nothingness.”
- “Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.”
- “Well, I don't even know how to drive in this life, so I'm pretty far from ever having the life of being a stuntdouble. I liked- I had an Evil Knievel doll when i was a kid, that's about it!”
- “I think any music of any worth has been done by people who were very interested in the internal process of their soul and their mind that's taking place while they're writing music.”
- “Everything is eternal Nothingness does not exist No thing has ever become nothing And nothing has never become something What is has always been and will always be”
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Key facts
- Also known as
- Trickfinger
- Born
- John Anthony Frusciante , ( 1970-03-05 ) March 5, 1970 (age 56) , New York City , U.S.
- Genres
- Alternative rock funk rock electronic experimental psychedelia
- Occupations
- Musician singer songwriter
- Instruments
- Guitar vocals keyboards synthesizers
- Years active
- 1988–present
- Labels
- Warner Record Collection Birdman American Neurotic Yell Acid Test Evar Records
- Member of
- Red Hot Chili Peppers The Mars Volta (honorary)
- Formerly of
- Ataxia
- Website
- johnfrusciante .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Anthony
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Astoria
- Occupation
- record producer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- alternative rock
- Instrument
- ARP 2500
- Record label
- Warner Music Group
- Discography
- John Frusciante discography
- Official website
- www.johnfrusciante.com
- Image
- John Frusciante (52182823411).jpg
- Residence
- Los Angeles
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- date of birth
- 1970-03-05
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- John Frusciante
- Commons category
- John Frusciante
- influenced by
- Jimi Hendrix
- start of work period
- 1988-00-00
- social media followers
- 117192
- member of
- The Mars Volta
- pseudonym
- Trickfinger
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Encyclopedic overview
John Anthony Frusciante (/fruːˈʃɑːnteɪ/ froo-SHAHN-tay; born March 5, 1970) is an American musician who is the guitarist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He has released 11 solo albums and 7 EPs, ranging in style from acoustic guitar to electronic music. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Chili Peppers in 2012. Rolling Stone named Frusciante among the greatest guitarists of all time.
Frusciante joined the Chili Peppers at the age of 18 after the death of the guitarist Hillel Slovak, and first appeared on their album Mother's Milk (1989). His second album with the band, Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991), was their breakthrough success. Overwhelmed by the popularity, he quit in 1992. He became a recluse and entered a period of heroin addiction, during which he released his first solo recordings: Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt (1994) and Smile from the Streets You Hold (1997). In 1998, he completed drug rehabilitation and rejoined the Chili Peppers, taking them to major success with their albums Californication (1999), By the Way (2002) and Stadium Arcadium (2006). Frusciante left the Chili Peppers again in 2009 and rejoined them in 2019, recording the albums Unlimited Love (2022) and Return of the Dream Canteen (2022).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “John Frusciante” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.