Ascension

I just wanted to talk about this amazing song: Ascension
I've been listening to this song around ten times today, and the day is not finished yet...

The lyrics of are so wonderful, sincere and transcendental.
I love this way of going beyond death.
This picture of ascending endlessly, to reach another level of existence…

Here are the lyrics:

Ascension

Coming up to the end

These feelings weren't always pretend

Review your whole life and you don't even have to die

Life would never leave me alone

A choice which way I wanted to go

And everything I've seen is wrong to make me what I'll be

All men

You don't need anyone

Just hold on to the end

And you don't even have to look good

Woman

You do fine on you own

You're free to cry and you don't even have to wipe your eyes

You once saved me and now I'm where you want me to be

Ascending endlessly and I don't even have to try

John Frusciante’s gear (guitar, amps, effects…)

Here’s a list of John Frusciante’s gear, that I’ve made myself, thanks to all the interviews that I've read, and to all the videos and pictures that I've watched.
I've been able to put almost one picture for each guitar.

If you want to use this list, please credit me, Thanks ;)
And if you have any remark or question, don't hesitate to contact me here mailto:shadowscollidewithpeople@msn.com)

P.S: This is only the list of the gear that John Frusciante has now, it does not contain the guitars he used to have before (like the fender Jaguar that he uses in Under The Bridge videoclip). I also haven't put the guitars he borrowed for some occasions, as the Taylor 314 CE he had in the BBC show (click here to see it)

Thanks for your comprehension ;)

* Guitars:

-Electric guitars:

.Fender:

-1962's Stratocaster (3 colors "sunburst", offered by Anthony Kiedis for his return in the band)

-Stratocaster maple-necked '55 ("sunburst" 2 colors)

-Stratocaster 1961 (olympic white)

-Stratocaster 1961 (fiesta red)

-Jaguar Red Fiesta 1962

-Telecaster 1963 Custom Sunburst 3 colors (which have the F of Fender engraved on the pickguard )

-Mustang 1969 dakota Red (It's the first at John's right on the picture, otherwise simply because I love guitars... he is holding a Fender Jaguar, the first at the left is his famous '62 Stratocaster, the 2nd at the left is his '55 Strat, the last at the left is his 0-18 acoustic Martin and the last at his right is a Rickenbaker ;)

-Jaguar White

-Precision Bass Olympic White (rosewood fretboard)(On this picture this is the third from the right, just next to his wonderful Gibson ES 335 Dot ^^. Still on this picture, we can notice an electric Mosrite St George Gold 12 string, the 1st on the left, next to the Gibson ES 335...)

.Gibson:

-Les Paul 1969 Custom Black Beauty 2 pickup

-ES-335 Dot 1961 Sunburst (one of my favorite with the '62 Strat & the '63 Tele )
This is also the one that had for the San Fransisco's Performance with Michael Rother and Josh Klinghoffer

- SG 1961 Custom Cherry Red (the one that he has in the Fortune Faded video, and also the same as Robby Krieger of The Doors ;)

- SG 1961 sunburst (Used for the Joy Division's tribute show)

-ES-175 1950s vintage (it almost looks like his Gibson ES 335 Dot, but we can notice that this one is only cutaway, whereas his ES 335 Dot is double cutaway (yes, I 'am maybe a little bit crazy...)

.Gretsch:

-White Falcon 1955 (found by his friend Vincent Gallo)

He very often uses it for Californication and Otherside in live, and we can also see it in the Californication's video. I'd say this is one of the most wonderful guitar of the world, in fact it's completely normal: the most wonderful guitar of the world for the most talented and amazing guitarist of the world !!!!!!

.Rickenbaker:

I don't exactly know the model, but with my knowledge of guitars, I'd say it's 12 strings 360/12 model. (It's the one that he uses in the Dani California's video, as you can see in the picture below)

.AMPEG

-Dan Armstrong

-Acoustic Guitars:

.Martin:

-0-15 Small bodied from the ‘40s (he's got two)
He very often uses it in live and in his solo shows, as well as in "The Past Recedes" & "Road Trippin'" videos.

-Martin 12 strings

-0-18 small bodied blond

.Australian Maton:

-Messiah EM100c

*Amps:

(By the way, the picture is mine… I’ve taken it myself on June, 6th, 2006 in Lyon, and I’m quite prood of it ;)

.Marshall:

-Major 200W with KT88 Tubes
-Silver Jubilee 2550
-JTM 45

.Fender:

-Blackface Fender Showman

*Mediators:

.Jim Dunlop:

- Orange Tortex, 0.60 mm (the sames as me... ^^)

* Strings:

In general it's 0.010 gauge strings, but he uses an 0.011 on the high E string and 0.012s if he's playing the White Falcon


.D’Addario:

-XL 0.10-0.46

(an ad for D'addario XL strings with John Frusciante ;)

* Effects/Pedalboards :

.BOSS:

-CE-1 Chorus Ensemble
-CE-5 Chorus Ensemble
-DS-2 Turbo Distortion
-FV-50 H volume pedal
-MT-2 Metal Zone
-Master Swich

.Digitech:

-PDS-8000 (x2)

.Electro-Harmonix:

-English Muff’n
-Holy Grail Reverb
-Electric Mistress Flanger & Filter Matrix
-Big Muff Pi
-Frequency analyzer
-Graphic Fuzz
-Tube Zipper
-Freedom amp
-16 Second Digital Delay
-Micro Synth

.Ibanez:

-WH10 Wah


.Line 6:

-FM4 Filter Modeler
-DL4 Delay Modeler



.Moog:

-MF-105 MuRF
-MF-105B Bass MuRF
-MF-101 Low-Pass Filter (x 3)
-MF-103 6/12-Stage Phaser
-MF-102 Ring Modulator -Controll Processor (x 2)
-Expression Pedal (x3)


.Mosrite:

-FUZZrite


.Guyatone:

-VT-X Tube Tremolo

.MXR:

-Micro Amp-Phase 90 reissue
-Zachary


.Vex:

-Fuzz Factory


.Dunlop:

-Uni-Vibe Stereo Chorus

*Others :

-KORG DTR-2000 Digital Rack Tuner

(another ad with John...)

