John Frusciante Interview VPRO 1994 (3/6)

[RHJamesCP]

I DON'T WANNA TALK ABOUT THAT

[DYNAMITEAMBITION]

You see him at the beginning and then see him only 3 years later, and that harrowing!

[pacman812]

3:08 HUGE heroin swerve,almost did a face plant awesome...

this should warn ANYONE about hard drug abuse

[lesbianpanic]

@birdisdaword96 river phoenix

[lesbianpanic]

it's weird he said he doesn't like nirvana - anthony said in scar tissue a few times that john was talking about them

[siulukamuolys]

dad? death?

LOL:D

[bobomomo23]

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ya goddamned retard

[KingFrush]

@HawtSexiCharmaine o.O whats wrong with u?...

PS: actually i dont pay attention to internet spelling errors, but u :-S

[airforceisnumber1]

@HawtSexiCharmaine Ima thankin you mus be tryina be funnee???? Not sure itsa workin.

[carlosfrusciante1]

1:40 john still talks like that today in interviews : p! (not the words but just the way he said it)

[TheIndieRed]

he gets mad by kurt committing suicide and not thinking about his daughter..

[birdisdaword96]

who's the guy at the end of the video?

[ash666000]

he will be back with rhcp one day

[hpsnoob]

@ash666000 True.

[thesinner922]

omg his hand is so swallen infected holes in his vains and shit... good thing he kicked the habit

[fuckinlayne]

I like Anthony´s voice.

[MrGeltabs]

The "men from the boys" If u know what he's talking about then you know... Some people can't take the pressure of living the high life.. Im not talkin crack n heroin, I'm talking some people can't handle regular drugs and alcohol... Had a lot a buddys drop off, but I don't work hard to come home and read books, play cards... I like to light up a dewb, smoke sum hash oil, and drink a beer or 2...  To each his own, unless ur talkin about heroin,pills & crack.. shits dangerous I know lol

[hpsnoob]

@MrGeltabs I know man, well said. I understand ur situation and I pretty much agree with everything u said there :).

[Daan7000]

3:08 that is so fucking creepy !!

[AlexStorkMusic]

@Daan7000 - Yeah man, like The Exorcist!

[RustingVagina]

@Daan7000 Hahahaha, why the fuck did he even do that...

[TheTvrulesthenation]

RustingVagina

Cracking his neck by the sound of it, but yeah was pretty demented alright

[treebeardization]

his opinion on suicide is amazing, and yet he was committing suicide himself at that point

[jensbond93]

john is a very wise man.

[alltreesaregreen]

He's a very beautiful person.

[bajsibyxan1]

Look closely at the top of his head when he's cracking his neck at 3:09. Something falls out of his hair. WTF could it be!?

[jensbond93]

@bajsibyxan1 cat hair problabby.

[berryville08]

Frusciante didn't like Nirvana. HAHAHA!

[danaskovici]

2:12 pause, coca cola comercial

[NickODU2015]

I love Nirvana and John is so whacked out here, but I agree with him on Kurt Cobain. Why would you kill yourself when you have it good and you have a little girl? Why wouldn't you want to see her grow up? He makes a good point

[IntoTheValleySkids]

I think he doesn't get how much he's just like Kurt Cobain at thus moment in his life. Probably denial. nonetheless great musician... And you can call me weird, but I like his solo work better

[arealOpia1991]

@IntoTheValleySkids i'm so glad i'm not the only 1 who has always thought this-the things they both went thru at the same time in their lives is cosmically weird probs even a bit too much for John to admitt&thats why he brushed off talking about his reaction-truly the stuff they both said about things getting too big & not wanting to be rock stars etc i always thought they were so similar minded- Pisces attached to the gut they were the only difference is that John quit the chillies kurt didnt..

