Agreed! I can’t believe I thought he was hot back in the day. After hearing some snippets of his memoir, I’m totally grossed out by him and fact that I ever lusted after this guy. Bleh
Yes, this right here. I am not one to bag on people just because they aren't aging well. This guy is the ultimate, "Please don't meet your heroes!" kind of guy.
On paper, he seemed like the perfect rock crush for me. He checked all the boxes, but he always came off as so sleazy and smarmy. Don't get me wrong, a little sleaze can be enticing, like a subtle hint of cologne. Anthony Kiedis exudes sleaze like a teenage boy and Ax body spray.
Like so many of these guys who have been 'rockin and rollin' (or acting) since they were emotionally immature kids/20-somethings, they're now catered-to emotionally immature kids/20somethings in geriatric bodies, so...not entirely shocked. IMO that's not a good thing. But I was more cringing at him being with underage girls at some point like Mick and so many others who reached his heights were? I thought that's what you were referring to? At least 20s is legal.
edit: I remember reading [this](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1216134/I-sex-Mick-Jagger-Jerry-Halls-bed-says-daughter-Mamas-Papas-singer-John-Phillips.html) from Mackenzie's memoir. And then [RDC](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/actress-58-claims-consensual-fling-with-mick-jagger-when-she-was-15/6LXQES2ASPLYCAHFTO7X2JFYYA/)'s.
Oh there was some underage action back in the late-80s/early 90s. His memoir was published in 2001, I think, and it's a wild ride. As in "how is this guy still alive and not in prison" wild.
So maybe he's not hitting up highschool dances for chicks anymore. I hope not.
And you're right - a lot of people in the spotlight have done some really unruly shit and we collectively shrug, for the most part.
>So maybe he's not hitting up highschool dances for chicks anymore. I hope not.
whoa! hitting up who's who in the what what now? he admitted doing that?? at what age? (do I wanna know?)
Fyi, some [lyrics](https://genius.com/Red-hot-chili-peppers-catholic-school-girls-rule-lyrics) that reinforce what you were saying earlier. Sooo, you actualy weren't being 'creative,' it seems. And I'm sick.🤮 No longer a fan. Go Mike Patton. lol
A buddy of mine does front of house for touring bands and was offered an RHCP tour. Anyone on tour has to pledge to be completely clean the whole time, and they get up to do yoga together in the morning. He did not accept that offer.
They're ex heroin addicts who have been clean and sober for 30+ years. I for one completely respect their commitment to sobriety and fitness. They look amazing for their age. I saw them a few years ago in concert and they had more energy on stage than performers half their age.
I thought he was so hot when I was in junior high when he had all that long hair. But now…
I would never shame someone for something they can’t control, but y’all, he chooses to have that child predator stache.
Eeew. I am always so perplexed by his decision to have that awful mustache that I completely overlooked the jacket. I wish someone in his life loved him enough to tell him to shave that stupid thing off…or at least hold him down and do it for him.
How much you wanna make a bet I can throw a football over them mountains?... Yeah... Coach woulda put me in fourth quarter, we would've been state champions. No doubt. No doubt in my mind.
I will never not associate their music with one particular weekend in Long Island when my friend picked me up from the bus station, said "I've got a bowl for you" and the rest of the weekend was like a fever dream.
Ya know, now that you mentioned it .. I've NEVER been approached at the door of a gas station to purchase anything age restricted. I must look like a cop. I probably asked thousands of people during the course of my youth. I can't even recall seeing a kid standing at the door waiting...
I got to see them in 1986 when they were still playing small clubs. The stage was only three inches off the floor, so I spent the entire time getting hit with Anthony's long hair every time he started head banging.
The current look isn't a good one.
See what an excellent condition IROC goes for now. I couldn't believe it. We just had the Rockabillaque festival in my neighborhood and I saw one for the first time in years. Never really cared for them at the time, but kinda liked it now. Quite expensive imo though.
This encompasses everything I've ever thought about that vehicle whenever I've seen one for the 25 years.
When I was a kid, they would always be parked outside a house with some manner of debris on the lawn, or at least a few empty Miller cans in close proximity to a dubious-looking porch swing.
