Flea on his wild path from childhood to the Chili Peppers: 'Thank God I've changed'
By Terry Gross••NPR
The longtime bassist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers has his first solo album. "I'm making music that occupies its own place in the world and that feels that's good to me," Flea says of Honora.
Before he was the kinetic bassist known as Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, he was Mike, a kid transfixed by the jazz his stepdad played with friends at home. "They played fast, they played furio…