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'''''Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt''''' is [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]] guitarist [[John Frusciante]]'s debut solo album, released in 1994 on [[American Recordings]]. Frusciante released the album after encouragement from friends [[Johnny Depp]], [[Flea (musician)|Flea]], [[Perry Farrell]], and [[Gibby Haynes]] (of the [[Butthole Surfers]]), who told him that there was "no good music around anymore".

The album consists of Frusciante's singing, his guitar and piano playing, and some strange effects (including backwards instruments and tape speed modifications) all recorded on a 4-track recorder. [[Toni Oswald]], Frusciante's consistent friend of 10 years, also sings on sometwo of the final tracks. Most of the songs were recorded before the guitarist left the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1992 (during the ''[[Blood Sugar Sex Magik]]'' tour), and indeed much of the first part of ''Nianda Lades'' was recorded as the band were recording ''BSSM'' in 1991.

''Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt'' was for a long time a very rare and hard-to-find album, being removed from record stores and ordered out of production at Frusciante's request along with his second solo album, ''[[Smile From the Streets You Hold]]'' (1997, on Birdman Records). Frusciante supposedly felt uncomfortable with the albums being available to the public, though ''Niandra Lades'' was recently reissued by American Recordings.