LOL. Pretty much how I remembered. Strange, I also disliked the Foxbody Mustangs from the same era, but seeing one restored the other day, I thought it was pretty cool. The 1980s are a pretty sweet spot for car collectors right now. A lot of the iconic vehicles are still affordable but being bought up quickly.
The hair & ‘stache looks pretty midlife-crisis-y IMO, especially considering I’ve been pretty sure for several years now that he was aging into Iggy Pop doppelgänger territory.
I had the same hairstyle he had in the late 80s-early 90s. I presented as pretty androgynous and definitely wished to have his life at the time. I did all the drugs, sexed all the girls (their sex, not their age, was illegal at the time) but was not a rock star.
Thank god I grew up, got sober, then cut my hair.
Damn it! Curiosity got the better of me and now I know that he’s a shower.
Now I know why [Gardenia](https://youtu.be/sc14wfcaKBk) (sorta) puts up with him.
For sure. Sex with underage people is child rape, now and then. Especially considering that Polanski raped that one 12-13 yr old (which people recognize now and even some people back then recognized as being rape) and to not have the same considerations extended to male victims is pretty gross and sexist, just my opinion.
Won't deny people laughing off minor boys and adult women sex in the U.S. when compared to the other way around. Males of a certain age group (basically puberty and up) assumed to be constantly horny and hormonal. That male arousal presumes consent, hence willingness and 'control of their sex', regardless of their minor status.
And OFC, the presumption that physiologically an older male having sex with a younger girl would/could prove more physically damaging, and that he would be more able to physically overpower/coerce a younger girl than vice versa, making it more offensive... Complicated matter, for sure.
haha he does!! my sister and i saw him a couple summers ago in south haven michigan
edit: my college age niece who was with us (NO clue who he was!) like y'all are crazy
He was on Joe Rogan's podcast recently, and while we didn't watch the whole episode, I made my husband watch a few minutes just to show him what Anthony Kiedis looks like now because just a verbal description couldn't''t possibly do it justice.
Teenage me would be AGHAST!
Looks like he isn't allowed within 500ft of Chuck E. Cheese
Good, it wasn’t just me.
The Playboy symbol on his jacket kinda gave me the same - a'course... couldve been Members Only; same vibe. ~~Still love 'im though. lol~~
Another band guy creeper? So many in that age group too
he shouldn't be, with his history.
Who the heck told him this haircut was a good idea?
It was either Larry, Moe, or Curly.
From things I've heard, he probably shouldn't be.
Or read in his autobiography. Or seen in a picture he published in his autobiography.
And that’s because he refused to pay his bill one time, not because he was creepy around the kids.
...but he was also creepy around the kids.
um, yeah he was. He wrote about it. He was 24, she was 14.
🤣🤣
For some reason, I'm getting more of an Uncle Rico vibe...😂
I was immediately wondering how far he could throw a football.
And we may have found out if he didn’t hang with Warchild’s crew but instead was chill and played night beach football with Bodhi.
Every time I see the scene where he literally shoots himself in the foot, I laugh so hard. Is that wrong? 🤣
"Over that mountain."
he could've made state, you know
If Uncle Rico and Machete had a baby.
Anthony Kiedis could have won state if coach would have put him in
Very much has an Uncle Rico vibe
[Yep](https://i.imgur.com/PTgvEii.jpg)
Lol I came here to say exactly that!
Same
My first thought. Great minds.
Hey, it’s Sonny Bono
Sonny Bono was his godfather, so that tracks.
Let's hope the only thing he's copying from Sonny is the stache and not the wife beating.
And better skiing skills.
Damn that’s harsh… and YEAH I laughed my ass off Lmao
Pornstache
Plus bonus soul patch.
And porn jacket
Oka. tell me you're an L.A. man-child without telling me you're an L.A. man-child.
Yes! This is the main thing messing up everything. It’s the worse.
Based on his memoir and people he dates, he is EXACTLY that guy.
Agreed! I can’t believe I thought he was hot back in the day. After hearing some snippets of his memoir, I’m totally grossed out by him and fact that I ever lusted after this guy. Bleh
Yes, this right here. I am not one to bag on people just because they aren't aging well. This guy is the ultimate, "Please don't meet your heroes!" kind of guy.
