♪♫ John Frusciante | As Can Be ♪♫

[Mauroleiicus]

This song is weird as can be.

[BeenInsane23]

I'm so addicted to this song. when the vocals come in its strange. kinda eerie and beautiful. something so tragic about the song like!

[arealOpia1991]

Johns hair was dead straight as a child ... then in his adult years quite curly ... scratches head :/.........

[jumpyourbone]

@arealOpia1991

i noticed that too. i'm thinking maybe his parents just combed it that way so he'd look "groomed" for school pictures or something, cause i remember seeing a very curly-haired picture where he must've been in his early teens.

[arealOpia1991]

@jumpyourbone haha ... thanks x)... i can relieve the itching now :)

[KKuajinais]

nice fuckin song!! long live JF

[NiandraLades92]

This is what i think of when i talk about art !

[704billy1975]

I have that exact same love seat @ 0:24..lmao

[danfunkman]

My fav jf song, it takes me to a special place, i listen to it to clear my mind of negative thoughts

[KennyIsMyDog]

It's a twisted depression with a sunny side :)

[ShinRockxxx]

so beautiful

[TwoSexyFourMyShirt]

first he looked like the time Jesus was crossed and was only fed with water and bread but now its just great how he has changed he had like 41324 different faces and now he saw the light, and knew he was Jesus, Jesus Frusciante

[henryhaven]

amazing bloke shame he fucked himself on heroin

[ScumboFilm]

I'm 'Happy as can be' after hearing this.

[mussman717word]

1:45 felt like 10 minutes! Frusciante, once again, melts time.

[Sparton890]

at 1:00?.. when was this?.. p.s in this pic theres a crunchie bar on his couch.. =) fucking awesome

[casyn14]

This is one of my favorites off of Niandra. But if anyone here ever has time please come check out some of my videos which are inspired by Johns Niandra album. If you do then thanks a lot!!! :)

[homofaglove]

IN YOUR PUSSY I'M COMING, AND I LOVE YOU.

[befrankis]

@homofaglove best line in the whole song also the way he sings it is amazing so catchy

[emmiway]

amazing what john frusciante managed to make such amazing songs even in the time as a drug addictad

[veyron92]

maynard james keenan like @1:20 ?

[thermoderpian7]

the most honest song ever written.

[redHotcubeSpeed]

my favourite guitarist..he is a god

[pontoonen]

of some reason I hate when people use both john pictures and RHCP pictures. Because it feels like too different things to me and then I dont understand why people use them together. awesome amazing kick ass song!

[Mateo151]

@pontoonen

meh... what's RHCP w/out john

[pontoonen]

true that, rhcp is not rhcp without him. but when he goes solo he is not a part of the rhcp and then I just think its weird to use rhcp photos in a john solo video. but thats just my opinion. love them all.

[Barefoot67]

this albums great

[MrDaffery]

its not that anthony is a the better singer its that anthony has such a history behind him and has a spage presence like no other person every.

[k0stil]

in your pussy i`m cumin and i love you...

[lacombebound20]

he really needs to leave the singing up to anthony

[TheRoflSaurus]

he actually has a better singing voice than anthony, but i dunno maybe he just likes singing backing vocals with the chili peppers...

also, this is his solo stuff... no anthony involved at all

[k0stil]

LOL

[planb61293]

when the vocals kick in at this song i just hit a John trance... amazing stuff. now im a huge Frusciante fan, from the newest empyrean material to his covers at the Paradiso... but there is just something incredible and fricking interesting about Niandra LaDes and Smiles from the streets you hold records... not because hes using heroin or making good songs, but because he is forming complex works of ART. some pretty amazing shit happened when he was couped up in that house...

[sexymagik1981]

oh yes !!!

some of the most artistic and creative music ever made on those 1st 2 LPs

gotta love em.

my friend you av great taste in music and art., well done you.

[frankie1089]

hey, shutup! no need to cuss

[measomo]

@planb61293 that's fucking right!

[realbeereels]

@planb61293 he didnt make niandra lades while he was on heroine, it was just released during that time

[poshoteamo]

he is the best, just to Flea, Anthony and Chad!!!.. is so wonderfuL!!!

[imman033190]

the best they are.

