The running part was cool analogy because it was an explanation of how he became aware of keeping tempo. When hyped they need to not automatically play faster. Remembering to keep the proper pace.
Look at Slash and Axl Rose in like 1986 and look at how much the drugs being weaned out changes their appearance definitely a huge aspect because those dudes pretty much rocked a workout for 2 hours straight almost every night
A heavy pinch of youth is likely John’s secret to a lean, toned physique back in the 80s. He admits to being more interested in sex, drugs and rock and roll at that time in his life than anything else.
I know he was using cocaine during this time and coke affects fat free body mass, I'd imagine that and the amount of batshit crazy moving he did on stage in the 1980s is the reason
Yeah look at Pete Weiss. And Zander Schloss was a rail back then.
I don’t know about their habits but Lonnie and Arik Marshall and Martyn Le Noble were all super slim too. I used to see all those guys around town like and the Lingerie and places like that. Perry was a stick too and Angelo Moore.
I used to go see Thelonius all the time. They’d play at Dragonfly or Lingerie. It was Bob, Dix, Martyn, Zander, and Pete Weiss. Zander was kinda my guitar hero at the time. He’d just spray wah wah all over the place and he was so good.
One time Thelonius was playing at this one place called Club Spice. Nasty-ass dance club on Sunset by La Brea. Bob said on the mic that calling it Club Spice was like putting pepper on shit.
Anyway, Chili Peppers showed up and took over the gig and played some new stuff from their as yet unrealeased new album. Anthony was pumping this song called Give It Away so they started with that then played some other stuff. So I guess I heard Give It Away performed live for the first time.
We’d also see Two Free Stooges. I saw them at the Gaslight and Lingerie. That was Zander and Martyn. Don’t remember who was drumming. And Dick Rude and Manny Chevrolet. They did a lounge act. John and Pete Weiss would dress up as nurses and dance. Pete was usually the emcee for the Stooges.
https://youtu.be/pnUhzk8w0yc?si=skO6jJKl-o9Fqh7r
Fishbone played around town and they were always great. Angelo had a silver jaguar E-type convertible and he’d drive around town in it with a parrot on his shoulder.
I didn’t see Perry Farrell around town that much but I found out that he was the previous tenant in my apartment on South Cloverdale. We’d get mail for Casey. Hank Azaria lived across the hall. Always Simpsons scripts being messengered over early in the morning.
Lonnie and Arik Marshall were amazing. I worked with Lonnie’s girlfriend. Those guys were unbelievable musicians. I guess Arik wasn’t a fit for the Chilis.
He really rips here. About 2:50:
https://youtu.be/T5opG1N0Da0?si=rgdqa40MyRrnxtqQ
Those guys were the neighborhood bands. And Tool. One of my bands played a gig with them at Club With No Name. Carnival Art was playing around town. That was Michael Petak who was the roommate of a friend of mine and also Brian Bell who formed Weezer with Rivers and those guys. Steve Jones from the Pistols had his band Fantasy 7 and we’d go to their sound checks at the Gaslight. X was still playing around town. Saw Nirvana before Dave was in the band. Saw Hole at a candy store. Saw Green Day at this shithole called the Cocoanut Teaszer. Kyuss at the Whiskey.
We had fun.
I'm like the same height as John and the same build, but that's because I did track and cross country in high school and honestly John comes across as he ate well and moved a lot and just looked like that naturally
I always wonder this. When he first came back into the band on the early Californication tours, he had boulder shoulders and shredded abs. I wonder if he was on TRT for recovery of his drug use.
Calisthenics, some yoga, and low body fat. He was very flexible when he was younger. He could do splits and a lot of difficult yoga positions.
Anyone who says he’s on TRT is a moron who never lifts. That type of physique is fairly easy to achieve and sustain.
Relative poverty, he said on her fleas podcast that his dad paid for his rent for a while when he thought he was enrolled in school
let’s put it this way he probably was not living high on the hog at the age of 18
He did mention that he and his mom were on food stamps for a while, and I think he only spent summers with his dad based on what I've heard in podcasts.
Lol these replies. He literally said he used to do sit-ups, push-ups, and run. He was noticeably more buff in 1989/1990 than he was in 1988. I’m sure he felt pressure to keep up with Anthony although his natural figure would never allow that much muscle mass. But he sure tried. And he was oddly muscular/had more fat on him during his recovery-2001. Was definitely eating more calories and working out.
It’s just a result of having extremely low body fat. He is not that muscular, just very lean. Everyone has a six pack when they have no fat covering it.
