Flea, member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, will be signing copies of “Acid For the Children” in NY next month.
Signed copies of Acid For The Children.
If you are not able to attend any of the events below, you can now order a signed first edition of “Acid For The Children” here. This is a very fine signed collector’s edition, with the dust-jacket protected in a brand new archival acid-free sleeve.
BOOK SIGNING DETAILS
Tuesday November 05, 2019 1:00 PM
Barnes & Noble
555 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10017
212-697-3048
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Flea, a founding member of The Red Hot Chili Peppers, discusses his new memoir, “Acid For The Children,” with Chicago author Jessica Hopper
Wed, November 6, 2019
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM CST
Music Box Theatre
3733 North Southport Avenue\
Chicago, IL 60613
This is a ticketed event – Click here for more information.
About the Author:
Flea is an Australian-born American musician and occasional actor. He is best known as the bassist and co-founding member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and co-founder of The Silverlake Conservatory of Music.
About the Book:
The iconic bassist and co-founder of the Red Hot Chili Peppers tells his fascinating origin story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the gutter lows you’d want from an LA street rat turned world famous rock star.
In Acid for the Children, Flea takes readers on a deeply personal and revealing tour of his formative years, spanning from Australia to the New York City suburbs to, finally, Los Angeles. Through hilarious anecdotes, poetical meditations, and occasional flights of fantasy, Flea deftly chronicles the experiences that forged him as an artist, a musician, and a young man. His dreamy, jazz-inflected prose makes the Los Angeles of the 1970s and 80s come to gritty, glorious life, including the potential for fun, danger, mayhem, or inspiration that lurked around every corner. It is here that young Flea, looking to escape a turbulent home, found family in a community of musicians, artists, and junkies who also lived on the fringe. He spent most of his time partying and committing petty crimes. But it was in music where he found a higher meaning, a place to channel his frustration, loneliness, and love. This left him open to the life-changing moment when he and his best friend, soul brother, and partner-in-mischief came up with the idea to start their own band, which became the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Acid for the Children is the debut of a stunning new literary voice, whose prose is as witty, entertaining, and wildly unpredictable as the author himself. It’s a tenderly evocative coming-of-age story and a raucous love letter to the power of music and creativity from one of the most renowned musicians of our time.
