Just more than three weeks after former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Jack Sherman died at the age of 64, Flea has opened up about what he describes as his “fraught” relationship with his former bandmate.
In a message posted Thursday on Instagram, the bassist writes, “It has taken me a couple of weeks to process the death of Jack Sherman. Our relationship was complicated; we stopped playing music together in 1985 and things were often fraught in the rare times we communicated since. I found him to be unreasonable sometimes, and I’m sure I behaved like an obnoxious a**hole with him sometimes. This morning, in pondering him, a wave of appreciation washed over me, which is really the only truth of the matter.”
Sherman, who became the band’s second guitarist when he replaced Hillel Slovak in 1983, passed away on August 18th. His cause of death has not been revealed.
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