- Studer A-800 machine (x2)
- Vintage API console
- Doepfer modular analog synth
- Effects rack with a Fairchild 670, Pultecs, 1176s and a vintage Neve and UA modules
- EMT plate
- EMT digital reverb
- Grand Piano
- Organs
- Keyboards
- Mellotron
- ARP 2500
- Yukulele

* Tone:

. Amp:

Channel: Overdrive

Gain: 4

Trebbble: 8

Mid: 2

Bass: 6

Reverb: 7

Amp master volume: 5

. Guitar:

Tone: full

Volume: full

*For more informations about John Frusciante's sound, read this interview : Total Guitar Hero Worship Explosion

And I thinks it's all.... ;)

...a little review... from a show I wish I had gone to...

...Yes, it was in 2001, on February, 3rd.
Of course I'm speaking about the concert that John Frusciante gave at "La Scène", in Paris, in my own country...
...But I was too young, and I alas didn't know his wonderful music...
Sometimes I'm just wondering why am I too dumb, and why do I take such long time to discover real things, you know the only things on this earth which can make you life beautiful...

...but that's typically me...

Anyway, let's stop speaking of me !

I managed to find on a website (http://rhcprock.free.fr/frame.html), a review from this show, made by a real admirator (you just have to read it to realize that !), which allowed me to go back to this show, exactly as if I were there !
I know it's quite weird, but reading this, I could imagined all the show, even the minor details, it was as if John played in front of me...That's why I decided to put this review on my Blog, to share with all of you this experience of being, even in your immagination, for some moment in this show; to be completely absorbed and just let your thoughts wander, letting yourself esccape the reality...

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Paris, France, 3.2.01 La Scéne - John Solo
by Mehrnaz#1439Cologne, Feb 5 2001

I am still not fully aware of what I could be part of the past Saturday night. It was like a dream that I never even thought would come true.That morning I took the train from Germany to Paris to see John Frusciante playing at La Scene. Me and my friends arrived at the club at about 7.30pm and the gig was supposed to start at 8. It was raining and we were all standing and waiting to get in. There were not many people there and we thought it's great because this way, the concert would be much more personal and intimate. There didn't seem to be a backdoor at that place, so John would have to use the main entrance , passing all of us. And finally - at about 8pm- a black van with darkened windows arrived and stopped right in front of us. We went to the other side to see if it is really him and we just saw him getting out of the car really fast, almost running towards the entrance -his eyes fixed on the ground. Everything seemed to be really silent at that moment - it was weird. His bodyguards followed him in with the equipment and finally after some minutes, we were let in, too. It was a pretty small but very nice club with dim light and a very warm atmosphere and some really nice music playing. Everyone was already standing close to the stage talking and laughing and waiting for John but it still took a little while 'til he came. Finally, the lights onstage were dimmed and he came. Everyone started screaming and clapping their hands. His manager handed him his acoustic guitar and he sat down on a stool. He seemed a bit nervous and hectic at first as if he wanted to get it done really fast. But throughout his performance he got more and more relaxed and you could see that he is really enjoying the fans and himself playing music for us. When he started playing his first song, I was just so overwhelmed that I almost started crying and so were some others. From that moment on, everyone was hypnotized by John and his performance. I was sitting on the stage and I was so close to him that I could have touched him. And I just couldn't believe that I was so close to the person that has had such a great influence on my personality and my attitude towards music since so many years. It was the most wonderful and moving moment of my life. He went on playing some of his old songs and a lot of cover songs like: 'Modern Love' by David Bowie, a Joy Division song and also 2 songs from his new album including 'Going Inside'(which is my favourite song). He was really giving everything he had and one time he stopped in the middle of a song and his manager handed him some pill. He told us that he had just thrown up in his mouth and that he is sick. And he was like:'Hey, actually I am playing pretty good for a sick guy'. But we didn't care that he had to interrupt some songs. His performance and just his whole being are so natural. We felt like we are some really close friends- almost like a huge family - meeting up with another great friend who was playing songs for us. It was a really personal concert. And his guitar playing and his voice were just awesome. I must say, I actually like him a lot more live than on his records. Because at that concert, there were no effects- it was just him, his voice and his acoustic guitar and nothing else and it was great. I really don't remember the exact order of the songs he played or the exact titles. By times, I just kept looking at his hands and how he played the guitar and I forgot everything around me. I think I was in the 4th dimension he mentioned in Funky Monks . It was just pure energy and vibrations and emotions. It was beautiful.He was done like after an hour already and when he went offstage, we kept on shouting for him to come back and clapping our hands. And of course he came back. I think he did 4 or 5 encores , it was really cool. So , the whole gig lasted for like one and a half hours or even almost 2. In the encores, he said something personal before each of his songs. He played this R.E.M song and he told us that he used to listen to that song over and over again in his girl friend's car at the time when he had reached the lowest point of his life and when he felt really bad- that was a very emotional moment. He also played 'Lucky' by Radiohead and I really liked his version of that song. Another song , he dedicated to one if his friends who had died (guess he meant River Phoenix), a song for his best friend Tori (I think that was her name). And also a song he had written before he rejoined the Peppers that has not been published and he said that that song had been written by fame for him cuz it describes what fame did to him and his life. In the end, he was asking us what songs to play and this one girl shouted: 'Smiles from the streets!' and he was like 'I don't remember how it starts' and he wanted the girl to come onstage and show him. That was such a funny moment and we all started laughing. He actually tried to play that song like 3 times and messed it up. But we didn't care andit was a funny show !! But finally, he managed to play it and when he started playing 'Your pussy….', everyone started screaming - it was just hilarious !! He was so overwhelmed himself and was playing really hard that he broke a string one time. It was just a very natural show. I have never been to a gig like this. It was the best concert I have ever attended ! After he left the stage, most people waited , hoping he would come and give us autographs and we would get a chance to talk to him and of course he came after a while. He is such a lovely person and I can't say it enough: he is really so natural - even more natural than most 'normal' people. He really came up to us and started talking to us, smiling and hugging everyone and making pictures. And when you talk to him, he really looks into your eyes and really recognizes you. He was really patient and so nice ! He signed my BSSM cover and we made a picture and I also got to talk to him. But worthwhile, so many fans were all standing around him and wanting to make pics with him that sometimes he didn't know which camera to look in and he was like:' Which camera is it?' It made me laugh so bad.So, after a while, he had to go but me and my friends still met him again outside accidentally where he was waiting for his car. And I got to talk to him again but he seemed to be pretty tired already. He asked me if I had been at the Hamburg gig and he also told me, that him and the Peppers will probably come to this festival in UK this summer. My friend asked him if he would like to come have dinner with us and he got so excited and started asking how to get there and all. He really wanted to come and got so happy but someone reminded him that he had an interview later that night, so it didn't work out. It would have been so awesome !When his car arrived, he thanked us all and said bye and drove of. I really must say: It was the greatest night ever for me. John has played such an important part in my life since so many years and I still can't believe that I had this great opportunity to get to see him and enjoy his wonderful music. He is a true artist and genius and a great inspiration to me. But the best thing is, that he is such a kind and warm person and that he doesn't act like a rock star. He is just himself and treats his fans with respect. When I talked to him, I felt like I am talking to an old friend whom I have been knowing my whole life. I didn't feel shy or anything. It was just…there really is no word to describe what I felt at that moment. That night, my friend said something great:' that we live everyday like it doesn't mean anything, the days just pass- but this day, we will never ever forget'. It will be the best memory I have ever had and I thank all the people who made it possible for me. I had such a great time in Paris. Thanx for everything to Lina, Darya and J.T. ! It was wonderful to share this experience with all of you ! And I think, I found friends for life that night ! And most of all, I want to thank John for sharing his beautiful music with us. Nothing can ever make me feel better than watching you making music ! I can't wait to see you again !Love to you all !

