Wednesday 24 October 2007

Red Hot Chilli Peppers




Red Hot Chili Peppers are an American alternative rock bandformed in Los Angeles, California in 1983. For most of its career, the group has consisted of vocalist Anthony Kiedis, guitarist John Frusciante, bassist Michael "Flea" Balzary, and drummer Chad Smith. The band's varied musical style has fused traditional rock with various elements of funk, punk rock, hip hop, heavy metal, anda psychedelic rock.


In addition to Kiedis and Flea, the group originally featured guitarist Hillel Slovak and drummer Jack Irons. However, Slovak died of a heroin overdose in 1988, resulting in Irons resigning.


Irons was replaced briefly by D. H. Peligro, the formerDead Kennedys drummer, before the band found a permanent replacement in Chad Smith, while Slovak was replaced by upcoming guitarist Frusciante. This lineup recorded the band's fourth and fifth albums, 1989's Mother´s Milk.

Frusciante grew increasingly uncomfortable with the band's success and left the band abruptly in 1992. Kiedis, Flea, and Smith employed Dave Navarro of Jane`s Addiction for their subsequent album, 1995's One Hot Minute. It failed, however, to match the critical acclaim of Blood Sugar Sex Magik and sold less than half the copies of its predecessor. Shortly afterwards, Navarro was fired from the band due to creative differences.

Frusciante, while absent from the band, developed a severe drug addiction and nearly died. In 1998, he completed rehabilitation and, at Flea's request, rejoined the band. The reunited foursome returned to the studio to record 1999's Californication, which went on to sell fifteen million units worldwide, becoming their most successful album to date. It was followed three years later with By the Way, which continued their success. In 2006, the group released the double album Stadium Arcadium. Stadium Arcadium was voted the second best album of 2006 by Rolling Stone magazine and nominated for the Album of the Year Grammy in 2007.
I really like this band because of their career.
Hope you like this article as much as I enjoyed while writing it.
Kisses
Cecilia Rodriguez.

5 comments:

Pedro Cinque Juan Agustin Confalonieri Eric Dati said...

IS A VERY NICE POST , WE LEARNT A LOT OF THIS BAND WE AGREE WITH YOU THEY HAVE A VERY GOOD CAREER
KISSIES

PEDRO AND JOSE

saru_manu said...

We both think this band is one of the most famous ones!
We like a lot of their songs!

Nora said...

Hello Cecilia, it's great to see that you posted something at last!!!! Good work and interesting information.

natyguada said...

Hello Cecilia,
I think this band is one of the most famous ones. I have learnt a lot about this band.
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Anonymous said...

Hi, I also like the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, their music is awesome. My favourite song is Snow, specially the begining. Nice post.
Good Luck.
Florencia Stonski