Does anyone really like the Red Hot Chili Peppers?

the 1988 Sam Elliot/Paul Weller film

I would pay money to see Sam Elliot kill Paul Weller on film. Or at least abuse him.

As for the question at hand...I'll grant 'em "Give It Away" and Frusciante really is a fantastic musician on his own. But that's it.

“Hey, why didn’t we think of that?”

Copies were at Terrastock.

it pained me to say that.

frusciante's cuteness is another matter entirely.

EVERYONE DOES. (except for me & maybe chaki)

Honestly, I loved their first 3 albums, was kinda "meh" about most of Mother's Milk (even though "Magic Johnson" & "Knock Me Down" are grebt songs, and "Pretty Little Ditty" was a thing of beauty until Crazytown raped it raw), ABSOLUTELY LOVED AND STILL DO Blood Sugar Sex Magik, and everything since then has been touched with rare moments of greatness ("Kill Your Television" fr'instance), but mostly frustrating in-that they've got great melodic/harmonic ideas (thank you John Frusciate!), but a lead singer with a rather limited range and a voice that can be k-annoying. This is a band I once loved, now a band I k-like that has some songs I love that my own band is (painfully often) compared to.

Well, I'm sold!

By The Way
Universally Speaking
This Is The Place
Dosed
The Zephyr Song
Can't Stop
Cabron
On Mercury
Minor Thing
Venice Queen

See, the problem is how we're defining 'pleasant.' ;-)

MAYBE? man i never miss a show. wait till you hear what Angelo Moore/Chaki are workin on in the studio together!

Unyielding Conditioning
Lemon Merangue
Rock Star
When Problems Arise
Housework

I'm wondering how Gill's production technique has changed over the years. There's a sort've crackly, blistering quality to the sound on this album, but the players seem very sonicly tucked behind the vocals, which -- unfortunately -- highlights Anthony Kiedis' limitations as a singer (not Andy Gill's fault). At the very least -- it's got a cleaner sound, quite unlike, say, the last Killing Joke album, Democracy, so here's hoping Gill's input solves that dilemna.

AL B SURE TO THREAD

Jesus Christ, this is one of the harshest damned-if-you-do/damned-if-you-don't set-ups I've ever heard of

this is the single most triumphantly cynical act I have ever heard recounted and my hat is off to Brooke

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.

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.

Sometimes I feel like my only friend / Is the donkey I live with / A wisecracking equine

Give it away give it away give it away now

Mike Myers walking like he talkin

Understand I don't wanna be a dorkwad

How come everybody wanna keep it like Lord Farquaad

Give it away give it away give it away now

I really like Flea’s playing on higher ground, it sounds like he’s climbing a stairmaster

"Under the Bridge" is for sure about Shrek"
you're right. under sheck's bridge you find shrek's mud pool