OMG the RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS???!!

They were a good band between 1987 and 1989...

That's for damn sure.

ps - i fully expect some of you to quip here "yeah - not at all", etc etc. but i really think these albums are pretty good.

(although I've definitely warmed myself up to their earlier records... in retrospect, Kiedes is sounding like the sole ruining element, whereas his funky long haired white boy thing seemed to just DO IT for me when I was younger. Now I'm old and cranky, of course.)

I've always really liked this band. I thought they were cool when our babysitter used to let us watch mtv and they would show this video with athony kiedis singing in a boat with his hair flowing upwards like on those organics ads and it had flea in his underpants and we thought they were fucking awesome. I remember seeing the video for Scar Tissue (lol top 30 hits -such an awesome riff btw) and buying Californication, the first CD i ever bought, even though we didn't have a CD player, but I used to listen to it on the playstation. when i was at school We used to play "by the way" the way ppl played "i gotta feeling" last summer, before we went out drinking at the weekendsol, when i hear it it still makes me nervous the way I used to thinking we would get caught with a bottle of whiskey behind the Black Box waiting for a show to start.

John Frusciante is an awesome guitar player, and i can't really think of anybody else who sounds like him, I always liked kiedis voice, and they have this liquid honeyed sound. 00s stuff is probably pretty panned on ILM but its actually pretty awesome, those ringing guitar sounds, yeah ok the bass playing is really hammy, kindof like how fun they always were, miss bands who could take their shirts off also.

I liked these guys in 1988 and 1989. Saw them in '89, a free outdoor show at Rutgers University in NJ. Saw them again after Mother's Milk was out and could tell their audience had shifted - no more punks and freaks, the crowd seemed like at least 50 percent thick-necked dudes in backward Duke University caps punching people in the head in the pit. I never went to see them again. In any case, their music was all downhill after MM.

If you want to see a performance of a band go down in flames playing live on TV, search out the Chili Peppers doing Under the Bridge on Saturday Night Live from back in the early 90s.

you mean this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RSMCaAENv0

ok i just watched it and other than frusciante fucking around the whole time, the rest of teh guys weren't that diff or am i missing something?

Just listened to BSSM this past week for the first time in years. Album's still a classic.

xp: I didn't make it the whole way through the video, but it seems like Chad is having serious problems following Frusciante and at about 1:17-1:20, he makes a series of faces that seem to indicate that he thinks this performance is a real stinker.

xp: I didn't make it the whole way through the video

frankly i think the payoff is JF's bg vox which kinda explain why he was dismissed shortly thereafter... hahaha.

I got asked by a younger colleague today whether I'd "heard of a band called Faith No More", which of course I said yes, and yes he should go and see them at whatever European festival he's going to this year (they got back together, whodathunk?). But yeah, he only knew "Epic" and noted that they are very similar to the Chili Peppers, to which I replied in the negative. Why are FNM always compared to the Chilis, when really other than a vague funk influence, they're really really different (as in one is great, the other is shit)?

because they both hit big at about the same time and "Epic" sounds like it could be an early 90s RHCP song

RHCP are not shit

tho

I've had the filthy "lady cop" verse from "Sir Psycho Sexy" in my head all day. I haven't heard this song in like 5+ years at least?!

Hmmm...

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/heardmentality/assets_c/2011/08/red-hot-chili-peppers-raindance-maggie-thumb-550x550.jpg

http://991.com/NewGallery/The-Damned-Damned-Damned-Dam-220615.jpg

don't know if it's an old or new quote but nick cave otm
"I'm forever near a stereo saying, 'What the fuck is this GARBAGE?' And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers."

the adventures of rain dance maggie?

You could give me a 7" single with "Soul to Squeeze" and "Scar Tissue" on the flipside, blow up the remainder of this band's discography, and I'd be pretty much okay with it. The longer they go on, the more they sully the old stuff I used to like in high school.

i'm anticipating this video due to kreayshawn's involvement

Don't:

This is not the much-hyped Kreayshawn version, which, according to bassist Flea, "just didnt work out." He added, "That happens sometimes, I think Kreayshawn is awesome and a great artist."

So instead, cut-rate U2:

http://www.mtv.com/videos/red-hot-chili-peppers/682371/the-adventures-of-rain-dance-maggie.jhtml#id=1518071

oh

the whole thing seemed on a path to failure anyway

"Creativity waxes and wanes," Flea says. "We're very lucky. We've made bunches of fucking money. We could be sat on the beach eating burritos, but even when we're pissed off with each other we sit in a room and work. Igor Stravinsky sat at his piano every fucking day. Some days it was rubbish and his wife was chewing his ear off – but he stuck at it. The same thing goes for Nick Cave, the greatest living songwriter. He goes to work! Every day. And that's what we do."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/aug/18/red-hot-chili-peppers-interview

nick still wins

we should have a chili peps artist poll

chiliwave

Interesting that flea used British slang there, ie 'rubbish'.

