Does anyone really like the Red Hot Chili Peppers?

I cringe when I hear Kiedis's voice on the radio these days.

And every time I'm in a guitar store, some 15 year old is playing "Under the Bridge"

Ewww. That is unfortunate.

why? well in my past i'd say i'd hate bands cos of their image and possible pretentiousness, laziness, delusion of how relevant they are, egos etc. but i cant think of a particular band now that have a strong dynamic and lots of energy (both on stage and on record) and have been known to write fine tunes over the years that i could actually HATE...i'm not really interested in the CHili Peppers anymore but ten years ago i liked them just as much as i liked Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Faith No More etc. which makes me sound like a casual/token rock fan which i probably was but still

i just wonder what really makes you HATE a band like them, i've said i hate Coldplay before but i dont really, just hate the hype around them cos i feel they're mediocre at best but whatever...

either way the Chilis are definitely past their best and should stop i guess

i dont think the thrust of the songs are the vocals tho, thought that was flea and navarro's wanky riffs

"tattoos and fucking extreme sports and obviously dancing around in underwear" - this America most definitely does exist (turn on ESPN2 next time you're stateside).

_By The Way_ is damn good, by the way. (Oh, ha.)

* this may not be true

Mr. Blount clearly hasn't had the pleasure of listening to Phish.

and if you dont think stuff like that is important then you can fuck right off

RHCP write good singles though, "Road Trippin'" especially.

Bonus: Movie climaxes with Elliot deliberately crashing a jet, just barely missing the Twin Towers.

A lot of people, seemingly. Not me, mind. Flea maybe a technically great musician, but his plinking-plonking-twanging bass sound is one of my least favourite sounds, not even just in the musical field. It's worse than the sound of belching. Ugh. "Californication" was in my top 5 least favourite albums of all time, it's an absolute dog of an album.

maybe, but i would argue that the self-indulgent/dull/irritating moments in JA are at least as bad as anything RHCP did. i think the fact that JA broke up before most of their fans outgrew their stuff is their critical shining armor.

the 1988 Sam Elliot/Paul Weller film

I would pay money to see Sam Elliot kill Paul Weller on film. Or at least abuse him.

As for the question at hand...I'll grant 'em "Give It Away" and Frusciante really is a fantastic musician on his own. But that's it.

Weird, I must have seen it because I had repeatedly checked out Positive Mental Octopus from my local video store. The only thing that seemed familiar was dayglo Anthony singing into the camera around 2:30

that song is so terrible. maybe even mtv realized how bad it was and didn't play it a lot. they used to play true men don't kill coyotes a lot on mtv. which is a better song. but still worse than any bow wow wow song ever recorded.

I've always wanted to dress up in costume as the radioactive chili pepper farmer from the True Men Don't Kill Coyotes music video, except that I can't think of an occasion to wear it that wouldn't require tedious amounts of explaining.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC3j1pNXhSU

I like all the RHCP stuff through Mother’s Milk, especially Uplift. Fight Like a Brave has never been one of my favorites of that era though but I’d never seen the video, thanks for posting, was a fun time.

I have often wondered if their penchant for wacky costumes and antics and the low production value of their early music videos created a significant Nickelodeon-to-RHCP pipeline.

The Fight Like A Brave video is so much worse than I remember and I remember it being terrible

I never realized it until now but it really feels like a west coast response to Licensed To Ill. Goofy antics, costumes, call-and-response rapping, big drums, shreddy guitar solos...

lol Fight like A Brave video is weirdo goofball “Beat It” and if you are not on board with that vibe then idk how to help you <3

also i like this song? it’s dumb & fun

I definitely now in my old age prefer their pre-BloodSugarSexMagik output

i still love a lot of songs from BSSM & Californication & later albums too, but i primarily now enjoy the dumb weirdo vibes of their 80’s stuff so much more

I definitely now in my old age prefer their pre-BloodSugarSexMagik output

I was a big fan of their first five albums. Saw them live several times shortly before and immediately after Mother's Milk. Literally stopped listening after "Give It Away"; never even made it to side 2 of my BloodSugarSexMagik cassette, and never listened to any album after that.

What was Hillel like as a performer?

Never saw them with Hillel; all the shows I saw (April 1989, New Brunswick, NJ; July 1989, L.A.; and October 1989, NYC) were with baby John.

https://www.rhcplivearchive.com/show/apr-1989-new-brunswick-nj-2070

https://www.rhcplivearchive.com/show/jul-11-1989-los-angeles-ca-1170

https://www.rhcplivearchive.com/show/oct-27-1989-new-york-city-ny-1218

FTR, the July show is listed to history as a "Benefit for Father's Rights" but the sign outside the club that night read "Benefit to Pay Norwood's Alimony."

literally a boys' club
lol

Norwood Fisher from Fishbone?

