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Flea: Acid For the Children

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

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The Beginnings of the Chili Peppers

Anthony was an actor. He wanted to be an actor and he was gearing himself towards a life as an actor. But we were so wild and crazy and distracted and running around on the street that neither of us like, even though we love to do the things that we did, we were just all over the place. So one night he went to go see Grandmaster Flash in a furious five and he came home the next day they were rapping. And at the same time a friend of ours who I write about in the book, my dear friend Gary Allen was doing a show and he said, why don't you guys get something together and do an opening act for me? And I

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