bruno mars got arrested for cocaine possession

Andy Gill (?!) produced their first.

my CD copy of Entertainment! has liner notes by Flea which iirc consist mostly in him calling The Edge a piece of shit for never acknowledging the influence of Andy Gill on his guitar playing.

which is absurd cuz edge has frequently when asked his guitar influences listed gill, levene, and verlaine. i can remember rolling stone doing some interview w/ him where the writer kept trying to get him to talk about eric clapton and edge politely pointing out he was too young for clapton really and generally tried to copy go4, etc as a kid.

xp: Flea also took a shit in a pizza box and gave it to Andy during the recording sessions.

just wanted to chime in to say that I didn't really know who Bruno Mars was either but he was probably my favorite halftime since Prince himself

But ugh, fuck the fucking RHCPs and their awful, fundamentally unfunky drummer.

[insert whiney post about ghost notes]

OK Fine, then his career may be at halt for some time. Lady Gaga, Robyn and even David Guetta all have a much more positive influence on current chartpop than Bruno Mars does with his way too compressed long-bassnotes-and-drummer-going-bananas-like-crazy-style, so that is probably just a good thing.

positive to you and many others obviously, but I'd prefer hiphop, r'n'b, and I guess Bruno Mars style rhythms

Lol I was quoting rongroe from upthread