Mehrnaz (Cologne/Germany)#1439

!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN !!!

Today is the birthday of one of the most talented guitarist of the world.

Of course, if you are on this website, you must know who !
Yes, it's John Frusciante's birthday.

I know it's quite weird to wish "Happy Birthday" to my favorite artist on internet, and I know that John Frusciante himself won't read this article, I'm not so silly !

But my reason to do this article, and to wish him an happy birthday through my Blog, is that John Frusciante is an artist whom I really admire and who is really important to me (you must know it if you know me !), and I only want to celebrate this day as the birth of an exceptional artist.
I don't want to make myself as an obsessive fan, I really hope that people coming to my Blog don't compare me to that, it would really hurt me, because as I often say, I'm really respectful toward artists I admire, and I don't want to seem like a fool who doesn't even pay attention to the artist himself. I'm not that kind of people !
I'm, anyway, not like an obsessive fan who absolutely want autographs !

I prefer to be an admirer of him as an artist and as a human.
I think that the best thing an artist can offer to his admirers is his art itself. It's the most wonderful thing you can have from an artist that you admire.
Don't look for other superficial things, just enjoy the artist's craft.

I know that a lot of people underestimate the influence that artists, either musicians, actors or all kind of artists, can have on your life; most of the time they laugh at you, not understanding what you're feeling. But there's a real influence from a real artist.
And I definitely don't think it's stupid to have a lot of admiration toward an artist. It's something which guide you through your life, through pleasant and dark moments, it's always here, and you can't denie this energy, even if nobody understand you, at least you understand yourself...

...So, I'm going to stop to move further away from the topic and I'll go to the aim of my entry:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN !

And thanks so much for being here, creating such intense music and inspiring me for each minute of my life. Thanks for all.

John Frusciante's Bootlegs

I'll put here a list of John Frusciante's Bootlegs (Audio and Video) that exist on Internet.
I don't put all the links in this entry since I don't have all of those Bootlegs, for the most of them I just know that they exists, but I don't personnally have them.

I only give you some links here:

*If you want a website where you can download some Bootlegs, there is a great one with some audio and video Bootlegs: http://www.jftab.com/
for audio Bootlegs it's here: ****
& for video Bootlegs, here: ****
(you can notably find a video medley of the live at La Scene, Paris France, 3rd March 2001, in a quite good quality.)




* The best Bootlegs (in my opinion), are:

- Live at All Tomorrow Parties Festival, on April 23, 2005
A great show, where John really gives the best of himself (as he always does...), and where there are some of his most beautiful songs, like 'I'm Around', 'Dying Song', 'Time Tonight', 'The Days Have Turned', 'The Will To Death' without forgetting 'Song To Sing When I'm Lonely'...
I'd say, this is THE Bootleg we must have if we really admire John Frusciante's work.

There is an audio Bootleg, which you can find here: ****
& a video Bootleg (on Google Video): ****


-Angel Orensanz, New York 2001 15.03: One of the mini-tour's show that John Frusciante did in February-March 2001, for the promo of his third album, To Record Only Water For Ten Days.
The video of 'Secret Side' (a cover of Nico from the Velvet Underground) is really amazing, this is the only one of this show that I have, but if you have the occasion to download the entire show in video (which would be a true luck for you !), don't hesitate, it must be reallly great !
And if you want the show in mp3, here is a link: ****



-Performance #12 John Frusciante, with Michael Rother & Josh Klinghoffer, 2004.05.08: It's one of the shows that John Frusciante did with Michael Rother and Josh Klinghoffer, the one at the Los Angeles' Knitting Factory.
There is a small video Bootleg of it, which only lasts 5 minutes, but it's just... ...wonderful !
To see such good artists playing together... it brings 5 minutes of hapiness in your day...

Here's a link for the video: ****
& the link for the entire mp3: ****
Just enjoy !


-John with Omar & Flea Performance #10 2004 18.05 : A jam between John Frusciante, Flea and Omar Rodriguez of the Mars Volta. It lasts around 20 minutes, there's only music, but I'd say it's enough to make this show a great one.
If you like the kind of Ataxia & The Mars Volta's records, it's for you.

Here's the links for the video:

part 1: ****
part 2: ****


& mp3: ****



- Joy Division Tribute's Concert at Spaceland on 10th October 2000: John Frusciante, Flea and Josh Klinghoffer made a band in 2000 as a Joy Division Tribute band, which they called Still. This show is an extract of what they did with their band... and this is simply amazing !

Clik here to have a little idea of this show...: ****



& now...










