The Red Hot Chili Peppers : Fornicating

Synopsis

From their days as funky punks wearing nothing but socks on their cocks to their revered status as superstuds and multi-million-selling stadium fillers, the Red Hot Chili Peppers story is a wild one. The Californicators have endured death, drugs, freakouts and a dangerously unstable line-up to produce some of the most vital rock & roll of the past 20 years. Throughout, these Good Time Boys have been hell-bent on having the best possible time - all the time. Author Jeff Apter has interviewed dozens of people - many speaking openly for the first time - who have moved in and out of the Chili Peppers' circle over the past three decades. He has spoken with former Chili Peppers, life-long friends, classmates, family members, album producers and music business insiders, as he plots the band's rise from Hollywood "latchkey kids", willing to test-drive any drug or woman they could score, to the camomile-tea sipping superstars of today, whose only true family is this band. Along the way he documents the band members' roots, their fast times at LA's Fairfax High School, the bonds formed in various Hollywood crash-pads and punk clubs, as well as the accidental origins of the band.