POST 7

p.276-322

• befriends River Phoenix.
• finishes recording for album
• BLOOD SUGAR SEX MAGIK
• gave it their best. a step forward for everyone. everyone playing/sounding better.
• shot video for Give it Away
• John starts secluding himself from the band..going deeper into drugs
• went on tour; Pearl Jam opening band
• start getting heavy radio play
• more famous rhcp got= more miserable john f. became
• Under the bridge released as second single.
• Nirvana joined their tour for the west coast leg; Met Kurt Cobain
  
• gets permanent ear damage during the tour; tinnitus
• John starts getting paranoid; everyone is out to kill him
• tensions with john keep rising
• Saturday Night Live: supposed to play Under the Bridge, John started doing his own thing, on LIVE television
• various unsuccessful, short term relationships (sofia coppola, etc)
• Japan-May 1992. John quits band, plays last show, and leaves the topsy-turvy world of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
• need to finsih tour-hire friend Zander Schloss to fill in for john. dismissed him.
• hired Arik Marshall for guitar.
• wwere in the Lollapalooza festival shows.
• Sept.1992 won 2 awards for GFive it Away video and 1 veiwers chocie.
• decided to go on a trip to Borneo. traveled throughout the jungles, etc. dangerous.feeling sick, checked into hospital. tropical desiase dengue fever
• Hire DAVe NAVarro
• October31 1993 river phoenix dies.
• meets Jaime Rishar
• January 1994. go to dentist to get wisdom tooth removed. Valium. thus begins the downward spiral out of sobriety again.
• heroin + cocaine again again again again
• keep it a secret from the band
• rhcp goes to hawaii. fun time-ish
• Kurt Cobain killed himself. AK writes Tearjerker bout him