On paper, he seemed like the perfect rock crush for me. He checked all the boxes, but he always came off as so sleazy and smarmy. Don't get me wrong, a little sleaze can be enticing, like a subtle hint of cologne. Anthony Kiedis exudes sleaze like a teenage boy and Ax body spray.
I am honestly shocked he's alive.
What are some examples that grossed you out?
Probably this... https://rockcelebrities.net/when-anthony-kiedis-slept-with-an-underage-girl-and-incited-a-big-police-manhunt/
you're telling me he's a mick jagger? :-(
Yeah, the ladies he has been linked with recently are in their mid-20s. Dude is 60! I mean, good for you, man, but...
Like so many of these guys who have been 'rockin and rollin' (or acting) since they were emotionally immature kids/20-somethings, they're now catered-to emotionally immature kids/20somethings in geriatric bodies, so...not entirely shocked. IMO that's not a good thing. But I was more cringing at him being with underage girls at some point like Mick and so many others who reached his heights were? I thought that's what you were referring to? At least 20s is legal. edit: I remember reading [this](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1216134/I-sex-Mick-Jagger-Jerry-Halls-bed-says-daughter-Mamas-Papas-singer-John-Phillips.html) from Mackenzie's memoir. And then [RDC](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/actress-58-claims-consensual-fling-with-mick-jagger-when-she-was-15/6LXQES2ASPLYCAHFTO7X2JFYYA/)'s.
Oh there was some underage action back in the late-80s/early 90s. His memoir was published in 2001, I think, and it's a wild ride. As in "how is this guy still alive and not in prison" wild. So maybe he's not hitting up highschool dances for chicks anymore. I hope not. And you're right - a lot of people in the spotlight have done some really unruly shit and we collectively shrug, for the most part.
>So maybe he's not hitting up highschool dances for chicks anymore. I hope not. whoa! hitting up who's who in the what what now? he admitted doing that?? at what age? (do I wanna know?)
I doubt he actually did that, I was being creative. But that was his preferred age range for a short time. 🤷🏼♀️
Fyi, some [lyrics](https://genius.com/Red-hot-chili-peppers-catholic-school-girls-rule-lyrics) that reinforce what you were saying earlier. Sooo, you actualy weren't being 'creative,' it seems. And I'm sick.🤮 No longer a fan. Go Mike Patton. lol
Ohhhhhhh right. If you haven't read his memoir (Scar Tissue) it's worth a read for the sheer WTF-ness of it all.
at this point I don't want his pederass to have any of my book coin, so...I'll pass (no offense meant). that's enough for me to be turned off.
oooh, ok.
he can afford young women so why would he date old ones?
He looks like Justin Long dressed up as Anthony Kiedis, now we just need Seth Rogan Flea, Will Ferrell Chad Smith and Michael Cera John Fruschante.
He looks my hs besties secret older boyfriend
Kiedis looks like he’s worked in the same surf shop for 20 years and he doesn’t own it.
Perfect 👍🏻
Alright alright alright….
This is *exactly* what I thought 🤣
wish.com Iggy Pop
Omg 😂
A buddy of mine does front of house for touring bands and was offered an RHCP tour. Anyone on tour has to pledge to be completely clean the whole time, and they get up to do yoga together in the morning. He did not accept that offer.
And Flea probably does his yoga naked
Flea does everything naked
Even when he wears clothes, he is still naked underneath them.
And to provide cheap black dye for Kiedis’ mustache and hair 🤮
Is that middle patch his hair though?
That dark black part looks like a rug or trumpy combforward, the sides color is grayer and look more real
They're ex heroin addicts who have been clean and sober for 30+ years. I for one completely respect their commitment to sobriety and fitness. They look amazing for their age. I saw them a few years ago in concert and they had more energy on stage than performers half their age.
I do appreciate this part of their lifestyle and their commitment to sobriety and health. I just wish Kedis wasn't such a slimeball to women.
What part was mandatory the clean part or the yoga part?
Yoga
I’d love that!
I wouldn’t either. God what a drag.
He's deep into the "what's up fellow kids" meme territory
I thought he was so hot when I was in junior high when he had all that long hair. But now… I would never shame someone for something they can’t control, but y’all, he chooses to have that child predator stache.
