Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt is Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante's debut solo album, released in 1994 on American Recordings. John says he released this album when his friends actor Johnny Depp and a Butthole Surfers member encouraged him to release his solo music saying that there was "no good music around anymore". This album consists of only John's singing, his guitar playing, and some strange effects all recorded on a 4-track recorder. All of the songs on this album were recorded before John left the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1992 (during touring of the Blood Sugar Sex Magik tour). "Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt" remains a very rare and hard-to-find album, since in 1998 John had it removed from all record store shelves and stopped publication of it along with his second solo album "Smile From The Streets You Hold"(1997-Birdman Records) because he felt uncomfortable with them being available to the public. In 2001 John released his 3rd solo album entitled "To Record Only Water for Ten Days" under Warner Brothers music. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.