With my last selection team Hot Banana Thrust is happy to select by the Red Hot Chili Peppers in the category of Song:
This is the Place
"I don't want to do it
Like my daddy did
I don't want to give it
To my baby's kid"
This verse refers to Blackie Dammet, Anthony's father with whom he moved in with when he was 13. Blackie got Anthony started on speed around age 13! Anthony used to come to school after not sleeping for days and still be up and running...
"On the day my best friend died
I could not get my copper clean"
When Hillel Slovak died Anthony didnt show at his funeral. Jack Irons (the Chili's drummer at the time), famously said "Hillel will only be the first" at the funeral.
Anthony rented a boathouse for three months, bought lots of food and water, then locked himself in and took his supposed last hit of heroin. He also wrote the song "Taste the Pain" in there.
Anthony said in an interview with Rolling Stone that by now, probably every one of his genes was encoded with drug addiction. He's afraid that if he ever has children they'll lead the life he did (don't want to take it up with little joe/ do it like my daddy did). He's spurred to these thougts by revisiting his past and seeing how low he went (all the devils plead) and doesn't want to give it to his kids.
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