John Frusciante discography

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Frusciante with Red Hot Chili Peppers at the 2006 Voodoo Experience in New Orleans

The discography of John Frusciante, who is best known as the former guitarist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, consists of eleven solo albums and four EPs, as well as two albums with collaborators Joe Lally and Josh Klinghoffer under the name Ataxia and one EP and one album under the alias of Trickfinger. Frusciante left the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1992 after he got tired of the growing success of the band.[1] He released his first solo album, Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt, in 1994 on American Recordings. His second record, Smile From the Streets You Hold, was released in 1997 and later taken off the market at his request in 1999. After returning to the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1998, Frusciante recorded Californication with the band and subsequently released his third solo album, To Record Only Water for Ten Days, in February 2001 on Warner Music Group.

Red Hot Chili Peppers released By the Way in 2002, with Frusciante taking a central role in the songwriting.[2] Following the album's tour, Frusciante released Shadows Collide with People in 2004; it became his first solo album to influence a music chart[3] and is his only solo album to date featuring Chad Smith. In 2004, Frusciante switched from Warner Brothers to the Record Collection label and released a series of six records in six months. Four of six included collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Josh Klinghoffer[4] and the period produced collaborations with Fugazi members Joe Lally, Jerry Busher, and producer Ian McKaye.

Frusciante began working with Omar Rodríguez-López in 2001 and has since collaborated on many recordings under both artists' names. Frusciante also was considered an honorary member of The Mars Volta from 2002 to 2008, occasionally performing live with the band from 2003 to 2006. Frusciante served as executive producer on Rodríguez-López's first film, released in 2010, The Sentimental Engine Slayer, which was filmed in 2007.

In 2006, the Red Hot Chili Peppers released their Grammy Award-winning[5] double album Stadium Arcadium, their last to feature Frusciante as lead guitarist. Frusciante began work on his tenth solo record, The Empyrean, shortly thereafter and subsequently released the album in early 2009.[6] In December 2009, Frusciante revealed that he had left Red Hot Chili Peppers more than a year earlier, during their hiatus. 2012's Letur-Lefr EP and Sect In Sgt EP (the latter recorded under the alias of Trickfinger), the full-length follow-up PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone, its experimental sequel, 2014's Enclosure and his 2015 album, Trickfinger, his first full length album recorded under alias Trickfinger, are his succeeding solo releases since leaving the Chili Peppers. Frusciante has also gone on to collaborate as Speed Dealer Moms with Venetian Snares, Swahili Blonde and Kimono Kult with his now former wife, Nicole Turley, and with the Black Knights.

Solo material

Studio albums

Year Title Notes
1994 Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt
  • Debut solo album.
  • Taken off the market in 1998 at Frusciante's request. Has since gone back into print.
1997 Smile From the Streets You Hold
  • Label: Birdman (BMR #016)
  • Released: August 26, 1997
  • Formats: CD
  • Taken off the market in 1998 at Frusciante's request and remains out of print.[7][8]
  • Planned for re-release by Frusciante in the future.[9]
2001 To Record Only Water for Ten Days
  • First solo release on Warner Bros. Records.
From the Sounds Inside
  • Label: Self-released
  • Released: 2001
  • Internet release only.[10]
2004 Shadows Collide With People
  • Label: Warner Bros. Records (#2-48660)
  • Released: February 24, 2004
  • Formats: CD, vinyl
The Will to Death
  • Peaked at #109 on the UK Albums Chart.[13]
Inside of Emptiness
  • Label: Record Collection (#48907-2)
  • Released: October 26, 2004
  • Formats: CD, vinyl
2005 Curtains
  • Label: Record Collection (#48595-2)
  • Released: February 1, 2005
  • Formats: CD, vinyl
2009 The Empyrean
  • Label: Record Collection
  • Released: January 20, 2009
  • Formats: CD, vinyl
  • Peaked at #151 on the Billboard Top 200; #7 on Top Heatseekers and #105 on the UK Albums Chart.[12][14]
2012 PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone
  • Label: Record Collection
  • Released: September 25, 2012
  • Formats: CD, vinyl, digital, 32 bit / 96,000 kHz WAV files, cassette
  • Peaked at #99 on the German Official Album Chart.[15]
2014 Enclosure
  • Label: Record Collection
  • Released: April 8, 2014
  • Formats: CD, vinyl, cassette
  • Peaked at #112 on Belgium's Flanders Ultratop chart.[16]
2015 Renoise Tracks 2009-2011[17]
  • Label: Self released on Bandcamp
  • Released: November 24, 2015
  • Formats: Digital Download
  • Internet release only.
  • Collection of tracks recorded from 2009 to 2011. Made available for free on his personal Bandcamp account, alongside other tracks.[18]