....the list of all the Bootlegs which exists:

AUDIO

1994:

Mongus 1994


1997:

Viper Room, LA 1997 20.01
Hollywood Moguls, Los Angeles, USA - March 28, 1997

Small's 1997 06.02
Los Angeles, CA, House of Blues, 1997-08-06
Kentucky, NutStalk 1997
Rochester, NY, 1997-08-05 (with Thelonious Monster)
Rochester, MN, Water Street Music Hall, 1997-05-08
San Antonio, TX, White Rabbit, 1997-05-24
Anchor Inn, NB 1997.04.26
Bottleneck, 1997.04.28
San Antonio, Texas, 1997.05.24

2001:

San Fransisco, Johnny Foley's 2001 27.04

La Scène, Paris, France, 2001 03.02

The Roxy, L.A - 19.03.2001
Paradiso 2001 08.02

Angel Orensanz, New York 2001 15.03

Johnny Foley's 2001 27.04

London, The Bordeline, 2001.01.28

Toronto, Horsehoe Tavern, 2001.02.13

Los Angeles, CA, The Troubadour, 2001.03.31

Los Angeles, Ca, The Ruby, 2001.06.10


2003:

Performance # 1, Knitting Factory, Los Angeles, CA, 2003.12.12

Santa Barbara Bowl, Santa Barbara, CA, 2003.10.28

2004:

Performance #2 2004 05.01 Ataxia live 2004

Performance #3 2004 02.02

Performance #4 2004 03.02

Performance #5 (00 Ghost 27) 2004 12.03

Performance #7 2004 20.03

Performance #8 2004 21.03

Performance #9 2004 24.03

John with Omar and Flea - Live at Knitting Factory Performance #10 2004 18.05

Performance #12 John Frusciante, Michael Rother & Josh Klinghoffer, 2004.05.08

GT Graphics, Los Angeles, Ca 2004.10.16

2005:

ATP Festival 2005 23.04

Santa Barbara Bowl, Santa Barbara, CA, 2005.10.14

VIDEO

1997:

Kentucky, NutStalk 1997

Viper Room 1997 20.01

2001:

Borderline 2001 28.01
La Scene, Paris, France - 03.02.2001

The Roxy Show 2001 19.03

Angel Orensanz, New York 2001 15.03

San Fransisco, Johnny Foley's 2001 27.04

Horseshoe 2001 13.02

Paradiso 2001 08.02

Toronto, Horeshoe tavern, 2001.02.13

London, THe Bordeline, 2001.01.28

Los Angeles, CA, The Troubadour, 2001.03.31

Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Bowl, 2001.04.26

Los Angeles; CA, Viper Room, 2001.05.01

Los Angeles, Ca, The Ruby, 2001.06.10


2002:

Live in Long Beach 2002

2004:

Performance #2 2004 05.01

Performance #3 (Dust) 2004 02.02

Performance #8 2004 21.03
Live at the Roxy 2004 (?)

John, Omar & Flea Performance #10 2004 18.05

Gt Graphics, Los Angeles, CA, 2004.10.16

2005:

ATP Festival 2005 23.04

AW II

Automatic Writing II is the second half of the Ataxia's sessions.
John Frusciante re-mixed the songs in 2006 (there are now several differences from the previous recording sessions; the track listing has been rearranged, some of the tracks have been renamed and the sound of the tracks has undergone minor changes), and finally released it on May 29, 2007.

The longed-expected Ataxia's 2nd opus won't disappoint you: a little bit warmer than the first album, (notably with the beautiful 'The Empty's Response', entirely sang by Josh Klinghoffer), it is, however, still in the continuation of the first album, from the rocking 'Ethiopian Song' well-opening the album, to the powerful and strong-lyrics 'The Soldier' concluding the record.

In one sentence, this album is the result of three musicians giving their best of themselves.




Release Date: May 29, 2007




Tracks:





01 Ethopian Song
02 The Empty's response
03 Attention
04 OLA
05 The Soldier




Lyrics:





Ethiopian Song

Man
I know it has to be good
Moving the fight to the words
Tense words and danger design
Fence movin’ hit the world twice
Hands
Have you last night just delight
Glance
Over then into the night
His own words he does intoxicate
His own hands our father indicates
Were meant to be uplaid
Were meant to be uplaid
Were meant to be uplaid

Bence
Down the hall
Tough know they’re small
I’m pickin’ up the date
When I will be upstage
Fence
Large and small
Short and tall
Fall out to their final day
Fall out to their final day
Fall out to their final day

Fights
Too hard to recall
See into the wall
The Dead they cut rate ?

When
I get the room I will play
When
daylight like it hits the shades
Friends don’t turn to use
Friends don’t turn to use
Friends don’t turn to use

Plans
Which have already been made
Advanced
Towards the day after their day
They’re makin’ plans for you
They’re makin’ plans for you
They’re makin’ plans for you




The Empty's Response

Behind the sky there I'm
I'll try to reach you
Without clear disguise
I am nothing
Won't you rule my heart eye ?
seems you. already own my heart
if only i can come and see you die
it'd be the only reason whyyou're being the impossible
things who realize
when you let yourself be so
there hell...
What the coward lies behind
Your now is gone
My before is your now
And why I must go
We're doomed to survive
for a laythe only would.. he fly
the empty's response to why





Attention

I’m one of them that still seem simple
I’m here again, let’s let those things go
I want it fast to reject my soul
"Is there attention?", don’t we say so?

Yes, I’ll be here, awwwww
Inside a tear, awwww
Carrying a torch, awwww
In the westmarch

Ooonn and ooooon….

Thoughts I’ll read you yet
Fought to be unreal
Never ending back
Something to conceal

The thoughts I find forget
I’ve skinned them in my will
Pleasure that we get
The gift to lose its feaaaaaaaar

awwwwwwww…
awwwwwwww…

And you’re turning on that knob
Sell your love for real
Thoughts have let you down
The sense to your appeal

The lines we say again
Arised they much reveal
I gavethe stars to her
She laughed and shot to hell

awwwwwwww
Thoughts come being here
Nothing’s to fair
I’ll come down where
The one has a care

mmmmmmmmmhhhh…

I’ll be one way
Every new day
Nothing to fear
So now beware

On and on…

I’m one of them that still seem simple
I’m here again, let’s let those things go
I want it fast to reject my soul
"Is there attention?", don’t we say so?

