Image Courtesy of Record CollectionFormer Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante has always been on the reclusive side, and now he's gotten even more so. In a new interview with the Electronic Beats website, Frusciante reveals he no longer plans to release his music to the public.
"For the last year and a half I made the decision to stop making music for anybody and with no intention of releasing it, which is what I was doing between 2008 and 2012," Frusciante says. "I felt that if I took the public into consideration at all, I wasn't going to grow and I wasn't going to learn."
"Being an electronic musician meant I had to woodshed for a while, so I have a good few years' worth of material from that period that's never been released," he adds.
Just this past month, Frusciante released his debut album as Trickfinger, a new project that explores the acid house genre of electronic music. "At this point I have no audience," Frusciante says. "I make tracks and I don't finish them or send them to anybody, and consequently I get to live with the music."
Frusciante was a member of Red Hot Chili Peppers from 1988 to 1992, and then again from 1998 to 2009. During his tenure with the band, he was the lead guitarist on their seminal 1991 album, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, as well as Californication, By the Way and, most recently, 2006's Stadium Arcadium.
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