EPs

Year Title
1997 Estrus EP
  • Label: Birdman
  • Backed with "Outside Space"
  • Released: 1997
  • Formats: Vinyl
2001 Going Inside
  • Label: Warner Bros. Records
  • Backed with "Time Is Nothing", "So Would've I", "Last Hymn", and "Beginning Again"
  • Released: March 5, 2001
  • Formats: CD
2004 The Brown Bunny
  • Label: Tulip Records, Twelve Suns
  • Motion picture soundtrack; Frusciante contributed five songs:
  • "Forever Away", "Dying Song", "Leave All the Days Behind", "Prostitution Song", and "Falling"
  • Released: May 4, 2004 / April 26, 2014 (reissue)
  • Formats: CD, vinyl (bootleg), vinyl (official 2014) limited to 1,000 copies [Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.]
DC EP
  • Label: Record Collection (#48877-2)
  • Backed with "Dissolve", "Goals", "A Corner", and "Repeating"
  • Released: September 14, 2004
  • Formats: CD, vinyl
2012 Letur-Lefr
  • Label: Record Collection
  • Backed with "In Your Eyes", "909 Day", "Glowe", "FM", "In My Light"
  • Released: July 17, 2012
  • Formats: CD, vinyl, digital, 32 bit / 96,000 kHz WAV files, cassette
2013 Outsides[19][20]
  • Label: Record Collection
  • 3 song EP plus one bonus track
  • Released: August 14, 2013
  • Formats: CD, vinyl, digital, 32 bit / 96,000 kHz WAV files, cassette
2015 4-Track Guitar Music[17][21]
  • Label: Self released on Bandcamp
  • 6 song EP
  • Released: November 24, 2015
  • Formats: Digital Download

With Josh Klinghoffer

Year Title
2004 A Sphere in the Heart of Silence
  • Label: Record Collection (#48949-2)
  • Released: November 23, 2004
  • Formats: CD, vinyl

Trickfinger

Year Title Notes
2012 Sect In Sgt
  • Label: Neurotic Yell Records
  • Released: July 30, 2012
  • Formats: Free digital download[22]
  • Two song EP of sampled music released under the alias/moniker of Trickfinger
  • The full version of the title track was released for free digitally in November 2015
2015 Trickfinger
  • Label: Acid Test (Absurd Recordings)
  • Released: April 7, 2015
  • Formats: CD, vinyl
  • Debut album of acid house music released under the alias of Trickfinger

Ataxia

Year Title Notes
2004 Automatic Writing
  • Label: Record Collection
  • Released: August 10, 2004
  • Formats: CD, LP
2007 AW II
  • Label: Record Collection
  • Released: May 29, 2007
  • Formats: CD, LP

With Red Hot Chili Peppers

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Studio albums

Year Title Notes
1989 Mother's Milk
  • Label: EMI
  • Released: August 16, 1989
  • Debut album with Red Hot Chili Peppers
1991 Blood Sugar Sex Magik
  • Label: Warner Bros. Records
  • Released: September 24, 1991
  • Frusciante left the Chili Peppers during the album's tour in 1992[25]
1999 Californication
  • Label: Warner Bros. Records
  • Released: June 8, 1999
  • First album after returning to the Chili Peppers in 1998[26][27]
2002 By the Way
  • Label: Warner Bros. Records
  • Released: July 9, 2002
2006 Stadium Arcadium
  • Label: Warner Bros. Records
  • Released: May 5, 2006
  • Left the band again in 2009, this time without any tension

Live and compilation albums

Year Title Notes
1992 What Hits!?
  • Label: EMI
  • Released: September 29, 1992
  • Frusciante plays guitar on songs "Higher Ground", "Knock Me Down", "Under the Bridge", "Show Me Your Soul", "Taste the Pain", "Johnny, Kick a Hole in the Sky"[citation needed]
2003 Greatest Hits
  • Label: Warner Bros. Records
  • Released: November 11, 2003
  • Frusciante plays guitar on all songs except "My Friends"[28]
2004 Live in Hyde Park
  • Label: Warner Bros. Records
  • Released: July 26, 2004
  • First and only live album released by the Chili Peppers
2012 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Covers EP
  • Label: Warner Bros. Records
  • Released: May 1, 2012
  • Digital-only release commemorating previous HoF inductees upon the 2012 induction of RHCP. John is featured on 4 of the 6 tracks.