Yes, I’ll be here, awwwww
Inside a tear, awwww
Carrying a torch, awwww
In the westmarch, awww

On and on…

awwwwwwwwwwww…
The thoughts I’ll read you yet
Are thought to be unreal
‘Never ending back
Something to conceal

The thoughts I find forget
I’ve skinned them in my will
Pleasure that we get
The gift to lose its fear

I’m one of them that still seem simple

I’m here again, let’s let those things go
I want it fast to reject my soul
"Is there attention?", don’t we say so

Thoughts have let you down
The sense to your appeal
The lines we say again
Arised they much reveal

Gave the stars to her
She laughed and shot to hell
Thoughts I’ve meant to her
Tried to know of’I've been

awwwwwww….



OLA

Here’s the found outlined
Here’s the found outlined
Answers you’re gonna have to go find
Answers you’re gonna have to go find

Here was your blame for what's right
Ola… ola

here… right by
I am not the guy
And I know the girl who wore about to die
The meeting has a chance to unite

Taking a change being here
You’re taking a chance being here
Here’s all the chances you wanted to fear
Here’s all the chances you wanted to fear

Never do go anywhere
Never now go anywhere
The second glance’s to see a thing clear
The second glance’s to see a thing clear

Ad..the first thing you see
Staying in touch with misery
Ideas you’re gonna have to conceal
Ideas you’re gonna have to conceal

hooo…hawwwww

Here’s the found outlined
Here’s the found outlined
Answers you’re gonna have to go find
Answers you’re gonna have to go find

Here was your blame for what's right
Here was your blame for what’s right
All of the years are flying right by
All of the years are flying right.. by.




The Soldier

I fell in line for your contry
You take mine in a deep failure
It’s about time missing I’m a frame not

Back and laid we come undone


I’ve realized I’ve beat my brains out
It feels right in a Jesus halo
I walked back to the old farming up
And looked back but it’s not the same goal

I’m on time
To cross that line
And your dreams all come back
And the scenes all go black

More time the dream is over
I shoot again to the greatest soldier
That right scared but that’s how things go
What I see it's above the same goal

Cross the heart of the sounds of a windback
Memories can anyone have
I loss but it came back
We are the face consequence of that

I believe in cheating a ghost
Sees lines around legannoze
Say man and in between see
I read books but don’t last to the first page


Life on lying
Dreams expire
And they never come back
You’ll forever have that

I fell alive for your country
You take mine in a deep valley
So about a time sing I'm a frame now
Without a lay (?) for all I’ve done

I realize I’ve beat my brains out
It feels right in a Jesus halo
I wore it back to the old farming up
We looked back but it’s not the same bo

I think twice
It’s my advice
I wish you give it back
It’s certain thoughts are lack

We know too well the dream is over
You throw a world over your shoulder
The Christians mens (?) must have begun
For those who saw those ideas I’ve shown

Fall walls the time I crack in
A miscounting was all that was happening
We moved out of foundations
We go down cause we’ve each topic

Life unlieing
Dream expired
And they never come back
You forever have that

A more time the dream is over
I shoot again to the greatest soldier
The dead escape but that’s how things go
What I see is done above same goooal…
above the same goal...

I believe in cheating a ghost
tears lines so legannoze
Sat a man between
I read books but don’t last to the first page
Last to the first page

Curtains

John finished his 6 albums project with this wonderful acoustic album: Curtains. It's my 2nd favorite of the six albums serie (with Inside of Emptiness).

On this record, John just sings and plays acoustic guitar, bass & piano on some songs ('Your Warning', 'Time Tonight' & 'Leap Your Bar', which is entirely played with the piano).
Carla Azar of Autolux also plays drums in some songs and John's friend, Omar Rodriguez Lopez of the Mars Volta also plays some guitar (like on 'Anne's much beautiful solo). John and him played the same guitar part during the solo together, while using the same amp (as John and Josh Klinghoffer already did on 'I'm Around' on the album Inside Of Emptiness).

To describe this album in three words, i'd say it is at the same time very warm, sad & beautiful, three adjectives put together to make the more intimate & one of the more achieved of John Frusciante's albums.
The songs are so gorgeous and the lyrics so intense, you just have one thing to do: to listen the music, closing your eyes and losing yourself in your own thoughts...
All songs are more beautiful than each other in this album: from 'The Past Recedes' with its wonderful solo, to 'Your Warning' & 'Time Tonight' which freeze you on place with their deep & genuine lyrics, passing by the powerful crescendos of 'Control' & the transcendental 'Ascension', you can't overlook this album, this is just pure music with pure lyrics, all recorded in John's own living-room...

This album definitely won't disappoint you: it's not an usual acoustic album, it's much more than that, it's a real masterpiece !





Release Date: February 1st, 2005




Tracks:


01 The Past Recedes
02 Lever Pulled
03 Anne
04 The Real
05 A Name
06 Control
07 Your Warning
08 Hope
09 Ascension
10 Time Tonight
11 Leap Your Bar




Lyrics:





The Past Recedes

And then the past recedes
And I won't be involved
The effort to be free
Seems pointless from above
Yor're looking down at' me
I'd rather stay below
Than have you staring up at me
There’s nowhere I want to go
Ay, this business of how long we try to stay alive
Why to be here you've first got to die
So i gave it a try
And what do you know
Time was so long ago
And things come back you see
To where they don't belong
And every drop of sea is the whole ocean
I lied to the greatest thieves
About anything and everything
I'm a figure of forgotten speech
I'm out of reach
I can't play it safe
But i might just in case
I'm disguised as a reaching hand
I'm working man
I'dont understand why clockout
Comes so slow every time
That's one line i stay right behind




Lever Pulled

You're the feeling of hurting
More is what I'm asking for
Little lies cross overboard
Wait for the cry
Love to aim at besides
Lever Pulled
Go where you are little pond
Never be seen by your saw
We'll work it out
Now the feelings are right where you saw
Forever is right where we were
Never be clean
Lever pulled
Be where you are




Anne

Anne you can't hide
You know we'll find your
It's a matter where pride flies out the window
I never got the weight off the ground
I just forgot what's up and what's down
How many get the way I feel now
There's no regret
There's just the sense that
Nothing is coming my way
There's so much that happened today
The Gods of the city have called my name
It means more to them than it means to me somehow
I left my body
I left my fate
But it is so hard to keep away now
Nothing is final because it seems all the while
There wasn't anything for me
I always faked my smile
There's so many careless angels responsible for me
They give me disease
They give me a pain in my neck to feed off me
Saying pay us the cost and we'll be gone
Now they shut my eyes and I can't see now
These are the times I was scared of
These are the fares I pushed out of my way
Now they've come back here to haunt me
It's plain to see who the winner and loser will be




