Thankfully, after 4 years of heroin, crack-cocaine addiction, Frusciante entered rehab, replaced the remaining rotting teeth with dentures and had skin grafts to help correct the scarring left by abscesses. After the interview is published, Frusciante is kicked out of the Chateau. “I don’t care whether I live or die” he says matter-of-factly. The chilling confession is made in a slow slurred drawl that reveals the drug-imbibed Frusciante to be crippling all his faculties. The tips of Frusicante’s bony hand now brandished blackened scabs where the nails used to be as it lightly trembled about the neck of one his guitars as he talked about his apathy towards life, a life no longer bearable when sober. Dappled blood stained the flannel shirt and khaki pants that hung loosely about the guitarist’s bruised cadaverous frame.
Thick white spittle had formed in the corners of a mouth that now contained few teeth. His ashen skin was even the more horrifying given that it seemed to barely be concealing the jutting bones of his skeleton. Published in November 1996, the guitarist was revealed to be sporting a look that could best be described as malnourished. But even speculation fell short of the reality when the New Times LA dropped by to conduct an interview with the guitarist, pulling back the veil of privacy to reveal the true state of the fading Frusciante. Frusciante spent the next 4 years on his couch descending into a drug hell, culminating in his reclusive stay at the Chateau and the percolating Hollywood rumours about his state of health.
John Frusciante had quit the Chili Peppers after a show in Tokyo in 1992 under the duress of voices in his head telling him he wouldn’t last the tour, no doubt brought on by the pressures of being in a successful touring rock band and years of consuming mood-enhancing substances. It was also to silently while away his days in a drug-induced haze behind the Chateau’s veil of privacy. Led Zeppelin supposedly drove their Harley Davidsons into the hotel lobby Jim Morrison dangled precariously from his hotel window Howard Hughes often stayed in Room 64, the two bed penthouse, so he could spy on starlets down at the pool James Dean hopped through a window to audition for Rebel Without a Cause original Blues Brother John Belushi overdosed in bungalow 3 Ville Valo, vocalist for Finnish rockers HIM, recorded his vocals for the track Song or Suicide here Lily Allen wrote the song Fuck You whilst at the hotel and Anthony Kiedis, of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, recorded his vocals for By the Way in his room.Īdding to the hotel’s notoriety for being a haven for reckless imperial abandon, another Chili Pepper checked into the legendary Chateau in 1996 only this time it was to take up residence after he was kicked out of his home in the Hollywood Hills for non-payment of rent. If you think you haven’t, then maybe this list (by no means comprehensive) will jog your memory: Consequently, the tales from the Chateau have become so legendary that anyone with even just a passing interest in rock ‘n’ roll, or any facet of the entertainment industry, for that matter, will have heard a Hollywood tale related to the Chateau Marmont. Actors, musicians, writers, and the affluent elite – all have been known to hole themselves up in this legendary paparazzi-free zone in order to revel in romantic rebellion. Rising above the Sunset Strip like some Leviathan of Gothic glamour, the infamous Chateau Marmont is part of the quintessential Hollywood experience.
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