Flea is an Australian-American musician and actor best known as bassist and founding member of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. Flea is also the co-founder of Silverlake Conservatory of Music, a non-profit music education organization founded in 2001 for underprivileged children.
[Flea creates] a rhythm for his prose as curt and distinct as his
bass playing.
*The Guardian*
Acid for the Children is not an as-told-to, nor is it written
"with" someone. These are Flea's words-excitable, jazzy, regretful,
disarming, popping and writhing away in his biological bass zone.
Insecurities to the fore: He worries that he may be producing "a
thorny jumble of trash." But he's actually a lovely writer, with a
particular gift for the free-floating and reverberant. He writes in
Beat Generation bursts and epiphanies, lifting toward the kind of
virtuosic vulnerability and self-exposure associated with the great
jazz players....Flea-elegant nutcase, funk-at-high-pressure
bassist, wildly cultured and culturedly wild man-has written a fine
memoir. You'll put down Acid for the Children with your human
sympathies expanded; you'll feel less alone.
*The Atlantic*
Acid For the Children's closest analog is, somewhat surprisingly,
Patti Smith's Just Kids...The prose frequently mimics [Flea's]
playing: occasionally beautiful, occasionally outrageous, in
conversation with a small group of predecessors but unwilling to
follow anyone else's rules. This is what gives Acid for the
Children its considerable charm...
*AV Club*
[An] electric, surprisingly moving memoir...Flea is an enlightened
narrator, and this passionate, smart memoir will resonate with
readers whether they're fans of the band or not.
*Publisher's Weekly*
A wild ride through the coming-of-age wilderness of the famed rock
bassist...Relentlessly honest, untamed, and often revelatory.
*Kirkus*
He's the iconic bassist and co-founder of the Red Hot Chilli
Peppers. The one you couldn't take your eyes off, despite Anthony
Kiedis' enormous stage presence. Flea finally reveals his
fascinating story, complete with everything you'd expect - the
"highs" and the gutter lows from an "LA street rat turned
world-famous rock star". A must for all music fans everywhere.
*Creative Boom*
Its hard not to warm to his openhearted embrace of jazz, funk and
his eventual bromance with bandmates.
*Best Music Books of the Year, Daily Telegraph*
A frenzied, beat-ish telling of his pre-RCHP existence
*Strong Words*
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