The Real

I dont know the real from what I thought I saw
I can't remember where I went
Where I was
I'm gonna move toward a point in time
Where where you are is a state of mind
And anytime I can read your thoughts
Some of them yours and some I thought up
There's no good reason for heartbreak
Nothing's repeating every Monday
It's no good saying you'll always be mine
These jokes life's playing they make me so tired
It's already to much to always see you off
The sense that hours go back is enough
I like to fade when I write this line
There's every reason to paint a decline
And every mile i walk is five
I'll get where I'm going in the next life
And all the while there's a false face
This every killing is left untraced
This kind of falling saved my son
This constant longing for what's gone




A Name

These don't have a name
I'vebeen a fool to let it out that way
And it'll keep on coming back
A fool gets laughed at
Now go on and on and on
Letting it out when the feelings strong
I wonder who in the single thing
Made this night and its ugly dreams
These all pass away
It is clear that one can see through a day
And I may have met my match
Completely unattached
With no one no one no one
On whom to rely
Let's sing that song
Well I didn't read the last page
You thought of me at that final stage
Eenie meenie miny moe
It's about time
About time to go




Control

It's not the way I go
It's not the way I go
No one here hears me
I'm sick of people knowing me
Life's confusing me
There's so much I don't see
Something's controlling me
It's no way to live
I haven't got a thing to give
And as those signs trad off
I'm a line from loud to soft
For what I have to say
I wanted to build a stage
I wanted to feel this way
All these things are real
I don't know my own field
You will prove me wrong
I don't know one
I see now what I've got
It reveals just what it's not
Someday I'll take it away
There's nothing for me anyway
Love don't choose me
Wide don't see a thing
What I'm saying is now

I don't know what it's about
I wander through the dawn
So much goes on
Who will make me run
I admit I might be wrong
These letters shelter me now
I wonder how




Your Warning

You're warning me to get out of the way
Was the safest thing to say
This trying to get out a very tight spot
Isn't even worth a shot
And all of the world calls out at once
Give us pain
It's a friend to us
And we don't decide for ourserlves very much
What we are we owe to the fear of love
Don't bring it around I've reached for that
Once it is found it turns its back
What's it called when you're married
And you've fallen out of love
What's it called when the family
You raised you don't know at all
Give us a point to miss
Endings are killing me slow
I only ask for this
Emptiness replace my soul




Hope

I feel the hope running low
We never found our way home
There is no more world
the land is gone
Water is all that survived that one
There are no escapes
Gone are the days of mistakes
Our mistakes
And did you see
The night wore on
And became the days that never begun
The disappearing day
You know where I'm from
Is the only place that forever stays young
Lost at sea
We're lost at sea
I Wouldnt know my face if you all were me
All we have is all we see
There is no more hope
There are no dreams




Ascension

Coming up to the end
These feelings weren't always pretend
Review your whole life and you don't even have to die
Life would never leave me alone
A choise which way i wanted to go
And everything I've seen is wrong to make me what I'll be
All men
You don't need anyone
Just hold on to the end
And you don't even have to look good
Woman
You do fine on your own
You're free to cry and you don't
Have to wipe your eyes
You once saved me
And now I'm where you want me to be
Ascending endlessly and I don't even have to try




Time Tonight

For changing lines
I've got no time tonight
In these times the wind surpassed the tide
when the wake up's hard to find
Dreams make upfor your life
This crazy shine it never lets you die
Going up
We become what you want
Again the moon rises up too high
And we don't need the sky
Wonder what it is that makes the world turn slower
Wonder what it is that makes me feel so mad
Everyone that talks to me I so which wouldn't
I wouldn't evencare except I feel so bad
Why is thereno one in my life
Time
There's no time tonight
Wide
There's no room to see wide
Time
There's no time tonight




Leap Your Bar

Hannah go leap your bar
This is how right you are
I'm in a way it seems
People are cold and mean
In the valleys noon
The things that I can find
Nothing's simple soon
The stitche I can time
I was so bad
Endless the weeds you blink
Nothing's for sure to sink
I cared an open door
what is the world good for
The beloved carrs that went to where they went
Did they actually go were they really sent
Life is so sad
Hanna go fill your jar
This isn't right
You are
When does the whole of to be become infinity
Headed for the moon
The mission I can buy
Forever in a line
The friends who walk right by and never see you
I never see you

A Sphere in the Heart of Silence

This album, the next to last of the six albums serie, is entirely made of raw electronic music. It's as far of a Red Hot's record as Frusciante has made.
This is also the first record which was realeased under the name of John Frusciante/Josh Klinghoffer, as Josh Klinghoffer is, on this album more than a guest appareance; he has entirely written two songs 'At Your Enemies' & 'Surrogate People' (except John's vocal part on this last) and sings on most of the song with John Frusciante (except the much beautiful 'My life'). He even sings alone on two songs: 'Communique' and 'At Your Ennemies'.
The voice of Josh Klinghoffer is perfect along John Frusciante's. We can even say that the two voices complement each other.

'Sphere', the first song which is an instrumental one, was supposed to last more than 30 minutes but was shortened to be put on a record.
The song 'Walls' was played in performance 8 (which was one show of the ten 'performances' serie, where John Frusciante and Josh Klinghoffer played mostly electronic music). There is even an amateur video of it on youtube, here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqJgQ2tgwAM, where we can see the demo of this song. John Frusciante danses and does abstract vocals while Josh Klinghoffer plays drums and some electronic music. There is also the song 'The Days Have Turned' at the end of this performance, which lasts nearly 15 minutes).

A Sphere in the Heart of Silence is a real experience for a listener who has never listened electronic music before, but as we have seen on John's precedent records, all new music experiences are good with an artist like John Frusciante.
It also reveals all the creative power that Frusciante have; he can pass from indie rock to electronic music, without forgetting alternative rock, with an astounding ease, and always keeping interested his listeners. He is a real artist !