I saw them with Hillel twice - '86, '87. He was phenomenal. I remember he had a lot of guitar pedals and he was always locking into these funk riffs that would get hypnotic. Slight of build, but had a manic presence and chops that drew your attention.

I remember reading about the Father's Rights benefit in some magazine back then. Possibly Thrasher. May have been the first place I heard of the Chi Peps.

What was Hillel like as a performer?

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, May 29, 2024 3:13 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

He’ll play a little guitar, sing a few blues
He’s the kind-a-guy that you can’t refuse
Despite the fact that he’s no brute
He’s the skinny sweaty man in the green suit

Strike the magic groove make him jerk and move
Like an eight legged freak in snake skin boots
Coming soon to a theatre near you
It’s the skinny sweaty man in the green suit

i saw them doing a couple songs on some late night fundraiser for local TV in Los Angeles late 80's and when it was done the host had no idea what just happened. it was amazing to me as a kid.

then at some point years later KROQ would play them every hour and it wasn't so cool anymore

At this point, the original 10-song 1983 demo with Hillel and Jack might be the best Pep ever. Nine of the tracks were on Out in L.A. (now OOP), and kind of wish they would just drop a remastered version on a cassette

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqsni052XnfHTm_0m2E6ygSkvYxc4Fd6L

Actually I have no idea if it's actually out of print, but it's "not on streaming services" for whatever that's worth

Out In LA was a budget CD bin staple for years. I think it has been broken up and the tracks were added to expanded versions of the relevant albums.

One of my coworkers at the climbing gym is a huge RHCP fan and I asked her about it— she said, “Well my dad used to play them a lot when I was a kid, now he’s in jail and we don’t talk much so it reminds me of happy times,” and I think that might be the only legitimate reason for liking the Chili Peps that I can think of tbqh.

I really hate the out of tune “guitar solo” in the song “californication”, a pun I literally only just got that makes me like this and even less!!!!

Is that the one that’s just the riff to purple haze

No, that's "Dani California"

sad story

Ex-Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer was sued for wrongful death Wednesday for allegedly running over and killing a pedestrian in Alhambra, Calif., near Los Angeles.

According to the lawsuit, which was accompanied by video and still photography of the accident from the suing attorneys, on March 18 of this year Klinghoffer was allegedly on his phone while making a left turn and striking Israel Sanchez, 47, causing blunt-force trauma to the head. A photograph taken from the video seems to show that the driver is holding a cell phone, although it is unclear; Sanchez died of his injuries hours later.

Lock him up
People who use phones while driving should have their licenses revoked

oof

rip israel

jesus

Can't find very much info on this band at all, the video popped up on my YT feed today but the similarities to '84 era RHCP are interesting.

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

Mojo Uplift Party People Plan

Scar Tissue is the worst song with the best guitar tone

Subtract Anthony and you’ve got a pretty great band!

Scar Tissue is the worst song with the best guitar tone

― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, August 9, 2024 9:32 PM

that's most of the next two albums, as well.

They were annoying at Olympics closing ceremony/ welcome to LA 2028

Tried to watch it on my old CRT TV but the picture was fuzzy

Scart issue, but I wish I saw

lol

a+ dl :)

The Internet Killed Flea today... because this other guy actually died: https://m.riverbender.com/news/details.cfm?id=76300&

Wow, I actually have a track from them on this old Mud Records comp that was a mainstay in Central Illinois record stores back in the mid-90s.

This confused the shit out of me earlier this afternoon

Very informative x grueling thread, thanks yall. My gateway to Frusciante-beyond-Peppers was s/t w Omar:
https://orlprojects.bandcamp.com/album/omar-rodr-guez-l-pez-john-frusciante

Chad Smith is the least-funky entity of any kind (sentient being, solid matter, gas) that has ever existed.

I mean, why limit ourselves to the material world? What about concepts, values and ideas? There's our whole ontology to explore. Who knows - maybe there are unmoved-movers, transfinite numbers, natural moral properties, universal Platonic forms, immortal men who are also Socrates, or sets of all sets that are not members of themselves - that are less funky that Chad S.
Maybe Modus ponens itself is less funky than Chad Smith.
But I doubt it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmyjzvQv5bA

Does that mean he is finally releasing his lost solo album? When I read his memoir I was shocked to learn he recorded one with Daniel Lanois, but I thought everybody involved agreed it sucked.

I really like this song (I suppose mostly becuz I like Parker's ETA IV three quarters of which are here) until he starts singing, at which point I like the song much, much less.

The Beato interview with Flea is inspiring and kinda sweet, even touching:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmA49M9HwYA

Honestly the more I think about it the whole "fuck your politics/I don't care about politics" message of the song is really annoying, esp becuz I really like all the stuff that is basically just the Jeff Parker band with Flea doing something I guess