[hottyeyez]

its gona prob sound weird but if it wasnt for a random dream of john that i had i wudnt have known he was an amazin person as well an genial musician ever. I thank him for his music and making me feel better by listening to him =)

[fullmetalfunk]

Holy shit! I had seen opne of his albums in a store once and then had a dream about it so I went out and bought it. I wouldn't be the same person if I wouldn't have bought that album. It came along at the perfect time in my life. That's crazy...we both had dreams that lead us to his music. Haha...weird...

[Appelmoes444]

'thank god i found you'

jofn frusciante is my idol, he makes real music that is honest, true and beautiful

[imman033190]

yeah man, i couldn't agree more.

[fullmetalfunk]

Is it just me or does when he sing "I'm happy as can be" at end, it suonds kinda like he's lying.

[oppsydoodles]

i think that mite be hes point...

[fullmetalfunk]

Probably.

[wakeup1991]

ya isnt that fuckin creepy? but its amazing at the same time!

[fullmetalfunk]

I don't know that creepy is the word but it's the closest one I can think of so yeah...creepy.

[sdgdfhdfhdfhdfh]

Nothing ugly about it.

[fohnjrusciante]

when i bought niandra lades it was easy but smile was hard to look for. amazon had it on there for 3o$ one day and i bought it with money i didnt have

[lauralikes]

im happy as can be

[JustWatching6]

Aww, John was so adorable as a kid! (OK, well...taking that back...he's still pretty adorable) Love love love the guitar in this song. John is a guitar god. :D

[sdgdfhdfhdfhdfh]

He was adorable then and is now.

[canadianmaple09]

Awesome pictures, and an amazing song!

[tvkyva13]

Could have sworn thats john mayer at 1:06

[Jeremy1281988]

Lol, nah. Thats not Mayer.

Have you ever seen john in his heroin years? (92-97)

[Matthewtehlol]

@Jeremy1281988 John even looks better than Mayer even on his heroin years.

[KurtCobain9202]

That's what I thought too

[sdgdfhdfhdfhdfh]

It's definitely Frusciante. It was taken in 1998, when he re-joined RHCP.

[PrestonDowMusic]

@tvkyva13 hahaha no....that's someone with actual creativity and artistic integrity

[Atapewalker]

omg this is awesome

[planetlover11]

i love this song... especially the guitar. i love the red hot chili peppers and they are my favorite band of all time and JF is my favorite guitarist of all time... he is one of my idols!

[khle2]

Yes! T_T

[delunahugoren]

I'm glad this album is underground even for peppers fans; because if not so much people knows it, you feel it's like yours only. Although, I think this record is fucking my brain; I always feel like so depressed when I hear it, but I do like being in that state... how fuck'd up is that?

Anyways... I'm recently listening to the Smile from the Streets album; especially the first song: "Enter a Uh" (watch?v=K6zgxKnTuTc). I feel like saying "fuck with everything!".

I'm dead anyway.

[Jeremy1281988]

I love enter a uh, and Life's a bath, and everything. There are around 10 songs on "Smile From the Streets You Hold" that i could listen to over and over forever.

I know exactly the place where you go to when you listen to this music! :)

[theflyingdutchmanxD]

you got eny id how i cant get smile? since they removed it from stores and i realy want i bad

[mmeri1993]

online but be prepared to pay alot. I paid $70-ish for mine, but its completely worth it. That cd puts you to what i think is pretty similar state john was in at the time, or at least as close as we could ever get.

[theflyingdutchmanxD]

wel its been 4 months since i posteed that one, i already got my copy of smile for €50 wich is about 60-65 $ i think

[mmeri1993]

god you reply fast, thats a better price than me. good to know now i have to get niandra sometime soon

[fullmetalfunk]

I know this comment is seven months old. But i went through a depression in my life right at the time i started listening to this. I love listening to it now but it kinda makes me depressed. But i miss that depression i went through and i'm kinda afraid to tell that to people. I know EXACTLY what you feel like and what you mean by what you said. I'm so glad i found this comment. Don't give up and say your dead already though. It gets better i swear.

[oppsydoodles]

i went through almost the same thing.

[fullmetalfunk]

YEah man. It's hard to explain that kind of stuff to people who haven't gone through it. Hope your better now though.

[imman033190]

what a great relief that he's healthy now

[fullmetalfunk]

Yeah. Although I think he's gone recluse again or something. Maybe he's just busy recording.

[measomo]

@delunahugoren yeah!, that's right!

