Special Guest Blogger: Hillel Slovak

My parents came to America from Israel in the 60's when i was 4 and when they gave me a guitar as a bar mitzvah present, it set in train the rest of my very short life.
I had a knack for it and people said i was like Hendrix, unfortunately not in just the guitar playing as i will explain later.
I met Antony Kiedis and Michael 'Flea' Balzary, named because he was always bouncy around, at school and we talked a lot about music and experimented together in the drug scene.
We attempted to put together a band but Flea had no interest in playing the bass so we had to convince Flea to change his mind, and then make him into a decent player because he had never played bass before.
Me, Flea, and Kiedis worked on our own music and formed a new band that we called Tony Flow and the Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem, then The Red Hot Chili Peppers but we had to stand out from the other bands so we played naked, except for socks or rather one sock which wasn't worn on our feet.
During the early years of Red Hot Chili Peppers, we made a pact not to do any heavy drug's while touring, so instead we drank oursleves into stupors instead and we put out some albums but by now Kiedis could barely function due to his heavy drug use so and whilst everyone worried about him, my own drug use when unmentioned.
Obviously our drug use was starting to affect the success of the band but our album,  The Uplift Mofo Party Pla, was a hit and took us to a new level of fame and mayhem so we deiced to quit but my withdrawal symptoms made me unable to fucntion so iwas replaced by DeWayne McKnight and Keidas threatened to sack me unless i got help.
When the tour ended the band tried to contact me but after weeks of no reply, they finally sent officers to my home to check on me but they were days too late because i wasn't okay, I was hunched dead over my front room table.