Red Hot Chili Peppers
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In case you’re interested – Chad’s doing a Q and A
For everyone who’s up to Chad Smith’s other project, Chickenfoot or, well, just want to be noisy RHCP-wise…Chad will be responding to fans’ questions later this week on Music Radar. You can ask questions on this page, the only requirement is that you’re registered to Music Radar and, of course, that your question is not of inappropriate nature.
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Give It Away among top 5 90s’ songs on 411 Mania
The nice people of 411 Mania have come up with yet another list, this time the Absolute Best Singles Of The 1990s. Two of the reviewers have chosen RHCP’s Give It Away. One of them appears to be a real human, the other some made-up person so…here’s one real, serious comment and one to make you laugh. 2. Red Hot Chili Peppers – “Give It Away”: The first Red Hot Chili Peppers song that made an impact on the ears of mainstream rock listeners, “Give It Away” is a funky, catchy, and bass-full single that features fantastic performances from everyone involved. What else needs to be said? It’s Red Hot…
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Complete BSSM as an add-on for Rock Band and RockBand 2
Harmonix revealed that the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ album Blood Sugar Sex Magik will release next week for Rock Band and Rock Band 2. The entirety of the 16-song bundle can be purchased for $20, while individual tracks can be purchased for $2. BSSM will release on Xbox Live Marketplace on Tuesday, September 30 and on PlayStation Network on Thursday, October 2. The album includes the hit singles Under the Bridge, Suck My Kiss, Breaking the Girl and If You Have to Ask. The song Give It Away is already present on the Rock Band 2 disc. (As per many gaming-related websites.)
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Tony Woolliscroft’s RHCP photo book out soon
Tony Woolliscroft’s Me And My Friends, which sounds as an amazing photography book capturing the years the Brit spent photographing the Red Hots, is out soon as it can be preordered on Amazon. The official review and the cover image are below, and this review is interesting, to say the least. Although, at this point, this book is not strictly official it has the backing of the band members who have been close friends with the photographer, Tony Woolliscroft, for years. His work will also be known to fans around the world as it has featured on multi-million album covers such as Californication etc. Tony has travelled the world with…
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Flea: It’s a TWO-year hiatus!
In his interview for Los Angeles Times’ blog two days ago; Flea revealed that he’s now a student at USC, that he’s planning a solo record and, when he was asked about the status of Red Hot Chili Peppers at this moment, his response was contradictory to what Chad Smith had said a couple of months ago. So, are the Chili Peppers working on a new album? No, we’re on a major hiatus. It’s a two-year hiatus. And that was very set? You said, ‘Two years and then we’ll talk about starting again”? Basically, yeah. We just needed two years. We had our noses to the grindstones so hard for…
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USA Today Poll on Rock And Roll Hall of Fame eligibility.
There is an interesting poll on USAtoday. It lists all the musicians and bands who are, from this moment on, eligible to be nominated for the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame; as well as some repeated nominees. Of course, knowing that they were founded twenty-five years ago, Red Hot Chili Peppers are on this list as well. Feel free to share your opinion, by clicking the white star under the band’s name. If you’ve done it properly, the star should turn violet.
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BloodSugarSexMagik-related news bits
Though sometime next month it’ll celebrate its 17th birthday, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ standard-and-taboo-breaking album BloodSugarSexMagik is still making headlines. According to Boston Herald. in their 50th anniversary vinyl pressing, Warner Bros will re-release this album amongst others and it should be available on becausesoundmatters.com. And, according to a bunch of gaming websites, the album will soon be available as a download for the Rock Band and Rock Band 2 games. Click here to find out more.
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A short RHCP documentary on South African edition of History Channel
If you’re living in South Africa, or getting South African version of The History Channel through satellite, you can follow a short documentary on RHCP today at 17:00. 17:00 The Red Hot Chili Peppers Despite drug problems, criminal charges and a changing line-up, their mix of funk, punk, metal and rap is still producing hits like Californication 20 years on. For more information, visit the channel’s website.
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A 1999-made RHCP interview from MTV’s archive
As a part of their Loder Files series, which is used to remind people of old news interviews every Tuesday; MTV have today re-posted a classic interview with the Red Hots from 1999, where the band is talking about blood types, diets, other bands that they might have influenced and then, it turns into a long John monologue. He’s talking about the spirits, differentiating between two types of them, he actually apologises when he gets a beep for having said a bad word; and he’s assuring everyone that “nothing messes with him anymore”. It is a beautiful interview, so many thanks to MTV for having reminded all of us of…
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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…
