Years later, Blackie said, in an interview for a BBC documentary, “It wasn't so unusual that I let him take a little bit of acid, or a little bit of marijuana.By Anthony Kiedis with Larry Sloman. It felt like medicine to soothe the soul and awaken the senses.

You don't want to cough your lungs out,' he counseled. Then he lit up the joint and passed it to me. 'Do you want to smoke a joint?' he asked me. He was sitting at the table with a pretty eighteen-year-old girl he'd been hanging out with that week. I had been there only a few days when my dad called me into the kitchen. Not long after Anthony's arrival in Los Angeles, he and his father smoked a joint. As an impressionable adolescent, he met Bowie, Blondie, the Talking Heads, and more.ĭammett, whom you might recognize from his small roles in Lethal Weapon or Nine Deaths of the Ninja, also introduced his son to drugs at a young age. In 1974, when Anthony was 12 years old, he went to live with his father. Eventually, Dammett returned to Los Angeles, where, as a struggling actor, he sold drugs to and hung out with rock stars like Sonny and Cher. Meanwhile, Dammett went to London, where he partied with Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin and wrote Anthony letters about spending time among rock gods. This freewheeling lifestyle soon led to divorce: Margaret Noble, Blackie's wife, left him and moved with Anthony and her new husband, Scott, to her home state of Michigan. Dig? Photo: flickr / CC0īlackie Dammett, born John Michael Kiedis, was an aspiring filmmaker in the mid-1960s when he got way into pot and started hanging around clubs on the Sunset Strip, partying hard and ignoring his young family, according to Scar Tissue. Strap yourself in to your sex magik rocket ship with a full supply of mother's milk, because it's time to travel all around the world and into a parallel universe, naked in the rain with the righteous and the wicked.

There are souls to squeeze, kisses to suck, and higher grounds to be achieved.

While the Red Hot Chili Peppers as a collective lay claim to one of the great, sordid canons in the annals of rock history, Kiedis merits individual examination for his truly depraved and outlandish antics. Many of these stories come straight from the Kiedis autobiography Scar Tissue, and many are way more over-the-top than you can imagine.įrom his unorthodox, drug-infused Hollywood upbringing to his long battle with heroin and cocaine addiction to his famous onstage theatrics, Kiedis is rock 'n' roll (or funk 'n' roll, if you will) history personified. While some extravagant details of his outlandish life are widely known, rock history, being the lurid mythos that it is, will always welcome dark stories and lurid facts about Anthony Kiedis. Once a punk-junkie anonymously wandering the streets of Los Angeles, Anthony Kiedis is now at least as famous as 'mythic' SoCal street poet Jim Morrison. Funky monks rejoice - your high priest has been anointed.

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