Sober John is the best John.

I am amazed how many different people he managed to look like in his life 😂

The interviews of him totally strung out horrified me as a kid. It did enough to terrify me about what drugs can do at a young age.

Looking like Richard Ramirez in the first interview

I do enjoy listening to people try to explain something that they realised when they were on drugs. Drugs give you access to an awareness that's above your intelligence grade, but it doesn't necessarily bring understanding. So often these people just end up rambling about something that they think they understand, but they're merely only aware of it.

Pretty sure John said he had recorded most of Niandra during his BSSM days, where he wasn’t nearly as bad with drugs. Same definitely can’t be said for Smile from the Streets you hold

Great edit 🙌🏼 I love each of these albums. John has been a spiritual teacher in my life for decades. often he conveys the same insights as other spiritual seers and articulates in his personal way. I’ve heard Eckhart Tolle say there has only ever been one spiritual teaching -there is only one truth, it just gets expressed /clothed in different language /concepts. He’s a very conscious person. Thankyou for the clip 😄🙌🏼

Don't do drugs kids

I can relate to this so hard. I also developed massive issues with stuttering as I got sober, and it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere anytime soon. Don’t do drugs. They really can change you in a permanent way

look at him....just standing there....in his dennis the menace t-shirt...

The Empyrean is by far his best album . Song writing, production, and ability. Theres no argument. It’s in my top 5 albums of all time

I kind of fuck with with the druggy song in a weird way. I am super glad he got off drugs and did amazing stuff.

hey @mees thank you. honestly. as a huge rhcp fan of course I knew both interviews and watched them dozens of times. the editing is soo good.

Wow two completely different guys yet the same person.We really do die and born again many times through life. I remember watching his younger interview when I was very young and all I could focus on was how wasted he was and how badly he was singing. Now that I am older and I am actually listening to every word he said I am stunned by how lucid his fucked-up by drugs version is, even more than the sober one. Thank you for putting these bits together. I love John’s work and seeing him speak about it makes me enjoy it even more.

I love how he's atonally wailing but has to turn the tuner 1/999th of the way @ 7:22

what a great edit. thanks yo!

I love what John said about imagination. It’s very important to have imagination in life

7:00 ive never felt so good about my singing lol

After his junkie days, he gradually got softer and softer in his music.

His first album is great. Smile From The Streets is unlistenable aside from the minute long Life's A Bath. My 2nd favorite is To Record Only Water... his first sober album. Going Inside is probably the best song he's written.

I once dated a heroin addict and she put it the best way: You're the same person on and off the drug. The drug didn't influence you to do all of these things that you love and enjoy, you're the one who loves and enjoys them. That's why addicts will always be addicts recovering, because they love the drug. You can still make everything you make all of the time on and off the drug. There are functional addicts in society that can blend in nearly seamlessly with others. So, it's important to remember that while yes there are obviously cognitive and physical ailments attached to it, the art that was produced was the product of the same man the whole way through.

0:57 - this contrast between the chili peppers insignia and johns cut up and plastered arms is so hauntingly beautiful

He looked like Shelley Duvall when he was strung out.

The Empyrean is my all time favourite album.

The ender of the video he's trying to sound like Jimi, the way he was singing gave gave me Jimi vibes. It was possibly his inspiration.

Oh yes mr John is my horse if there was a guitarist race that's my horse til the end and one more thing lots of guitarist are lucky that this guy was lost for a minute under the influence of drugs other wise he'll be the greatest

I liked the detuned guitar song at the end

he looks like a completely different person from era to era.

Looks a bit like Roger Waters in his strung out years.

What is the very first song at the statt of the video? Its farmiliar, but im not sure if its on an album

If you stop looking for a second at his face and just listen to the words, you'll see an artist exploring the boundaries of self conscience. I'm not telling you to do drugs, but for some people they need to go through a time like this to evolve, and when I look at him today all I know is that guy only exists because those guys in the past existed too.

As his music matured, also his understanding that he didn’t need drugs to connect with spirituality.

He's talking about the ego and the self. Splitting the mind body and soul into 3. All equally important parts but he means that he doesnt like how externally all of the creativity and substance is labelled as the body; the human, the name you were given that really means nothing we're just doing as nature intended with a bit more consciousness it's just another label that emphasises on that in society above the other 2 parts of you. Its a very confusing way of saying 'we live in a collective stream our energies are intertwined spiritually in these ways so id like to see the mind and its function as the imagination and creative soul be given more credit; destroying the ego and the self to deepen your connection with your creative process and not hold back anything that the conscious human side might limit'. Let that stream do its thing cos we get in the way of ourselves constantly with things like self doubt, external pressures and internal termoil etc. At the same time its all essential to the human experience just limiting in most cases.

i dont like how this video paints him. john was a cool dude. he speaks for himself.

While scrolling I thought the thumbnail was Rodger waters and David gilmour at first

there's a lot of inaccurate information in this video that some have already mentioned. another is that The Empyrean is far from the first album John made while being sober. that would be To Record Only Water for Ten Days from 1998, which started being recorded literally during his recovery process.

