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Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication - (guitar cover)

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Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication - (guitar cover)
fender telecaster, fender deville 2X12, od3.
The song is mainly about the dark side of Hollywood. The song opens to the "Psychic spies from China try to steal your mind's elation." The track also makes references to the decline in Western society ("it's the - edge of the world and all of Western civilization"), and other topics such as pornography ("hardcore soft porn") and plastic surgery ("pay your surgeon very well to break the spell of aging") and even some pop culture references including Star Wars ("and Alderaan's not far away, it's Californication"), and Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain as well as David Bowie ("Cobain, can you hear the spheres singing songs off Station to Station?").The song also quotes a reference from Star Trek "Space may be the Final Frontier but its made in a Hollywood Basement". Guitarist John Frusciante exclusively recorded this song and "Otherside" with a vintage Gretsch White Falcon hollow body electric guitar, he also played these songs live with the White Falcon until 2007 when he retired it for one of his vintage Fender Stratocasters.

Psychic spies from China
Try to steal your mind's elation
Little girls from Sweden
Dream of silver screen quotations
And if you want these kind of dreams
It's Californication

It's the edge of the world
And all of western civilization
The sun may rise in the East
At least it settles in the final location
It's understood that Hollywood
sells Californication

Pay your surgeon very well
To break the spell of aging
Celebrity skin is this your chin
Or is that war your waging

Chorus:
First born unicorn
Hard core soft porn
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication

Marry me girl be my fairy to the world
Be my very own constellation
A teenage bride with a baby inside
Getting high on information
And buy me a star on the boulevard
It's Californication

Space may be the final frontier
But it's made in a Hollywood basement
Cobain can you hear the spheres
Singing songs off station to station
And Alderaan's not far away
It's Californication

Born and raised by those who praise
Control of population everybody's been there and
I don't mean on vacation

Chorus

Destruction leads to a very rough road
But it also breeds creation
And earthquakes are to a girl's guitar
They're just another good vibration
And tidal waves couldn't save the world
From Californication

Pay your surgeon very well
To break the spell of aging
Sicker than the rest
There is no test
But this is what you're craving

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  • ur guitar is fucking awesome.

  • sloppy

    

  • Tu solo muy mal .-.

  • tu solo esta espantoso

  • This looks like a simple yet great song to play!!!

  • very good

  • 4:00 FAIL

  • @luisortiz9 ve a el canal de cuerdabierta y te la enseñan, es re facil :) yo la estoy aprendiendo :)

  • @Evmaomar hey buddy. It's Down Up Down Down Down Up Up Down Down Down

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