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Before reuniting with the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1998, John Frusciante lost his teeth to drug addiction. The following decade would see him crawl back to a creative peak and release an astonishing body of work of which his ‘day job’ as a funkateer alongside Anthony Kiedis and co is only one facet.

Despite the huge variety of sounds and instruments he uses, it’s those Bold As Love-style embellished rhythm parts played on a Strat neck pickup that have become his signature.

Here he’s pictured rocking his original ’57 sunburst Strat. He also owns 1962 sunburst and fiesta red models.

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