Eu te amo, John!

i love john in every form of his life

What’s the first song that appears on this video??

I love lamp. ❤❤❤

FACTS I wrote the best riff piece ill ever write in 5 minute flow state

“Simularities”

As a kid the interviews of him looking like a zombie made me think “this is a brilliant artist”. I knew nothing about him but just seeing a guy on death’s door surrounded by instruments in a dungeon of a house screamed “artist” to me lmao

Almost like they're the same person?! Just being funny, guys.

Drugs sensitized human consciousness to another part of oneself, which one could not feel or discover because the energy centers were not shaken by this chemistry. This is a positive aspect. But the human being is mechanics, he is built according to very authorized mechanical principles, it is normal that if you create such a thing, you will have such an effect, but it is not consciousness, it is a consciousness effect.

John Frusciante is David Lynch on guitar.

he looks so very different... can't believe it is even the same guy Oo

He went from looking like the Night Stalker to Jesus lol. What a transformation! Love this man so much it hurts. Hope he stays happy for all the rest of his days.

That heroine voice man. Lil Wayne has one sometimes and Miley Cyrus has it sometimes.

John´s health is really resistant, otherwise he´d never survive

i believe john said he was on heroin for only ten to butter voodoo’s solo on niandra and about 3 songs on the streets album. he was high on weed for most of the niandra records at least (he mentions) but it’s a misconception that he was simply on heroin for all these songs, although he was under the influence during this era as a whole

He’s very lucky to be alive, he was a mess. I didn’t know people could recover from that.

why does Heroin cause vocal fry?

He says that the person is not responsible for making the music yet goes onto explain exactly why the individual human is what creates music lol. It takes a person to create the music and we put them on a pedestal because of their imagination, not instead of it.

Hes trying to explain destiny

Do drugs. Don't do drugs. Do drugs again. Stop doing drugs. More after this.

wrong, niandra was most recorded during BSSM

Was he not sober for to record only water for 10 days, shadows collide, curtains ect and even btw and stadium arcadium ? Excluding weed and alcohol, I’m meaning heroine, crack, coke those kinds of things? I always thought he got sober from those in the late 90s ?

what happened to his tattoo? anyone knows???

The will to death. we're awful, awful.

This video is a clear message from the universe to STOP doing drugs Now.

I like the short sleeve shirts he tends to favor. Usually you would see a 6 year old wearing it.

We came so close to losing yet another beautiful creative.. please; support your local freaks 🙌

Bro is just chatting piss through the entirety of both interviews 😂

So this fella didn’t know the record the RHCP were recording was going to be sold to fans and to fulfill their terms to the contract they signed to their record label? WOW Imunderstan 100% about the parts of where someone has to be to create their art.

Sober John seven days a week.and trismegistis on Sunday.

Whyd you make this video

Did I hear right? Dude was hearing ghosts on the music? Wow! Low vibrations I guess...

It‘s Like a different Person. He Looks so much better now and younger 😀

Damn strung out John looks scary . Imagine seeing that face in a dark alley lol

Wind up space

Don't do drugs, kids.

7:08 wtf was that,,some Yoko Ono shit there

7.0 RiffAGE

Why does the new John remind me of Joaquin Phoenix's Joker?

young roger waters

john wasn't sober during the Empyrean. He was using weed, mushrooms and acid

Please let Anthony do the singing

Use drugs sporadically, in a controlled environment, it is good. Bud don't become an addict. We can expand and be better.

Junky john had went down depths alot of people would be terrified to go down to

He’s a great musician. Linear thinker, not so much. Didn’t really understand his thought process when high or sober. Oh well, artists. Go figure. 😊

Damn all that talk about musicians and music but he can’t hum a tune too save his life

Neiterh Niandra nor SFTSYH are better than TROWFTD

S i m u l a r i t i e s

He’s talking about being initiated into the “Mystery Religion” and Ritual Magick. The part where he speaks on hearing ghosts all over album is so true.

FACE OF JESUS CHRIST ❤

The man can barely articulate a coherent sentence lol, good guitarist.

I see he doesn't have much input on the vocals of RHCP

Ooook

That first album was absolute trash.

Well, the reason we listen to music is to potentially commune with the collective imagination, which fundamentally exists and scares us and ads credence to the religion lie.

Better voice than anthony kiedis lol

sorry, he was way more profound and coherent back in 1994.

A lot more articulate on drugs. Poor guy

Its not a balanced interview, you're portraying him like he is an imbocile because of his personal actions. Yo get a grip and move on 🤟🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👊🤙

The guy can’t sing, simple as that

All gibberish much like his guitar playing.

3:01 some wise shit

What is that opening song?

He is literally talking about being connected to the spirit world, which is absolutely what the Bible warned about. All the movies and entertainment have been misleading everyone as to what is really going on on this planet. The powers that be on this planet know that, which is why they fund it so readily. “ 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places” … we were warned by God himself of how we would have to deal with man’s religion, twisted theologies and Idiocracy, spawned by doctrines of Demons and devils