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Red Hot Chili Peppers
‘Freaky Styley’: The Red Hot Chili Peppers album Flea called “too obscure” to be a hit
Not the best commercial potential.
Why Rick Rubin initially turned down Red Hot Chili Peppers: “I couldn’t wait to get out of there”
Nearly rejecting the funk wizards.
How the Red Hot Chili Pepper’s coaxed Gang of Four’s Andy Gill into producing
“We had our good days and our bad days.”
John Frusciante on Anthony Kiedis’ lack of musical ability: “He doesn’t know anything”
There was nothing pretentious in Frusciante’s analysis.
Where is the bridge from the Red Hot Chili Peppers song ‘Under the Bridge’?
A Hollywood mystery left unsolved.
The only bass line Flea regrets: “It’s the one thing I’d go back and fix”
“Another stupid white boy trying to be funky!”
The Red Hot Chili Peppers song Flea struggled to record: “Everyone didn’t like it”
How to compromise correctly.