With The Mars Volta

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Studio albums

Year Title Notes
2003 De-Loused in the Comatorium
  • Label: GSL (GSL #75), Strummer,
    Universal (B#0000593-02)
  • Released: June 24, 2003
  • Back Vocal, additional guitar and synthesizer treatment "Cicatriz ESP"
2005 Frances the Mute
  • Label: GSL (GSL #96), Strummer,
    Universal (B#0004129-02)
  • Released: March 1, 2005
  • First two guitar solos on "L'Via L'Viaquez"
2006 Amputechture
  • Label: GSL (GSL #126),
    Universal (B#0007214-02)
  • Released: September 12, 2006
  • Rhythm guitar, lead guitar, except on "Asilos Magdalena"
2008 The Bedlam in Goliath
  • Label: Universal (B#0010617-02)
  • Released: January 29, 2008
  • Guitar
2009 Octahedron
  • Guitar

With Omar Rodríguez-López

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Studio albums

Year Title Notes
2004 A Manual Dexterity: Soundtrack Volume One
  • Mini-moog on "Dyna Sark Arches" & "Here The Tame Go By"
  • A 100 on "Here The Tame Go By"
  • Guitar on "Dramatic Theme" & "The Palpitations Form A Limit"
2007 Se Dice Bisonte, No Búfalo
  • Label: GSL
  • Released: May 29, 2007
  • Formats: CD, brown marble LP, black LP, digital
  • Guitars on "If Gravity Lulls, I Can Hear the World Pant"
  • Released the same day as Frusciante's AW II & Perry's Satellite Party
Calibration (Is Pushing Luck and Key Too Far)
  • Label: N2O Records
  • Released: December 15, 2007
  • Formats: CD, Grey marble 2LP, digital
  • Vocals & lyrics on "Glosa Picaresca Wou Mên"
2010 Omar Rodriguez Lopez & John Frusciante
  • Label: Sargent House, Rodriguez-Lopez Productions
  • Released: April 30, 2010
  • Formats: CD, black LP, translucent red LP, digital
  • Guitars, bass, synthesizer
  • "0=2" & "0" were released on 7" single in 2005/2006 (see below)
Sepulcros de Miel
  • Label: Sargent House, Rodriguez-Lopez Productions
  • Released: May 30, 2010
  • Formats: Purple LP, orange LP, digital
  • Guitars, synthesizer

Singles

Year Title Notes
2005 The Special 12 Singles Series
  • Label: GSL
  • Released: physical 2005, digital 2006
  • 7" yellow splatter vinyl single
  • "0=2", "0" recorded in Spring 2003
  • Later released on the ORL & JF album in 2010
  • Credited as Omar A. Rodriguez-Lopez and John Frusciante
2015 "Fight For Love"
  • Self-released: November 24, 2015
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With Speed Dealer Moms

Year Title Notes
2010 Speed Dealer Moms
  • Label: Planet Mu Records
  • Released: June 12, 2010 / TBA (reissue)
  • Formats: LP, digital
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With Swahili Blonde

Year Title Notes
2010 Man Meat
  • Label: Manimal Vinyl
  • Released: August 4, 2010
  • Formats: CD, black LP, digital
2011 Psycho Tropical Ballet Pink
  • Label: Manimal Vinyl
  • Released: November 15, 2011
  • Formats: CD, blue LP, digital
  • Guitar
2012 Covers EP
  • Label: Neurotic Yell Records
  • Released: March 16, 2012
  • Formats: Digital
  • Guitar, backing vocals on "Red Money"
2015 Deities in Decline
  • Label: Manimal Vinyl
  • Released: TBA
  • Formats: LP, digital
  • Guitar

With Kimono Kult

Year Title Notes
2014 Hiding In The Light
  • Label: Neurotic Yell Records
  • Released: March 4, 2014
  • Formats: Bandcamp digital download
  • A group of co-conspirators consisting of members of Swahili Blonde, Bosnian Rainbows, and Dante Vs Zombies including Nicole Turley, Dante White-Aliano, Laena Geronimo, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, and Teri Gender Bender. Their debut is a digital 4-song EP on the Neurotic Yell bandcamp page.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  • Guitar on "La Vida Es Una Caja Hermosa" & "La Cancion De Alejandra"

With Black Knights

Year Title
2014 Medieval Chamber[29]
  • Label: Record Collection
  • Released: January 14, 2014
  • Producer of and collaborator on the second album by the Wu-Tang Clan affiliates
2015 The Almighty
  • Label: Record Collection
  • Released: June 16, 2015
  • Producer of and collaborator on the third album by the Wu-Tang Clan affiliates
TBA All Skills No Luck
  • Label: Record Collection
  • Released: TBA
  • Producer of and collaborator on the fourth album by the Wu-Tang Clan affiliates

