Flea’s memoir, Acid For the Kids, due out in November

A protracted-in-the-works memoir from Purple Scorching Chili Peppers bassist Flea will lastly see launch on November fifth.

Entitled Acid for the Kids, the 400-page autobiography “takes readers on a deeply private and revealing tour of [Flea’s] youth, spanning from Australia to the New York Metropolis suburbs to, lastly, Los Angeles. Via hilarious anecdotes, poetical meditations, and occasional flights of fantasy, Flea deftly chronicles the experiences that solid him as an artist, a musician, and a younger man.”

An official synopsis goes on so as to add: “His dreamy, jazz-inflected prose makes the Los Angeles of the 1970s and 80s come to gritty, wonderful life, together with the potential for enjoyable, hazard, mayhem, or inspiration that lurked round each nook. It’s right here that younger Flea, seeking to escape a turbulent house, discovered household in a group of musicians, artists, and junkies who additionally lived on the perimeter. He spent most of his time partying and committing petty crimes. However it was in music the place he discovered a better which means, a spot to channel his frustration, loneliness, and love. This left him open to the life-changing second when he and his greatest associates, soul brothers, and partners-in-mischief got here up with the concept to start out their very own band, which turned the Purple Scorching Chili Peppers.”

Flea has been engaged on the memoir since no less than 2014, and it was initially supposed to return out final 12 months. Now, it’s lastly able to see the sunshine of day, and pre-orders are ongoing.

Acid for the Kids incorporates a ahead penned by the equally legendary Patti Smith. In the meantime, the e-book’s cowl is a placing picture of a younger Flea smoking a cigarette.