[geoff1121]

@delunahugoren maybe the feeling of hurting more is what youre looking for? leave your body

[jpl2611]

@delunahugoren I get exactly what you mean, its the same for me

[cjumilla1]

@delunahugoren Right man every time i hear this record i feel it as a part of my body.. Its Just Amazing.

[BIGminnes92]

i really dig this song... awesome album

[Jeremy1281988]

Yea man, one of my favorite albums ever. This song is different but beautiful in an odd way.

Thanks for your comment, dude.

[foogrrrl]

love the guitar most in here

[hottyeyez]

this song is kinda weird lol

[Jeremy1281988]

this whole CD is kinda weird. :)

that is what makes it so great.

[ErikaDotFive]

Exactly! My feelings exactly. I believe only true RHCP and John's friends can truly apreciate and understand this kid of JF's work.

[theflyingdutchmanxD]

i cant say i ever met john or enyone of the rhcp so i cant say im a friend of theirs, tho i feel like i am couse their always with me, but i realy apreciate johns music

[goodgretas]

Wow, I've just realised! I meant to say "RHCP and John's FANS"!

Haha, sorry about that. (what a silly mistake :S)

[ErikaDotFive]

That was me, in another account.

[sdgdfhdfhdfhdfh]

Weird is good.

[foreverandafter]

he recorded this album when he was all drug.

[Jeremy1281988]

hmm, no, that was 'Smiles From the Streets You hold".. most the songs off Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T Shirt were recorded in 1991 around the time of BSSM. They were released in 94. Smiles was the one that was released for drug money, in 1997, but even most of those songs weren't recorded for that purpose... just released.

Thanks for your comment though. :)

[sionirfon]

your both kinda right i think, some were recorded when he was 17, a fall thru for example, but i think some where recorded when he was druged, one song is on the vpro,cant remember which. i think.:)

[Jeremy1281988]

written and recorded are different man. :)

The tracks on smile weren't written for drug money, but a lot of them were recorded around that time, and put out for money.

[deftonesfreak]

this vid is gay as fuck

[Jeremy1281988]

thanks for your comment. :)

[deftonesfreak]

ur welcome

[BIGminnes92]

haha youre badass...

quit being such a dick

[sdgdfhdfhdfhdfh]

No it isn't, you are.

[SusannaG74]

don't like the peppers, but i dig his solo work

[Jeremy1281988]

Cool! :)

I love his solo work a lot also, much better then what the Chili's are comin' out with these days.

Thanks for your comment.

[WackStrings22]

I used to listen to Niandra Lades with my cd player, and take my dog for a walk and get lost.. I don't know what it would be like if I was actually stoned but the energies and vibes of the songs fucked with me that I probably got myself running in circles or something.

Fantastic record.. it was worth the money

[Jeremy1281988]

Agree 100% man.

Drugs kinda enhances that feeling. ;)

[WackStrings22]

yeah i'm glad you guys and a bunch of people on youtube are recognizing his solo work but imo he's pretty under-rated as a solo artist but there's really nothing wrong with that whatsoever

[Jeremy1281988]

Yea, i think he kinda likes it. He isn't too fond of fame.

[WackStrings22]

Yeah we absolutely need more dedicated and life-loving and curious musicians nowadays, and frusciante is a great fucking example of how all of us as a society can help the current shitty music industry

[Sypher474]

I love all his solo stuff. Amazing music.

Cheers for the nice vid.

[Jeremy1281988]

Thanks, man.

I agree, his solo music rocks!

[BleedingGumsJazz]

John Frusciante is truly amazing. I love when he overlaps guitars to make a kick ass song!

[Jeremy1281988]

Oh yea, its definitely awesome.

Thanks for your comment.

[bsingo]

Man, I love that shot of all John's vintage guitars. Thats the finest guitar porn I have ever seen. Love the song aswell. Brilliant.

[Jeremy1281988]

Cool, man!

Yea, once i saw that picture, it became an instant must in all my vids. :)

[FatahMorgana]

sadly, I love this era ...it feels so grunge

[Jeremy1281988]

Oh yea, man. Totally agree.

Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt is just an amazing album, and so is Smile From the Streets You Hold.

It definitely has that "I don't give a fuck" kind of mentality about it. Mixed with drug abuse and depression, makes for some awesome music, lol. :)

[hailtheheelz]

great

[Jeremy1281988]

Woot! Cheers, man!

Thanks for your comment.