Chad Smith denies all the rumours about RHCP splitting
(thanks to Eleni for the heads-up!)
In an interview to an issue of Rhythm, where he’ll also be the guest editor, Chad Smith denied all the rumours of RHCP breaking up and he added that they’ll gather in September and decide on future plans.
“We’d been on tour for a year-and-a-half and we said; Let’s take a year off,” he told Rhythm magazine. “We hadn’t taken a year off since John Frusciante rejoined our group almost 10 years ago. We write songs, then we record, then we tour for a year-and-a-half, then we write songs, so we did that three times. Time for a little break. Anthony (Kiedis) was having a baby, John (Frusciante) wants to do his solo record and Flea has his stuff going on. Everybody needed just a little break from being Chili Peppers.
September’s coming up so we’re going to get together after the summer and see what we want to do. We’re not breaking up, nobody hates anybody or anything like that. We’re just taking a nice healthy break to do other things.
Musically some of our best stuff is yet to come. For some reason we have a special thing, the four of us. We’ve changed the chemistry of the band a couple of times. When John Frusciante rejoined for the second time, we were like: This is a special chemistry we have, this band of people…
I never thought the Chili Peppers would be a band for more than three or four years. It started off as this joke, jumping around with socks on our dicks. We’re fortunate to keep going and people still want to see us play and enjoy our records. We’re fortunate and we appreciate that.”
These interviews snippets were sneak-previewed on Music Radar.
