I'm so close to finishing Scar Tissue, about 75 pages left. I recently decided to start looking up some of RHCP's older stuff from the 80's and early 90's, and it's very different. Stuff from Freaky Styley and the Uplift Mofo one is pretty hardcore funk. I never knew they were friends with Geroge Clinton, who is awesome. I guess they hung out all the time and he helped them write some good music. My brother just saw Clinton in Atlanta a few weeks ago, and he said that the guy still has it. Although at this point he probably doesn't have to do much to entertain, just him being there should be enough.