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Submitted by jag81 on April 12, 2007
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“They’re Red Hot”
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers are widely known for their punk-funk music. They got their start in Los Angeles, California at a small venue, the Rhythm Lounge at the Grandea Room on Melrose, playing in front of thirty people (Scar Tissue, p. 104-106). They were known as Tony Flow and the Miraculous Masters of Mayhem. It wasn’t until after their second performance under this name that they decided to change the band’s name to the better known Red Hot Chili Peppers. They are still performing and are currently on tour with The Mars Volta, promoting their newest two-disc album titled Stadium Arcadium.
The band’s history starts long before they ever considered playing together as The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Anthony Kiedis, Michael Balzary (a.k.a. “Flea”) and Hillel Slovak met during their freshman year at Fairfax High School. They spent most of those early years smoking marijuana, drinking alcohol, going to shows and pursuing girls. The trio didn’t actually start performing together until they reached the age of twenty.
“Out in L.A.” was the first song performed by the newly formed Tony Flow and the Miraculous Masters of Mayhem. This quartet consisted of Jack Irons as the drummer, guitarist Hillel, bassist Flea, and vocalist Kiedis. Kiedis says, “In some ways, I owe my career to my friend, Gary Allen” (Scar Tissue, p. 104). Gary Allen was a member of the headlining group playing the Rhythm Lounge, Gary and Neighbor’s Voices. Gary had asked Keidis, Slovak and Balzary to play one song to open up for his band. At the time Balzary, Slovak, and Irons were playing together in another band called Anthym. When Kiedis joined the mix for this supposed one-time thing, they “latched on to the energy of Defunkt and the raw edginess of the Gang of Four, and of course, the cosmic freedom implicit in Jimi Hendrix’s guitar playing” (Scar Tissue, p.104). Though Keidis wasn’t a singer, he found...
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