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"I have no technical ability, and I know nothing about music": Yet here are 5 Rick Rubin-produced songs you need to hear

From hip-hop to rock and pop, Rubin has done it all...

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"We were on live TV in front of millions of people. And it was torture": What happened when John Frusciante sabotaged the Red Hot Chili Peppers on Saturday Night Live

It's 1992, the Red Hot Chili Peppers are on the cusp of superstardom, and unhappy guitarist John Frusciante has just been kicked

Louder

Steal the signature guitar tricks of the greats including Jeff Beck, Eddie Van Halen and John Frusciante

Incorporate their signature techniques into your own style

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"This big guy comes in like he owns the place, and we all hate him immediately": the truth about Chad Smith's audition for the Red Hot Chili Peppers

When drummer Chad Smith walked into the Red Hot Chili Peppers rehearsal studio to try out for the band, their first impressions were not good

Louder

"My apologies to you, our guitarist broke a finger": Red Hot Chili Peppers forced to cancel KROQ show following John Frusciante finger injury

Vocalist Anthony Kiedis has now revealed the reason for the cancelation, with Frusciante sidelined for six weeks

Guitar World

“Flea said, ‘Dude, you have to sit down with my guitar player, John – he’s the best.’ I wasn’t a fan yet, but I said, ‘Cool. Let’s do it’”: How Zach Irons established a vital new voice in guitar playing – with a little help from John Frusciante

Guitarist for IRONTOM and AWOLNATION – and the son of Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pearl Jam drummer Jack – Zach Irons takes a truly individual approach to the instrument. He reveals how he’s combating guitar self-indulgence, why he’s finally coming around to digital tones, and what makes the vintage…

Guitar World

“I don’t think there’s any guitar playing in history that stands above that”: John Frusciante, Johnny Marr, Radiohead and the Edge rank him among their favorite players – now underrated guitar hero John McGeoch gets the spotlight in new documentary

The Light Pours Out of Me film examines the life and legacy of the influential guitarist behind Magazine, PiL and Siouxsie and the Banshees

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“We pulled a few guitars out – I loved the ’61 Strat immediately. John said, ‘I want you to take that guitar with you – it’s yours”: John Frusciante gave away a prized vintage Fender Stratocaster to a fan who became one of his favorite modern guitarists

This 1961 Olympic White Strat has the rare honor of being played by both Frusciante and Josh Klinghoffer during the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Stadium Arcadium tour – but Frusciante eventually handed it over to a fan who would go on to become one of his favorite contemporary guitar players

Guitar World

“Unlike anything before it”: Ibanez debuts the Twin Peaks – a two-mode wah pedal styled after John Frusciante’s favorite WH-10 unit

The TWP10 takes cues from Froosh's favored wah pedal, but uses dual-inductor circuitry for an “entirely new” sound

Guitar World

Watch Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante sing Spinal Tap's Tonight I'm Going To Rock You at chaotic 1991 Los Angeles club show

Red Hot Chili Peppers guitar hero John Frusciante shows off his vocal chops with enthusiastic Spinal Tap cover at 1991 club gig

Metal Hammer

"It had a very spiritually sexual vibe": Red Hot Chili Pepper's John Frusciante once claimed to have an encounter with a horny ghost whilst recording Blood Sugar Sex Magik in a haunted mansion

When RHCP recorded their hit album Blood Sugar Sex Magik in a spooky Hollywood mansion, guitarist John Frusciante experienced paranormal activity of a very welcoming kind

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"Red Hot Chili Peppers are being used by the Satanic powers of darkness": How Anthony Kiedis incurred the wrath of evangelical Christians, and his granny, at the 1992 MTV Awards

Do Red Hot Chili Peppers really "pay homage to Satan"? Only Anthony Kiedis truly knows

Metal Hammer

"Red Hot Chili Peppers are being used by the Satanic powers of darkness": How a silly joke at the 1992 MTV Awards landed Anthony Kiedis in trouble with Christians and his granny

Are you aware that Red Hot Chili Peppers "pay homage to Satan"? Us neither, but Anthony Kiedis only has himself to blame

Metal Hammer

Red Hot Chili Peppers prove to be ageless, compelling crowd with psychedelic performance

The final song of the night was crowd favorite “Give It Away,” illustrating the organic combination of rock, rap and funk that helped earn this band induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

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Evening Standard

Red Hot Chili Peppers: A red hot rundown of our favourite tracks

Ranking the iconic band’s best tracks in the run-up to their headline London show

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50 guitar chord shapes guitarists need to know

Increase your fretboard vocabulary now!

Louder

“You could record yourself on a computer”: John Frusciante once wrote Jimmy Page a letter asking him to appear on his best friend’s album

Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante wanted Jimmy Page to appear on The Mars Volta’s Frances The Mute album

Guitar World

Flea names his least favorite Red Hot Chili Peppers album – and says he wants to re-record it

The RHCP bass icon revealed he has tried to convince the band to take another crack at it, but “can never talk anyone into it”

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John Frusciante says he only found his identity as guitar player when Red Hot Chili Peppers wrote Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Frusciante explains how discovering Television's Marquee Moon an epiphany with Keith Richards' solo on the Rolling Stones' Sympathy For The Devil changed everything

Los Angeles Times

Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea on the meaning of God, the band's worst album and the vice he misses most

"Hey, come see my baby boy!" Flea says excitedly, holding up his iPhone as he stands next to his motorcycle in the parking lot of the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. Dressed in basketball shorts and a red bucket hat, the 60-year-old bassist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers is FaceTiming…

Guitar World

John Frusciante’s guitar teacher once told him he wasn’t a good guitarist – so he learned to play like Steve Vai: “No-one was going to say that to me again”

The Red Hot Chili Peppers guitar hero recalls being criticized because he couldn’t play the blues scale fast enough: “It was about the worst feeling I could imagine”

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"I played a blues scale as fast as I could and he said, 'That's not fast, you're not a good guitarist'" – John Frusciante on his depressing encounter with a guitar teacher, and his teenage heroes Steve Vai and Adrian Belew

A new extensive interview with bandmate Flea reveals the iconic Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist's roots

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Improve your rhythm guitar playing now with these three types of chords

12 extended, wide interval and partial chords

Guitar World

From Prince to John Frusciante via Cory Wong: learn the rhythm approaches of the pop-funk masters

Hone your rhythm chops with examples in the style of the players who took funk in new directions

Guitar World

Flea names the one bassline that he would “go back and fix” from the Red Hot Chili Pepper's 1995 album, One Hot Minute

Flea on the making of One Hot Minute: “I thought it sounded like another stupid white boy trying to be funky!”

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