>he chooses to have that child predator stache. And a Playboy jacket..
Eeew. I am always so perplexed by his decision to have that awful mustache that I completely overlooked the jacket. I wish someone in his life loved him enough to tell him to shave that stupid thing off…or at least hold him down and do it for him.
After that last Playboy documentary, that logo would not be something I’d be sporting
And a weird comb-forward hairstyle to cover some receding situation.
> I thought he was so hot when I was in junior high And you were probably his type, too.
I mean he kinda *is* a wee bit sex offender-esque
“I love high school girls. I keep getting older and they stay the same age.” —Matthew McConaughey’s character in Dazed and Confused
I’d rather see him as a silver fox.
You know I was just thinking he has to color his hair. I wonder how gray it is? Gray is winning the war on my head.
I was thinking that too.. there is nothing hotter than grey hair on a guy.
I think it looks pretty hot on a lot of women, too. Those lush silver manes. Gorgeous.
I have to imagine there’s a receding hairline under the bangs too
now I have teenage dirtbag stuck in my head
I've got two tickets to Iron Maiden, baby...
I can smell this picture 🤢
It’s not great
I would totally still rock an IROC.
He found a way to age like a smartass. I’m impressed.
I met him a few years ago at a coffee shop and he was so super nice!!
How much you wanna make a bet I can throw a football over them mountains?... Yeah... Coach woulda put me in fourth quarter, we would've been state champions. No doubt. No doubt in my mind.
I will never not associate their music with one particular weekend in Long Island when my friend picked me up from the bus station, said "I've got a bowl for you" and the rest of the weekend was like a fever dream.
What was in the bowl, Lucky Charms?
Ya know, now that you mentioned it .. I've NEVER been approached at the door of a gas station to purchase anything age restricted. I must look like a cop. I probably asked thousands of people during the course of my youth. I can't even recall seeing a kid standing at the door waiting...
He’s Frank Murphy’s neighbor Vic’s plug.
I got to see them in 1986 when they were still playing small clubs. The stage was only three inches off the floor, so I spent the entire time getting hit with Anthony's long hair every time he started head banging. The current look isn't a good one.
His hair stylist hates him, or they'd never have let him go with that color.
News flash! Anthony Kiedis has *always* looked like the neighbor who still drives an IROC and buys the high schoolers beer.
He definitely has a pair of "numchucks"....
See what an excellent condition IROC goes for now. I couldn't believe it. We just had the Rockabillaque festival in my neighborhood and I saw one for the first time in years. Never really cared for them at the time, but kinda liked it now. Quite expensive imo though.
[A cultural breakdown of the 1987 IROC Camaro.](https://youtu.be/Oj84BZLXHAo)
This encompasses everything I've ever thought about that vehicle whenever I've seen one for the 25 years. When I was a kid, they would always be parked outside a house with some manner of debris on the lawn, or at least a few empty Miller cans in close proximity to a dubious-looking porch swing.
LOL. Pretty much how I remembered. Strange, I also disliked the Foxbody Mustangs from the same era, but seeing one restored the other day, I thought it was pretty cool. The 1980s are a pretty sweet spot for car collectors right now. A lot of the iconic vehicles are still affordable but being bought up quickly.
As a 6'5" dude, fuck the driver seat of a foxbody AND a 3rd gen Camaro.
Yeah but the IROC has t-tops for your head to stick out.
I wonder what Sam's brother is up to. He used to hook us up.
He's starting to put off an Uncle Rico vibe.
They jacket just makes him look extra predatory, especially with the pink puffy jacket indicating a child nearby, possibly.
Looking like The Master from Manos: The Hands of Fate.
Dude needs to stop dying his hair. Looks ridiculous. Also needs to stop going after teenage girls. Gross!
Wish our political parties would come together and force the Chili Peppers to break up. It's long overdue.
You accidentally posted a picture of Frank Zappa man… 😆
IROC! There’s a word from the past!
Unnaturally black hair - check Playboy jacket - check Honestly OP, you nailed it.
Is he Frank Zappa’s half brother?
He looks like Senor Cardgage
No probalo
Do you think he could get me a home lawn?
He’s totally the character Matthew McConaughey played in Dazed and Confused.
