Really...

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Psychedelics will do that

@@RyanXKillua more... Give me MORE

I know man. Old as fuck

Also my Dad

You aren’t going to believe this, but that’s my mom.

yeah now we just gonna believe anything anybody writes here? Okay, it is my father on the bass then.

@@cflowers69 I believe that

My cousin john always talked about his drummer that had a kid, who was a lakers fan

I’ll take anything over shreddy all day..

@@globalnova maybe not just ‘anything’ Lol but yea just shredding definitely can get old very fast

Right?! I can’t believe it’s him

back in the 80s, everybody shred!

Well in Interviews he already said He had to relera guitar entirely because his Brain got f'ed up by drugs. It's a combination of drugs and Holding back on purpose.

12 years later…

Californication is more meaningful.

@@thecastermaster1 It definitely is!

Californication was ripped off by The Cure

After the drugs he basically had to relearn how to play guitar, it set his technical abilities way back. He made it work though.

Lol I thought it was Steve Vai til I read the title when scrolling

That’s exactly what I thought! He’s even using a performance neck!

It's all Eddie vanhalen their ripping off that how guitar players got gigs in the eighties

@@robertdefex3439 Yeah that’s the vibe I got also, especially the first song. Totally EVH vibe

He looks like Jason Becker here

Yiu can tell he was a Rhoads and van halen admirer

More of a Vai follower to me

No

@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle pure Eddie Van Halen follower. He could have filled in for Edward Van Halen.

This is impressive for a 17 year old but you guys are really getting carried away. Sloppily noodling through a series of Van Halen licks and some whammy bar noises is pretty far from “knowing it all” or being capable of filling in for a virtuoso guitar player. This is about how well I played at that age and I wasn’t even the best guitarist in my own band.

RIGHT DUDE!!!!

he couldn't even tune Zappa's guitar much less join his band

​@@jamesha175 someone's a hater

@@jr2904hahahahahaha

@@jr2904 i don't hate him - but i am a serious musician and i know what it would take to be a member of frank zappa's band - and JF does not have what it takes

A friend of Matt (bassist) posted about this band a few years ago in some forum and even shared photographs, but for some reason the JF community never caught on to that. People didn‘t believe him and doubted that John was the guy in the pictures (although it was clearly him). Probably because it contradicted the myth of RHCP being John‘s first band.

@@n.senada a lot of Chili Peppers fans, especially in early 2000s, believed that young John shaved his head, Chili Peppers were his first band and he played like Hendrix from his early days. A lot of people didn't believe John was a long haired Van Halen-inspired young dude with his first band completely different to old Chili Peppers

@@n.senada I think John might have told Flea that he was or Flea just thought that was the case?

Flea said in his book that John was being considered for and actually played in a band called Felonious Monk before he was officially asked to join the peppers. That is clearly a young JF. His nose and mouth are how I can tell.

@@robertfranklin7142 100%

Touch significa tocar físicamente algo. Tocar música es play

​@@pablofichajetouch my johnson

⁠@@pablofichaje he means play as good as that

This is 1987 not 1969. He was pretty above average, but absolutely not a prodigy.

@@GuitarGuy-mn5cv I think that is a matter of opinion

🤔 Nah

Lmao his flesh

@@sexuallobster134679 It's crazy at what these people come up with. John will literally hit a open E string, and they'll all drool over how no one can hit a E string like John. It's insane.

@Jack Jacobs I love John lmao But yeah, some fans are fucking weird and creepy and don't realize how much John would hate that shot lmao

His "flesh"? Dude that sounds really weird lol

no. its called practice. he said he would practice 12 hours a day. he had a guitar instructor as well

as if it's suddenly easy to learn an instrument

@@guitareater6975 Its way easier that it was in the 80s and 90s. Now you have so many sources were you can learn from. When I was learning how to play if I wanted to learn a song I had to put the song on a tape and play and rewind the damn thing while I figured out by heard what the guitarist was doing. And get it wrong most of the time. If I was lucky I might buy a guitar magazine and learn a couple of songs from the tabs that came in those mags. But even then most tabs were awfully transcribed.

