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Red Hot Chili Peppers

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are a California-based band from Los Angeles birthed from an alternative rock movement of the 1980s and early-1990s that also included bands like of Jane's Addiction, Fishbone and Thelonious Monster. Throughout their twenty-three year career, the Chili Peppers have diversified their sound adding elements of Funk, Punk, Psychedelia and Pop to their songwriting. Vocalist Anthony Kiedis, bassist Michael "Flea" Balzary, guitarist Hillel Slovak, and drummer Jack Irons formed the band in 1983.

Known for their previous drug use and numerous line up changes, the current line up (which has been in place for almost 9 years now) features Kiedis, Flea, guitarist John Frusciante, and drummer Chad Smith. Past members in addition to Slovak and Irons include Dix Denney, Jack Sherman, Cliff Martinez, Dwayne "Blackbird" McKnight, D.H. Peligro, Arik Marshall, Jesse Tobias, and Dave Navarro. The Red Hot Chili Peppers have eight studio albums (the ninth, the long awaited double-album Stadium Arcadium, is to be released in May 2006), nine #1 modern rock hits, and have sold nearly 50 million copies of their albums worldwide (37 million of them by Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Californication and By the Way).

Originally signed to a record deal by EMI in 1983, they switched to Warner Bros. Records in 1991, and they have been with them since. Past producers include Andy Gill who produced their self-titled debut album, George Clinton who produced Freaky Styley, and Michael Beinhorn who produced The Uplift Mofo Party Plan and Mother's Milk. Their current producer is Rick Rubin, who produced Blood Sugar Sex Magik and every studio album thereafter.

The Chili Peppers Sound
The Red Hot Chili Peppers are mainly known for five things: Flea's powerful bass, their diverse musical precision, unique lyrical composition, their uncanny wearing of inside out cargo shants (pants mixed shorts), and their tendency to play bare chested (or sometimes even naked).

Flea's bass styles lie in punk rock traditions and in funk and blues, borrowing mainly from the likes of Bootsy Collins of Parliament-Funkadelic and John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin. His bass is typically the lead instrument and sets the rhythm of the Peppers songs. The groove heavy, low tuned melodies, composed through either normal fingerstyle or slapping has made for memorable bass riffs throughout the Peppers musical catalogue. Flea's unique slap bass style was the driving force of earlier albums; however, the amount of slap bass on later albums (post Mother's Milk) is significantly reduced from early albums.

The guitar styles, differing amongst the four guitarists that have recorded albums with the Peppers -- Frusciante, Slovak, Navarro, and Sherman -- all share traits of Jimi Hendrix, a distorted, yet sharp sound with strong range. However, the similarities end there. Sherman's guitar was the driest and the most distorted of the four, but he was mainly trying to stay as close as possible to Hillel Slovak's original style - most of the songs he recorded with the band had been composed with Slovak; Slovak based his guitar solely in heavier aspects blues and funk; Frusciante brought along more melodies, texture, and depth; and Navarro arguably brought along a style based in heavy metal, progressive rock and psychedelia. Sherman also added guitar solos to much of the earlier work of the Chili Peppers.

Flea was taught bass by Joss Farrington and Hillel Slovak back in 1978 who introduced Flea to his signiture bass the "Music Man Stingray" which he has used until the album "Californication".

During the early years, original member Jack Irons and replacement Cliff Martinez played drums, although Chad Smith has been with the band continuously since the late 80s. In his audition he played an energetic, chaotic jam, which is said to have taken Flea by surprise and had Chad yelling at him to keep up. Smith was later accredited as one of the premier rock drummers in the world after the release of Blood Sugar Sex Magik. The band doubted Chad's dedication to funk music, and Anthony Kiedis told him he had to shave his head before he could join the band. Smith then turned up to rehearsals the next day with his hair still in a bandana, but was allowed to stay because Anthony thought his obstinacy was impressive.

The Peppers Kiedis
Kiedis is a diverse vocalist in rock with a wide range of vocal styles which give the band an identity and sense of familiarity. His untraditional rapping (with the melody rather than the beat), spoken verse (characteristic of his vocals up to Blood Sugar Sex Magik), and singing (which has improved drastically since Freaky Styley) add another dimension to a Peppers song.

The band are claimed to be the first in the world to fuse punk and funk, or "White sound" with "Black sound", way before Aerosmith and Run DMC featured "Walk This Way", although there were already white hip-hop bands in the early 1980s, such as the Beastie Boys. Back in 1987 their sound was considered "unusual", hence the marketing problems regarding Freaky Styley. Moreover, alongside with other bands of similar styles (Faith No More, Rage Against The Machine, Fishbone, Primus) they are also sometimes credited with influencing the nu metal genre that emerged in the late 1990s. Even though most fans don't know much about the formative years of the RHCPs in the '80s, it was the backbone of their more renowned work from the '90s and 2000s