Red Hot Chili Peppers’ John Frusciante singing the Bee Gees’ “How Deep is Your Love.”

John’s acoustic cover of the the 1977 disco ballad was filmed during the Stadium Arcadium tour in 2006. John often performed the song during the tour. I’m posting this because I only heard it yesterday but fell in love with it immediately. I wanted to share.

Besides, John is an amazing performer and is such a success story. He’s been clean since 1998, but once had a terrible heroin addiction that nearly killed him. [Watch Frusciante high out of his mind in 1994] In the height of his addiction he had abscesses all over his arms from shooting smack and cocaine and nearly died of a blood infection resulting from the wounds.

John was friends with Johnny Depp and Butthole Surfers’ Gibby Haynes who actually went to his home in 1994 and filmed a short documentary called ‘Stuff’. It was a look into Frusciante’s home, the home of a heroin addict and extreme recluse. It was littered with garbage and junk and the walls covered in scratchings and drawings. [Watch the short documentary here.] The house later burned down in a fire. John narrowly escaped and suffered severe burns. The film has an eerie soundtrack, music from Frusciante’s solo album, Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt. He was strung out on heroin when he recorded it.

For the past 11 years John has been clean and is now thought to be one of the best guitarists of all time. In fact, Roling Stone named him as #18 of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” in 2003.