[arealOpia1991]

@IntoTheValleySkids ...nirvana and that's a big reason why one of them is still here which is made even point clear by Cobains last words in his suicide note, if only he just quit like John and stepped a aside if only x'( ..... and personally adding to all this i keep watching this and thinking his poor hand x'(

[GuitarJames96]

It's great how even in THAT state, he still had a great mind and morals , for example when he's talking about kurt not wanting to see his daughter grow up, and about Kara

[133layla]

talking about kurt cobain, hillel slovak and river phoenix is a little bit insensitive i think.

[mussman717word]

You know, of course John looks half-dead here, but some of what he's saying really is profound.

[gonzalomichilot]

3:09 The Exorcist

[EmotionalShredd]

he looks like almost dead here.

[WarmDreamsInJune24]

What a beautiful lamp shade.

[JuannabisRoach]

i think being nuthing is just sweet, Lou would agree with me

[fede018]

@JuannabisRoach who's Lou?

[JuannabisRoach]

@fede018 Lou Reed dude !.. come on The Velvet Underground

[aceoropeza]

As painful as this is to watch, he is very knowledgeable of what he's talking about. I admire him so much.

[MrGuitardude92]

its hard to watch, but without his period, wouldn't have the John we have today. i guess some of his lyrics in songs like 'talk tomorrow' have come from this time, and probably his more alternative melodic riffs on the next three albums after he rejoined came from all this pain too.

glad he over came it.

[Gman44a]

88-92 john, 94-97 john and 97-present john look like three totally different people.

[cannibalonXthedead]

John really should not have done this interview. He should be mouthing off kurt saying he's selfish, i guess John forgot what he was like in the chili peppers. I'm glad he's clean now, it's great he turned around. but it's horrific knowning what he had to go through to get clean.

[cannibalonXthedead]

@cannibalonXthedead excuse me, shouln't be mouthing off***

[Grunge00125]

It's weird how he's out of his mind and repeats himself and goes off on tangents yet he's still so intelligent. He even chastised Kurt Cobain not because of the music but because of his decision. I'm so glad he's okay now

[afrosteviac]

0:47-0:53 What the hell happened to him?

[solson34]

1:30 - 2:10 .... so fucking true

[CobainLennon8094]

Oh I wish he hadn't have dissed Kurt for killing himself. People handle depression different.

[Oudl3000]

@CobainLennon8094 He didn´t " diss " him... he just criticize him on some reasonable points what is ok cause nobody´s perfect...

[SalterWobchak]

That rug really ties the room together.

[TheAmazingScotsman]

@SalterWobchak Lmao.

[NickB33]

For a junkie he had a fair bit of inner wisdom. It's probably that wisdom that got him better.

[chanceska]

@NickB33 lots and lots of junkies have quite a bit of inner wisdom.. one of the reasons a lot of them(us) turn to junk.. it's hard to be in your head and deal with the truth of the world all around you when the way you think seems so out of step with reality.. therefor, we use drugs to escape all that... not justifying, just the way it is a lot of the times... a lot of the junkies i know are the smartest most interesting people i've ever met...

[rsohlich1]

@chanceska hahaha yea I know. I love/hate opiates and I have literally met so many junkies like your speaking of. I seem to be one. I know I'm intelligent, interesting, not normal, and I like to get high and sometimes it does hold me back and I hope to one day use these experiences to help others. But yea, we just wanna be happy really and have big hearts :)

[rhcprxbandits]

the cat has no idea he made history being in this video

[MaRLeEthEKiTTy]

I fucking love John. I mean, I love Kurt Cobain, but he's got a good point. My god, I wish John was my father..

[bm123ify]

he'isnt john right? he looks so bad

[AmphibiousReconMSOB]

this guy makes drinking a soda and smokin a cig look so cool

[rsohlich1]

@jacobkahn actually John has since become a huge fan of Kurt's B-Sides....they are way better than most of the released material.

[kimsielovesjourney]

OMG RIVER!!!!

[kimsielovesjourney]

wow, the stuff he says are so deep yet intense....

[nicklei369]

3:05  i can't see my big idol being like this..

[12inchvertical]

@jacobkahn its odd, because he's covered Lounge Act live

[humpdefunk]

@12inchvertical That was several years later lol, he had a different understanding of things during his drug period.