@@cortarelva I understand it’s much easier today than it was before, but it still requires motivation and effective practice to get good. It’s definitely not easy. But I guess that’s a subjective conversation anyways

Yeah KZfaq is pretty much a free education on almost anything you want to master. Of course if you don't practice, you aren't going to be good. I have a buddy who is a master woodworker, making grandfather clocks and stuff. Learned everything he knows on KZfaq. Who needs college? Too bad you can't get KZfaq degrees lol

He was totally into Steve Vai! lol! We all were. Jack Butler anyone? That's what he looks like in this clip

It does make sense too when you think about that time he said in an interview that there was a time where his playing was very technical as opposed to how he started playing later on. He said he used to just sit there and run up n down scales for hours and it was pretty much All just numbers at that time is what it sounded like

That's more Van Halen

You mean Eddie Van Halen

@@alexgrantham4747 no, alex...

Yeah, the bass player is great

He's the bassist from Tool.

@@mykelc205 woaah seriously bro? Damn that wraps it up

@@Glitch-Akkolade no he isn’t

I am the bass player and main songwriter of IKE I have played in INDIAN STYLE BAND as well

He was into both

Steve Via

yes!

have you not heard the nobody weird like me ?

Not really

@@chad6326 Cool

@@BrianKiddDevDesign not really

@@chad6326 awesome

@@BrianKiddDevDesign why are you attacking me?

Fuck yeah such a cool little thing about John is the sprinkling of hendrix magic in his playing

you're welcome!

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Yes we played that

exactly right

I have to disagree man, only because there's no such thing as the "best guitarist." Music isn't measurable the way sport is, it's an art and is purely subjective. Also, I'd argue that 17-22 year old John out-plays present day John. His years of drug abuse left him without the strength in his fingers and I don't think he ever gained it fully back. You can particularly tell when it comes to bends and vibrato.

@@jonathanhughes2199 you're right about no such thing. Every Chili Peppers guitar player had his own super skills! And everyone was unique

@@Smxx777 exactly 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@@Blkac-pill-Black-Life Are you sure about the consequences on his fingers ?

You have terrible ears then, this and his playing today is horribly mediocre. Just that facts, fan boy

@@chad6326 you are a product of the internet.

@baronrogers806 sure thing, fan boy 🤣

​@Chad Why not be constructive and tell me your favorite bands and guitarists and we can just see subjectively what we both like.

@@baronrogers806 Why are you attacking me?

Exactly lol

Maybe he can't do this anymore

@@denaaa1985 What about Eddie?

@@featheryfemme it's the same thing he always do on the guitar... Just with a little simple tapping.

@@denaaa1985 not at all, there’s a whole set of techniques he uses in that song that he doesn’t typically use. Many very similar to what he does here, just toned down significantly.

Steve Vai mode activated

John always shred in some of the RHCP songs like Dani California or give it away.

How is tim henson simple

Glad someone else noticed. It's wild how nearly 30 years later we're still expanding our JF knowledge.

Nah, he had seen RHCP about a year or so before.

Nope, had to practice, but the genius behind him being able to learn was born to him.

He still does some tapping and other shredding in certain live solos and jams.

He has a foot in the Jason Becker/Paul Gilbert 80s shred. Someday…

@@insin5905 That shit is boring af and only incel guitar geeks like it.

Billy Corgan also

@@Yourbankaccount the greatest out of all of them! 👌

Check out Dimebag back in the “Glam” era of Pantera - he humbles the almighty EVH. and there’s nothing wrong with the “ cheese ball hair 80’s thing” have you seen the music today? The 80’s was the best time to be a guitar player

That was the trend.of course that's what they did

i still lol seeing Frusciante playing SRV's Strat at MTV awards one year.

Thanks man that's matty soccermom

​@@mattygoodman3352 i don't think he realized you're the bass slayer in that video😅

Say what you want about the 80s. At least everyone wanted to enjoy life, work, and knew what gender they were

@@Lordhumongus I was just talking about the music culture. lol. I wasn't criticizing the entire decade of life. Just was saying that the excess in 1980's hair metal and heavy metal was overwhelming. It suited some bands (I'm a giant Van Halen fan and I like bands like Motley Crue), but that just wasn't John's or the Chili Peppers thing. I'd much rather experience the chili peppers as their partially goofy, funky rock sound in the 80's and funky alt rock in the 90's than hearing them try to copy the 80's hair metal thing, because their greatest strength and contribution to the world is obviously the former.