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I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

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John Frusciante
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 5
Guitarist
Record Producer
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Singer-Songwriter
Trickfinger
John Anthony Frusciante
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And for me the only way to live life is to grab the bull by the horns and call up recording studios and set dates to go in recording studios. To try and accomplish something.
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Pot put me in a position where I could walk far away from my playing and hear it in the second person. It helped me step away from myself. I stopped seeing the guitar as a thing I'm holding in my hands and started seeing it as a thing that's at one with outer space and nothingness.
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And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.
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I've been in pain hope it doesn't show I've been insane well the time is slow
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I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead
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