[samuntouchable]

Kurt Cobain didn't kill himself...and it isn't right to judge a dead man! I love John Frusciante anyway

[PetriSoul]

@samuntouchable Is it okay to judge Hitler?

[samuntouchable]

@PetriSoul 'We have no right to express an opinion (judge) until we know all of the answers.' ~Kurt Cobain~ I hope that answers your question.

[Sammio11]

Like with a baby, you can slam dance with em when they're two and they'll love it. hahah that's the best thing about babies, in my opinion

[DMB206]

"Or a bad nothing...and just a piece of shit"

[hautelick]

He actually became an obsessive fan of Cobain's/Nirvana's music not long after this/before he emerged from this state.

He probably had never even listend to it at this stage and just associated with all the 'corporate' music he saw as anathema, at that time.

Changed his mind when he actually listened to Nirvana, obviously.

[04callwilk1]

I've watched this interview so many times and I probably will watch it again in a couple of weeks :)

[woosnext]

he could easily have died at that time. But he came back... and wow did he came back. This guy is totally different than the John Frusciante from today. But it is a part of him and what made him such a great artist. It's kind of hurting to watch him in this dark place.

[halyreen]

3:07 HAHAH

God, I love him :)

[1999californication]

@mroeyjay

typical nazti fucker comment

acutally i rather them both to live and you get chocked by me and my friends

dont worry it wont hurt

[1999californication]

this is fucking amazing

im in 2011 and i still say that god choce to take cobain and leave us with frusciante

the greatest of all time

[DefyingNoodles]

He said the deepest shit from that hell hole.

[szorin13]

everyone keeps saying how he's insane here and yeah he looks strung out and unhealthy but a lot of the stuff he's saying is really deep and intelligent for someone who's only like 24 at the time.

[POOPOOSOLDIER]

"everybody dies" and then dead silence.. this guy has such power in his spirit

[ksbrownie1]

3:10 now we r in a haunted movie

[fender994]

@ksbrownie1 hahahaha

[Deadvision666]

it still doesnt click in my head when i look at that guy on that interview and i think, "Thats John Frusciante", I just dont recognise him, glad he's better now

[Foxayo]

@Deadvision666 what you see here is what formed the john frusciante as you know him today

[arealOpia1991]

@Foxayo AMEN TO THAT ! ... i just saw that top comment and said to myself why the hell have 45 people liked that!!!!! and thumbed it straight the fuck down !... what's wrong with people man!!!!!!! i sure as hell recognise him here and in what he has come out of it as as well ... then i saw your comment and thought okay least there are some people like you and i and the other 5 thumbers who can restore my faith but we're in such a minority its sick but hey that's the world for you right!

[Foxayo]

@arealOpia1991 thats our world its all about marketing and making ppl think what the big companies want, money money money

[JohnFruscianteYEAH]

I remember when he said in an interview that when he was drugged down, he wanted someone to aim a gun to his head so he could shoot himself, thank God no one did that.

[rskim1130]

whats the song they play at the beginning?



[jknoahfan]

after John rejoined the peppers he became a big fan of kurt cobain and nirvana

[zitotiz]

@jknoahfan how the fck do u know :P

[jknoahfan]

@zitotiz I heard him say it on another interview. and he's covered the songs lounge act and moist vagina both by nirvana

[Hexagram777]

@jknoahfan i'm sorry to hear that

[Baltay]

truth...

[SOCRATES012]

this man is a genius. no doubt

[Magikhatman]

agreed btw (on the thing about kurt)

[violinsofangels]

I think Kurt was set up, he tried to do what John did and just leave but his gold digging hooker wife wanted his cash.

[RxDeftones]

river phoenix looks like emile hirsch.

[comngetsome]

as much as he goes on about how he hates selfishness but then he goes in the bathroom and shoots all the heroin he can,,, what a fucking hypocryte

[Christiantheory]

@comngetsome That is called drug addiction, my friend.