I don't mind the Chilis nearly as much as most people, I actually quite like a number of their songs.

for a terrible crap rock band they have had many intelligent and talented members. flea is a pure jazzbo bassist. frusciante can play the guitar like fuck. keidis is an embarrassing cunt, but his dad was in lethal weapon.

also i enjoy a fair bit of Nick Cave's work but if he doesn't like you you're probably doing something right

miss bands who could take their shirts off

this is a truth bomb intentional or not

Thought i'd look up the Katrina performance - yeah, Frusc has some nice harmonies there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O51V1JOty3Q

At this point I'm just holding out for the biopic with Will Ferrell.

http://www.drumstheword.com/sites/default/files/images/DrummerPhotos/ChadSmith3.jpg

Just wait on the correction...

http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/music-news/red-hot-chili-peppers-toss-track-pre-super-214113577.html

"clueless journalists"

The song is classic Peppers, so much so, it almost sounds like a parody.

The song is classic Peppers, so much so, it almost sounds like a parody.
The song is classic Peppers, so much so, it almost sounds like a parody.
The song is classic Peppers, so much so, it almost sounds like a parody.
The song is classic Peppers, so much so, it almost sounds like a parody.
The song is classic Peppers, so much so, it almost sounds like a parody.

xpost:

Dammit!

IF YOU WANNA GET FRASIER THEN YOU GOTTA GET GRAMMER

"Can't stop. Addicted to the shindig"

o wait that real

it's i guess still a secret for now but i just found out that the person who made this is a friend of a friend :o

Is your friend of a friend the Red Hot Chili Peppers?

SHOPPING CART
ESCALATOR

it's i guess still a secret for now but i just found out that the person who made this is a friend of a friend

the CBB episode was almost a year ago, unless you mean your friend's friend is keeping their friendship with Daly a secret

IF YOU WANNA GET FRASIER YOU GOTTA GET GRAMMAR

I drink an Alabama slamma with your sexy-ass grandma

Ah ok good lookin out sic

Someone dug up this clip of Mr. Bungle doing a Halloween show as the RHCP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1ld87X3DP4#t=55

Some of the vocals in the parody remind me of Mike Patton.

Or the late, not so great AC:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-DNt7RKuyI

So this is becoming a thing. Where's Weird Al in all this!?

http://www.spin.com/articles/nine-inch-nails-trent-reznor-parody-stream/

Not nearly as funny as the RHCP parody. Show, don't tell. It probably isn't that hard to parody Reznor's lyrics (no, not going to do it myself).

Yeah, it's nowhere near as good. The RHCP is sort of dead-on and dry. The NIN one tips too far into Weird Al literalness (which can be awesome; see "Smells Like Nirvana") but is kind of half-assessed here. How can he call any song too long that ends under the 3-minute mark?

♫♪ ooh, California, I'm havin' sex, down in California, sexy California ♫♪

Jon Daly has now spoken; it was him and Cyrus Ghahremani (responsible for the hilarious Flea imitation bassline) with some compositional input from Zach Galifianakis. http://news.radio.com/2014/01/30/behind-the-music-the-red-hot-chili-peppers-parody-song-abracadabralifornia/

has now spoken ... with some compositional input from Zach Galifianakis.

again, the Peppermen episode of CBB was in early March 2013

Well, that was the reddest of red flags, yeah. But the song (as such) in that ep was clearly improvised, and nothing like this finished product. Certainly Cyrus Ghahremani was not involved in the podcast, and he's the one who also designed the website. So I'd say it's fair game to call this a reveal. Also, they explain its origins as goofing around in some celebrity party, so my guess is the party came before the podcast, which of course came well-before this website. Long con.

Galifinakis was on the podcast though, and that early version of the song had the bing-a-bong-a-Burbank and G-G-G-G-Glendale stuff that the link credits him with inputting towards compositionally.

when i asked chaki if he'd heard this his reply was "it's pretty funny but they fucked up chad smith's snare sound" lol

xpost Sure, but Zach doesn't do any singing in the podcast. In fact, every few minutes he asks Daly to sing it again, because he knows there is no way for Daly to remember the improvised gibberish.

lol whiney took issue w/ the insufficiently chaddy drums too

xpost ...or he knew they'd kept it up for hours at a party previously and wanted to keep it going. Comedians do that sometimes, ya know.

xpost I thought they were pretty darn Chaddy.

That guy has such an easy job, too. I recall him saying he comes in and does the drums then essentially has two years off while the other guys dick around.

I get the impression the RHCP, when they're not touring, never see or say a word to each other. It's not like they need to meet to discuss new directions or whatever.

Comedians do that sometimes, ya know.

You're telling me. I've been waiting behind doors and corners for someone in my family to walk by, then I've been leaping out and yelling "Shopping cart, escalator!" My wife is getting pissed.

the red-hots, in 140 characters or less.

Rizz ‏@Rizzmigizz -- waddagotchagotgivitputinyou wa Di meh go stop bingiddty bang /guitar

140 characters is all you need with these guys.