Realease Date: November 23, 2004




Tracks:



01 Sphere
02 The Afterglow
03 Walls
04 Communique
05 At Your Enemies
06 Surrogate People
07 My Life




Lyrics:







Sphere (instrumental)



The Afterglow

Ahh !!
Ahh !!

All tonight ending now ending now !
All tonight ending now ending now !
All tonight ending now ending now !
On rebound !
Death before life
Death before life
Death before life
Death before life
Death before life
Death before life
You're in my place again
Echoes before us see now
You're in my wavelength
Sound would of means rectified
Sound would of means rectify!
Shadows casting all ways!
Who knows which way things is now?
I slept in images
Im so down beat on the bright
Im so down and make them a cry
Death before life
Death before life
Death before life
Death before life
Death before life
Death before life
I know that place again
You're in my loneliness speak now
I realised
I don't have my further to go
I don't have my further to go
The afterglow
The afterglow
The afterglow
The afterglow
The afterglow
The afterglow
Life only back when you're never be freezing ah ahh!
Life only back when you're never be freezing
Wouldn't pass it before you (ah ahh!)
Wouldn't pass it before you!
Down is my palce now
No place out there I have to be
Lost is where I am
And Im no reason to be found
To be found
From no sound to resound
From no sound to resound
From no sound to resound
From no sound to resound
From no sound to resound




Walls

Rain on your mind
If I'm so inclined
It's left you all
At there photo stall
One blast, my fast
So you wanna know, where youre gonna go?
So you wanna know, where youre gonna go
And all you want
To be is a God
You're safe as that
My friend go back
Of time, time
So you wanna know, where you're gonna go?
So you wanna know, where you're gonna go?
So you wanna know, where you're gonna go?
So you wanna know, where you're gonna go?
There's only death
And I say that yet
This life is a frontier of pain
Disgust, disgust
So you wanna know, where youre gonna go?(Walls)
So you wanna know, where youre gonna go(Walls)
So you wanna know, where youre gonna go?(Walls)
So you wanna know, where youre gonna go?(Walls)
Once I'm cornered, I can't center
I will go beyond
Plans to kill me seem to falter
I amnot my own
Eyes can't see me or the others
You do things our way
Extra meaning, truth won't free them
Not worth a thing I say
Hey




Communique

This is slow communique
This is slow communique
It's a show that I hope you know
My opposing say,
Why are we inside?
There are no rules
There are no rules
I will try to start a fire
I will try to start a fire
Just to show how well it burns
It's a breaking of commune
It's a breaking of commune
Just to show another way to go
You can never return
You can never return
It's a barrier for life before you learn
I can never return
I found an island, I found an island for you
This is slow communique
This is slow communique
It's a show that I hope you know
Swimming from the island

I will try ___ you know
You say we're running now
You say we're running now
You go to where you never know
I will try to start a fire
I will try to start a fire
Just to, Just to watch how it burns




At Your Enemies

Operate with full knowledge of
What will become of them
I surrounded a jail is sickening
God fear in man, who were there who were me
And open up your cares world
Let them at your enemies




Surrogate People

Surrogate People they walk on by, they walk on by
When they replace you
They live your life, they live your life
Surrogate People they walk on by, they walk on by
When they replace you
They live your life, they live your life
Surrogate People they walk on by, they walk on by
When they replace you
They steal your life, they steal your life




My Life

My life goes blank, my life goes blank
My life goes blank, my life goes blank
My life goes blank
Life was never what you thought.
Life was never what you saw
Life was never what you saw
The lights go out
The lights go out
The lights go out
The lights go out
The lights go out
The lights go out
Life was never what you thought
Life was never what you thought
Life was never what you thought

Inside Of Emptiness

This album was recorded in March 2004 in Los Angeles, with John's friends Josh Klinghoffer and Ryan Hewitt (the engineer). It also features a guest appearance of The Mars Volta’s guitarist, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez.
It's most an electric album (unlike its predecessor, DC EP, which was entirely acoustic).
This is also the first time that John experimented what he called "joined guitars" with Josh Klinghoffer: on 'I'm Around's second chorus, they intertwin their two guitars through the same amp ( which puts together the two separate guitar parts as one part, that's why we only hear one guitar part).

John also wrote 3 songs on this album in reference to the British occultist Aleister Crowley (he said that he read his biography while writing these songs, and so that they were, somehow the result of it's reflection about Aleister Crowley); 'Emptiness', 'I'm Around' and '666' (which was the name Aleister Crowley often used, to defy and reject the strict religious education he has received by his parents).

Opening with 'What I saw' and containing raw songs full of power as 'Look On', this is one of my favorite of the six project (with Curtains).
The wonderful 'I'm Around', also full of power by its gorgeous lyrics, definitely show us that John Frusciante has also a real talent as a songwriter.

With true and intense lyrics, I'd say he is even one of the best today's songwriter.

Release Date: October 25, 2004

Tracks:

01. What I Saw

02. The Worlds’ Edge

03. Inside A Break

04. A Firm Kick

05. Look On

06. Emptiness

07. I’m Around

08. 666

09. Interior Two

10 Scratches



Lyrics:

What I Saw

There's one room
There's one light
There's one night
In the fire
In the pain
In the wire
This from me
This one lie
That seems right
Time cant climb
It cant be
It cant see
I see to be bright
I fall down tonight
I go to hell to be what I see
Falling again is sucha welcome end
can the end of today be more than tonight
Echoes of these far reaching sights
Stuck with the pain of knowing you should have tried
Give me your hands
And wel'll never die
This love song
It sits wrong
It means jack
The time's right to be wrong
All night long
I feel good
I feel so far away
This is mine
It could be anyday
I saw what I saw
I call up a man
Distance is what gets me right in
I had a hand in everyone losing their place
Never must stop
It's stealing my heart
A moment to squeeze begging on its Knees
I know I'll never be right beyond tonight
Give me your hands
And we'll never die



The World'S Edge

These are different lives
Being lived at the same time
Like holding in to a whole
The world's edge is closer
I'm gonna leap right off her
And that will be the end of me
Intersecting lines
Falling way behind
I'mwalking on a rope
Drifting from her
I've never been further
All I know is right
Dreams drift right past me




