Fandemonium by Red Hot Chili Peppers

Author:Red Hot Chili Peppers [Peppers, Red Hot Chili]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Music Trade, Red Hot Chili Peppers
ISBN: 9780762455362
Publisher: Running Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

I like people. I like interacting with people and I love watching people’s crazy transformations in their journeys and their struggles and their pain and their pleasure and their horrible defects of character and their amazing qualities and their expressions. I’m really a fan of fans. I look at these people and they knock me out because they are so enthusiastic about something. When I look at a person that can cry out of joy for what somebody else has done, that is pretty admirable. At the same time, it’s so easy to go through periods of life without seeing what’s around you, to get caught up in a small picture and for whatever reason get stuck seeing only that which you’ve decided is worth your focus. It could happen with a social life, an intimate relationship, a work situation, or God knows what other realm of restricted consciousness.

Well, it happened to me. The longer that we were in the band and the more difficult the schedule got and the more traveling we did and the bigger my life got, all contributed to it, and then I had a son that I had to dedicate a lot of time and energy to. As a result I became less connected with the people that love what we did, for sure. I can’t go out in the middle of our audience and hang out. It will be a bad experience for me. So I stay away and I concentrate as hard as I can on giving of myself and doing my best to have a moment with these people when we play our show. We don’t phone shit in, ever.

The realization of this separation happening to me occurred a few years ago while we were on tour in Japan. After reinventing our band the Red Hot Chili Peppers with Josh Klinghoffer as our guitarist and vocalist, after writing fifty-some odd songs, recording them, rehearsing them, and becoming who we were as a group, I had lost touch with some of the other essential elements of what it is to be part of a musical entity. Our second show of this new foray into touring with Josh was at the Sonic Festival in Osaka, Japan. We were still developing as a live act but I could feel in my heart and soul that we were on our way to discovering a new and beautiful power as a band. As is typically the case with us playing a large festival show, somewhere out there in this music-loving world, we were rather sequestered literally a half a mile away from the stage where the good people of Japan had gathered to hear music. We were in our backstage, air-conditioned cocoon universe with its fruit trays, stereo system, fine rugs for stretching on, separate rooms for stretching and doing vocal warm-ups, notebooks for set list writing, all of our tinctures and potions and lotions neatly laid out, all of this giving us the peace to prepare for us unleashing our passionate wrath during the show.

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