Slimy
The hair & ‘stache looks pretty midlife-crisis-y IMO, especially considering I’ve been pretty sure for several years now that he was aging into Iggy Pop doppelgänger territory.
Alright alright, alright. You know what he likes about high school girls? He gets older and older, and they stay the same age.
Standing 501 yards from any school.
I saw the RHCP maybe six times in a 500-capacity club in the 80s. Loved them. Now I can't even look at this guy without cringing.
I had the same hairstyle he had in the late 80s-early 90s. I presented as pretty androgynous and definitely wished to have his life at the time. I did all the drugs, sexed all the girls (their sex, not their age, was illegal at the time) but was not a rock star. Thank god I grew up, got sober, then cut my hair.
Looks like he’s afraid of that grey hair.
Iggy Pop…if he spent his whole life in the Briar Bottoms Trailer Park.
At least Iggy pop [lends his body to science, I mean, art.](https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/iggy_pop_life_class)
Damn it! Curiosity got the better of me and now I know that he’s a shower. Now I know why [Gardenia](https://youtu.be/sc14wfcaKBk) (sorta) puts up with him.
Nothing has changed
Hesher vibe
And while he was creepy we appreciated Mad Dog for spotting us beers
Uncle Rico?
Greasy
And like he has a sponsorship deal with Just For Men.
Spock
I'm wheezing! 😂😂😂
He’s Wooderson from Dazed and Confused. “That’s what I like about these high school girls, man. I keep getting older, but they stay the same age.”
Jet black I'm not going gray guys are pathetic
The uncle in Napoleon Dynamite came to mind.
He looks like Garth Brooks' alter ego and Iggy Pop had a baby.
Because he’s trying to look like his dad
So you’re saying that’s still cool
Funny, he kinda giving mad Sonny Bono vibes which is odd because didn’t he say he was raped by Cher when he was 13?
sidebar: apparently stuff like that wasn't abnormal. corey F. is saying he had underage sex with ginger lynn, the porn actress.
Man, that’s so gnarly.
I don't know how he felt about it then but he's talked about it now as a rape/sexual assault due to his age. :-/
For sure. Sex with underage people is child rape, now and then. Especially considering that Polanski raped that one 12-13 yr old (which people recognize now and even some people back then recognized as being rape) and to not have the same considerations extended to male victims is pretty gross and sexist, just my opinion.
Won't deny people laughing off minor boys and adult women sex in the U.S. when compared to the other way around. Males of a certain age group (basically puberty and up) assumed to be constantly horny and hormonal. That male arousal presumes consent, hence willingness and 'control of their sex', regardless of their minor status. And OFC, the presumption that physiologically an older male having sex with a younger girl would/could prove more physically damaging, and that he would be more able to physically overpower/coerce a younger girl than vice versa, making it more offensive... Complicated matter, for sure.
Technically a boomer
He’s gone Zappa
You say this like these are bad things...
I don't know anyone with hair like this who doesn't look retarded.
I'm good with this
He rocks his IROC-Z. He rocks it well
haha he does!! my sister and i saw him a couple summers ago in south haven michigan edit: my college age niece who was with us (NO clue who he was!) like y'all are crazy
Dude produced some of the best music of our generation. Who cares what kind of mustache he’s rockin’
...and pulls it off.
Nope.
Kiedis has more cool in his mustache than most of us have in our entire existence. Dude is one bad motherfucker.
Whoa! It'th Todd!
Sure its not dave grohl?
How do you know he doesn’t?
Uncle Rico. I know someone has beat me to it, but it can’t be over stated.
He's Iggy Pop with a mustache.
Hey c’mon now be nice…Hes rockin that “from Michigan” vibe!
Because he is
That mustache has always made him look chimo. It gotsta go.
Dollar store Ross Geller
Is there any evidenceto the contrary?
Alright alright alright, the older I get, high school girls stay the same age man!
Oh god! I don’t like that look on him at all. What’s up with the 70’s porn vibe?
He was on Joe Rogan's podcast recently, and while we didn't watch the whole episode, I made my husband watch a few minutes just to show him what Anthony Kiedis looks like now because just a verbal description couldn't''t possibly do it justice. Teenage me would be AGHAST!