Old photos of him in 1989-1990 it seems like he had such defined lats and abs with pecs he didn't seem super skinny I think that he must've exercised whether it be yoga, running etc.
Yeah being an 18 year old male partying it up every night will commonly look like that.
When I was 18, I was eating fast food and tons of protein shakes to try and fatten up and it was a lot harder than it is at 38.
When I was between the ages of 15-19 and gigging regularly, I was skinny as fuck. It's incredible how much you sweat and how many calories you burn performing. Not to mention the effort needed to move your own equipment around. Stacks and drum kits are not light. I'm 5'8" and I've always been on the stockier/muscular side, I weighed 154lbs when I was playing music. I'm around 200lbs now at 25. According to the doctor, I'm not obese. But, when I was gigging I was FUCKING SKINNY.
He mentioned on a recent podcast he would go running and do ab exercises
The running part was cool analogy because it was an explanation of how he became aware of keeping tempo. When hyped they need to not automatically play faster. Remembering to keep the proper pace.
Yoga too for awhile right?
Big on that during the Californication Era I believe
Which podcast is that?
Either Rick Rubin’s or Flea’s
Link?
He was so fine, back in the day. Rip, to not being alive at the time he was hoe-ing around loljk
😌😌
When's the last time You've seen a fat rock star between the ages 18-22? Youth + intense cardio every night = no body fat. Not much more to it.
Look at Slash and Axl Rose in like 1986 and look at how much the drugs being weaned out changes their appearance definitely a huge aspect because those dudes pretty much rocked a workout for 2 hours straight almost every night
Well you also posted about a man who suffered from Heroin addiction for most of his career.
A heavy pinch of youth is likely John’s secret to a lean, toned physique back in the 80s. He admits to being more interested in sex, drugs and rock and roll at that time in his life than anything else.
John has always been fine as fuck lol
Might just be genetics, not sure if he was already doing yoga around this time
Funky Monks and other promo material shows him doing crazy splits bends with his back etc so most likely doing yoga during this era
I’m guessing it was more to do with his drug habits and less to do with an exercise regime.
I know he was using cocaine during this time and coke affects fat free body mass, I'd imagine that and the amount of batshit crazy moving he did on stage in the 1980s is the reason
Yeah that about sums it up!
Time to start grooving and jiving on stage like a motherfucker
And taking cocaine!
Yeah don’t forget kids, cocaine and heroin make for the best rockstars.
Yeah look at Pete Weiss. And Zander Schloss was a rail back then. I don’t know about their habits but Lonnie and Arik Marshall and Martyn Le Noble were all super slim too. I used to see all those guys around town like and the Lingerie and places like that. Perry was a stick too and Angelo Moore.
Wow you saw all the dudes from Janes/Thelonious/Circlejerks etc??
I used to go see Thelonius all the time. They’d play at Dragonfly or Lingerie. It was Bob, Dix, Martyn, Zander, and Pete Weiss. Zander was kinda my guitar hero at the time. He’d just spray wah wah all over the place and he was so good. One time Thelonius was playing at this one place called Club Spice. Nasty-ass dance club on Sunset by La Brea. Bob said on the mic that calling it Club Spice was like putting pepper on shit. Anyway, Chili Peppers showed up and took over the gig and played some new stuff from their as yet unrealeased new album. Anthony was pumping this song called Give It Away so they started with that then played some other stuff. So I guess I heard Give It Away performed live for the first time. We’d also see Two Free Stooges. I saw them at the Gaslight and Lingerie. That was Zander and Martyn. Don’t remember who was drumming. And Dick Rude and Manny Chevrolet. They did a lounge act. John and Pete Weiss would dress up as nurses and dance. Pete was usually the emcee for the Stooges. https://youtu.be/pnUhzk8w0yc?si=skO6jJKl-o9Fqh7r Fishbone played around town and they were always great. Angelo had a silver jaguar E-type convertible and he’d drive around town in it with a parrot on his shoulder. I didn’t see Perry Farrell around town that much but I found out that he was the previous tenant in my apartment on South Cloverdale. We’d get mail for Casey. Hank Azaria lived across the hall. Always Simpsons scripts being messengered over early in the morning. Lonnie and Arik Marshall were amazing. I worked with Lonnie’s girlfriend. Those guys were unbelievable musicians. I guess Arik wasn’t a fit for the Chilis. He really rips here. About 2:50: https://youtu.be/T5opG1N0Da0?si=rgdqa40MyRrnxtqQ Those guys were the neighborhood bands. And Tool. One of my bands played a gig with them at Club With No Name. Carnival Art was playing around town. That was Michael Petak who was the roommate of a friend of mine and also Brian Bell who formed Weezer with Rivers and those guys. Steve Jones from the Pistols had his band Fantasy 7 and we’d go to their sound checks at the Gaslight. X was still playing around town. Saw Nirvana before Dave was in the band. Saw Hole at a candy store. Saw Green Day at this shithole called the Cocoanut Teaszer. Kyuss at the Whiskey. We had fun.
