Scar Tissue cover art

Scar Tissue

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Scar Tissue

By: Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman
Narrated by: Rider Strong
Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £20.99

Buy Now for £20.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

As lead singer and songwriter for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Anthony Kiedis has lived life on the razor's edge. Much has been written about him, but until now we've only had his songs as clues to his experience from the inside. In Scar Tissue, Kiedis proves himself to be as compelling a memoirist as he is a lyricist, giving us a searingly honest account of the life from which his music has evolved.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are that rare breed of rock band: critically lauded and popularly embraced by millions of fans, their albums consistently sell into the stratosphere—their CD Californication sold over 13 million copies alone.

Now, in Scar Tissue, Anthony Kiedis defies the rock star clichés. In his telling, we can see everything he has done has been part of a passionate journey. Kiedis is a man "in love with everything"—the darkness, the death, the disease. Even his descent into drug addiction was a part of that journey; another element that he has transformed into art. Scar Tissue is a fascinating account of a fast-lane life, addiction, and a moving story of eventual recovery and redemption.

©2004 Anthony Kiedis (P)2010 Phoenix Audio Entertainment & Celebrities Music Celebrity Inspiring Thought-Provoking

Listeners also enjoyed...

 The Heroin Diaries: 10 Year Anniversary Edition cover art
Windswept & Interesting cover art
It's So Easy cover art
Dreadnaught cover art
I Am Ozzy cover art
The Dirt cover art
Born to Run cover art
The Book of Drugs cover art
Got The Life cover art
The Long Hard Road Out of Hell cover art
I'm the Man cover art
18 and Life on Skid Row cover art
Total F*cking Godhead cover art
Runnin' with the Devil cover art
The Flea cover art
NOFX cover art

Critic reviews

"Kiedis’s narrative of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ dues-paying years is vivid and inspiring." ( Newsweek)
All stars
Most relevant  
Being a huge chilis fan. I knew lots of the things jn this book ,
I read it the day it came out ,

And somewhere along the line. I lost it ! I’ve just binge listened it !!

Fascinating yet tragic life , a truly incredible story ,

Highly recommended

One of the most honest and heavy biographies ever told

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
what a read. loved it. that said, I'd love to know the response from some of the people he talks about! very gripping read. Shame he didn't read the audible himself

Great- and Buster the best 👌

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I really enjoyed this book! Mind-blowing real life stories & the openness about Anthony’s life long drug addition. I can’t imagine how vulnerable he must have felt staring this with the whole world. It definitely showed me a very different point of view on life and the band. I started listening as a non RHCP fan and ended up playing some of their songs on repeat. I also watched the ‘Funk Monks’ documentary and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Loved is from start to finish!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
A true back story behind the madness that was The Red Hot Chilli Peppers. You should Kip this.

Fantastically engaging, very honest!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I actually half read this and half listened to it. The accents the narrater puts on in parts is annoying but Anthony Kiedis’ story is so interesting! I really enjoyed this

What an interesting book!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
To be honest parts of the book made me hate Antony, but other sections literally explained RHCP music an his feeling. Which is amazing, an utterly endearing. It's a bizarre life, it's a story worth knowing.

Well he had sex a lot an matched this with drugs

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Though it was hard to keep track of his girlfriends the story is amazing and a interesting insight in addiction.


Excellent,

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Good in-depth very interesting story well written. Personally it’s just put me off him, bit of a bully and glorified heroin like it’s cool. Not for me

Good story but now don’t like the man

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Never been a huge fan of the Chilli Peppers, but thought I'd give this a read based on a few friends raving about it. The hype was certainly justified, this man has had a really interesting life. A great document showing the contrast between his humble beginnings in a mid-western town, to running around Los Angeles like a dog with two d*cks, loaded on cocaine and heroin. The relationships, the friendships, the variety of drugs, the losses, the gains...listened to the whole 14 hours in about 4 sittings over a few days. seriously gripping and highly recommended.

Hard to put down

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Incredible story about Anthony. What a crazy crazy dude he is. Clearly got a good heart. Well narrated. Couldn’t stop listening

Simply outstanding. Must listen

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews