"A lot of John’s solos are primary tracks, lower stay with the rest of the band," Flea explained to Guitar World in 1991. "We did little or no fix-up stuff. Records. The musical types of Blood Sugar Sex Magik differed notably from the strategies employed on the Chili Peppers' previous album, Mother's Milk, and featured little use of heavy metallic guitar riffs. Frusciante’s stinging blues riff - as primal as Anthony’s urges - is the main drive behind the song, until Flea’s plucky selecting serves because the teasing foreplay to a different savage guitar solo. John’s philosophy was that he would only play a solo twice. He’d play it once, and if he didn’t like it or we didn’t like it, he’d play it once more - completely in another way. That call was averted at the final minute when Angelo Moore, of the Chilis’ assist band Fishbone, heard of the plan and talked Kiedis out of it, reasoning that Slovak needed his buddies now more than ever.
