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[hurley92]

Okay seeing as there isn't much JF news on at the moment (hopefully due to a well deserved break)i thought i might as well use my imagination...
what would be your dream Frusciante collaboration?

Some of his best music I think has been made with Josh and Omar, but if in my mind a collab with Jeff Mangum from Neutral Milk Hotel would be amazing... however ridiculously unlikely to happen!

[Fenix]

I would really really really like to see a Thom Yorke/JF collab.

[LBI Surf]

Fenix, on 01 September 2010 - 09:24 PM, said:

I would really really really like to see a Thom Yorke/JF collab.

exactly who I was going to say.

Maybe Josh Homme, too... a Desert Sessions with John would be very cool... or better yet a Desert Sessions with John and Thom!

[Michaela]

I'd love John to collaborate with Depeche Mode.They are so different from each other so I'd be curious to see the result especially how John's and Dave Gahan's voices go together.

[Iva]

I would like to see an one-man show like in 2001.

[SeanM]

Hmm, I'd say a collab with Jeff Buckley.

Sadly, though, that's impossible

[deserted]

hurley92, on 29 August 2010 - 10:21 PM, said:

...but if in my mind a collab with Jeff Mangum from Neutral Milk Hotel would be amazing... however ridiculously unlikely to happen!

Would be freaking fantastic!

I could see a collaboration with Yim Yames from My Morning Jacket...

[freyr]

To me, John would be at his best when he's the front man behind a bass player and drummer. Maybe a backup guitarist on rhythm, or someone on keyboards.

[hurley92]

I definitely like his music best when you can hear elements of Josh in the song, otherwise i find it feels too insular when you know john did all the singing, programming and performing himself however good the music is...
having said that, TROWFTD is my favourite album

[freyr]

TROWFTD songs have not been played by John live enough. I want to hear them with a full piece band, bass, drums, keyboards. Particularly someones, going inside, moments have you, first season, and away and anywhere.

[meh]

David Gilmour, for me John and Dave play the guitar with more beauty than anyone else in the world so those two swapping vocals and guitar parts would be amazing.

[anachronism]

I'd love to hear Frusciante collaborate with Michael Balzary, Chad Smith, and Robert Plant. (Just any kind of flexible, talented vocalist who is philosophical without being a douche or whackjob like Anthony Keidis. Plant would be ideal, because everyone in RHCP except Keidis also happens to be a mad good blues musician.)

[cosplusisin]

Fenix, on 01 September 2010 - 09:24 PM, said:

I would really really really like to see a Thom Yorke/JF collab.

that would be cool. Radiohead (and hence Thom Yorke) are among my top 3 or so favourites. I know that Thom Yorke likes John Frusciante - he's mentioned it in interviews. He never said anything directly about his solo music, but he talked about his guitar playing, and said how he (Thom) tried to copy his (John's) guitar style because it's so awesome, in Reckoner: and he's doing the same "John" thing in this new song called The Present Tense:

Iva, on 14 September 2010 - 10:41 PM, said:

I would like to see an one-man show like in 2001.

i would LOVE to see that. i didn't get into John's solo music early enough to have had any sort of chance to see a solo show. however, that doesn't really count as a collaboration! but yes, i'd love that.

Freyr, on 18 September 2010 - 03:55 PM, said:

To me, John would be at his best when he's the front man behind a bass player and drummer. Maybe a backup guitarist on rhythm, or someone on keyboards.

similarly, i'd love to see him live with a band - maybe Josh on drums and someone else on bass, playing stuff from (or like) the Will to Death and Inside of Emptiness albums.

hurley92, on 18 September 2010 - 04:19 PM, said:

I definitely like his music best when you can hear elements of Josh in the song, otherwise i find it feels too insular when you know john did all the singing, programming and performing himself however good the music is...
having said that, TROWFTD is my favourite album

i agree about Josh, but don't necessarily agree about the "not all John" thing. but yeah - John collaborates with Josh all the time, and it's always amazing, so i'd like to see that collaboration, but really, we already have heard this combination many many times, so we're lucky!



now for my answer to this thread - Neil Young. it's not just that i'm a fan of Neil Young, but it's the fact that their approach to music is so similar in certain ways, yet so different in other ways, i think they would complement each other really well. they both have the same attitude of just letting the music flow, and they have this natural energy of music spilling out of them. but John thinks a lot more. he thinks about production and patterns and sort of crafts things, always incorporating his natural intuitive feel. Neil doesn't think - he just plays, and it's really awesome as art. but together, John would bring things out of Neil that Neil may not have ever known he had. Artistically, they'd be on the same page, but they'd have different roles. it would be really cool. and if you bring up the new Neil Young album, his productional collaboration with Daniel Lanois, yes, that's similar, but I think John F and Neil Y have more in common than Neil Y and Daniel L do, from an artistic/aesthetic point of view. i wonder if this makes any sense. this would be a dream come true for me, and i'm sure it would be a dream come true for many people too - they might not even know it yet, but when they heard the result, they'd understand!

