Flea hoped that by exposing his past issues with substance abuse that his stories could possibly help others battling their own addictions and raise more awareness on the need for those in the medical community and the government to help those in need. All the adults in my life regularly numbed themselves to ease their troubles, and alcohol or drugs were everywhere, always. I started smoking weed when I was eleven, and then proceeded to snort, shoot, pop, smoke, drop and dragon chase my way through my teens and twenties," Flea said.
Flea finally kicked his addictions in ; however, he revealed that in when he broke his arm in a snowboard accident he nearly had setbacks due to Oxycontin that his doctor prescribed for him "My doctor put me back together perfectly, and thanks to him I can still play bass with all my heart. But he also gave me two-month supply of Oxycontin.
The bottle said to take four each day. I was high as hell when I took those things. It not only quelled my physical pain, but all my emotions as well. I only took one a day, but I was not present for my kids, my creative spirit went into decline and I became depressed. I stopped taking them after a month, but I could have easily gotten another refill. Addiction is a cruel disease, and the medical community, together with the government, should offer help to all of those who need it.
In February , it was announced that Flea's long-awaited memoir, Acid for the Children, would be released on 25 September ; however, a few months later the release date was pushed back to 27 November On 27 September , Flea announced on Twitter that his book has been postponed until saying "Dear everybody, Due to some scheduling conflicts, the release of my memoir has been delayed until next year.
Will have a date as soon as possible. Sorry about any inconveniences. In Flea appeared in the critically acclaimed movie Baby Driver which was named one of the top 10 films of the year by the National Board of Review.
That same year he had a cameo appearance during the fifteenth season of the FOX animated television series Family Guy in an episode titled "Peter's Def Jam". In a scene where Stewie Griffin said to his dog Brian Griffin that thanks to him, there's a recurring flea problem in Stewie's room, Flea enters and drops a bass line on his guitar.
He asks Brian if he wants to hang out, but Stewie kicks Flea out of the room. The band embarked on a date world-tour which concluded in October Flea said, "Bernie Sanders is the only remotely reasonable candidate for President of the United States. Koko was thrilled by the mellow sounds and a jamming session followed with Koko strumming on Flea's bass!
From "The Getaway" world tour beginning June Flea was back on the road with three Custom Shop Fender Jazz basses. In February , Flea posted photos to his Instagram page showing that he had broken his arm during a skiing trip.
His injury delayed the recording of the Chili Peppers eleventh studio album for six months with production expected to resume in mid-August according to Flea, who said on 3 August, he was now healed enough to play bass again and continue recording. In May , Flea reached out to fans to help donate to the Special Olympics. Two lucky fans will be selected to be flown out to meet Flea for private bass lessons. Other prizes such an exclusive T-shirts, personalized video from Flea, tickets to a Red Hot Chili Peppers concert and various autographed items by Flea are available.
In August , Flea added an apiary in his backyard which includes three beehives with approximately 60, bees each and over , bees total in his backyard in efforts to restore the honeybee population. Flea commented on his new obsession with beekeeping by saying "Deep to the hive super organism.
I love my bees. Flea's bees. On 18 September , Flea and his Chili Peppers bandmates were among over entertainers and celebrities to announce that they would be voting for Bernie Sanders in the election for President of the United States. The Chili Peppers performed at a fundraiser on behalf the non-profit organisation San Diego Foundation on 27 September Flea along with bandmate Anthony Kiedis hosted an annual benefit for the Silverlake Conservatory of Music on 17 October The Chili Peppers performed a rare acoustic set and John Legend headlined the event.
Flea took part in the Pathway to Paris concert in December The all-star event aimed to raise awareness about the urgency of climate action and coincided with the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris. In , Flea appeared as himself in the Amazon Prime series, Highston.
It was announced in that Amazon Prime had cancelled plans for a full series of the show. When we [the band] made Blood Sugar Sex Magik we spent a lot of time jamming—every day, for hours and hours. I remember during that time Anthony went off and made a movie, and for a long time it was just me, John and Chad, and we'd just go in there and play. Me and John were hitting the bong and we just rocked and grooved forever. It was the first time we went in to make a record where there wasn't this feeling of being sort of intimidated by what was going to happen.
It was announced on 1 April that Flea was in the process of writing his own personal memoir which will be released through Grand Central Publishing. No release date has been set or a title for the book which according to the press release will detail Flea's younger years as a rebellious teenager on the streets of L.
The book will detail his long and sometimes complex friendship and collaboration with Kiedis, his drug usage and the tumultuous creative journey of the band. Two songs were released in early April though Flea has confirmed that he is not a member of the band and just recorded a few songs with them.
Antemasque released their self-titled debut album on 15 July Flea made his return to acting and co-starred in the film, Low Down, which is based on the life of jazz pianist, Joe Albany. The film had a successful debut at the Sundance Film Festival in January and opened in limited release in October It was released in March on DVD. In April , Flea started writing his own book, his memoirs. The book will chronicle Flea's unconventional childhood including his move from a "normal" life in the New York suburbs to a "bohemian" lifestyle in Los Angeles with his jazz-playing stepfather , his adventures in the L.
