After recording Mother's Milk and Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Frusciante left the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1992 when he got tired of the growing success of the band.
Frusciante began work on his tenth solo record, The Empyrean, shortly thereafter and subsequently released the album in early 2009.
[6] In December 2009, Frusciante revealed that he had left Red Hot Chili Peppers more than a year earlier, during their hiatus.
Frusciante has also gone on to collaborate as Speed Dealer Moms with Venetian Snares, and with Swahili Blonde and Kimono Kult with his now former wife, Nicole Turley, as well as with the Black Knights.
Additionally, the entirety of John Frusciante's album To Record Only Water for Ten Days was made into a series of short experimental films directed by Vincent Gallo in 2001.