[White_Widow]

cosplusisin, on 29 September 2010 - 06:35 AM, said:

Fenix, on 01 September 2010 - 09:24 PM, said:

I would really really really like to see a Thom Yorke/JF collab.

that would be cool. Radiohead (and hence Thom Yorke) are among my top 3 or so favourites. I know that Thom Yorke likes John Frusciante - he's mentioned it in interviews. He never said anything directly about his solo music, but he talked about his guitar playing, and said how he (Thom) tried to copy his (John's) guitar style because it's so awesome, in Reckoner: and he's doing the same "John" thing in this new song called The Present Tense:

Iva, on 14 September 2010 - 10:41 PM, said:

I would like to see an one-man show like in 2001.

i would LOVE to see that. i didn't get into John's solo music early enough to have had any sort of chance to see a solo show. however, that doesn't really count as a collaboration! but yes, i'd love that.

Freyr, on 18 September 2010 - 03:55 PM, said:

To me, John would be at his best when he's the front man behind a bass player and drummer. Maybe a backup guitarist on rhythm, or someone on keyboards.

similarly, i'd love to see him live with a band - maybe Josh on drums and someone else on bass, playing stuff from (or like) the Will to Death and Inside of Emptiness albums.

hurley92, on 18 September 2010 - 04:19 PM, said:

I definitely like his music best when you can hear elements of Josh in the song, otherwise i find it feels too insular when you know john did all the singing, programming and performing himself however good the music is...
having said that, TROWFTD is my favourite album

i agree about Josh, but don't necessarily agree about the "not all John" thing. but yeah - John collaborates with Josh all the time, and it's always amazing, so i'd like to see that collaboration, but really, we already have heard this combination many many times, so we're lucky!



now for my answer to this thread - Neil Young. it's not just that i'm a fan of Neil Young, but it's the fact that their approach to music is so similar in certain ways, yet so different in other ways, i think they would complement each other really well. they both have the same attitude of just letting the music flow, and they have this natural energy of music spilling out of them. but John thinks a lot more. he thinks about production and patterns and sort of crafts things, always incorporating his natural intuitive feel. Neil doesn't think - he just plays, and it's really awesome as art. but together, John would bring things out of Neil that Neil may not have ever known he had. Artistically, they'd be on the same page, but they'd have different roles. it would be really cool. and if you bring up the new Neil Young album, his productional collaboration with Daniel Lanois, yes, that's similar, but I think John F and Neil Y have more in common than Neil Y and Daniel L do, from an artistic/aesthetic point of view. i wonder if this makes any sense. this would be a dream come true for me, and i'm sure it would be a dream come true for many people too - they might not even know it yet, but when they heard the result, they'd understand!

I agree, John & Neil would be AWESOME! Have you heard the new Neil Young album yet? 'Le Noise', I've only listened to it once but it sounded GREAT, possibly his best tunes since Sleeps With Angels?

You can still hear it on this website I think >
http://www.npr.org/t...oryId=129955938

[ryanliamg]

Damon Albarn. haha that could be awesome.
but honestly i just hope to hear more John/Josh in the future.

[meh]

anachronism, on 29 September 2010 - 05:53 AM, said:

I'd love to hear Frusciante collaborate with Michael Balzary, Chad Smith, and Robert Plant. (Just any kind of flexible, talented vocalist who is philosophical without being a douche or whackjob like Anthony Keidis. Plant would be ideal, because everyone in RHCP except Keidis also happens to be a mad good blues musician.)

Whats that all about?



Anywya good call on who said Neil Young, the guys work rate and love for music is amazing and he's just released another album! I hope he tours again I saw him at Hyde park last summer when Paul Mccartney came on stage in the encore doing a day in the life it was amazing.

[tehpeh]

Yes, a collab with Yorke/Radiohead would be awesome ! Besides Omar / Mars Volta I can't imagine an other person which whom JF would collab then Yorke ... maybe in Atoms for Peace with Flea !

[deepgreensea]

the cure. but that's mainly because.. i'm obsessed with the cure.

(and because rumor has it they're currently lacking a guitarist)