Lane Jones Because it was one of his very first songs ever recorded, even before Chili peppers, I bet there was either a glitch or mistakes and he just faded out. But I do love the song for what it is. Leaves you wanting more. Much more.
Anthony Cuenca schizoid probably. there's deleted footage from funky monks where he talks about hearing ghosts cry in the hallways while staying at The Mansion. flea was like "sure buddy.." little did they know it's actually auditory delusions
I know it's a stupid thing to say, but I wish John would do more things like this and "Life's a Bath". Those two songs, to me, are his most aggressive, eerie, haunting, one-of-a-kind songs. I've never really heard anything like them.
i know exactly what you mean but, at least from my experience writing songs, some sounds and emotions can only be expressed when you're in that place spiritually and as the Buddhists says, you never step through the same stream twice
@@ianbrowning2190exactly...those songs are incredible and certainly some of my favorites from John but I'm afraid if there were many more like them then John might not even be around.
One time I was in the garage with some friends smoking weed. When this song came on I was transported into a red hot dimension of primeval anxious daze. For the whole duration of the song, while the buzzing guitars wailed away, I couldn't move, I was falling in slow motion deeper into my body and mind. 100 % of my mental processing was consumed by this song. As the song faded away I slowly descended back into my body and I could move again. Weird experience. 10/10 song.
Clearly it sounds like this song goes on much longer...wish John would release the long version. John should do a remake of this song...and make it much longer like 7+ minutes.
his voice was so good when he was around that age like late teens early 20s before the drugs etc. like how he sings here and on Knock Me Down and the '89 cover of Tiny Dancer at PinkPop. idk anyone else that sounds that way. kind of Bowie-like maybe
John Frusciante didn’t suffer though he had a happy childhood his mother was a vocalist and his father a Juliard pianist.look at all his childhood pictures he’s happy. He chose to do heroin and he launched himself willingly into madness to find the unknown like Jim Morrison says. Things known and things unknown and between are the doors. The stuff video is absolute madness and John retrieved the beauty of life and that goes back to the floating bag in American beauty that we are just dust in the wind. And if you suffer enough you will realize life is always worth living!!!!!
This song is so eerie and other-wordly! However I've come to the conclusion that it may actually deal with a very mundane episode in John's life, which was that one time when his father told him he had to get a job since he wouldn't be receiving any more money from him. Thus from that moment onwards John happened to be "out of sap"... luckily he didn't have to look for long, since AK and Flea hired him as the band's guitarist soon after that.
1:10 sounds like something Steve Vai would do. I suppose that this was recorded on Johns Ibanez. After all John could shred just as well as most during that time after studying Frank Zappa, Steve Vai and EVH so much.
I doubt John ever was as good of a shredder. His work in Mother's Milk is the closest it got. His talent is more geared toward songwriting than being a guitar god.
@@Walamonga1313 He can go off at times. He has mentioned that he's not much of a stadium guitar player but at some of the chilis live shows he just absolutely shreds imo, more so in the improv jams. You're definitely right about his songwriting tho. What a mind
I think this must have been recorded with the Kramer, since that was his only guitar when he joined RHCP and this song is pre-RHCP according to some. The sound of the bridge pickups (in which this is done) and Trem system is very similar for many superstrats of the likes, anyway. This could be whatever. Good point thou, the lick is super Vaiish.
I remember when I first got this in the 90s. I loved this song especially that crazy guitar solo. Most of the other songs were too much to tolerate. There's some other good ones though too. I had niandra lades before this one and there's more songs you can listen to from that one. I'm glad I always had that one on cassette . Ants is one of the better songs and for some reason it's left off the CD
1:10 sounds like something Steve Vai would do. I suppose that this was recorded on Johns Ibanez. After all John could shred just as well as most during that time after studying Frank Zappa, Steve Vai and EVH so much.
this album is a compilation of his works that he created at a bunch of different times. This particular song is his earliest recorded, released recording. He recorded it when he was 17. A lot of this album was recorded around the same time as niadra, as well. But the really gritty stuff was recorded later, clearly.
its not even poor production though, this is what annoys me. I think the production on this is better than that of the massively overcompressed shadows collide. it's textural and honest and yes its low fidelity but it doesn't make it "poor".
LOVE this track, its so awesome, but i have smile from the streets you hold CD and on mine there isnt the 1, 2, 3, at the beginnings? where is this version from?? and how come there are 2?
