HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHILI PEPPERS!

13 Febbraio 1989... La PRIMA esibizione live dei Red Hot Chili Peppers!

29 anni...29 anni di musica, di emozioni, di eccessi, di vita ... di tutto!!

"We showed up to the Rhythm Lounge, and there were about thirty people in the club, all there to see Neighbor's Voices. I was wearing a paisley corduroy three-quarter-length robe and a fluorescent orange hunting cap. Oddly enough, I was totally sober. i had no idea how performing was going to make me fell; all I knew was that as we got up onstage, there was this weird sense of a force field traveling among us. I had seen Flea and Hillel and Jack play a million times, but I'd never seen so much intensity in their faces or purpose in their body language. Flea looked like a cylinder of glowing energy. Unbeknownst to me, he'd been snorting heroin before the show.
                The stage was microscopic. I could have reached out in either direction and touched Hillel or Flea. We didn't even get a proper introduction, but people started to take notice as we were plugging in. All the anticipation of the moment hit me, and I instinctively knew that the miracle of manipulating energy and tapping into an infinite source of power and harnessing it in a small space with your friends was what I had been put on this earth to do.
                And then Jack Irons, bless his heart, cocked his neck back and hit his sticks together and counted off "One, two, three, four." When the music started, I didn't know what I was going to do, but I had so much juice flowing through me that I did a flip in that tight space and nailed it. And we all just erupted. We had no idea what we were about until that moment, but right into the song, we realized that we were about exploding and killing it with everything we had. As we performed, everybody who was in that room who hadn't been paying attention zombied all the way up to the stage. When we finished, the audience was completely stunned and speechless, frozen in their tracks."

(A. Kiedis with L. Sloman - Scar Tissue)

Questa fu la loro prima canzone..questa è l'origine di tutto, quando si facevano chiamare "Tony Flow and the Miraculous Masters of Mayhem".



Certo ne è passato di tempo, la loro musica si è evoluta ma non ha mai (tranne qualche scivolone) perso l'impronta originaria, quel misto di punk, funk, rock e psychedelia che li contraddistingue da altre band e, dopo 29 anni e ormai arrivati alla soglia dei fatidici 50 anni, sono ancora sulla vetta a rockeggiare e a riempire gli stadi di fans vecchi come me, catturati irrimediabilmente da Mother's Milk e Blood Sugar Sex Magik, e una nuova generazione di seguaci che va dai 13 ai 19 anni...
Un bel traguardo per chi, quella sera, salì su quel microscopico palco con una canzone, scritta in una notte sopra un giro di basso, senza saper bene le sensazioni che avrebbe provato con quella performance...
E quest'anno entrano - era l'ora, direi! - nella Rock&Roll Hall of Fame!!!
Che dire...RHCP RULEZZZZZZZZZ!!!!

P.s.: cambiarono il nome in Red Hot Chili Peppers la settimana dopo, quando, visto il successo, furono chiamati nuovamente a suonare in quel locale ;)

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