RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS Biography
Red
Hot Chili Peppers is a
Californian
rock band which combined aspects of
funk
and
hip-hop with rock and roll. The band started in 1983. One critic has
summarized their lyrics as "sex, good times, rock and roll and more
sex", with some truth, though some of their biggest hits have been
considerably more introspective. Perhaps the most distinctive feature of
their sound is the bass guitar playing of Flea, whose flashy, slap-heavy
playing not only provides a groove but is also the source of many
musical flourishes.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers label was originally an EMI subsidiary
known as EMI Manhattan. Their breakthrough record Blood Sugar Sex
Magik as well as all subsequent records were released on Warner
Brothers Records.
Their earlier work was a fusion of funk and punk rock with a party
attitude. After the sobering death of guitarist
Hillel Slovak, the Red Hot Chili Peppers have had deeper lyrics
matched by more complex instrumentals.
See also:
Chain Reaction and
Anthym (first band before Red Hot Chili Peppers)
The band has featured:
- singer
Anthony Kiedis, who has been a member of the band since its
foundation;
- bass player
Michael Balzary, known as "Flea", who also has been a continuous
member;
- founding guitarist
Hillel Slovak (d. June
1988 from a heroin overdose), replaced by:
- guitarist Duane 'Blackbird' McKnight. He didn't work out so they
turned to an 18 year old fan whose guitar playing impressed them:
- guitarist
John Frusciante, who left the band during the Japanese leg of
the tour in support of
1991 album
Blood Sugar Sex Magik and was replaced by:
- guitarist Arik Marshall, followed by;
- guitarist Jess Tobias, followed by;
- guitarist
Dave Navarro, formerly of
Jane's Addiction;
- founding drummer Jack Irons;
- Drummer D.H. Pellegrino formerly of
The Dead Kennedys;
- Current drummer
Chad Smith.
Navarro departed the band in 1998 and was replaced by the returning
Frusciante.
Discography (FIX: incomplete, dates)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers (1984) - True Men Don't Kill
Coyotes, Baby Appeal, Buckle Down, Get up and Jump, Why Don't You
Love Me, Green Heaven, Mommy Where's Daddy, Out in L.A., Police
Helicopter, You Always Sing, Grand Pappy du Plenty
- Freaky Styley (1985) (produced by
George Clinton) - Jungle Man, Hollywood, American Ghost Dance,
If You Want Me To Stay, Nevermind, Freaky Styley, Blackeyed Blonde,
The Brothers Cup, Battle Ship, Lovin' and Touchin', Catholic School
Girls Rule, Sex Rap, Thirty Dirty Birds, Yertle the Turtle
- The Uplift Mofo Party Plan (1987) - Fight Like a Brave,
Funky Crime, Me and My Friends, Backwoods, Skinny Sweaty Man, Behind
the Sun, Subterranean Homesick Blues (Bob
Dylan), Special Secret Song Inside, No Chump Love Sucker,
Walking' On Down the Road, Love Trilogy, Organic Anti-Beat Box Band
- The Abbey Road EP (1988) - Fire, Backwoods, Catholic
Girls Rule, Holywood, True Men Don't Kill Coyotes
-
Mother's Milk (1989) - Good Time Boys, Higher Ground (Stevie
Wonder), Subway to Venus,
Magic Johnson, Nobody Weird Like Me, Knock Me Down, Taste the
Pain, Stone Cold Bush, Fire (Jimi
Hendrix), Pretty Little Ditty, Punk Rock Classic, Sexy Mexican
Maid, Johnny Kick a Hole in the Sky
-
Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991) - The Power of Equality, If
You Have to Ask, Breaking the Girl, Funky Monks, Suck my Kiss, I
Could Have Lied, Mellowship Slunky in B Major, The Righteous & the
Wicked, Give it Away, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Under the Bridge, Naked
in the Rain, Apache Rose Peacock, The Greeting Song, My Lovely Man,
Sir Psycho Sex, They're Ret Hot (Robert Johnson)
- What Hits (Greatest hits 1992)
- Out In L.A (Rarities and B-sides 1994)
-
One Hot Minute (1995) - Warped, Aeroplane, Deep Kick, My
Friends, Coffee Shop, Pea, One Big Mob, Walkabout, Tearjerker, One
Hot Minute, Falling into Grace, Shallow Be Thy Game, Transcending
-
Californication (1999) - Around the World, Parallel
Universe, Scar Tissue, Otherside, Get on Top, Californication,
Easily, Porcelain, Emitremmus, I Like Dirt, This Velvet Glove,
Savior, Purple Stain, Right on Time, Road Trippin'
-
By The Way (2002) - By the Way, Universally Speaking, This
Is the Place, Dosed, Don't Forget Me, The Zephyr Song, Can't Stop, I
Could Die For You, Midnight, Throw Away Your Television, Cabron,
Tear, On Mercury, Minor Thing, Warm Tape, Venice Queen
- Greatest Hits (2003)
- Under The Bridge, Give It Away, Californication, Scar Tissue, Soul
to Squeeze, Otherside, Suck My Kiss, By The Way, Parallel Universe,
Breaking The Girl, My Friends, Higher Ground, Universally Speaking,
Road Trippin', Fortune Faded, Save The Population
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