I didn't know Flea from Adam but I loved this book! His writing drew me in and perfectly made me understand everything he feels about his past as it informed his present (and future, presumably). After reading the book I got on Youtube and found both interviews with and performances by him. His intelligence and musical skill are more than impressive.

If you're looking for tales of groupies and sex, this isn't the book for you. It isn't about the Chili Peppers, but about Flea's childhood. Yes, there's drug use, but this is more a book about one man's quest to find love and his place in the world. Not your typical rock and roll memoir, but entertaining. I can't imagine running loose in LA during the seventies, unsupervised and up to no good. What a life!

Flea threatens a second book. Please no. I love books about musicians and have probably read 50, but someone should have stepped in and proposed a different path for this. If he had a ghost writer, they should have been fired. If he didn't, the editors should have forced one on him. I was surprised this ever made it to print. If you love to read, love music, and love good writing, best to move on.

This book is quite surprising. It seems to assume that the reader knows that Flea is the bass player in the band The Red Hot Chili Peppers and puts little effort into describing that lifestyle. Instead it poetically, with distinct a meter and tone, describes the man-child that would become the Flea you thought you knew..