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An Amazon Best Book of November Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, born Michael Peter Balzary, has penned a soulful and absorbing memoir of his journey from his early childhood in Melbourne, Australia, to the verge of what would become a road to stardom.

The Balzary family moved to the States when Flea and his older sister were four and six, first to New York City and later Los Angeles/5(). Book Review: Flea’s ‘Acid for the Children’ Is a Portrait of a Chili as a Young Punk The compelling new memoir by the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ bassist is a coming-of-age bromance in the vein.

Acid for the Children was not written "with" someone, these are Flea's words-excitable, jazzy, regretful, disarming, and writhing away in his biological bass zone. I loved that the prose were as off-centered and as wildly unpredictable as the author Never have a read a memoir before where the spirit and sheer truism of the author bubbles up to 4/5.

The Chaotic Elegance Flea book Flea. In his new Flea book, Acid for the Children, the Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist exhibits virtuosic vulnerability.

There’s a sad Flea at the heart of this book, a. Flea was talking about drugs, which figure prominently in the book, starting with the cover, a photo of a baby-faced Flea sucking on a joint at a nude beach. Harder stuff beckoned before too long. Flea admits that Anthony is better with words than he is and therefore, in my opinion Scar Tissue is still the better book.

But this was an easy and quick read and I really Flea book the type of person Flea is/5(1K). Excerpt from Acid for the Children, by Flea. There once was a small blonde Australian boy. He loved his dog. Life picked him up and shook him.

" [ Acid For The Children is] written with the same lyrical, holy goof-ball energy its author brings to all his public activities, and its earnest, eccentric prose reflects Flea's evolution from Hollywood-scene knucklehead to reflective, spiritually clued-in adult."— The New York Times.

From the Publisher. Customer : Grand Central Publishing. Flea has what you want from an aging rockstar and rarely get: humility, kindness, and an interest in raising voices of marginalized artists. I’ve gotten so much from his posts. Book recommendations that range from Toni Morrison’s Jazz to his own upcoming book, Acid for the Children.

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Flea, member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, will be signing copies of “Acid For the Children” in NY next month. Signed copies of Acid For The Children. If you are not able to attend any of the events below, you can now order a signed first edition of “Acid For The Children” is a very fine signed collector’s edition, with the dust-jacket protected in a brand new archival.

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Flea is an Australian-American musician and actor best known as bassist and founding member of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Flea is also the co-founder of Silverlake Conservatory of Music, a non-profit music education organization founded in for underprivileged children.4/5(K).

The Flea was written when he was a young man before he met his wife and has a gregarious and lecherous air to it, which belies his later somber religious sermons.

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In a news release, Grand Central said the book would chronicle Flea’s “myriad experiences with hard drugs; and, of course, the tumultuous creative journey of. Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire and the Birth of Europe. by William Rosen. pp, Cape, £ Yersinia pseudotuberculosis was a fairly benign Author: Ian Pindar.

Red Hot Chili Peppers Bassist Flea has announced a new book club, which already comes with its first assigned reading assignment. A wild ride through the coming-of-age wilderness of the famed rock bassist. Though this volume barely touches on the career of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the band whose fans will likely constitute its most ardent readership, Flea’s spirit permeates the narrative, which is scattered, reflective, hedonistic, funny, scary, and occasionally redemptive.

Flea, the iconic bassist and co-founder, alongside Anthony Kiedis, of the immortal Red Hot Chili Peppers finally tells his fascinating origin story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the gutter lows you'd expect from an LA street rat turned world-famous rock star.

Michael Peter Balzary was born in Melbourne, Australia, on Octo His more famous stage name, Flea, and his wild /5(). 2 thoughts on “ Flea Book Promotion Dates ” Gabriel on Novem at pm said: I thought I couldn’t respect and admire Flea more than I already did, then this book was released.