RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS: SCAR TISSUE Single Album (1999)

RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS: SCAR TISSUE Single Album cover

Scar Tissue is the first single from the Red Hot Chili Peppers‘ seventh studio album, Californication, released on May 25, 1999. The song spent a then-record 16 consecutive weeks atop the US Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart as well as 10 weeks atop the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, and it reached number nine on the Billboard Hot 100.

It was also successful in Iceland, New Zealand, and Canada, reaching numbers one, three, and four, respectively. In the United Kingdom, it charted at number 15 on the UK Singles Chart.

Scar Tissue is considered to be representative of the new, more melodic rock sound the band experimented with on Californication (in contrast with the psychedelic One Hot Minute, and dry funk of Blood Sugar Sex Magik).

The song is notable for its mellow intro guitar riff and for its slide guitar solos throughout. Guitar World placed the guitar solo 63rd in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Solos. Scar Tissue won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Song in 2000.

RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS: SCAR TISSUE Single Album CD

Tracklist:

  1. Scar Tissue (album)
  2. Gong Li (previously unreleased)

RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS: SCAR TISSUE Lyrics
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS: SCAR TISSUE Single Album back cover

The music video for Scar Tissue was directed by Stéphane Sednaoui, who also directed the video for Give It Away. The opening shot is of John Frusciante driving down a strip of desert highway, a metaphor for Frusciante‘s return to the band (he does not drive in real life). But the four of them are battered, beaten and bandaged. They are traveling in a rusty wreck and playing broken instruments on the comeback trail. The video ends after an emotional thirty second Frusciante guitar solo at the moment of sunset, with John tossing the broken, stringless guitar from the car. The car Frusciante pretended to drive for the video was a 1967 Pontiac Catalina convertible. A very similar concept was considered, then scrapped, for the earlier Soul to Squeeze video. Prior to the video shoot, Kiedis had his hair cut and bleached his brown hair to platinum blond, a look he kept throughout the promotion and tour for Californication. It was filmed in California’s Mojave Desert.

Red Hot Chili Peppers

RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS: SCAR TISSUE Single Album promo poster

Red Hot Chili Peppers
Anthony Kiedis: lead vocals
John Frusciante: slide and rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Flea: bass, backing vocals
Chad Smith: drums, shaker

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