Red Hot Chili Peppers
 

I think these guys are one of the best bands around today. Their songwriting is brilliant and each member is brilliant at his instrument.

For those that don't know them - they started out as a funk band in California and got big in 1991 with [i]Blood Sugar Sex Magic[/i]. Since then they have become less funk and more rock but they are as good as ever.

They have just finished recording a new album and will be out in due course.

Let's get some discussion going! Surely there are heaps their fans here. Let's start with your predictions for the next album.

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They are an incredible band, one of my favorites. John Frusciante is one of my musical idols.

Discussion of them dies out pretty quickly, though:(.

[QUOTE=Canadian_Guy]They are an incredible band, one of my favorites. John Frusciante is one of my musical idols.

Discussion of them dies out pretty quickly, though:(.[/QUOTE]

Frusciante practised so much he could have been a virtuoso but he chose not to because he thought it sounded like ****! :amaze:

Yes, they're my fav band (see my nick) and I'm not being biased when I say I think they're in the top 10 or 15 greatest ever rock bands. I also like Iron Maiden and Queen a lot. Frusciante once had one twelfth of the clean blood in his body that he was supposed to have at one point in time. IMO, he's one of the greatest guitarists ever. Incredibly creative (brilliant songwriting included), can be technical when he wants and perfect tone. I think Frank Zappa tried to recruit him but I'm not sure on that. He (and RHCP) have been through the greatest challenges and I'm eagerly anticipating this new album. I don't you if you guys realise it, but one of the reasons RHCP talk dies out is because they are hard to classify by genre, and the fans are dispersed throughout the whole of mx rather than in R&M.

Yeah, that might be right (about the genre thing).

Do you prefer the older funky peppers or the modern rock sorta stuff? I think I prefer the modern rock.

just a great band, althought a love death, grind and thrash, Californication is my 5th fav. album of all time, just great music, you can never be mad listening to this band.

I haven't got Californication but it sounds **** good! So many good songs!

I like the Chili Peppers. I met Anthony at a friend of mines 12 Step meeting and he told his story and was really cool. I told him afterward that I thought his singing had really improved and he laughed and said "thanks, I've been working at it". I thanked him for the lyrics he wrote to Californication and he said they were among his favorite. Then he hugged me goodbye. 'Cause that's what 12 steppers do, I suppose. Anyway, I like 'em a lot and think they are a bit underrated. Which may not make sense to some, but it makes perfect sense if you admire them as much as I do. Really good band.

Ive been listening to them my whole life (well since I was like 8 or 9), I really like them, John Frucante's phrasing is just heavenly.

I hear its some of the heavist stuff they've ever written , but im sure it will still be some what mellow. great band , my favourite. frusciante is totally underated in my opinion.

any word on when it will be realeased???

I heard they will leave all their mistakes in!

October 11 I think. They've recorded everything except Anthony's vocal tracks.

I got Mother's Milk, One Hot Minute and Freaky Styley last night off my Uncle, they're great.

I'm not so keen on the By The Way album...it was a bit bland.

Hearing the songs By The Way and then Power of Equality two years later were complete revelations for me, id never been touched by a song as much as i had been by By The Way and when I heard Power of Equality i suddenly realised in one moment I was in love with funk music. It was amazing.

I think they are a purely amazing band, californication was one amazing album, and whats better is that i heard there one of the most amazing live bands....thanks for the info on the new cd :)

Their good, but ni prefer the old funky stuff. Great live though, I have their Hyde Park CD and it sounds really good.

They are among one of my favourite bands. I have all their albums post Mothers Milk including Live in Hyde Park as well as the live in Slane Castle and I fall in love with them more everytime I listen to them. Flea and John are great improvising in their live shows coming up with great little fills. If only they toured Australia more.

i have every album apart from the Abbey Road EP however its a compilation with fire and other songs on it, i hav also seen them live on their greatest hits tour at manchester they were brilliant and so was james brown! anywho i prefer they earlier stuff mother's milk is my favourite for funkiness however blood sugar sex magik and californication come close behind, whats your favourite song/album?

from the first to the recent albums, peppers never fail to amaze me. naming 5 bands who could do this for that long span of time is difficult.

I like the One Hot Minute era music the most out of all of it, dunno why. It seems to me that it's a shame they don't (and won't) play any of some of the best music ever written. I like John, but Dave's work on this album was just sublime IMO.

They are great each member is great on there isntrument, Chad smith is amazing on the drums =)

shame huh? no its not. you cant expect them to write the same stuff over and over again.

I would like to hear John's interpretation of some of the OHM stuff, that's all I'm saying. I think you completely missed my point.

I find I like the new stuff (By The Way, Can't Stop) and their old stuff (Higer Ground, Suck My Kiss) equally.

flea got me into bass and he is one of my greatest inspirations because imo he is in probably the top 5 best bassists ever

I watched slane earlier...Anthony and Chad looked bored, Flea and John were great though.

We should keep this thread up.

The Chilis are probably my favourite bands of the 90's. My brother has alot of their albums and I usually steal them. I bought him Mothers Milk for his birthday last year. BSSM or Californication are my 2 favourites.

i get to go to the rhcp concert on july 2

Did anyone notice that on the Live at Slane Castle DVD John uses the intro solo for kind of a basis for alot of his later solos? It got kind of annoying.

I still love that DVD, even though I think they should have ended on Under the Bridge.