Red Hot Chili Peppers have won the favourite alternative artist and favourite pop/rock band at the American Music Awards last night. However, as they were not present due to the tour obligations in UK; Anthony, Flea and Chad thanked for the award via the video link. John was not there, he was apparently sleeping already; so there won’t be a video clip for this on I-M.net

If you’re interested in how the whole show was like, here’s a review.

John is on the cover of the next month’s issue of Guitar Player and there’s a long interview with him inside. Among other things, he’s explaining which effects were used on which song on Stadium Arcadium. Some excerpts from the interview can be found on the magazine’s official website. Scans and transcript will be on the site shortly, as one of the I-M.net fairies is on her way to grab the magazine;) For now, here’s the cover:

Here are links to some reviews of the Boston show, as none of them was inspiring enough to have its excerpt posted…

A review from Telegram.com
A review from Boston.com

For those who don’t want to bother reading, John sang Your Pussy Is Glued To A Building On Fire. He sang it in Quebec City as well, which might be a sign that it’s about to become a regular part of RHCP setlists once again, which would be wonderful.

If you have pics or media from this show, drop me a line.

I figured out this would be a nice preview for those who are going to the show so…read on. There are some interesting things the most of people probably haven’t heard about before.

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Many thanks to Lilith for this news

There’s an interview with John on the website of 1077 The End, the radio station which organised Endfest 15.

Click here, then scroll down to Interviews with Endfest bands!. Enjoy

Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante may be doing a bit of double duty on the group’s current North American tour. In addition to his regular gig, Frusciante has performed on the he last two albums by opening act The Mars Volta — last year’s Frances The Mute and the upcoming Amputechture. The Mars Volta’s Omar Rodriguez-Lopez told us that he and singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala consider Frusciante to be an honorary member of their band: “He’s always welcome to be part of the band. He’s so part of the energy of what the band is and gets along so well with everyone and, I mean, he’s my closest friend next to Cedric, so for me it’s so great and comfortable to having him around.”

The tour began on Friday, August 11th, at the Rose Garden Arena in Portland, Oregon. There’s been no official word on whether Frusciante will appear onstage during The Mars Volta’s opening sets, however.

Amputechture, The Mars Volta’s third album, comes out September 12th.

(source: therockradio.com)

Unlike many other musicians and unlike many other people in general, our John always admits when he’s wrong. So therefore, for some of you it might not be a surprise that he wrote a letter to Total Guitar magazine, explaining what was wrong about the things he said regarding learning guitar playing theory in the first part of his XXL interview from the July issue (text-only and scans available on this site).

Thanks to rayzer from OHG for typing this out. And, a lesson to all of us: when you think you were wrong, say it out loud, don’t be afraid to do so.

I am sitting here listening to The Beatles and i want to say a couple of things regarding my comments on the question of whether or not to learn theory.

If you don’t know theory, and yet when a chord progression is played low on the neck you can play a melody in keeping with the chords halfway up the neck without being lost, you are doing well. In this case, there is no pressing need to learn theory because you can make music with another person, understanding as you do the numerical relationships of music. Though you may think of them as shapes, the relationship is a numerical one as numbers are a humans way of measuring distance. So theory shows a person how to be far away in terms of frequency (how high or low the notes are) but close in therms of feeling and connectivity.

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