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Amazon.com Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, born Michael Peter Balzary, has penned a
soulful and absorbing memoir of his journey from his early childhood in Melbourne, Australia, to
stadiums around the world as a first-class rock star. The Balzary family moved to the States when
Flea and his older sister were four and six, first to New York City and later Los Angeles. A shy,
quirky kid, Flea was an outsider, and as things deteriorated in his home he spent more and more
time running the streets. Flea was introduced to jazz music at a young age and it became the
great love of his life. Always a kid who pushed boundaries, in Los Angeles Flea found kindred
spirits in music, drugs, and embracing life on the edge. Flea pours his heart onto these pages: his
insecurity and longing for family, his innermost thoughts and dreams, even his pain and guilt over
the death of his beloved friend and bandmate, Hillel Slovak. Before Flea enters into his complex
but unbreakable friendship with Anthony Kiedis, he writes: “Iâ€m scared to poison things
between us, or scare the magic out of it by trying to understand it, but so be it. Here I go.―
Fleaâ€s writing style—with its full-stop honesty amid lyrical musings and meanderings—is
both startling and riveting, like a burst of jazz trumpet rhythm. Musician, poet, reader, friend,
troublemaker, seeker, hoops enthusiast, writer, Flea is a many-faceted individual, and readers will
see all sides.Acid for the Children is equal parts wisdom and wildness, from a man who has only
ever cared about the music.—Seira Wilson, Amazon Book Review 'Acid for the Children is not an
as-told-to, nor is it written 'with' someone. These are Flea's words-excitable, jazzy, regretful,
disarming, popping and writhing away in his biological bass zone. Insecurities to the fore: He
worries that he may be producing 'a thorny jumble of trash.' But he's actually a lovely writer, with a
particular gift for the free-floating and reverberant. He writes in Beat Generation bursts and
epiphanies, lifting toward the kind of virtuosic vulnerability and self-exposure associated with the
great jazz players....Flea-elegant nutcase, funk-at-high-pressure bassist, wildly cultured and
culturedly wild man-has written a fine memoir. You'll put down Acid for the Children with your
human sympathies expanded; you'll feel less alone.'―The Atlantic 'Acid For the Children's
closest analog is, somewhat surprisingly, Patti Smith's Just Kids...The prose frequently mimics
[Flea's] playing: occasionally beautiful, occasionally outrageous, in conversation with a small group
of predecessors but unwilling to follow anyone else's rules. This is what gives Acid for the Children
its considerable charm...'―AV Club'[An] electric, surprisingly moving memoir...Flea is an
enlightened narrator, and this passionate, smart memoir will resonate with readers whether they're
fans of the band or not.'―