Yes, that’s right and it’s red hot.

Former Red Hot Chili Pepper guitarist, John Frusciante, has been voted the best guitarist of the last 30 years, reports CHARTattack.  The voting was done in a BBC 6music listeners’ poll.

Frusciante left the Chili Peppers this past December.

But, since 1980, there has been no greater guitarist than Frusciante.

Frusciante beat out many great guitarists for the top spot.  He beat former Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash, as well as Muse front man Matthew Bellamy and Tom Morello.

Overall, Frusciante picked up 13.9 per cent of the votes.

Just recently, the top guitarist of the last 30 years, contributed his talent to Man Meat, Swahili Blonde’s debut album, to be released July 6.

Frusciante is also the executive producer for Mars Volta axeman Omar Rodriguez-Lopez’s The Sentimental Engine Slayer debut album, and plans to release two albums with Rodriguez-Lopez sometime this year.

Frusciante also beat out Metallica’s Kirk Hammett, Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood, and Jack White.

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Tom Morello, ex-Rage Against the Machine member and current Audioslave guitarist, was arrested last Thursday in Los Angeles while protesting alongside hotel workers.

The 42-year-old was cuffed and charged with unlawful assembly when he refused to clear off the main entrance at Los Angeles International Airport. He spent the night in jail before being released on Friday morning, reports the Associated Press.

“Bail was high,” he said, adding that every person arrested at the demonstration had to pony up $5,000 U.S. “[But] spirits were higher. We had a rousing civil rights-era-like hootenanny on ‘the inside.’”

According to Morello, about 400 people were arrested in total at the demonstration. Attendees were trying to raise awareness on the rights of immigrant hotel employees.

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