Other contributions and guest appearances

Year Title Notes
1988 Kristen VigardKristen Vigard
  • Guitar on "Slave To My Emotions"
1999 Anytime at AllBanyan
  • Guitar on "Grease the System" and "La Sirena"
  • Flea also performs on "Grease the System", and there is a video of the "La Sirena" recording[30]
  • Collective of nearly two dozen musicians led by Jane's Addiction drummer Stephen Perkins
  • John's first recording since his recovery in 1998
RevPerry Farrell
You Come and Go Like a Pop SongThe Bicycle Thief
  • Label: Artemis, Musicrama, Goldenvoice
  • Released: September 21, 1999 / 2001 reissue
2000 Fishbone and the Familyhood Nextperience Present: The Psychotic Friends NuttwerxFishbone
A System For Shutting Everything OutKevin Haskins & Doug DeAngelis
  • Unreleased
Demos of Milla Jovovich
  • Guitar on "Bring It On"
  • Unreleased
2001 BlowbackTricky
The IdMacy Gray
  • Label: Epic
  • Released: September 17, 2001
2002 24 Hour Party People Soundtrack – Various
  • Label: FFRR
  • Released: April 9, 2002
American IV: The Man Comes AroundJohnny Cash
2003 We're a Happy Family: A Tribute to Ramones – Various
  • Label: Columbia
  • Released: February 11, 2003
DragonflyZiggy Marley
  • Guitar on "Rainbow in the Sky" along with Flea
Underworld OST – Various
  • Label: Lakeshore
  • Released: September 2, 2003
UnearthedJohnny Cash
2004 Tempo Technik TeamworkEkkehard Ehlers
  • Label: Staubgold Germany
  • Released: October 19, 2004
  • Guitar on "Grisaisse 1"
2005 The Word Is LiveYes
  • Label: Rhino
  • Released: August 23, 2005
  • Liner notes
2006 Music for the DivineGlenn Hughes
Modern Folk and Blues: WednesdayBob Forrest
  • Label: Lakeshore
  • Released: September 19, 2006
  • Guitar and backing vocals on "Dying Song" (his own song from The Brown Bunny OST)
  • Guitar contributions on other tracks
2007 Samurai Workout
  • DVD by John's stepfather with some guitar tracks
Ultra PayloadedSatellite Party
  • Label: Columbia
  • Released: May 29, 2007
  • Formats: CD, digital download
  • Guitar on "Hard Life Easy" along with Flea
  • Released the same day as Frusciante's own AW II and Omar's Bisonte
The Dub Room SpecialFrank Zappa
  • Label: Zappa
  • Released: August 24, 2007
  • Liner notes for soundtrack of the film
HourglassDave Gahan (Depeche Mode singer)
8 DiagramsWu-Tang Clan
  • Released December 11, 2007
  • Formats: CD, vinyl, digital download
2008 Digi SnacksRZA
  • Released June 24, 2008
  • Formats: CD, vinyl, digital download
George Clinton and His Gangsters of LoveGeorge Clinton
  • Label: Shanachie
  • Released September 16, 2008
  • Formats: CD
2009 The Spirit of ApolloN.A.S.A. (North America/South America)
  • Label: ANTI-
  • Released: February 17, 2009
  • Guitar on "Way Down" along with RZA & Barbie Hatch
Exquisite CorpseWarpaint
  • Label: Manimal
  • Released 2008 (self release)
    October 6, 2009 (large release)
  • Formats: CD, digital download
  • Mixed
  • Mellotron on "Billie Holiday" (Josh plays drums)
2012 Vol. 1 – VAGENDA / Nicole Turley
  • Label: Neurotic Yell Records
  • Released May 12, 2012
  • Formats: Bandcamp digital download[32]
DOXXOLOGY – BIG DOXX (Kehinde "Doxx" Cunningham & Nicole Turley)
  • Label: Neurotic Yell Records[33]
  • Released: December 12, 2012
  • Guitar on "Indigenous Rhythm"
2013 You're The Father of My Songs – Amanda Jo Williams
  • Label: Neurotic Yell Records
  • Released May 21, 2013
  • Formats: 12-inch vinyl, digital download[34]
  • Piano, organ
Vol. 2 – VAGENDA / Nicole Turley
  • Label: Neurotic Yell Records[35]
  • Released: November 21, 2013
  • Guitar on "H (heart) H" (WEAVE! remix)
  • Original WEAVE! EP, New Funk Romance, released July 24, 2012
2014 Pleasure Pyramid – Sexual Castle (Ivory Lee Carlson & Nicole Turley)
  • Label: Neurotic Yell Records[36]
  • Released: TBA
    April 20, 2014 (demos)
  • Guitar on "Flip The Scrip"
2015 Paper GodsDuran Duran
  • Label: Warner Bros.
  • Released: September 11, 2015
  • Formats: 12-inch vinyl, CD, digital download
  • Group's 14th studio album[37]
  • Guitar on "What Are The Chances?", "Butterfly Girl", "The Universe Alone", "Northern Lights" (on deluxe version)
A Raw YouthLe Butcherettes
  • Label: Ipecac
  • Released: September 18, 2015
  • Formats: 12-inch vinyl, CD, digital download
  • Group's third full-length, produced by Omar
  • Guitar and synth bass on "My Half"
TBA The AlbumAcHoZeN
  • Label: urSESSION
  • Released: TBA
  • Project comprising Shavo Odadjian (vocals, guitar), RZA (vocals, keyboards, samples, beats, guitar), Kinetic 9 (vocals), Reverend William Burke (vocals)

