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Saturday, November 28, 2009

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Who Are They?

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Who Are They?. Red Hot Chili Peppers is an American group rock, format to Los Angeles in 1983. In their career they have stirred with succeeding several kinds, which funk, punk, rap, alternatives rock and POP rock. They have sold more than 65 million than discs [without source], of which 22 million in the single United States ; moreover they stop the record for the greater number of single to the first place of the Modern Rock Tracks, classifies drafted from the Billboard review. Of they Anthony Kiedis in its book Scar Tissue has written: “If the chili peppers are for you a feeling, a feeling or a form of energy, But if for you they are simple vegetables, also those have thus many connotations”.


History of the group

The group was founded from three boys from the Fairfax High School di Los Angeles, the bassist and former member of the Fear Michael " Flea" Balzary, the singer Anthony Kiedis and the chitarrista Hillel Slovak. Their first formation was completed from the drummer Jack Irons. In origin they chose the name Tony Flow and the Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem for their first exhibition from the alive one, and they were formed in 1983 as a result of this performance, to the premises " Rhythm Lounge".

For occasion executed the song " Out in L.A." , written from Kiedis on the bases of a low turn funk of Flea. The performance astonished the public, to the point from invogliare the group to return to the premises the following week, and thus they changed name in Red Hot Chili Peppers. After other concerts to Los Angeles, they obtained a sure popolarità in the local scene rock and recorded the six songs played to the " Rhythm Lounge" on a demo, for the first time trying to obtain a record contract. All' age Hillel Slovak and Jack Irons they played also for the What Is This? , under contract with MCA Records, and therefore they returned to you all' beginning of 1984 for the recording of new egg whites. In the same year the others two Red Hot signed a contract with EMI,and exited Red Hot Chili Peppers, with Jack Sherman to the guitar and Cliff Martinez on drums. Product from Andy Gill of the Gang of Four, egg whites did not obtain succeeded trade them and the tour it had not turned out better, above all because of contrasts of Sherman with Kiedis and Flea. There were also screzi with the producer Andy Gill, that it wanted that the group had sonorità orecchiabili. Thus Sherman from there went , and Hillel Slovak returned to the guitar. George Clinton, main mind of the Parliament and the Funkadelic, was engaged for the production of Freaky Styley in 1985. According to job of the group one distinguished in order more infuences funk, partially thanks all' contribution of Clinton , even if the result not discostarono much from the homonymous debut . Quickly after the publication of the disc, Cliff Martinez was fired and replaced for some time from Chuck Biscuits, with which they continued for a tour summery; the first drummer, Jack Irons, returned in the Red Hot all' beginning of 1986. Then their problems with heroin. Anthony tried to leave them because of its dependency, and then it gathered once detoxicated, while Hillel succeeded to contain itself and to remain in the group. Their third egg whites, that it entered for the first time in classifies Billboard and just to the number 148, were The Uplift Mofo Party Plan in 1987.

Product from Michael Beinhorn, was l' only recorded from the original compages of the group and it was promoted also from a tour in Europe. Little after the return from the European concerts, the 27 june 1988 Slovak was found died for overdose in a hotel of Los Angeles. Hit from the gravity of the fact, and openly declaring not to want to enter in their problems with the drug, Irons left the band and began to work for other groups like Pearl Jam and Eleven.

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