The Red Hot Chili Peppers has made about-turn. The new Red Hot Chili Peppers is healthy and harmonic.
Michael "Flea" Balzary, 39, says that he hasn�t slept well. The previous night group gave a concert for its fans in L�Olympia-theatre, Paris. Flea tells that after the concert he had gone to a night club because he wanted to get to know some ladies. He was keen on company but he didn�t succeed at his sweet-talks. Later he had some troubles sleeping and he is very tired now.
The band�s guitarist John Frusciante, 31, says that after the gig he had gone straight to his hotel room and had called his girlfriend. He practised guitar playing, too.
The band which was known as the back room horrors has quit drinking and partying after their concerts. During the Californication -tour the band used to party after gigs. In Helsinki, Finland, they stopped by a rock klub: In October 1999 Flea, Frusciante and Chad Smith visited the place called Lepakko. They jammed with Pelle Miljoona and with the other punk rockers. Flea doesn�t remember this. He is sorry and he says that he used to get high so often that it has infect his memory but Frusciante members the night. He remebers that they played Fugaz, Waiting Room, and he left afterwards because the others sterted to play Bob Marley and he didn�t like the singer (Pelle Miljoona).
The Red Hot Chili Peppers� new album, By The Way, has been a succes in Finland. In that album you can find some beautiful melodies. Rick Rubin is the album�s producer and the music is mostly Frusciante�s handwriting. Frusciante has been an active composer in this new album, too.
" Nowadays I think what kind of musicians we four are, not what we should sound", Frusciante says.
In the album they have chosen the best singular songs, not necessary the songs which should sound the traditional RHCP. That emphasizes the new album�s new kind of sound.
Helsingin Sanomat
Viikkoliite
NYT 2002