Chili Peppers cooling off?
Two years have passed since the Red Hot Chili Peppers released their Grammy Award winning, double album, Stadium Arcadium, and with time spent, one starts
to wonder: What’s next? As we reported last week, the Peppers have apparently been flirting around with new sounds in the studio. However, despite acting as curator for the new American Music Union Festival, recently Anthony Kiedis has been taking his time off and enjoying it, at least that’s what he told Rolling Stone yesterday.
“We’re disbanded for the moment. We actually took a very long time to make the Stadium Arcadium record, because we wrote a lot of songs and then got way too married to them and decided we need it to be a double album. Which was a great experience, but it took forever. It was really a grueling, long haul and it followed two other very long hauls, Californication and By the Way.”
“Cooler heads prevailed and the discussion at the end of our last tour was, “Let’s not do anything Red Hot Chili Peppers-related for a minimum of one year, and just live and breathe and eat and learn new things.”
“I’m just home, hanging out with this really cool little kid, learning how to surf. But I’m starting to get just a little bit of a tingle that it would be nice to start thinking about songs and pieces of music. But just pieces.”
This much should have been expected. Given the gap between 2002’s By the Way and 2006’s Stadium Arcadium, any fan should take the prospects of a new album with a grain of salt. Though, this is a band that’s known to surprise anyone at last minute. Hell, if I recall, we found out word of a double album back in 2005 through some random interview with Flea at a movie premiere.
Maybe someone will catch Chad Smith at the urinal.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers - “Readymade” (Live)
if you know the red hot chili peppers, you know that their soul is ingrained in california. read keidis’ auto bio “scar tissue” it will really make you respect them for what they are
If they are going to write another album of lame soft rock songs about California, they should just call it quits.
I actually met Chad Smith at a urinal years ago. I waited until he was done with his business to say hello but he didn’t reveal any news.
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