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Release Date
1994
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Length
25 tracks
Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt is the debut solo album by John Frusciante, originally released on March 8, 1994 by American Recordings.
The cover art of Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt is a sepia photograph of Frusciante in drag. According to Toni Oswald, Frusciante’s partner at the time of the album’s making, this choice was inspired by Rrose Sélavy, the feminine pseudonym of Marcel Duchamp—the French painter and writer whom Oswald and Frusciante both deeply admired. Frusciante devised the name “Niandra LaDes” as his own feminine alter ego. The phrase “Usually Just a T-Shirt” meanwhile derives from a clothes-exchanging ritual that Oswald and Frusciante often took part in when Frusciante was away on tour; after Frusciante asked what Oswald would wear with his clothes, she would reply, “Usually just a t-shirt.” The phrase “To Clara” in the lower right refers to Clara Balzary, the first daughter of Flea.
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