Shopping cart escalator!!

https://scontent-bos5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/455240767_1041071634050363_3275076629500240867_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=833d8c&_nc_ohc=wMODzmz_vpUQ7kNvgENVHUb&_nc_ht=scontent-bos5-1.xx&oh=00_AYCuecZ5oB3qAaZGFZqqnfBufOTJO3PM47tEUzB-OdUMcA&oe=66C7087E

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/11/26/23849CD100000578-0-image-55_1417042310945.jpg

goo goo gah gah

“She keeps me young”

The buttered noodles and chicken tendie bill must be through the roof

Dani California's baby has come home...

i hate when my facebook just starts randomly giving me pictures of people like AK. did i accidentally think about him or something? i did mention buying peppers in the kitchen today.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xcv1bXDqVT4/sddefault.jpg

gwape dada?

She's barely older than Stadium Arcadium

good youtube fan gotcha, but huge f'kn trigger warning because he's a total creep

Nope; can't listen to a video where the word "sex" is blanked out that way. If you're providing information for kindergarteners, fine, but when you're dealing with the subject matter you're dealing with, treat the listeners like adults.

do you think that fan wrote youtube’s algorithm themself

Does YouTube do that without the creator's permission?

no but it's a good, concise compilation of creepy archive footage. first of its kind that i've seen re:ak specifically.

re:the excessive censorship, idk. i've heard/seen a few different takes explaining it, but i'm sure someone more media savvy has a deep dive link at the ready. i guess i'd sum up the takes on it (that make sense to me anyway) described as "pre-empting demonetization." agreed it's dumb, but again: was mainly sharing for the compiled archive footage.

Anthony Kiedis has really bad haircuts

i listened a bit and assumed the weird censorship was to prevent the video from getting taken down over any reports of "inappropriate content" or some such. i'm sure if it took off and started getting shared/media attention the rhcp lawyers would throw anything they can at it to have it removed.

My best friend recently said something that felt really spiteful to me. It was so unnecessary and mean and I feel just so wounded. I am furious at my friend. How do I forgive her? What do I even do?
BEATRIZ, OLINDA, BRAZIL

We have all heard the famous quote attributed to you regarding the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Could you enlighten us on the truthfulness of that quote?
BRENDAN, WASHINGTON, DC, USA

Dear Beatriz and Brendan,

About twenty-five years ago, I made an offhand and somewhat uncharitable remark about the Red Hot Chili Peppers. There was no malice intended, it was just the sort of obnoxious thing I would say back then to piss people off. I was a troublemaker, a shit-stirrer, feeling most at ease in the role of a societal irritant. Perhaps it’s an Australian trait among people of my generation, I don’t know, but that comment has followed me around for the last quarter-century. But the most interesting aspect of all this is not what I said about the Chili Peppers, but rather the response from Flea, their bass player. On Facebook, Flea expressed how hurt he felt by my remark, but went on to say, in great detail, that he loved my music regardless. He wrote a profoundly generous and open-hearted love letter to Nick Cave. I remember being genuinely moved by his words and thinking what a classy guy Flea was, and feeling on some subterranean level that I was unable to fully grasp at that point in my life, that Flea was a human being of an entirely different calibre, indeed, of a higher order.

Over the years, I would run into Flea at music festivals where both our bands were performing and see him backstage when we played in Los Angeles. Although we didn’t become close friends, my encounters with him were always pleasant - there was a presence to Flea that felt genuine and oddly affecting. On the Push the Sky Away tour, we asked Flea if he could assemble a children’s choir, from the Silverlake Conservatory of Music he founded, to accompany the Bad Seeds at the Coachella Festival. When Warren and I were on the Carnage tour, we asked Flea to join us and play the song 'We No Who U R'. Watching Warren and Flea perform together with such heart and mutual regard was a glorious sight.

Last week, Flea sent me a song and asked if I’d like to add some vocals. It was for a "trumpet record" that he is making. It is not for me to divulge what the song was, only that it is a song I cherish more than most, with arguably the greatest lyric ever written, a song of such esteem that I would never have dared to sing it had Flea not asked me to. I went into the studio on Wednesday and recorded my vocals. The track emerged as a beautiful conversation between Flea’s trumpet and my voice, filled with yearning and love, the song transcending its individual parts and becoming a slowly evolving cosmic dance, in the form of a reconciliation and an apology.

My friend, the artist Thomas Houseago, recounted a story involving Flea. A couple of years ago, Flea, his daughter, Thomas, and a guide were hiking through the backcountry of Yosemite. They had been hiking for five days and were walking along a densely forested trail when a bear appeared on the path before them. Everybody froze. The bear was about ten feet away from them. It was a large black bear with a reddish hue. Thomas and the guide gripped their tent poles, perhaps to defend themselves in case the bear attacked. Flea, however, stepped forward, stood before the bear, and spoke to it. He acknowledged they were visitors in the bear’s territory, expressed his love for the bear, and requested permission to continue along the trail. The bear stepped off the path and allowed them to pass.

Beatriz, I hope this letter proves helpful and goes some way in addressing your question and providing a solution.

Love, Nick.