[comngetsome]

@Christiantheory ya think

[Christiantheory]

@comngetsome yah

[kaca2903]

He was always so intelligent.

[countrygentleman10]

lol 3:08

[countrygentleman10]

lol 3:12

[kimierulezd00d]

As fucked up as he looks there.... I'm so fucking in love with him... minus the drugs of course... but in a fucked up way man, he wouldnt be the john frusciante we know now if it werent for the drugs

[clawofeagle1]

so true what he say about death

[thegraffix]

He looks like a young Roger Waters....But more stoned...

[BabyWetsAllNight]

He is drinking a can of Welch's grape soda. The greatest soda ever made

[RugerBooger]

I like nirvana, but I think he is right about kurt not being around for his baby!!!

[RugerBooger]

U know what I think is stuip, that people get so butt hurt just because he said kurt cobain's music is awful , u do know it is possible for people to not like his music, I mean it is a big world after all...

[eeeewd33]

@StingrayWil well considering this video is from 1994 and frusciante has since then kicked herion and crack i think he doesnt need help. the reason you posted that comment on a video showing an interview that is 16 years old is beyond me and quite stupid

[eeeewd33]

@BrucetheMusicMan you must be deaf cause he definitively said that his music was awful

[DieByTheDrop]

He said hated Kurts music but he covered Lounge Act live, and he has said that he loved his voice on Scentless Apprentice. It just shows you how drugs can change peoples opinions. Like when he was in Amsterdam with Anthony he looked happy but now he is saying he hated it. I just think that heroin bring out the worse in people and completely take away everything that makes us human, his eyes look like shark eyes.

[archeringnow]

the cat is doing well at hte background... :)

[haza942]

@archeringnow omg i know!, ive watched these videos so many times and thats the first time ive noticed the cat, its quite creepy...

[BrucetheMusicMan]

@jacobkahn he was saying his death was awful

[silentsniper125]

a different view on kurt cobain by john about 10 years later

watch?v=PA6fKxHlCwc

[m0nf3c]

is clara his daughter?

[haza942]

@m0nf3c clara is flea's daughter you mean?

[archeringnow]

@m0nf3c Fleas daughter!!!!

[m0nf3c]

@archeringnow I always hear about her. wats everyones fascination with her about? jwwww

[archeringnow]

@m0nf3c john is claras godfather. thats it.

[tubbythug92]

I disagree with John's statement on thinking about yourself, for Cobain's sake that is. Depression is a real sickness, and I hate it when people misinterpret it.

[necr086]

he may be extremely fucked up here.. but tell me what he say's that isn't true?

[StingrayWil]

SOMEBODY!! GET THIS GUY HELP!!!!!!!

[MrAndrewshepard]

@StingrayWil this was 17 years ago its a little late dumbass

[StingrayWil]

@MrAndrewshepard I meant why didn't the interviewer get him help. I'm a big fan of john, I know it's 17 years ago, it says 1994!

[MrAndrewshepard]

@StingrayWil hes pretty coherent for the most part, isnt deperate for help, hes in the right state of mind, not violent or making threats of hurting anyone or himself, i know i was just pointing out the obvious for shits n gigs

[StingrayWil]

@MrAndrewshepard He's in a pretty bad state. He said he didn't care that Hillel Slovak, one of his idols, died. That's pretty bad. 

[archeringnow]

@StingrayWil cocaine ftw

[StingrayWil]

@archeringnow Agreed

[StingrayWil]

@archeringnow mmm

[hippie1685]

3:10 omfg u can hear his bones crack, thas scary

[FearghasG]

I agree with Cantacontru591

[cantacontru591]

@jacobkahn

I think he was talking about how what happened to Kurt was awful, he's done a couple of covers of Nirvana and in more recent interviews talks about kurt positively.

[Awesomeman37]

john is so freakin smart i just love watching him talk

[rossington15]

Dear God...3:07

[guitar602991]

@jacobkahn lolz

[k0stil]

its funny how he says that he doesn like nirvana in 1994

but in 1997 he made a lot of covers on his live shows and performed his own songs that was influenced by nirvana.

i think his favorite band in 1997 was nirvana

[FucklyDuckly]

@k0stil think for a second how spaced out he is in this clip. I dont think he really knew what he was saying...

