"Smile from the streets you hold" is Red Hot Chili Peppers' guitarist John Frusciante's second solo album released in 1997 on Birdman Records, while Frusciante was under serious drug addiction. John joined the Chili Peppers in 1988 after former guitarist, Hillel Slovak, died of a heroin overdose. John stayed in the band until 1992, when he quit during touring of the chili peppers' album "blood sugar sex magik" in Japan because he felt his "music was being suffocated from all the success". John's first album with the peppers was "mother's milk" released in 1989. His second with the peppers was "blood sugar sex magik" released in 1991. In 1994, 2 years after leaving the band, he released his first solo album entitled "Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt". Most of "smile from the streets you hold" was recorded when John was still with the chili peppers, with the exception of a few songs that were recorded after he left the peppers. Those songs include "Enter an Uh" and "Nigger Song". Fortunately, in 1998, John got over his drug addiction in rehab and rejoined the peppers to make the internationally famous album entitled "californication", replacing red hot chili peppers guitarist at that time Dave Navarro(1994-1997), also former guitarist of Jane's Addiction. This album is definetely something completely different from what you'd hear in a Red Hot Chili Peppers' album. It is music unlike any ever made. the most unique you'll probably ever hear. John had "smile from the streets you hold" and "niandra lades and usually just a t-shirt" removed from record stores and stopped publishing in 1998, because he felt uncomfortable with it being available to the public.
