Welcome to Californication II

El nacimiento.
Pasados varios ensayos y varias canciones grabadas, quedaba una pendiente...
"Back in the studio, things were going well, but the one song that was so important to me was less important to everybody else. That was 'Californication'. Every time I'd bring it up, everyone would go, 'We've got twenty-five other songs recorded. We don't need another one.'
'No, we have to have this', I urged. 'This is the anchor of the whole record. It's as good as lyric as I've written in a long time. It has to be a song' I was not letting go. I kept telling John that we had to finish it. Meanwhile, the session was winding down, and we had only a few days of basic track recording left. In the last moments of recording, John came running into the studio with his thirty-thousand-dollar White Falcon hollow-body guitar. He said 'I've got it! I've got Californication'! He sat down and plucked this incredibly sparse yet haunting combination of notes. It was so different from any other approach that we'd taken for the song that I didn't quite hear it. Then he started singing it, and it was at the high end of my range, but it was doable.
He taught it to Flea and Chad, and we rehearsed it a couple of times and recorded it. It was such a sensation of relief and gratification, to know that the song didn't end up in the same trash bin as 'Quixotic Elixir' and a number of other songs that I had high hopes for.
Kiedis, Anthony; Sloman, Larry. Scar Tissue. Hyperion, 2004, p. 418