[k0stil]

3:10 thats so fucking scary

[k0stil]

1:15 - "DAD"

i was so scared

[0szie]

if you lat the heroine part away he is a kind of right we human are selfish bastards where is the love

[scottNcolcty]

see that burn on the inside of his pointy finger thats from passing out on herion with a cigarette i would bet money on it

[MorganKai]

@scottNcolcty yeah, memorable junkie cliche

[dummytree]

@jacobkahn Yeah and many years after this he said he'd be collecting LIVE BOOTLEGS of Nirvana. Coherent.

[megumichan17]

When he started talking about Kobain, that was some deep stuff. He got to me when he talked about how beautiful children can be.

[boomshockalockaa]

He is fucked up in this interview, but yet the things he says makes perfect sense to me with everything.

[101united101]

3.07 haha wacked out of it

[bannatreeful]

we'er all rock stars

[joshwilsk]

his words are so productive and true and he was so high

[fiveyearwinterkiss]

1:49 this young man was intelligent

[bredmon87]

if jfru didnt go through this,he wouldnt be who he is today.

[pedrofurtado100]

marilyn manson ?

eoiueoieueoi

[Birdz89]

3:05 ... fucked up!

amazing artist however <3

[mradamcooley]

"I cried, I dunno why, I didn't like his music or anything." Hahaha.

[MindstormRecs]

I agree with what he says about Kurt, it was the easy way out and he should have just left Nirvana and lived his life with the money he made. He shouldn't have let the fame become a monster than he had to escape from by taking his own life.

[highon74]

@MindstormRecs

yeah. with all that money he should of just walked away in that case. He is a chump for doing that. Nirvana's music is great.. but he was a chump for doing that

[ChillestVibe]

@MindstormRecs Money doesn't equal happiness..what are you talking about? You didn't feel his pain, so you wouldn't know.

[MindstormRecs]

@ChillestVibe He killed himself for the same reasons the Beatles broke up. Fame is a double edged sword. Nobody is talking about money retard, I'm talking about him stepping out of the spotlight and living his life the way he wanted. Fuck off fanboy

[ChillestVibe]

@MindstormRecs "he should have just left Nirvana and lived his life with the money he made".. Yeah you didn't say ANYTHING about money.. riiight.. and I'm not a fanboy, I don't even listen to their music that much, but as I said, you didn't feel his pain so don't talk like you were in his head.

[NonSyntheticTeen]

people say i look like him at the stage

and im not even on drugs

[TheNewWorldMan69]

I knew he did drugs but wow I didn't know he was that fucked up. He looks worse then Kurt Cobain and he did heroin. 3:04 Jesus man.

[DieByTheDrop]

I think (Personally) that drugs completely change your point of view on things. For example, when he was saying he didnt like Kurts music but i watched a video were he was saying how awesome Scentless Apprentice was, i just think drugs change a person in every aspect.

[NIMRODakaNIMROD]

Somehow the passage from 1:10 to 1:30 was one of the most awkward moments I've ever seen in an interview...

[louiscfc93]

@coronalite96 its his opinion

[andrew19vato]

@louiscfc93 thats actually weird cause ive since heard that he likes nirvana, guss he changed his mind, oh well who cares lol

[1Oneto2]

2:10 Welch ftw!

[guitarlawyer75]

I didn't remember how healthy he looked back in 90/91. I know this was his dark period, but he sounded coherent all the time.

[g00dguyforyou]

im a fan of kurt cobain and john frusciante

[fossilbox1991]

he was screwed up here, but made a good point about cobain. he didnt wanna become so much of a star that all he thought about was himself

[dinosauroracle]

wow look at that transition in his face from 0:51 to 0:53 very scary

[mcguire1kai]

whats the song theyre singing during 0:26?

[jumpyourbone]

@mcguire1kai

after hours by velvet underground