John Frusciante has recently composed 300-400 new songs

The Mars Volta’s Omar Rodriguez-Lopez briefly spoke about John Frusciante in a new interview published in the March 2012 issue of the Spanish version of RollingStone Magazine. The Mars Volta’s sixth studio album, Noctourniquet is released on March 27th, 2012 and is their first album not to feature John.

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez says John Frusciante has recently composed about 300 or 400 songs.

INTERVIEW EXCERPT: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
RollingStone Magazine Spain. Published March 2012

RollingStone: How is he [John Frusciante]? He had a lot of issues with drugs.

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez: Very good since he left the Chili Peppers. Recently he composed about 300 or 400 songs. People think he disappeared but it’s not like that. He doesn’t care about editing albums or playing live. We connect a lot.

John Frusciante – A Different Philosophy.
On March 7th, Blare Magazine published a new interview in which Omar spoke about the likelihood of collaborating with John Frusciante in the future.
Read the excerpt here…

      

Thanks to David Trigili for the article and DaronMalakian for the translation.