He did, but a lot of the songs were at least a few years old when they were released. For example, "Height Down" was originally gonna be on Niandra Lades, but it was pulled because River Phoenix (who plays on the song) had recently died and River's family didn't want it on the album.
He lost a lot of that stuff when a friend was cleaning out his house and he forgot to tell them to look in some cupboards. He lost even more when his house burnt down. I doubt he even still has copies of a lot of that stuff.
@ksbrownie1 I know, but most of the stuff on "Smiles" was actually recorded years before the album was released. For instance, the title track and the songs with River Phoenix on them were originally supposed to be on Niandra LaDes. I read on Invisible Movement.net that this song was supposedly written back in '87 when John was 17.
This is just my opinion, but around the time John wrote this he was very influenced by David Bowie. I think this song has a David Bowie feel to it. Definitely my favorite song of Johns though.
But his first album (niandra lades and usually just a t-shirt) and his second (smile from the streets you hold) were recorded in the age of 17 or 18. He also wasn´t on drugs at the recording time.
It was written by the guitarist of Red Hot Chili Peppers before he joined the band . They had hits in the 90s so I don’t understand ur math on this being a decade old. Maybe the video
![John Frusciante - A Fall Thru The Ground [Extended Version]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/WqJQhm9FwTU/mqdefault.jpg)
One of the most beautiful pieces of music ever committed to a recording medium.
i also agree
Too much drugs
this was made in 1988
@@JoshReid_ i think even before. I recall he said this is from being a teenager
@@detoxzet no
This song is so fucking amazing, wish it were longer.
+harald s - same here - so fucking amazing !
Shit yeah!
You can tell at the end there's more I so wish I could here the whole thing
Lane Jones Because it was one of his very first songs ever recorded, even before Chili peppers, I bet there was either a glitch or mistakes and he just faded out. But I do love the song for what it is. Leaves you wanting more. Much more.
There are 3 more songs like this
When the lead guitar hits it's like the secrets of the universe become apparent
..............
There's no lead guitar in this
0:54 is that not lead guitar?
@@psychedelicfright85 yes there is
@@LfunkeyA what's sad is that he forgot how to play in RHCP. Either that, or Rick Rubin made every line he played sound exactly the same.
I used to trip on this album a lot and it's unparalleled in its outworldlyness.
that sounds like a horrible idea. are you okay?
What a intensely emotional vibe that guitar wailing has its almost otherworldly
he wrote this when he was 18 years old.....what a fucking mind
+Anthony Cuenca Fucking unbelievable man...
Sure not his mind
Anthony Cuenca schizoid probably. there's deleted footage from funky monks where he talks about hearing ghosts cry in the hallways while staying at The Mansion. flea was like "sure buddy.." little did they know it's actually auditory delusions
@@itsoktobewhite4347 Its cocaine induced psychosis.John was shooting coke and heroin heavy.
@@BrooklynBalla Add weed to that mixture opens up all kinds of nightmares.
I know it's a stupid thing to say, but I wish John would do more things like this and "Life's a Bath". Those two songs, to me, are his most aggressive, eerie, haunting, one-of-a-kind songs. I've never really heard anything like them.
I think this was made when he was 18
i know exactly what you mean but, at least from my experience writing songs, some sounds and emotions can only be expressed when you're in that place spiritually and as the Buddhists says, you never step through the same stream twice
@@ianbrowning2190exactly...those songs are incredible and certainly some of my favorites from John but I'm afraid if there were many more like them then John might not even be around.
One time I was in the garage with some friends smoking weed. When this song came on I was transported into a red hot dimension of primeval anxious daze. For the whole duration of the song, while the buzzing guitars wailed away, I couldn't move, I was falling in slow motion deeper into my body and mind. 100 % of my mental processing was consumed by this song. As the song faded away I slowly descended back into my body and I could move again.
Weird experience.
10/10 song.
Was the car running?
you took acid bro
@All Outta Bubblegum how else where we supposed to use the stereo
That wasn't weed
This song really is something else....
Written when he was 17!
ShowsOn I thought it was recorded when he was seventeen
@@brandonjaimes8522 You are right, it was recorded in 87
Here from blessed!!
Same!
Hahaa me tooo!
@Joseph Paterno sean pablos intro
Cayson Gallette same
Strobeck is a g
A masterpiece in two minutes.
Blessed.
I've been rocking this for like 20 years it's bananas
This is, definitely, the meaning of "the beauty in pain".
It makes me feel inside of a David Lynch's film.
