#bob forrest

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Bob Forrest, "Lonely are the brave", dir. David Miller, 1962.

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The story behind John's rehabilitation - How Bob Forrest helped and saved his life.

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The day when John Frusciante tried to save Layne Staley from his drugs addiction.

The Alternative Nation rescued a story from Bob Forrest's book "Running with Monsters: A Memoir", lead singer of Thelonious Monster and The Bicycle Thief. The singer reported in the work that he and guitarist John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers tried to help rescue the sobriety of Alice In Chains frontman Layne Staley, who suffered from depression and died of an overdose of heroin and cocaine on April 5, 2002, at the age of 34.

The situation reported in the book dates back to mid-1999 or 2000, a few years before Layne Staley died. Bob Forrest was even the one who helped in 1998 to resume Frusciante's sobriety — who was reluctant to visit Staley, since he did not consider himself an example in the subject, but ended up participating after Forrest's insistence.

Initially, Bob called Layne's mother, Nancy, and said he would try to help, although he recognized that the visit might not be of any effectiveness.

She replied:

“Layne has a strange sense of humor. I told him that John suffered a gangrene and he said: 'In the arm? Mom, that's terrible. John is a guitarist, he needs his hands and arms. As for me, I'm just a singer, I can do without them.' I know he was kidding, but I don't like to hear that. Can you try talking to him?”

Willing to help, Forrest and Frusciante went to Staley's house in Seattle.

At the time, Bob Forrest and John Frusciante played video games together with Layne Staley. The singer said he was "all right" with him, "pretended" to listen to the advice and said "know why" the two were there.

In the book, it is reported that Alice in Chains' vocalist was “ with his mind still functioning, but a million kilometers away from reality. ”

Forrest remembers telling Frusciante, as soon as the two left: “I don't think he'll get out of this.” The guitarist's answer was: “it's his life, man.”

Layne Staley died in 2002 and Bob Forrest was disappointed. He stated that he thought it was possible to save someone from addiction with love, but that he could not rescue Staley, even though he loved him.

credits to: igor miranda/Alternative Nation.

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By 1999, high schools have become overwhelmed by teenage gangs to the point that the police are even afraid to go there. In an attempt to gain some sort of sanity, an experiment takes place at a Seattle school where three military androids are reprogrammed as teachers. Things take a deadly turn as the androids revert to their military training.

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I MET YOU ON LJ: A Fandom & Nonsense Podcast

Episode #002: Origin Stories

It’s a ten-year retrospective! Follow Maggie and V’s introductions to fandom, from their childhoods through 2008 or so, and you’ll see why it’s a miracle that they’re friends at all. After falling hard for River Phoenix, Maggie does a deep-dive on guitarist John Frusciante and the Red Hot Chili Peppers; V takes us on a rollercoaster journey with the members of bubblegum boy band Dream Street.

This Episode Covers…

harry potter • american girl • smallville • river phoenix • stand by me (1986) • dream street • chris trousdale • greg raposo • jesse mccartney • frankie j. galasso • matt ballinger • red hot chili peppers • john frusciante • flea • anthony kiedis • fandom •  fanfiction • rpf • josh klinghoffer • bob forrest • the bicycle thief • warpaint • katie cassidy • real-person fiction • bandslash • boy bands • bubblegum pop • alt rock • the 1990s • the 2000s • blood sugar sex magik • emily kokal

LISTEN ON… Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, LibSyn, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favorite RSS podcatcher!

Show Notes & Resources behind the cut.

River Phoenix and Wil Wheaton in Stand By Me (1986) 

John Frusciante and Anthony Kiedis (in the hat) in 1991 

John Frusciante looking like very much like Jesus, photographed by Nabil Elderkin in 2009

John Frusciante performs “The Will To Death” at the All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival in 2005. 

If you liked this, I highly recommend listening to the full performance. It’s a great primer for his back catalogue before electronic music fully took over.

Dream Street - “It Happens Every Time”

This is the TV cut of the “It Happens Every Time” video. For the full director’s cut, click here.

Dream Street’s Valentine’s Day mega-feature in Popstar! Magazine, Feb/March 2002

V has four copies of this magazine: one to put the A4s in her locker at school, one to put the pull-out posters up in her bedroom, one to read, and one that’s still in mint condition.

Our very own V with Greg Raposo in 2008

V: “This was after one of the approximately seven quadrillion shows I went to between 2008-2009. Greg said “we’ve taken too many smiling photos, let’s make serious faces for this one,” and this is how it turned out. The matching shirts were an accident. This was one of my favorite shows of all time even though the audience was tiny and it was in a bar that really didn’t have a good area for an audience – it was so energetic and so much fun anyway!”

Greg Raposo/RAPOSO - “Nothing” (Ready To Go, 2008)

V: “The photoshoot for this era of Greg’s band (called RAPOSO, and then STEREOPATH, and then Greg Raposo Band, and then RAPOSO again) was done by one of my best friends out in New York in 2008, while the band and us groupie squad were at a show for the Fresher’s Week at the university of one of our other best friends/gals in the groupie squad. The four of us really poured our entire hearts, souls, and every ounce of energy into Greg and his band for those two years! I designed the group’s 2008-2009 logo and MySpace page, for which this photoshoot served as the header. This song was never considered one of the band’s leads or singles, but it’s among my very favorites.”

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An anecdote from Bob Forrest about Josh via Rolling Stone magazine 090111