a. Outdoor amphitheater shows suck when there's a cold, driving rain involved.
b. John Fruciante is a much more interesting dude than I ever, ever, EVER gave him credit for. I never heard his avant-gardeish solo albums, I certainly respect his exceptionally fluid guitar playing (I have never believed, for example, he was faking the funk) and God knows he's one hell of a cautionary tale about what drugs can do to your looks and body. So he was fun to watch play (and I had completely forgotten what an astonishing drummer Chad Smith is; it's that Kiedis dude I could never stand....)
So it's the middle of the set and Fruciante has been singing random bits of songs between actual songs. "I Feel Love" was one, there were a few more. At one point, he starts playing this flickering guitar figure and I'm standing there, freezing cold, soaking wet, thinking, "jeez, that sounds familiar...."
And Fruciante sings the first couple of lines of Fugazi's "Latest Disgrace." (Not "Waiting Room," which I know they used to cover, not "Repeater," not another famous Fugazi one. "Latest Disgrace," from "Red Medicine.") Just the first few lines, then he stops just as abruptly as he started, then they go into one of their own tunes.
My jaw has an appointment to meet up with the rest of my face sometime next week.
― Joe Gross, Saturday, 14 June 2003 22:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
It is THE teenage prankster's funk record, HANDS DOWN. It is very punky in its attudinal approach. It is naively retarded, and therefore all that rock and roll should aspire to be. It was my first rock album and the first record I bought with my own money, so I'm obviously going to be attached to it, as it opened the floodgates for all the music I listen to and what I've chosen to pursue in life. BUT I still listen to it regularly after all these years and it is the ONLY RHCP I still listen to, for that matter. CLASSIC. Bite me.
― Francis Watlington, Sunday, 15 June 2003 03:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Fran Watling, Sunday, 15 June 2003 03:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Sunday, 15 June 2003 03:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sommermute (Wintermute), Sunday, 15 June 2003 10:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 15 June 2003 11:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Francis Watlington, Sunday, 15 June 2003 16:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
RHCP seriously don't deserve all this hatin'Yes they do.
― woo woo, Monday, 16 June 2003 08:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
No further questions, m'lud.
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 16 June 2003 09:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Francis Watlington, Monday, 16 June 2003 18:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― sam marshall, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 11:39 (twenty years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 12:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Jole (Jole), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 14:11 (twenty years ago) link
― ENRQ (Enrique), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 14:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 14:18 (twenty years ago) link
― ENRQ (Enrique), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 14:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:27 (twenty years ago) link
(However, if Tom Waits ever joins a band and has a hit....)
― chuck, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 22:25 (twenty years ago) link
Hooray for Google!
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Emma williams (Emma williams), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 01:11 (twenty years ago) link
― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 01:44 (twenty years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 10:18 (twenty years ago) link
Maybe it's the insomnia talking, but something about it is clicking tonight. I wonder if Miccio still thinks there's a good 10-track album (out of 16) here. Anyway, it in no way resembles the RHCP of old, but it could be the best of the WB-era material.
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 26 June 2005 06:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 26 June 2005 07:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― monsanto and yanni (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 26 June 2005 07:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 26 June 2005 16:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 26 June 2005 17:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 26 June 2005 17:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine eats nation-states for breakfast! (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 26 June 2005 17:36 (nineteen years ago) link
also, It's So Lonely off of Mother's Milk brings back good memories of the late 80's, especially the video with alex winter in fetal position and wearing a hat.
― ugly and mean, Tuesday, 28 June 2005 22:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― ugly and stupid and mean, Tuesday, 28 June 2005 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link
really depends on my mood. I think its got a nice mood, good harmonies and if I'm feeling pleasant I can enjoy Kiedis' dippy new age sex king deal. That said, one of the few tracks that MAKES me enjoy the inanity is "The Zephyr Song."
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link
I think I pretty well dug 'em through BSSM (dude, it's their Joshua Tree!!). After that, they just seemed to fade into MORscurity.
Now when I hear Kiedis' voice on the radio, it secretly whispers to me "don't you wonder what's on that other station...? don't you wonder what's on that other station...?"
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 22:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 23:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 23:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 23:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 23:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 23:10 (nineteen years ago) link
http://217.204.10.75/img_bg/6603.jpg
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 23:14 (nineteen years ago) link
"Sikamakaneko" and "Show Me Your Soul" are both outstanding. "Soul To Squeeze" may be third place.
― billstevejim (billstevejim), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 02:49 (nineteen years ago) link
And Frusciante's solo stuff is excellent. Fractured lo-fi songs that go everywhere melodically but always find their way home.
― Viz (Viz), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Brett Hickman (Bhickman), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link
True story: While listening to that album, I accidentally kicked a hole in the wall.
― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:08 (nineteen years ago) link
A more than fair point. Now, since I hate Kiedis's voice, the rest follows.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:10 (nineteen years ago) link
Also, the thing about RHCP in the late '80s was they turned me on to about 500 other bands. There was a thing on MTV that I taped that Anthony and Flea were on and in the span of 5 minutes they mentioned the Meters, the JBs, Parliament, the Germs, X, Descendents, Adolescents, Big Boys, Minor Threat, Black Flag, Husker Du, Curtis Mayfield, Fela Kuti, etc etc etc. As a 14 year old with a burgeoning interest in funk and punk rock and whatever else, it had a huge impact on me.
― mcd (mcd), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link
Love Rollercoaster (by far and away their best because it was on Beavis and Butthead and it sounds nothing like the chilis)
Sir Psycho Sexy (if only for the extended outro and decent bassline, hate the rapping bit)
Songs that are okay by chili peppers:Taste The PainAeroplaneTearjerkerWalkaboutScar Tissue
Songs that I don't like by Chili Peppers:most of the rest.
Their best era was between 1992 and 1994 when they stopped releasing stuff for a while. They should continue in that direction. One Hot Minute was their best album obv. I don't know why I never liked them very much. Half of it was the erect-nipple, soxoncockjock longhair and tattoos jerk-off homomachismo of it all. RHCP instantly make me think of baggy shorts and genital warts*.
The other half is it reminds me of jerks at school. The other other half is is one minute they're trying to be all whacky and spazzed out and trying to be Rick James for dunderhead whiteguys, and next they're trying to write all these stupid lamearsed ballads for your girlfriend to like. Their lyrics put me off the idea of sex at a young age - they made it sound gross, like someone throwing up all over themselves at a party.Their recent stuff is horrible and every time it comes on the pub jukebox I wanna kill myself.
Check out the cover of their new album, really what the fuck man?
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drh200/h259/h25993jdswo.jpg
Dunno, why I don't like them. Really I don't hate them I just reckon they're very very overrated. People tell me I might like John Frustrating's solo work - anyone know if it any good or what?
*wasn't meant to rhyme but it did. if Anthony Kiddies and Feal are reading this thread and want to steal my rhymes then they can.
― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:05 (eighteen years ago) link