Alter because the life is a david lynch film
Re-Offender I think you're correct, bro. And that's kinda terrifying
...I almost died right in your lap toaday.
This is definitely the best John's song ever!!!!
One of his greatest songs . Otherworldly and brilliant
Such a shame this one was never finished.
I really love this song
Clearly it sounds like this song goes on much longer...wish John would release the long version. John should do a remake of this song...and make it much longer like 7+ minutes.
All the master tapes werelost when he got kicked out of a house in mid 90s. This is all you'll ever get
one of my "all time" favourite songs.
So haunting and beautiful at the same time
fucking love the guitar in this. Nothing but respect and many thanks to John for creating.
2 of the greatest albums ever is his first 2 records. They weren't well received by the masses which let's me know the masses are idiots.
this is absolutely amazing
Thanks for posting! The audio quality is great! Such a haunting song, and to think John was only a teenager when he recorded it....
his voice was so good when he was around that age like late teens early 20s before the drugs etc. like how he sings here and on Knock Me Down and the '89 cover of Tiny Dancer at PinkPop. idk anyone else that sounds that way. kind of Bowie-like maybe
fuck this is so good
"Fuck You To José" where can i listen to that? ;d
this song I like as well, besides ,,Life´s bath", ,,Enter a Uh" and ,,I'm Always"
Weird but so beautiful at the same time.
That bassss is so great
John Anthony Frusciante, you saved my life.
Tortured art is the deepest form of art.......he is dying to reveal absolute beauty!!!!!!!
John Frusciante didn’t suffer though he had a happy childhood his mother was a vocalist and his father a Juliard pianist.look at all his childhood pictures he’s happy. He chose to do heroin and he launched himself willingly into madness to find the unknown like Jim Morrison says. Things known and things unknown and between are the doors. The stuff video is absolute madness and John retrieved the beauty of life and that goes back to the floating bag in American beauty that we are just dust in the wind. And if you suffer enough you will realize life is always worth living!!!!!
this was made in 1988 i think before the heroin
@@croman5931 yes bro...
John at 17 year old recorded this track
This song is so eerie and other-wordly! However I've come to the conclusion that it may actually deal with a very mundane episode in John's life, which was that one time when his father told him he had to get a job since he wouldn't be receiving any more money from him. Thus from that moment onwards John happened to be "out of sap"... luckily he didn't have to look for long, since AK and Flea hired him as the band's guitarist soon after that.
how frustrating is not to be able to listen to the whole of it
I did an extended version, check it out if you want ua-cam.com/video/WqJQhm9FwTU/v-deo.html
God I love John frusciante
incredible song, incredible story behind the whole album
its just awesome river was involved in making this album
Esta cancion me genera tristeza, nostalgia, no se porque. Pero igual me encanta.
1:10 sounds like something Steve Vai would do. I suppose that this was recorded on Johns Ibanez. After all John could shred just as well as most during that time after studying Frank Zappa, Steve Vai and EVH so much.
I doubt John ever was as good of a shredder. His work in Mother's Milk is the closest it got. His talent is more geared toward songwriting than being a guitar god.
Walamonga 1313 Watch the 2 minute mark here: ua-cam.com/video/bPsoZco5XXE/v-deo.html
@@Walamonga1313 He can go off at times. He has mentioned that he's not much of a stadium guitar player but at some of the chilis live shows he just absolutely shreds imo, more so in the improv jams. You're definitely right about his songwriting tho. What a mind
I think this must have been recorded with the Kramer, since that was his only guitar when he joined RHCP and this song is pre-RHCP according to some. The sound of the bridge pickups (in which this is done) and Trem system is very similar for many superstrats of the likes, anyway. This could be whatever.
Good point thou, the lick is super Vaiish.
@@gorkaelorriaga5748 I've heard this is from the age of 17
we love u john thank you so much
I remember when I first got this in the 90s. I loved this song especially that crazy guitar solo. Most of the other songs were too much to tolerate. There's some other good ones though too. I had niandra lades before this one and there's more songs you can listen to from that one. I'm glad I always had that one on cassette . Ants is one of the better songs and for some reason it's left off the CD
1:10 sounds like something Steve Vai would do. I suppose that this was recorded on Johns Ibanez. After all John could shred just as well as most during that time after studying Frank Zappa, Steve Vai and EVH so much.
Niandra is one of the greatest albums ever!
Tortured piece of history in that man's life. Such visceral music. Love it
i ought to thank so much the repeat button
Perfect
A diamond gem...