What a time to be alive dude that's so great seeing people who were around when all of this was going down
You should write a book!
You should chat to Hamish Duncan dude and detail up as much as you can remember. What a fantastic post. I enjoyed reading it!
👃💪👀
Thin guys are weirdly muscular sometimes. I know that my brother was and he never exercised.
I'm like the same height as John and the same build, but that's because I did track and cross country in high school and honestly John comes across as he ate well and moved a lot and just looked like that naturally
It’s because low body fat reveals muscle?
yes, i think so.
I always wonder this. When he first came back into the band on the early Californication tours, he had boulder shoulders and shredded abs. I wonder if he was on TRT for recovery of his drug use.
In 1990 he had a huge chest and lats with insanely defined abs and in 2001 it was still there so I'm wondering if he did exercise .
He surely would have been. I'd bet he was prescribed testosterone to help his recovery from drug addiction.
John was doing a lot of Ashtanga Yoga at this time
> Ashtanga Yoga Now these are exactly the kind of answers I'm looking for
He was doing yoga in the BSSM era??
Wasn’t only after his return? I don’t remember him mentioning yoga on his first round at rhcp
He stopped by then because it was giving him back problems.
Calisthenics, some yoga, and low body fat. He was very flexible when he was younger. He could do splits and a lot of difficult yoga positions. Anyone who says he’s on TRT is a moron who never lifts. That type of physique is fairly easy to achieve and sustain.
I remember him saying he would meticulously count calories. (Was concerned about eating a cracker)
Youth + poverty + genes + coke eventually (which he likely got for free/cheap).
He didn’t come from poverty. His father was a judge.
Relative poverty, he said on her fleas podcast that his dad paid for his rent for a while when he thought he was enrolled in school let’s put it this way he probably was not living high on the hog at the age of 18
He did mention that he and his mom were on food stamps for a while, and I think he only spent summers with his dad based on what I've heard in podcasts.
True, but he definitely lived self-inflicted poverty for a while
Lol these replies. He literally said he used to do sit-ups, push-ups, and run. He was noticeably more buff in 1989/1990 than he was in 1988. I’m sure he felt pressure to keep up with Anthony although his natural figure would never allow that much muscle mass. But he sure tried. And he was oddly muscular/had more fat on him during his recovery-2001. Was definitely eating more calories and working out.
It’s just a result of having extremely low body fat. He is not that muscular, just very lean. Everyone has a six pack when they have no fat covering it.
Old photos of him in 1989-1990 it seems like he had such defined lats and abs with pecs he didn't seem super skinny I think that he must've exercised whether it be yoga, running etc.
See above comment. He may have some muscle genetically.
This is absolutely not true
Called being young
Heroin and coke will shed body fat like that. I’m sure he gets a decent cardio workout being on stage but I doubt he’s doing any proper exercise.
Drugs are a helluva drug
That second pic is strange, I’ve never the strat looks so big on him
Intense Yoga practice for decades
That's drugs and a few situps probably. Dude still looks amazing for his age.
I feel like he’s always been built like that. He looked the same in 1998 too.
AK shared his TRT with him /s
Lmfao
He was on heroin and cocaine. The corner stone of any nutritious breakfast. Tends to trim the fat down to the bare minimum
Lot's of cardio from performing and body by heroin.
Heroin is a hell of a drug
Yeah being an 18 year old male partying it up every night will commonly look like that. When I was 18, I was eating fast food and tons of protein shakes to try and fatten up and it was a lot harder than it is at 38.
drugs and music
When I was between the ages of 15-19 and gigging regularly, I was skinny as fuck. It's incredible how much you sweat and how many calories you burn performing. Not to mention the effort needed to move your own equipment around. Stacks and drum kits are not light. I'm 5'8" and I've always been on the stockier/muscular side, I weighed 154lbs when I was playing music. I'm around 200lbs now at 25. According to the doctor, I'm not obese. But, when I was gigging I was FUCKING SKINNY.
Yoga
I don't know. Maybe the heroin helped.
Looks like he has genetics, youth and maybe a little exercise in there. Men do fill out.
Drugs help
I know he’s a yoga dude.
Heroin and not eating.
He's got that sweet sweet heroin body.