Wednesday, March 5, 2008

!!! 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.



Sunday, March 2, 2008

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







Saturday, March 1, 2008

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