Frusciante joined the Chili Peppers at the age of 18 after the death of guitarist Hillel Slovak, and first appeared on their album Mother's Milk (1989). His second album with the band, Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991), was their breakthrough success. Overwhelmed by the band's newfound popularity, he quit in 1992. He became a recluse and entered a period of heroin addiction, during which he released his first solo recordings: Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt (1994) and Smile from the Streets You Hold (1997). In 1998, he completed drug rehabilitation and rejoined the Chili Peppers, taking them to major success with their albums Californication (1999), By the Way (2002) and Stadium Arcadium (2006). He left the Red Hot Chili Peppers again in 2009 to focus on solo work, and rejoined in 2019.
Frusciante's solo work encompasses genres including experimental rock, ambient music and electronica. He released six albums in 2004, each exploring different genres and recording techniques. In 2009, Frusciante released The Empyrean, which features Chili Peppers bassist Flea and guitarist Josh Klinghoffer. Frusciante also releases acid house under the alias Trickfinger. With Klinghoffer and Joe Lally, he has released two albums as Ataxia.
Frusciante was named one of the greatest guitarists by Rolling Stone and Gibson, and in a BBC poll. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 2012.
Frusciante's musical style has evolved over the course of his career. Although he received moderate recognition for his early guitar work, it was not until later in his career that music critics and guitarists alike began to fully recognize it: in October 2003, he was ranked eighteenth in Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Frusciante attributes this recent recognition to his shift in focus, stating that he chose an approach based on rhythmic patterns inspired by the complexity of material Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen produced. On earlier records, however, much of his output was influenced by various underground punk and new wave musicians.
In general, his sound is also defined by an affinity for vintage guitars. All the guitars that he owns, records, and tours with were made before 1970. Frusciante uses the specific guitar that he finds appropriate for a certain song. All of the guitars he owned before quitting the band were destroyed when his house burned down in 1996. The first guitar he bought after rejoining the Chili Peppers was a 1962 red Fender Jaguar. His most-often used guitar, however, is a 1961 Sunburst Fender Stratocaster that was given to him as a gift from Anthony Kiedis after Frusciante rejoined the Chili Peppers in 1998. He has played this guitar on every album since rejoining the Chili Peppers, and their ensuing tours. He also owns a 1955 Fender Stratocaster, his only Strat with a maple fretboard. Frusciante's most highly appraised instrument is a 1955 Gretsch White Falcon, which he used twice per show for the songs Californication and Otherside. Since 2006, he only uses it for the latter song, saying there was "no room for it", preferring multiple Stratocasters for the Stadium Arcadium tour. Virtually all of Frusciante's acoustic work is played with a 1950s Martin 0–15.
After leaving the Red Hot Chili Peppers, he switched to using a Yamaha SG as his primary guitar for his solo work. "With the Yamaha SG, I could play along with guitar players who were playing, say, Les Pauls, and feel like the sound matched what I was hearing on the record. ... People like Robert Fripp, Mick Ronson, Tony Iommi, and particularly John McGeoch from Siouxsie and the Banshees, who played a Yamaha SG, which is why I bought one in the first place". Frusciante has also noted his increased use of the Roland MC-202 for his electronic music, saying that he was at the point "where I thought as much like a 202ist as I did a guitarist ..." The MC-202 has been his primary melodic instrument in his electronic music.
With the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Frusciante provided backing vocals in a falsetto tenor, a style he started on Blood Sugar Sex Magik. He thoroughly enjoyed his role in the Chili Peppers as backing vocalist, and said that backing vocals are a "real art form". Despite his commitment to the Chili Peppers, he felt that his work with the band should remain separate from his solo projects. When he returned to the Chili Peppers in 1998, Kiedis wanted the band to record "Living in Hell", a song Frusciante had written several years before. Frusciante refused, feeling that the creative freedom he needed for his solo projects would have conflicted with his role in the band.
Someone's
John Frusciante Lyrics
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Someone's saying goodbye every time she
Says hello 'cause they both
Connect no one to somebody
I'm floating down this airstream
I'm floating and its every dream I've ever had
And I'm so happy and sad
Any house is a frame
Anything real has a brain
We've talked ourselves out of it
And I've reconsidered it and I'm convinced
Everywhere I look has a face
Everyone who's lived has a place
Right here's every world
Every time draws a line to right now
Hold and turn the infinite
Hold and turn the infinite
Someone's taking me all
Someone's taking me all over out there.
The song "Someone's" by John Frusciante can be interpreted in a number of ways, but at its core, it is an exploration of the connections between people and the world around them. The main refrain of the song - "Someone's waiting to fly with me / Someone's saying goodbye every time she / Says hello 'cause they both / Connect no one to somebody" - touches on the idea of fleeting connections, of people who come into our lives only briefly but leave a lasting impact.
