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[glycerineclown]

I do believe John said "As you know I put out all that music last year (2004) but I didn't play it for anybody, and I'm never going to do that again, if I put out some music I'm going to play it for people..."

[celluloidlove]

ohhh major major bummer, i just attached all the photos and it didn't post my computer is too slow atm to try again lol... but they are allll on y myspace, along with photos from the concert

www.myspace.com/shadowscollidewithpeople_

my profile is private, but i'll accept everyone

Renee x

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[Iva]

Renee, I second what Kelly said...tell us how it was. And happy birthday, btw

EDIT: D'oh, you already did it while I was talking! Nevermind. I love the pics. You and your friend look so happy and John looks comfortable and not shit-scared like in some pics with other fans, so that's good.

And Josh's glasses are even worse than Cedric Bixler-Zavala's haircut. Oh my, so many people with bad taste. O_O

[celluloidlove]

hahaa!! it did work, my bad!

the last one is just for good measure lol

[celluloidlove]

thankyou

all i asked for this birthday was money- ( to be prepared for travel for a john concert, as i doubt he'd do anything in australia)
i have a very detailed account of that day that i wrote ages ago and meant to blog but never got round to it, i'll copy that if u guys are interested?

[Iva]

I know I am and I hope the others are, too
I have three stories like that one, minus the meeting and I know how it feels to write one and actually put feelings on paper. And, interesting enough, just like you, I have the stories, but I never blogged them. Heh...so Pisces. So very Pisces.

So, feel free to. The only thing is that it'll probably have to be split from this thread, as it's no longer about the album.

[celluloidlove]

alrighttyy--

so here's the story of my 'chance' encounter with half the chilis


well here's the low down lol... it was my friends birthday so we decided to go into the city for lunch... before we left i had been coming up with all these hypothetical situations of how we might meet the chili peppers, as they were in syd for the concerts..... so i grabbed a few of my chili peppers and frusciante album leaflets just incase we 'bumped into them' ... my friend convinced me to go check out the place where we guessed they were staying ( the most expensive hotel in syd) and we went there and saw that 3 other people were waiting for the guys and after speaking to them we knew for sure this was where they were staying... i felt terrible cos it was my friends birthday and it was supposed to be about her but we decided to stick around so she wouldn't hear the "imagine if we stayed and john came out" all day from me. We sat down with the other fans and about 5 mins later this van pulled up in the drive way and was acting all shifty.. then flea came out! there werent many people there, and he came over to us and quickly signed two of my cds ( By The Way and S.A) and said hi, then he was whisked away .....after this there was NO way we were going anywhere .. we had just met the greatest bass player in the world and being a guitarist myself i couldn't leave knowing there was a chance i could meet john... so we sat for say 20 mins pumped for the rest of the guys to come down... then the drivers were acting shifty again and we knew someone was coming.. it was AK... he was a bit of a snob i guess even though there were only about 5 us there and we expected him to give us a wave or say hi.. acknowledge us in some way.... but instead he sat in the van for like 10 mins before they actually left the driveway- which is understandable i guess , i would probably do the same, but it was still pretty disappointing ...we were waving to him and he eventually gave us the peace sign through the car window- offt and he looked goood.... Flea, Anthony.John had to be coming down some time soon.. so we made camp and started talking to some other people who had showed up ( some dude had a magazine he had been gradually getting the guys signatures on since '97- he said that he only needed Flea's and when flea came down earlier.. he was walking over to him, but then turned and came to us ... so he was a bit disappointed and was hanging around cos the driver said he would sign everything when he came back) his lady friend informed us that John was not actually staying at the Park Hyatt- where we were waiting, but at the four seasons hotel up the road... so we bolted up there and with the help from some friendly police officers, we found our way and saw Fab Moretti and Tony Belivacqua ( who were playing with Har MAr Superstar in support for the Red Hots) so he stopped and said hi... he was really nice ( little too nice lol) and we had a picture with him and asked where John was.. he said he wasnt sure, but that he was staying there for sure..( he almost got run over as he was talking to us and walking backwards on a red walking sign) .. so now we waited - for about 30 seconds and saw Josh Klinghoffer walking across the road and he was soo soo sweet.. he signed me shadows collidewith people cd.. and we had a little chat... we asked if he knew if John was around and he said he would go up and get him for us my lifelong dream fulfilled at age 17 to meet Frusciante... while we waited we had a good old chat to John's driver he was really cool.. he told us that anthony was a bit of an asshole and that John was a really cool guy and happy to take time and meet all his fans that had turned up- and that a fan almost bit of his finger when she was taking the lid off the texter he was signing with... then the good staff of the four seasons allowed us to sit inside on the comfy couches and wait for him.... then my friend nak and i were sitting listening to niandra lades and usually just a tshirt ( my fav album in the whole world when i saw him out of the corner of my eye and he i smiled and he walked towards us .... i said hi and told him how much of an inspiration he was to my playing and how much i respected him as a musician.. he was extremely humble and greatful and really friendly.. saying how great it was that i play ...he grabbed my hand and touched my wrist for some reason( i can never listen to 21st century without thinking of it)..i had a whole bunch of cds in my hand and he signed all 7 of them i didnt expect him to but he did and we just asked him how the tour was going and how he was enjoying sydney.. he was just like yeah. its ok a little dissinterested in talking about the tour. and then he made fun of Josh;s signature and he said keep up the playing and things like that - i forget some things, i tried to not go all crazy fangirl but it was very surreal and a bit of a blur ...then we took photos with him, and he said he was going to the record store with Josh ( RED EYE RECORDS- BEST RECORD STORE IN SYDNEY) ..he opened the doors for us like a perfect gentleman then we went our seperate ways....... and congratulations if you read this far