Inside A Break

Inside a break there's only moments that hide
Every mistake is really worth a try
I know a way a lie can be refined
Hand me your cross and run for your life
Any good luck is a falling tree
I'm noone and no one is me
All day to call some kind of faceless guide
Someday you see is just today in a guise
Every pace you go would go without you
The busiest days there's really nothing to do
I go away to turn the dark to light
Don't look at me when you're wondering why
Hymns sound so good to him
Reflections occur within
Unwind so called holes
Language is false but it speaks to me
Places are gone when there's no one to see 'em
I got a pain that spans millions of lives
Going to where we'll dive into the sky
Any old way is a new way to be
There's just no cause for beating anybody
All of us kids we like to climb to fall
Once within there's nothing better at all
Than nowhere



A Firm Kick

A firm kick in the pants
This last chance to get things right
This was one time I closed an eye
Looked away from you
Look out for yourself tonight
Sometimes I haveto get things right
I never meant what I said to you
To give up all the things that you love to do
I'd never guessed that you'd done me wrong
I'll never accept that dance and song
A little time to adjust
Would be just what we need
I've meant to tell you what I think that you think
When I cross your mind
Forgone
Stressed at the light
Whats wrong with being uptight
I never say what I intend to
But does it mean that much to you
I'd a close call with a glitch in time
Are you really that happy to be mine
No I'm not disguising
All that fighting
And dreams not come true
I will play some light from the sun
The world by my side
I will see down as a forlorn maiden in the sky
And I will play asong of thunder you may recognize
You make a never
Thats forever
Knowing what you deny
When I revisit the past its a blast
I've just gotta move on
I've just let down someone I relied on
And I dont see why
How did we pretty up that speech
M City talking through me
I've never done what I set out to do
Don't come to me 'cuz I'll run from you
Left out of life would I really care
Not a whole lot
There's nothing for me there
I'll never forget the limits that we set
Bacl when it was out moon
I never made a presence of living with good sence
It's really not my strong suit



Look On

I can't get through
Knots in my mind
I resent
The self i can't find
I can't get through
A paper and a pencil
Are the best friends i've got
I went to downtown LA.
Got picked up by the cops
I didn't get what i wanted
But i didn't care a lot
I saw that life was kidding
Look on
I'm warning you
I skipped a life
To be here
i've got no right
I'm bad luck
I used to feel a lot
Things used to be alright
so much was going on
I'm empty now inside
When i thought life was terrible
Things were going fine
Vincent called as a set up
Look on
It's not right
I lost my fame
It's a cheap trick
I wanna do it again
I've got no life
I am a seperate entity
From the guy i was before
Here nobody wants me
I hoped for something more
I flip through empty pages
That i thought i wrote on
I can't tell what is dreaming
Look on




Emptiness

And now a minute is trapped
It fell into a crack
Eleven tries leading the way
and then foresight comes
I've lost my sence of it all
The feelings I can't resolve
Circumstances outside convention
And you knwo I tried
To be part of life
I found the rest of me
I was beaten on down
Emptniess set me free
I lived on a cloud
The walk through the storm
Was like a holiday
I happened to have been warned
Over and over again
The sense of speaking dissolved
Words meanings I couldn't recall
And all I'd found did my losing
I was tough to find
Playing games with my mind
Up the drops that I climbed
In the abyss I was hurled into
By who I brought back into time
I found the rest of me
I was beaten on down
Emptiness set me free
I lived on a cloud
The walk through the storm
Was like a holiday
I happened to have been warned
Over and over again



I'm Around

You know I'm around you
I woundn't be if I didnt love you
I'm going to run through you
You know you're quite a character
It goes I haven't got a care
When we float down the river
I wonder will I lose you
When we roam through a blizzard
We'Ll joke and have another cry
I hope I'm not the other guy
We'll never scale those heights again
We've lost our daugther
Let's plan to hide from all our friends
In silent waters
Be carefil of what you are
WHat you see is just a small part
You must look for yourself im others
And all the places that you go
You see that they are part of you
I want to again be holding hands
With you underwater
And couldnt we get a second chance
To go back and start over
I was thinking before
That it was all my fault
We dropped the baton
Sunday waves and makes faces at us all the time
And I'm wondering what I call mine
Sunday waves and makes faces all the time
And I'm wondering what I call mine



666

Something these days in the air
I'm afraid to sing this song
'Cuz no one answers me
Got in the way of this one chance of mine
I throw it back
It wasn't gonna last
I jumped ahead
There was a slipstream
One good feeling there
I got out quick
Lower than I go
I'm a pinball
Sticking through alot
Then down the side wall
The drop
I must have been alone
In the mean time
Nothing comes my way
I'm proud to say
I crossed a line
I said goodbye
This state to recreate
Is the drain of time
I lead you on
There were no days to wait for
No carrying on
Life's s till a disease
Help it along
It's a sure thing
Everyone I meet is a laughing star
Who dropped
You all ought to walk through a poster
You should see how things align
Change how you see a decline
See how high you really climb
The drop



Interior Two

We walk into the hands of doom
We're coming out interior two
Why dont you come on over
Things here will never be the same
We feed the light with shadows of pain
Why dont you come on back again
I hear our song in the wind
I see clouds laughing insane
I hear out song in the wind
I see clouds laughing again
We fall into forever's lap
We speak when all the lines are tapped
And we endlessly come on back
Wherever did we find this night
I'll come back in another life
Why dont you come back over again
Won't you come back over



Scratches

The scratches of a dark night
The rashes of foresight
And I wanted you
The weight of my freezing
I had come to you
The face I was given
I have no similarities to
The spaces in the law look
Like the faces in a word book
I get by
The matches of opportunities
The last thing I've never seen
And I scream it to you
The pain I was needing
Was sort of true
The one aim I was clearing
Was the walls that grew
The crazes I overlooked
The leans into the kook
And I did
And I was screaming bloody murder
When the charges came
And I stopped by the road side
'Cuz this is from wehere I came
My God but it's so far away
It would seem accidents have gone straight to you
And you've changed your point of view
And the places you're going to
I got crowded
I get crowded
And I'm so glad that you're mine
It twists up the fabric of time
And I'm useless
And your faces are bodies
And your hands are feet
Let me roll around
In things I can't believe
But I tried
Yes I tried
And I tried
You know I tried