Crazy how this song was recorded in 1988
@TehSorso i listened to the whole album laying on a beach stoned. its beautiful on a normal day but that... well it was amazing
Psychadelic experience at it's finest.
Sean Pablo!!!!! Sick Part, Sick video, s/o to Wiliam Strobeck and whole Supreme crew. This track is trully amazing 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for posting it's really powerfull stuff.
Masterpiece
just great! jf = genius!
the short solo is epic
O mestre.
Ian Sousa exato
To me, this is his best.
Wrote this when he was 3!
wrote this when he was a fetus!
Sean Pablo
He made this at 17 years old...
This is just a fucking Masterpiece! 👌
this album is a compilation of his works that he created at a bunch of different times. This particular song is his earliest recorded, released recording. He recorded it when he was 17. A lot of this album was recorded around the same time as niadra, as well. But the really gritty stuff was recorded later, clearly.
its not even poor production though, this is what annoys me. I think the production on this is better than that of the massively overcompressed shadows collide. it's textural and honest and yes its low fidelity but it doesn't make it "poor".
This version sounds more cleaner than the other version I have. That one the sound quality is slightly is lower and you can barley hear john's voice.
The slide guitar really reminds me of Jeff Beck playing a song called nadia, so cool!
LOVE this track, its so awesome, but i have smile from the streets you hold CD and on mine there isnt the 1, 2, 3, at the beginnings? where is this version from?? and how come there are 2?
He did, but a lot of the songs were at least a few years old when they were released. For example, "Height Down" was originally gonna be on Niandra Lades, but it was pulled because River Phoenix (who plays on the song) had recently died and River's family didn't want it on the album.
How was this produced? Just in his in bedroom with a 4 track or something? He was only 17 after all.
Minemilx yes exactly.
Written when he as 17 but recorded in 1996 when he was 26
@@avaron100 no, he recorded it when he was 17 and released it in 96...
@@minemilx2702 Yeah, my bad, it was the earliest track to be recorded, in 1988
The absolute best song to realise what life really is.
Those who know know what i'm talking about
0:53 !!!!!! & 1:10 - 1:13 !!!!!!!!!!
He lost a lot of that stuff when a friend was cleaning out his house and he forgot to tell them to look in some cupboards. He lost even more when his house burnt down. I doubt he even still has copies of a lot of that stuff.
my inmost feels like this... the whole life > fall - arise - fall - arise - fall - arise ----- fall
imagine a remake of this song with all the musical knowledge he got till now
U dont get it
@@defoperator7993 thats what makes this song ethereal
@ksbrownie1 I know, but most of the stuff on "Smiles" was actually recorded years before the album was released. For instance, the title track and the songs with River Phoenix on them were originally supposed to be on Niandra LaDes. I read on Invisible Movement.net that this song was supposedly written back in '87 when John was 17.
thanks :)
The intro is from Cream- white room
🔥
This is awesome. Did you edit the mix at all? The vocals are more notable in this one IMO.
yep
JOHN AND RIVER
niandra lades was recorded in 1991 and 1992 during bssm tour.
smile was recorded in his teenage years and 1994 to 1997. dont make up facts
This is just my opinion, but around the time John wrote this he was very influenced by David Bowie. I think this song has a David Bowie feel to it. Definitely my favorite song of Johns though.
omg
Did anybody else hear that he's planning to re-release this album? If he does, I hope he releases the 18 track version.
ahhh this song is so perfect
actually John recorded this song when he was 17
But his first album (niandra lades and usually just a t-shirt) and his second (smile from the streets you hold) were recorded in the age of 17 or 18. He also wasn´t on drugs at the recording time.
@AstronautfarmerRonau no, this was recorded when he was 17.
@k0stil thats right. very sad. robert hayes played in a band called "the jody grind", i believe he played on there first 2 records.
john said it in a interview
!!
straight talk yep
Probably in another dimension.
damn this song is a whole decade old
Yup
It was written by the guitarist of Red Hot Chili Peppers before he joined the band . They had hits in the 90s so I don’t understand ur math on this being a decade old. Maybe the video
@@420boyyy4 when John released this album, this song was ten years old.
wish the cd the uploader used wasn't skipping like crazy
@Meeper27 Actually John was between 18 and 26 by then.
@DreaminMyLifeAway REALLY?! I've misinterpreted the whole song all these years ´! :D thanks
My favorite off sftsyh
But this album came out in 1997... His first album with RHCP came out in 1989