Red Hot Chili Peppers fans there at the beginning, I first heard John Frusciante on his debut album with the group, 1989’s . John was just 18 at the time of its recording, a fact unknown to me at the time. Listening to his muscular, confident playing on tracks like “Knock Me, that blew me away, just as it did every other fan. It was immediately clear that had barely scratched the surface of his talent, that there was so much more to come — and John was not one to rest on his laurels.
