He later fronted the Band Peligro, which along with Fishbone and Bad Brains, became one of the few black performers in the punk rock movement. Peligro was the drummer for Dead Kennedys and briefly the drummer for Red Hot Chili Peppers. Check it out, if you're a punk rock aficionado, a drug addict memoir buff, or just a reader of biographies – this book has it.ĭ.

But in the end it's Peligro's pure determination to live through it all that is the selling point. And just so you know, the book isn't all the worst moments of his life – there's also a lot of musical history to take in, as well as a bit of dirt on some famous musicians. Peligro goes for the gold and he does it in such a matter of fact down to earth way that after a few sentences you're hooked and right there with him on his down hill road to hell. Imagine getting kicked out of The Red Hot Chili Peppers for being too loaded? How about bits of your body falling off due to an abscess you've just let fester? Or getting busted selling to an undercover narc? Most folks would shy away from letting the world know all this sordid subject matter. Peligro did in his memoir Dreadnaught: King of Afropunk.

That is unless you write a book that details every fucked up scary-ass moment of your entire life.

If you've got the money or at least the fame you can hide away in rehab and no one will ever know. Although when we think of junkies we do tend to conjure up the homeless drug addict's image a lot quicker than a popular musician's. It doesn't matter if you're a rock star or a homeless dope fiend. The insanity of addiction fucks with all of us.

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