SCAR TISSUE pages 157-198

In these chapters Anthony gets kicked out of his band. He doesn’t really care though he just kind of puts it off. He decided that he has a drug problem and that something needs to be done. So he calls his mother and tells her everything. Next thing he knows he has a plane ticket back to his mothers house. Eventually the day came for him to fly to his mother’s house, and he chickened out and told her that he was sick and he couldn’t come. Two weeks went by and he still had not flown out there and didn’t want to anymore. A couple days later he is stocking up on drugs and he gets pulled over by the cops. The cop lets him go because he liked his former band and tells him to go and get help. Then Anthony decides to go to treatment. He goes for thirty days and graduates treatment successfully. He stays sober after treatment for a while and calls up his band, and could tell that they were not happy with the lead singer so they let him join back in the band.

SCAR TISSUE pages 132-156

In these chapters Anthony and Jennifer’s relationship is not doing well. Anthony continually cheats on Jennifer and he doesn’t seem to care about her feelings. Kim, his best friend nothing more is Jennifer’s biggest rival. She hates her because one day she found them naked sleeping together and went crazy and started breaking windows. There was nothing between them they were not sexually involved Jennifer just saw it the wrong way. Jennifer’s jealousy grew and eventually she cheated on Anthony. He was so mad and he never wanted to see her again and didn’t understand how she could do that to him, so then he dumped her. He felt so relieved when he did this, which makes me think that that he is a horrible boyfriend and I don’t understand why Jennifer put up with him. After they break up Jennifer is so incredibly sorry what she did and she just did it to get his attention. So every nigh she slept at his door step until he finally let her back in.

SCAR TISSUE pages 110-131

In these chapters Anthony and his band are beginning tour. They are expecting crazy performances and huge parties. Anthony always impresses his audience with doing something completely crazy and out of the ordinary. Most producers tell their bad that they and as good on CD because they cant capture what it happing outside of the music. The tour begins with a couple performances, eventually the driver of their tour bus quits. He decides to quit because he is jealous and wants a part in the band and they wont let him in. Meanwhile when they are recording a CD one of their cocaine dealers comes in and demands money that they owe them. They don’t have the money and the only way they can pay him is if they let him on the CD. I think that their drugs are severely affecting their band and that there is some foreshadowing that something bad is going to happen to their band involving drugs.

SCAR TISSUE pages 75-109

In this chapter Anthony opens up about his childhood. He talks about his dad giving him pot at age 10 and what gave him a push into the world of drugs. When he was about 9 he would go and fly to California to live with his dad for the summer. His dad was into partying and dealing drugs and he learned about them at a young age. When it was the school year and he was living with his mom he would spend the whole year California dreaming. His dad would take him to clubs at a young age and split his sare of drugs with him. When they would get to the club his dad would abondon him once he was drunk. This would happen every weekend and often times there would be an after party at his house. I can see what left him thinking that drugs are ok. This happend beacuse his fatherly figure was not someone to look up too. As time went on he would no longer have to be with his dad to do drugs. He would find them on his own and I really think that is what sparked his addiction, beacuse he looked up to his dad im manny ways.

SCAR TISSUE pages 54-75

These chapters opened into the stories of Anthony’s deep drug addiction. Currently his band is doing really well and just got signed with a major producer. Anthony is continually missing band practices to go and get high. Flea and Hittle are really concerned about him because they never see him sober anymore. His drug problems aren’t only effecting his best friends, he has also got his girlfriend into heroin. Anthony is actually benefiting from this because every time he cheats on her he can just make it up to her with drugs.
After his band gets signed they have to travel to their producers house which is far from their city environment. When they arrive Anthony is going crazy with out his drugs. He was getting extremely sick because his body could not handle being without them.
On his free time he writes songs, and his band is the only thing that makes him think that he dosent need drugs to make him happy.

SCAR TISSUE pages 30 - 53

By reading these chapters I have discovered so much about Anthony. When he was 10 he smoked pot for the first time and he would casually hang around with Sony and Cheer. He was living with his dad in California and living a party life at a young age. His dad would take him to nightclubs regularly, and before they would leave for the club his dad would insure that he was high and so was his son. This started to become normal to Anthony, he also was used to seeing his dad with a different woman every night or having coked out people passed out all over his house. As his life progresses he makes drugs a daily routine. He eventually goes to college but not for long and decides that college isn’t his thing. His bad randomly starts one day when he is asked to perform. he gets together with some buddies ad puts together a little performance. When they perform everyone loves them and they decide to form a band. they start talking about band names one day and they got toe idea for their band name form two other band names combined and from then on they were known as the “Red Hot Chili Peppers”

SCAR TISSUE pages 1-30

One of the reasons that I choose this book was because the author is the lead singer of one of my favorite bands, The Red Hot Chili Peppers. This book is a memoir about Anthony’s life and the creation of his band. I thought that it would be interesting to learn about his journey through drugs and what inspired him to write all of his songs for his band. I know that Scar Tissue will be a good book because when I picked it up in the store, I flipped open to a page and I couldn’t stop reading. The book is also a New York Times best seller. In the few pages I have read I can relate to what the author is going through and some of the things he is telling the reader, this interests me even more. I am very excited to read this book and learn about the formation of his band and his journey through life.