the concert 2 days later .... i was right on the barricade directly infront of john (after lining up for 11 hours) he waved and smiled and kept looking at us.. and i aired soloed with him when he soloed and we laughed i yelled out "your pussy's glued" when he did his solo and he played that... don't know if he heard me/ lipread me, but still .... i also got the setlist john was reading off cos we made friends with the security * thumbs up*


Take Care

[celluloidlove]

Go the pisceans!

oh, and sorry for the ugly structure of that post, it's really irritating me actually lol

[Dennix]

hey, celluloidlove, nice to have you here!

yours was a really interesting story,.. lucky you, that you realized one of your dreams at 17!
super nice pics btw!

about what Ryan told you... nice as well!

me too. I think we won't have that much to wait (also considering he told you that stuff in November).. just one little fact that bores me a bit is that Ryan's frequently changing his 'recently in the studio' section off his MySpace... probably, being that now it's :"recorded most of and mixed some of a new JF album", I suppose John's going back in the mix, maybe adding some further overdub @ his home-studio, recording it by himself or just swirling around with panning knobs and effects at the mixing consolle - as he did with AWII..


about the Sydney stuff, I think they recorded some parts there which will be part of the new John's solo album (the so-called 'solo X')..

there was this old article from channel [V] (aust. music tv channel) I found Amanda posted on JkDn.net (JOsh's great fan site):


RHCP: Flea and John record in Sydney studio
John Frusciante and Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers laid down tracks for their side projects in Sydney's Studio 301 last week.

Chili Peppers bassist Flea recorded bass and trumpet for a new, as-yet-unnamed side project. Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante checked into the facility with longtime collaborator, drummer and multi-instrumentalist Josh Klinghoffer to record drums for Ataxia, his supergroup which also features Fugazi bassist Joe Lally.

Ataxia are poised to release their sophomore album May 29, the follow-up to Automatic Writing - the band's 2004 debut

http://channelv.com....le.aspx?ID=1085


wasn't it already posted here?
maybe it was in another forum, can't remember...


anyway I get the feeling this album was mainly recorded in little parts, during little breaks he had during the last section off the S.A. World Tour as he predicted back in 2006; i'm quoting part of this interview that dates back from 2006:

ARCADIUM GAMES
story by Marcel Anders

[...]
What about solo albums? Anything in the making?
Well, there is another Ataxia album. [With the Chili Peppers album finished] we're going to go in the studio and mix the other half of the Ataxia stuff. That was where this new phase of guitar playing started - just playing out f control and playing wild and not holding anything back. I have 17 songs that we're planning on making another solo record out of, but at the moment I'm very busy and I just have to do it in little bits whenever I can. Luckily, I have a studio at my house, so I pretty much have the option of recording in little bits. Josh [ Klinghoffer from Ataxia ], he's making up drum parts to these 17 songs right now, and whenever we get the chance we'll rehearse, come up with stuff. I have a big plan for that album because I want to employ a lot of the production techniques that I've used on this new Chili Peppers album, but I also want to go even further and use classical instruments, orchestral instruments, really retain the raw sound, but at the same time do a lot of production.
[...]