The whole new album I play on it. This bass is kind of heavy for live—I don't play Fenders that much live—but it's beautiful". In , he provided the voice of the "mind cop" Jake in the Pixar film Inside Out. According to the press release, "The musical element of this event is intended to be a display of joyful celebration and an inspiration to future generations to care for our planet.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers have been great supporters of the Tibetan cause, of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and of the need to work to protect and preserve our environment. Flea has been very outspoken towards guns and gun violence, sometimes speaking about it during Chili Peppers shows.
He often expresses his anger on his Twitter page. In , he said "why anyone would ever want to own an automatic weapon I will never ever understand. Automatic, semi automatic, I don't care. I'm against em Melt em all down turn em into sculptures there is no need for them on earth. In many countries, the cops have no guns and they do perfectly fine.
No civilians should be allowed to have guns. Following the racially motivated Charleston church shooting in June , Flea again voiced his anger towards gun violence saying "You are kidding me. This is too much. Humans are an over rated species. God help us. On 19 July , Flea released a solo EP, Helen Burns, composed mainly of instrumental tracks, except the title track which Patti Smith sang on and "Lovelovelove", which features the Silverlake Conservatory of Music's kids and adults choir.
It is Flea's first solo release, who has only released solo songs previously on soundtracks and other projects. Flea said of the EP "I am putting it out to raise money for the Silverlake Conservatory of Music, a community based non-profit music school that I am an integral part of.
On 16 October , his 50th birthday, Flea gave an interview with CNN discussing the Chili Peppers and was asked if he plans to continue with them. Flea responded by saying "I love the Chili Peppers, and I would love to. If there's anything I know, it's every time you start making plans, you don't know what's going to come up next. Anything can happen. So I love being in the Chili Peppers and it's my home, and I've been doing it for more than half my life.
Of course, during the course of doing it, there's been all kinds of ups and downs, and moments of extreme positivity , floating on clouds of greatness, and times of just groveling, and misery, and uncertainty, and anger, and love and all those things.
Like being in a family. I really can't predict. But I love being in it for now, and right now, about as far as I'm thinking is getting through this tour that we're doing, performing at the highest level possible, then hunkering down and writing another record. In June , Flea announced that he was giving away a personally customized bass guitar covered with graffiti and a one-on-one bass lesson as a prize in an eBay auction.
The auction will benefit Style Wars, a documentary on early hip hop. The auction will raise money for restoring the film's negatives. In a 23 June interview, Flea discussed the band's return and how he almost quit the Chili Peppers during their hiatus. Flea said, that he just felt like he wanted to take two years away just to really look and see if the band was "something we should still be doing". I was proud of what we did. I wanted to keep that going, I never want to let that go.
Playing with him is something, even though I can do other things that are exciting and beautiful and I always will do those things and I'll always want to grow and do music outside of the band, the thing that we have is special to us and something that is blood. According to Albarn, on where the band's name came from, someone in Lagos did the sleeve design and that's the name he gave it, which he said he is fine with, because trying to find a name for another band is always tricky.
The band made their live debut on 29 October , in London and their debut album was released in Flea commented on the induction by saying, "It's always been easy for me to pooh-pooh these awards—the [Rock] Hall of Fame too.
But I inducted Metallica a couple of years ago, and it was really a beautiful thing to see as all these people were being inducted. It made me love it.
So I feel grateful for the recognition of what we have done and for the hope and potential of what we'll continue to do. Flea appeared in the documentary The Other F Word, where he discussed the joys of being a father by saying "It's funny how you always hear people saying that classic parent attitude of, 'I brought you into this world, I gave you life!
My kids gave me life. They gave me a reason. Flea was also featured in Runner's World magazine discussing his preparation for the race. In April , Flea finished second in an online poll conducted by Contact Music to name the best bass guitarist in rock music. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Sign in. Forgot your password? Get help. Privacy Policy. Password recovery. Did we miss anyone? Also learn how He earned most of net worth at the age of 59 years old?
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Replaced Eric Avery Weiss as Bassist for Jane's Addiction for a reunion tour and four tracks of a subsequent compilation album in Was close friends with actor River Phoenix. As well as co-starring with him in My Own Private Idaho , he also occasionally played and recorded with Phoenix's band, Alekas Attic. He and Kurt Cobain as well as other members of Nirvana were bound by a friendly relationship since the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Nirvana had been touring together in the early s.
He even played the trumpet on "Smells Like Teen Spirit" at one of their shows. The nickname Flea comes from a joke he had with some of his high school friends. At some point they decided to call each other with a cartoon name, and finally "Flea" remained as the name by which all of his friends were calling him.
His friend from junior high, Keith Barry, who played saxophone with the Red Hot Chili Peppers during the Mother's Milk tour in , also got his nickname "Tree" the same way. They have since divorced, but still share daughter Clara, born on September 16, Clara sometimes goes on the road with her dad, and has done artwork for the Chili Peppers' t-shirts and promotional material.
Flea was married in to Loesha Zeviar, whose first name he got tattooed above his left nipple - close to his heart. With Kiedis, Slovak and Irons, they started another band together, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, which soon earned a good reputation in the Los Angeles underground music scene. Around , due to Flea's obvious musical talent, he was sought out as a recruit for a band formed by his school-mates, Anthym, with Jack Irons drums , Hillel Slovak guitar and Alain Johannes vocals and guitar as members.
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