Throughout the song, Frusciante emphasizes the importance of being present in the moment, of paying attention to the world around us and the people in it. He sings about floating down an airstream and feeling both happy and sad, as if he is simultaneously experiencing the joy of the present moment and the sadness of all the moments that have already passed him by.
Despite the melancholy tone of the song, there is also a sense of hopefulness and possibility running through it. Frusciante suggests that anything can be real if we believe in it, that every place and every person has a purpose and a unique role to play in the grand scheme of things. And ultimately, the song is a reminder that no matter how disconnected we may sometimes feel, we are all connected in some way or another - to each other, to the earth, and to the infinite universe beyond.
Line by Line Meaning
Someone's waiting to fly with me
There's someone out there waiting to go on a journey with me.
Someone's saying goodbye every time she
Whenever she says hello, there's a hint of goodbye in it.
Says hello 'cause they both
She says hello because those two words connect two different people.
Connect no one to somebody
Despite the different people, it still connects one to somebody.
I'm floating down this airstream
I'm drifting along in this flow.
I'm floating and its every dream I've ever had
It's like I'm living a dream that I've always wished for.
And I'm so happy and sad
I'm overwhelmed with both happiness and sadness at the same time.
'Cause they both connect me to what I've never been a body
Although I've never been a physical being, both happiness and sadness connect me to the essence of life.
Any house is a frame
Any home is just a structure.
Anything real has a brain
Anything that's real has intelligence or consciousness.
We've talked ourselves out of it
We've convinced ourselves that these things aren't real.
And I've reconsidered it and I'm convinced
But I've reevaluated it and I believe it's true.
Everywhere I look has a face
Everywhere I turn, there's human interaction and emotion.
Everyone who's lived has a place
Every living person has left an impact on this world.
Right here's every world
This very moment contains infinite possibilities and realities.
Every time draws a line to right now
Every past moment, every future moment has led up to this very moment right now.
Hold and turn the infinite
Take hold of and explore the limitless possibilities of the universe.
Hold and turn the infinite
Take hold of and explore the limitless possibilities of the universe.
Someone's taking me all
Someone is leading me everywhere.
Someone's taking me all over out there.
Someone is showing me all the amazing things and places out there.
Lyrics © O/B/O APRA AMCOS
Written by: JOHN FRUSCIANTE
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Luis Alejandro Smith Dextre
Someone's waiting to fly with me
Someone's saying goodbye everytime she says hello
Cuz they both connect no one with somebody
I'm floating down this airstream
I'm floating and it's every dream I've ever had
And I'm so happy and sad
Cuz they both connect me with when I'd never been a body
Every house is a frame
Anything real has a brain
We talk ourselves out of it
But I've reconsidered it and I'm convinced
Everywhere I look has a face
Everyone who has lived has a place
Right here's every world
Every time draws a line to right now
Hold and turn the infinite
Someone's taking me all over out there ...<3
Fede Ibazetta
Todo lo que hizo entre el 99 y el 2001 es genial, volvió cargado de música de la quinta dimensión.
Luke Dunning
"Actually, I'm gonna have to introduce this song before I play it. This song is dedicated to a very good friend of mine named 'Jean', who's a spirit. She was possessing a person who was a very good friend of mine who was asleep. We've talked many times and she's told me about what it's like in other dimensions, like, places you'll go after you die. You're already there right now you know, there's places you'll go after you die, you're already there, you're already living that life simultaneously to this, cause' they're in a kind of time zone where they uh, they're at every time at once and we're only in this short period of time. People who are spirits, they can be in every time zone at once because they don't have a sense of time. Subsequently they can't write songs, they can't do drugs, they can't have sex. They can't do all of the things we do because we have time. You don't realise time, it's not your flesh or anything like that, it's time. We're very lucky to have time, you should appreciate it while you have it because your not gonna have it after you die." - John about 'Someone's'.
Konstantin Cvetanovic
Wait, dude that Jean was in is dead? "Was asleep"
Funky Monks
@Konstantin Cvetanovic another person was asleep
Fionna Grant
Makes sense oddly
Joona
Where did you find him saying this?
Luis Alejandro Smith Dextre
Someone's waiting to fly with me
Someone's saying goodbye everytime she says hello
Cuz they both connect no one with somebody
I'm floating down this airstream
I'm floating and it's every dream I've ever had
And I'm so happy and sad
Cuz they both connect me with when I'd never been a body
Every house is a frame
Anything real has a brain
We talk ourselves out of it
But I've reconsidered it and I'm convinced
Everywhere I look has a face
Everyone who has lived has a place
Right here's every world
Every time draws a line to right now
Hold and turn the infinite
Someone's taking me all over out there ...<3
Carlos Vidal
i think its "any house is a frame"
x50ftQueenie
Can't believe there are no comments for this wonderful song! Love Mr. Frusciante, he truly is a genius and his music has always been there for me throughout my life.
San Tonight
"And I'm so happy and sad
Cuz they both connect me with when I'd never been a body."
How I love this song !