Blackie dammett autobiography
- In this book, Blackie Dammett names every single person he's ever met, ever.
- 'I did a double take when I saw fourteen-year-old Drew Barrymore at the bar, drinking with the Bukowski crowd.
- “Lords of the Sunset Strip” is the brutally honest, ribald and hilarious memoir of actor and writer Blackie Dammett—AKA John Kiedis—who happens to be the father.
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“Reckless, audacious and guaranteed to provoke…”
Lords of the Sunset Strip
“Lords of the Sunset Strip” is the brutally honest, ribald and hilarious memoir of actor and writer Blackie Dammett—AKA John Kiedis—who happens to be the father of Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis.
Set mostly in the depraved Hollywood of the 60s though the 90s but with multiple national and worldwide excursions for film shoots, love affairs and drug deals, this tell-all provides an unexpectedly candid look at a struggling actor’s transition from a wild man with a dream to a sensitive if unconventional parent with a dream.
Dammett studied with the likes of Lee Strasberg and Sam Peckinpah; appeared in 53 films and TV shows, such as “Lethal Weapon,” “National Lampoon’s Class Reunion,” “Hill Street Blues,” “Starsky and Hutch,” and “Alfred Hitchcock Presents;” and partied with Lou Reed, Axl Rose, Andy Warhol, Keith Moon, Alice Cooper, Liza Minnelli, Frank Sinatra, 14-year-old Drew Barrymore, George Carlin, David Lee Roth, Deborah Harry, the Ramones, Talking Heads and more.
He played Pong
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Set mostly in the depraved Hollywood of the 60s though the 90s but with multiple national and worldwide excursions for film shoots, love affairs and drug deals, this tell-all provides an unexpectedly candid look at a struggling actor's transition from a wild man with a dream to a sensitive if unconventional parent with a dream.
Dammett studied with the likes of Lee Strasberg and Sam Peckinpah; appeared in 53 films and TV shows, such as "Lethal Weapon," "National Lampoon's Class Reunion," "Hill Street Blues," "Starsky and Hutch," and "Alfred Hitchcock Presents;" and partied with Lou Reed, Axl Rose, Andy Warhol, Keith Moon, Alice Cooper, Liza Minnelli, Frank Sinatra, 14-year-old Drew Barrymore, George Carlin, David Lee Roth, Deborah Harry, the Ramones, Talking Heads and more.
He played Pong (the first video game) with John Lennon, and then Lennon, temporarily exiled from NY by Yoko Ono and lubed with coke and whiskey, poured out his legendary heart to Dammett.
Dammett towed his young Red Hot Chili Pepper with him through a torrent of drug and sex-fueled parties, auditions and bu
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Scar Tissue (autobiography)
Memoir by Anthony Kiedis
Scar Tissue is the autobiography of Red Hot Chili Peppers vocalist Anthony Kiedis. It was released in 2004 by Hyperion and authored by Kiedis with Larry Sloman, who compiled information and conducted interviews. The book reached No. 1 on The New York Times Best Seller List. An audiobook version, read by actor Rider Strong, was released by Phoenix Audio on June 30, 2006. An E-book version is also available.
Background
The book follows Kiedis's life from his birth in 1962 to early 2004. It follows Kiedis into the depth of his experiences with drug addiction. The title name was taken from the single "Scar Tissue" released five years earlier on the Red Hot Chili Peppers album Californication.
According to the book, Kiedis's first drug experience was with his father Blackie Dammett, a former drug dealer, at age eleven. By the time his band formed and became more popular in the 1980s, he and former bandmate Hillel Slovak had severe drug addictions. On Slovak's death from overdose in 1988, Kiedis writes that he
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