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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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How I Learned to Play Rock Music

The bassist says he learned to play by improvising with friends. He first started playing in the 11th grade, when he saw a kid named Ray who played like an expert. After taking acid and seeing punk rock for the first time, "the door was there to be opened" The band Fear Playing hired him after three days of auditioning.

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