Real Name: John Anthony Frusciante (Froo-shon-tay)
Date of Birth: March 5, 1970
Birthplace: New York, NY USA

The Red Hot Chili Peppers was the first & only recording studio band John ever joined. John has played live shows with band members of Fishbone, Thelonious Monster etc. Flea (RHCP), Steven Perkins (Jane's Addiction/Porno for Pyros) and John formed a side project called the Three Amoebas. Even after consulting several different record labels, they have yet to release an official recording.

During the Christmas season of 88', the Peppers debuted Frusciante as their new guitarist one the lamely named MTV festival "2hip4U" replacing the brief Duane "Blackbird" McKnight.

 On May 7,1992, right in the middle of the "bloodsugarsexmagik" tour in Japan, John announced to his bandmates that he was going to leave the band. "I can no longer stay in the band any longer.I've reached a state where I cannot do justice to what we've created. I can't give what it takes to be in this band anymore."

Rejoined the Band (after Dave Navarro left) in May of 1998.

Played his first show with the Peppers since his 1992 departure, in Washington D.C. at the 9:30 Club which was a warm up for their Tibetan Freedom Concert gig the next.