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John Frusciante

Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, July 2004

YOU MAY know John Frusciante as the intermittent guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He infamously quit the foursome only moments before he was due to go on-stage with them in Japan in 1992 because of a premonition he had. For the next seven years Frusciante rarely picked up a guitar, and spent most of his time in a drug induced daze.

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