Stadium Arcadium at 20: A Personal Reflection on the Album That Defined a Generation's Teenage Years

My friends and I had a clubhouse. You see those movies and TV shows where teenagers have some structure with the walls decorated with old license plates and silly graffiti, tattered couches, and an old video game system and think, 'Kids don't actually have those.' But we did.

We had more or less annexed my parents' shed, and from age 15 to 18 it became our cultural hub.

It was an exercise in male bonding and vulnerability to the point where for a long time I j