Every John Fru ever

“Well, Gibby’s been my friend for a while and he brought Johnny Depp over here one night when I was still in a period of intense concentration on painting and he made the mistake of sitting down next to me and he told me that this jar of paint I had was dead because the upper layer of it had hardened. So when he said, “This paint is dead,” I took a big gob of paint in my hand and threw it at him. But even though I was bothered by him like that, the whole thing was taken in good humour. And even though I knew he was in my house, he actually sat beside me for a half hour without me realizing it. And no one can sit next to me when I paint, but his vibe wasn’t getting in my way, so I realized he was a very cool person. And the three of us stayed up all night listening to my music and they really liked it. They sort of forced me to put the music out. But they were really tripped out by the way my house looked, because it had paint everywhere. So they wanted to film it. And unlike most people who have ideas in the middle of an all night session, they actually came back three days later with a camera crew and they filmed it and edited it. And it turned out to be a cool little film.”

“We did two songs. One’s called ‘Bought Her Soul’ (renamed ‘Well, I’ve Been’), and it’s the second song on the album. I recorded the song and I said to River, ‘Make sounds with your voice and I’ll record you backwards over this song but you’re not allowed to hear the song.’ So he made sounds into the mic while I recorded and listened to it on the headphones. That’s the other voice in the background besides my voice. It went perfectly with the song. We were cosmic together”

- John Frusciante

August 20, 1989