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9781455530533
Release Year
2019
Title
Acid for the Children: A Memoir
Brand
Grand Central Pub
MPN
978145553053
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ISBN
9781455530533
Book Title
Acid for the Children : a Memoir
Item Length
9.4in
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Publication Year
2019
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.5in
Author
Flea
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Music
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Composers & Musicians, Genres & Styles / Rock
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
22.4 Oz
Number of Pages
400 Pages

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New York Times Bestseller The iconic bassist and co-founder of the Red Hot Chili Peppers tells his fascinating origin story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the gutter lows you'd want from an LA street rat turned world famous rock star. In Acid for the Children , Flea takes readers on a deeply personal and revealing tour of his formative years, spanning from Australia to the New York City suburbs to, finally, Los Angeles. Through hilarious anecdotes, poetical meditations, and occasional flights of fantasy, Flea deftly chronicles the experiences that forged him as an artist, a musician, and a young man. His dreamy, jazz-inflected prose makes the Los Angeles of the 1970s and 80s come to gritty, glorious life, including the potential for fun, danger, mayhem, or inspiration that lurked around every corner. It is here that young Flea, looking to escape a turbulent home, found family in a community of musicians, artists, and junkies who also lived on the fringe. He spent most of his time partying and committing petty crimes. But it was in music where he found a higher meaning, a place to channel his frustration, loneliness, and love. This left him open to the life-changing moment when he and his best friends, soul brothers, and partners-in-mischief came up with the idea to start their own band, which became the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Acid for the Children is the debut of a stunning new literary voice, whose prose is as witty, entertaining, and wildly unpredictable as the author himself. It's a tenderly evocative coming-of-age story and a raucous love letter to the power of music and creativity from one of the most renowned musicians of our time.

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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
ISBN-10
1455530530
ISBN-13
9781455530533
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
Acid for the Children : a Memoir
Author
Flea
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Composers & Musicians, Genres & Styles / Rock
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Music
Number of Pages
400 Pages

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Item Length
9.4in
Item Height
1.5in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
22.4 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Ml419.F59a3 2019
Reviews
" Acid for the Children is not an as-told-to, nor is it written "with" someone. These are Flea's words-excitable, jazzy, regretful, disarming, popping and writhing away in his biological bass zone. Insecurities to the fore: He worries that he may be producing "a thorny jumble of trash." But he's actually a lovely writer, with a particular gift for the free-floating and reverberant. He writes in Beat Generation bursts and epiphanies, lifting toward the kind of virtuosic vulnerability and self-exposure associated with the great jazz players....Flea-elegant nutcase, funk-at-high-pressure bassist, wildly cultured and culturedly wild man-has written a fine memoir. You'll put down Acid for the Children with your human sympathies expanded; you'll feel less alone."-- The Atlantic, "Acid For the Children's closest analog is, somewhat surprisingly, Patti Smith's Just Kids... The prose frequently mimics [Flea's] playing: occasionally beautiful, occasionally outrageous, in conversation with a small group of predecessors but unwilling to follow anyone else's rules. This is what gives Acid for the Children its considerable charm..."-- AV Club, "Flea has written a memoir not about music, but about a feral child growing up in Hollywood who assembles a family out of the other lost souls around him. The prose is like his bass technique - wild, energetic, indelible. And in the final moments of the book, as the Red Hot Chili Peppers are about to take the stage for the first time, you can't wait to find out what's next." -- NPR, ". . . a vital, only-in-L.A. account of a wide-open time filtered through an engaging, humbled voice reshaped by his recovery and reconnecting to his spirit through art and music."-- LA Times, "A wild ride through the coming-of-age wilderness of the famed rock bassist...Relentlessly honest, untamed, and often revelatory."-- Kirkus, "Flea is a surprisingly good writer...RHCP fans or not, readers will find a unique coming-of-age memoir that's also an ode to books, music, and performing."-- Booklist, "[ 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, "[A] sensitive, well-written coming-of-age memoir. Readers will find much to relate to in Flea's life story and will hope that this isn't the only entry in his writing career."-- Library Journal, "[An] electric, surprisingly moving memoir...Flea is an enlightened narrator, and this passionate, smart memoir will resonate with readers whether they're fans of the band or not." -- Publisher's Weekly, starred review
Copyright Date
2019
Lccn
2019-009319
Dewey Decimal
787.87/166092 B
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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  • by crager013
    Aug 18, 2022Top favourable review

    Great read

    I like the way it's written because it gives me the feeling that this is also how Flea thinks. The chapters are very short, funny, insightful, real, honest, and give a view into his mind, his memories, and things that helped to share who he is today.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: haletheking

  • by hatchards
    Nov 19, 2019

    The Flea memoir

    Great read if you like to track the arc of successful artists. This is better than most in autobiographical form. Actually looking forward to the sequel.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: NewSold by: strannitsa

  • by daveshawley
    Dec 24, 2020

    Great present for a long time RHCP fan

    Awesome signed copy of a great book. Flea's signature is perfect.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: NewSold by: myhappybook

  • by joyman2
    Jan 30, 2020

    Satisfied

    Interesting book in great shape.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: NewSold by: prime_products

  • by keyton09
    May 29, 2020

    Book I was waiting for

    So excited for this book

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: NewSold by: ciullohc-72

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