so I expect something like Shadows, surely not in terms of songwriting - I hope/think it will have some BeeGees-like kinda sound at least in the harmonized vocals as Chad once mentioned in one interview on RollingStone, where he told he listened to a demo of 7 songs John was working on back in the times of the S.A.-making era - and not necessarily in terms of production (he said to 'really retain the raw sound, but at the same time do a lot of production'); possibly a more 'heterogeneous' (does it fit here?) kinda sound, rather than the "monothematic" style that characterised each of his last 7 R.C. albums, also seeing that, at least from what I think, the album has been conceived/recorded(?) over a long period of time, as Shadows was....


so, who knows.. a long time has come and passed and still we're not having any consistent detail about the release date or whatever else

but.nevermind, keep holding on! I'm sure it will be worth!

and I'm sure enough the news will come when we won't be expecting any! (What they least suspect is coming next)

sorry for my long and boring post

[Cured]

Great post, celluloidlove. I am SO happy for you! Honestly!
As I've read, I'm not the only one who desperately waits for new John's album and especially for it's tour! However I have a very shity dilema which bothers me all the time. It happend that in these days I must decide what will I do in my summertime (July and August). I have a great job offer for this time and money would realy help me a lot. But if there would be a tour of JF I couldn't miss it in any way. Problem is that I need to take a decision for this job now. I need your advices, guesses and intuition help. What do you think chances is for JF touring in these two months? I know it is silly question but just try to share your opinion with me.
Thank you

[glycerineclown]

I had the biggest grin on while reading your story, celluloidlove.
Do you have a name? I hate referring to people that way.

[fruscianteisbog1]

glycerineclown, on Mar 13 2008, 08:57 PM, said:

I had the biggest grin on while reading your story, celluloidlove.
Do you have a name? I hate referring to people that way.

that really is an amazing story,,

my story of how i met Johnny Winter doesn't compare to this at all, my heart was racing while reading it lol....




we'll all meet him one day, if we really try hard enough, or not try at all.

[Iva]

glycerineclown, on Mar 14 2008, 01:57 AM, said:

I had the biggest grin on while reading your story, celluloidlove.
Do you have a name? I hate referring to people that way.

She said her name is Renee:)
And I totally get what you mean, I don't like refering to people that way either. But, for work, I am an admin for a forum full of extremely weird people who actually WANT to be refered to by their nicknames, even in real life sometimes O_O

[Songofthunder]

Renee, that's one of the best stories I've ever read/heard. To quote something our wonderful webmaster once said to me "I am green with envy." But, I'm so happy for you

[kahveyle]

Wow! That's just great Renee. I can guess how amazing it was because I had a strory with Devendra Banhart - He is one of my favourite musicians I and sorry couldn't help myself mentioning this -.

[Iva]

^^
This is not the kind of a place where someone will psychoanalise you for saying that, so say it as many times as you like.

Renee, I'm sorry that it took me a little longer than expected here, but I totally love the story. And the probability of such a thing happening makes it even more special. Also, Josh was extremely kind to get John for you and your friend, how cool is that? Seems like he's picking on John's gentleman attitude.

Fab was too nice? Does that mean he was interested in the two of you or something else?

Either way, the story was enjoyable. It IS true that it needs some formatting and cleanup like you said, but as long as we get the idea and see how it was, it's amazing. All best stories on experiences are written that way: while you're still warm from holding someone's hand


Dennix, that's a great summary. I'll start some sort of a page for album rumours and put up everything you, Renee and others before said.

[GoodTimeBoys]

Cool story. Also, you're pretty cute Renee.

[fruscianda]

Anyone who might be interested, John is recording his electronic album. Omar told me on Friday at TMV gig. I am so looking forward to that and everything else.
Another thing, unfortunatelly they can't hear anything we scream out from the audience, hardly can hear any crowd noise. So now I know I don't have to shout John, John all the time.

[Dennix]

WOW! fruscianda! that's a great news!

nice you met Omar! tell us more!

so that means he's recording a new electronic album, besides the so-called (and possibly ready to getting released) solo x?

btw how was the TMV gig? did the live Goliath songs rock as well as they did on the studio versions?


Iva, glad you liked my short "summary", I'm pm-ing you a longer one that I posted on johnfrusciante.it

[Rafael]

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they can't hear anything we scream out from the audience

That is not true.

Listen what Omar answers to someone who is screaming while they're playing lol

~@ 3:40