DVDs and videos

Solo music videos

Year Title Director(s)[38]
1997 "Life's a Bath" M. Polish
2005 "The Past Recedes" Mike Piscitelli

Additionally, the entirety of John Frusciante's album To Record Only Water for Ten Days was made into a series of short experimental films directed by Vincent Gallo in 2001. This film was never given any official release, though the videos were shown on MTV2.

Red Hot Chili Peppers

DVDs

Year Title
1991 Funky Monks
  • Distributed by: Warner Bros. Records
  • Directed by Gavin Bowden
  • Formats: VHS and DVD
2001 Off the Map
  • Distributed by: Warner Bros. Records
  • Compiled and directed by Dick Rude
  • Formats: VHS and DVD
2003 Live at Slane Castle
  • Distributed by: Warner Bros. Records
  • Released: November 17, 2003
  • Directed by Nick Wickham; recorded at Slane Castle, County Meath, Ireland on August 23, 2003
  • Formats: DVD and UMD

Music videos

Year Title Director(s)[39]
1989 "Higher Ground" Drew Carolan
"Knock Me Down"
1990 "Taste the Pain" Tom Stern and Alex Winter
"Show Me Your Soul" Bill Stobaugh
1991 "Give It Away" Stéphane Sednaoui
1992 "Under the Bridge" Gus Van Sant
"Suck My Kiss" Compilation footage from Gavin Bowden
1999 "Scar Tissue" Stéphane Sednaoui
"Around the World"
2000 "Otherside" Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
"Californication"
"Road Trippin'"
2002 "By the Way"
"The Zephyr Song"
2003 "Can't Stop" Mark Romanek
"Universally Speaking" Dick Rude
"Fortune Faded" Laurent Briet
2006 "Dani California" Tony Kaye
"Tell Me Baby" Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
"Snow ((Hey Oh))" Nick Wickham
2007 "Desecration Smile" Gus Van Sant
"Hump de Bump" Chris Rock

References

General
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Specific
  1. Kiedis, Sloman, 2004. p. 284.
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  4. The Will to Death, Inside of Emptiness, A Sphere in the Heart of Silence liner notes.
  5. |http://www.grammy.com/nominees/search?artist=Red+Hot+Chili+Peppers&title=&year=All&genre=All%7C
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  11. Shadows Collide with People liner notes.
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  15. http://www.musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/artist/John+Frusciante/8245/longplay
  16. http://www.ultratop.be/fr/album/3b2c6/John-Frusciante-Enclosure
  17. 17.0 17.1 http://johnfrusciante.com/article/hello-audience
  18. https://jfdirectlyfromjf.bandcamp.com/album/renoise-tracks-2009-2011
  19. http://invisible-movement.net/2013/07/new-upoming-release-outsize-new-photos
  20. http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=DDCB-12529
  21. https://jfdirectlyfromjf.bandcamp.com/album/4-track-guitar-music
  22. http://jfdirectlyfromjf.bandcamp.com/track/sect-in-sgt
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  25. Kiedis, Sloman, 2004. p. 295
  26. Kiedis, Sloman, 2004. pp.398-400
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  28. One Hot Minute liner notes
  29. http://www.blackknightsmusic.com/about/
  30. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qURiTiqFb9o&hd=1
  31. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYdEWCFKBhI
  32. http://neuroticyellrecords.bandcamp.com/album/vol-1
  33. http://nicoleturley.bandcamp.com/album/doxxology
  34. http://neuroticyellrecords.bandcamp.com/album/youre-the-father-of-my-songs
  35. http://nicoleturley.bandcamp.com/album/vol-2
  36. http://nicoleturley.bandcamp.com/album/pleasure-pyramid
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