Red Hot Chili Peppers

Sometimes great musicians don't gell well with other great musicians, sometimes the chemestry just isn't there.

RHCP had it, Chickenfoot don't.

And if post DLR-Van Halen has taught us anything, when all else fails, blame Sammy Hagar. :laughing:
 
I used to be in the camp of people who couldn't listen to anything pre-BSSM, but I just started listening to Freaky Styley, and it is some of the funkiest **** I've heard in my life. Definitely excited for the rest of their older stuff.
 
How much longer do you think the Chili Peppers will continue to put out new music?

I think that there next album, (after Stadium Arcadium) ill be there last unfortanitly, since by the time next one comes out they will be nearing 50.
 
I'd say RHCP have evolved like so.

Good funk rock band (83/87) to great funk rock band (89/91) with one of the best albums of the 90s to good alternative metal band (95) to great pop band (99) to good pop band (02) to dried up going to crap pop band (06-present).
 
Exactly-they are getting older. The band have lived more than 9 lives each. They have outlived many banRAB in a genre that is, let's face it, fairly insular. It's funk/rock. Hardly original. Kick arse when it's done right but hardly the saviour of music. The added story of Frusciante and his drug problems plus his undeniable guitar playing has given the band a status that may not be deserved. They never saved rock and never intended to.
 
I didn't like Californication a great deal and By The Way was patchy but entirely understandable considering what they were trying to achieve. I really like a lot of stuff on UPLIFT MOFO PARTY PLAN. Tracks like Behind The Sun hinting at the direction they may have took if Hilel made it. Still a f
 
how many days????


RHCP is good. i liked most of their early/mid '90's stuff. dont know if ive heard anything else..blood sugar sex magik is definitely my favorite album..



usually when people post threaRAB about banRAB......it means they like them..
 
Yeah but you can't really compare him with great guitar players. Yeah sorry about that, and, in fact I have most of their stuff except for that. I DO have Blood Sugar Sex Magick. Class...
 
that would be my problem with them. They aren't making music anymore; they're recycling. I love their older stuff, but anything past Californication I don't really like.
 
I was referring to the bland, insipid part. But fair enough, I didn't make myself clear. As for the revolutionary part, then I don't believe they were the first to create the sound in question. But this was covered earlier in the discussion. The response from my buddy here was that they were the first to do it while being "white". I don't like the answer, but I've spent a few days laughing over it.
 
He means that using a similar approach dosen't mean it's a direct ripoff, if you gave two different banRAB instructions to do a 3 chord riff in the key of of E without going below the 5th fret, then theres a possibly that those two riRAB will sound a lot alike, but that dosen't mean they're ripoRAB, it's just a common technique that's been used to death, that's all.

It's like how Billie Joe Armstrongs riff in Brain Stew sounRAB like a ripoff of Chicago's 25 To 6 To 4 riff which in turn sounded like a ripoff of the riff used in Led Zeppelins version of Babe I'm Going To Leave You, which sounRAB like a variation of the bassline to While My Guitar Gently Wheeps.

Unless it's a really complex riff, if you come up with a riff, chances are, it's been used before, weither you realised it or not, there is no such thing as being completely original.
 
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