Red Hot Chili Peppers

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    20th anniversary of BloodSugarSexMagik approaching, tributes rolling in

    As the 20th anniversary of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ iconic fifth album BloodSugarSexMagik is approaching later this month (as well as the one of Nirvana’s Nevermind!), many online outlets are looking back at how that album left a clear mark in history of music. In their ongoing series where many of today’s lesser-known artists are discussing the impact 1991 made in music and the albums released that year; VH1 asked Mark Pontius of Foster The People about his favourites and he shared some nice words about BBSSM. Red Hot Chili Peppers, Blood Sugar Sex Magik One of the most important, celebrated albums of the ’90s alt-rock explosion, Blood Sugar…

  • New line-up Red Hot Chili Peppers at Fuse, late August 2011

    Anthony Kiedis and Flea praise John in pre-release Fuse interview

    The other day, on the eve of the release of the comeback album I’m With You which was performed in its entiety and aired live in cinemas across the world and on a , the Red Hot Chili Peppers sat down with Fuse for a quick sneak-preview

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    Boston Herald: Frusciante – totally and completely awesome.

    In response to his original post on the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Boston Herald blogger Jed Gottlieb had only words of praise for John. Yes, yes, yes, the dude is awesome. Totally and completely awesome. But it wasn’t just his guitar playing that made the Peppers great. It was what he brought out of his fellow band members. Check out the clip below and watch what John and Flea can do together (damn, I should say, could do together). Flea always said that he never connected with anyone else musically like he connected with John. That’s pretty obvious from this little jam. And who are we to disagree, friends? You…

  • Chad Smith: John Frusciante best musician I’ve known and played with

    In a fresh new interview with Drum Magazine, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith has only words of praise for John. This interview is far better in terms of how it was edited, so everything’s pretty clear. Looks like Drum Magazine does it a bit better than some others. Burned out by two decades of an unforgiving album-tour- album cycle, the Red Hot Chili Peppers agreed to cool it for at least a year in 2008. They walked away from the stage, the studio, and each other. Then, in the middle of the break, guitarist John Frusciante left to pursue solo work full-time. Though the move extended the group’s absence…

  • Flea & John Frusciante in 1999

    Flea: John probably the best guitarist in the world

    In a short but insightful interview posted on MusicRadar, Flea discusses the new Red Hot Chili Peppers, the upcoming I’m With You studio album and, most importantly, he gives more insight to John’s legacy than in any other interview prior to this. Moreover, he calls John the best guitarist in the world, which Invisible Movement pretty much agrees on and I hope most of you do, too. Here are the most interesting bits from this interview. Flea on John’s creative input in the Red Hots: At the end of the last tour, things felt very strained. And I said, ‘Let’s just take two years off.’ Because things just felt unpleasant,…

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    RHCP announce first album after John’s departure. What’s your say?

    As it was announced via Flea’s Twitter last night and then confirmed and written by many news outlets out there, the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ 10th studio album, the first one without John after 16 years, finally has a title, the release date and title & the release date for its first single as well. In case it was not clear before, Invisible Movement is not going to be covering this further, unless there are articles, TV snippets et cetera that directly mention John, contain photos or snippets, which is pretty much what’s been the usual procedure here over the last couple of years. However, as many people asked for…

  • Red Hot Chili Peppers - Higher Ground

    Higher Ground is the 28th best cover ever, according to Gibson

    In yet another of their music-related lists, guitar makers Gibson are exploring the topic of the best cover songs. This morning, they published places 30-21 and one of the songs on the list is the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ cover of Higher Ground. Red Hot Chili Peppers took this groovy, wah/Clavinet-driven 1973 Stevie Wonder song from the classic album Innervisions and turned it into a hyperkinetic funk/metal track on their 1989 album Mother’s Milk. The album was the Peppers’ first with guitarist John Frusciante. RHCP’s version felt more frantic than the original, and the video reflected this vibe in glorious Technicolor. The band’s hard work was rewarded with an MTV…

  • Aaron Savage's LEGO take on BloodSugarSexMagik

    BloodSugarSexMagik gets a Lego treatment

    British artist Aaron Savage has an interesting, yet simple mission: recreating iconic albums’ covers using LEGO elements. One of the albums he decided to revive using ’em bricks is Red Hot Chili Peppers’ BloodSugarSexMagik. For a wider selection of the LEGO album covers, have a look here. For all of you who have never seen the Can’t Stop video recreated with LEGO, you might want to have a look at that, too. *Many thanks to Jo for this interesting clipping.

  • Andy Gill

    Andy Gill: “Chili Peppers based career on us”

    As per a couple of different news sources – Andy Gill, producer and Gang of Four member, claims that the Red Hot Chili Peppers based their career on his band’s career. Moreover, he claims that Can’t Stop is more or less plagiarism. “The guitar on their single ‘Can’t Stop’ was directly from one of our early songs and when I heard it I thought ‘that’s going a bit far’. I bumped into their bass player, Flea, a few years back at a party and he said, ‘Andy, I just don’t understand why you’ve never sued us’.” He also reflected on the famous turd in the pizza box incident during the…

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