Welcome to Californication I

Ese es el título del capítulo de Scar tissue sobre el álbum.
Para empezar, El episodio de las Spice Girls. Es un poco largo, pero seguro que se van a divertir.
Comienza contando que les tomó un tiempo retomar lo que habían dejado hace unos cuantos años y que John Frusciante no estaba del todo bien, tanto física como mentalmente (había abusado de drogas y casi muere por sobredosis durante su ausencia de la banda). Se juntaban en lo de Flea a tocar y Gwen Stefani, la cantante de No doubt, y sus amigos los escuchaban ensayar por ser ella una "vecina lejana" del mencionado bajista. "My friends come over, and we sit around and listen. It sounds great!".
Más tarde nombra un episodio muy divertido acerca de una fiesta para Clara, la hija de Flea, quien en ese momento cumplía 10 años. Así empieza "Flea had been arguing for months and months with Clara when it came to the background music in their house, because Flea wanted to hear Coltrane, and Clara had the Spice Girls on a nonstop loop. So Flea decided we were going to pull a stunt at her birthday party. He dropped the hint to Clara that the Spice Girls themselves might show up at her party. And, of course, we would be the Spice Girls."
John Coltrane era un un saxofonista de jazz. Creo que lo demás para los que saben inglés está muy claro, ni me gasto en traducirlo...
"The likenesses wew obvious. Flea would be Baby Spice. John was Sporty Spice. Chris Warren, our drum technician, was enlisted to play Scary Spice, and I would be Posh Spice. Thank god Ginger Spice was already out of the band and we didn't have to fill her shoes. [...] we got the right clothes and the right wigs and wore the right makeup. We each studied the personality and the body language of our Spice Girl, and learned the dance moves. We even had some rehearsals."
"Come the day of the pary, Clara had her whole clan of ten-year-old friends over, all of whom lived and died for the Spice Girls. [...] The music started, and the little girls all freaked out, screaming "Oh my God" as we walked down the giant staircase and they caught a glimpse of these fabulous costumes. Then something slowly started to filter into their little minds.
'Wait a second, these are not the Spice Girls. In fact, these are not even girls, these are men dressed like Spice Girls. EEEEWWWWWWWW!'
[...] Scary Spice was phenomenal, Baby Spice was terrifying with her gap Flea tooth, and John absolutely nailed Sporty, working on it morning, noon, and night until his character was there. Posh was easy; she was just an aloof, uptight, narcissistic shoppping girl. We took our little vocal solos and did our dances. I had on a really shorts skirts, because Posh wears her dresses too short, but I forgot to take into consideration that I was a man in front of kids. I don't think any of them have ever recovered, because we didn't shave our legs."
Dios, me resulta increíble leer esto y saber que pasó de verdad.
Kiedis, Anthony; Sloman, Larry. Scar Tissue. Hyperion, 2004, p. 405-406