We got old

[Megotastrophe]

Listening to the radio with my son and Red Hot Chili Peppers was playing. My son called them an old time band. Their first album was 1984 and I was in high school. So for him it's a 40 year old band. That was like me listening to the Andrews Sisters singing about the Boovie Woogie Bugle Boy in 1984

[Megotastrophe]

The double post got me again

[powersthatbe]

I love the RHCP. Same with me they debuted when I was in high school and still love listening to them today and enjoy whenever a new album arrives. they released two in one year last time. I guess you call their music Funk Rock.

[ODBJBG]

Listening to the radio with my son and Red Hot Chili Peppers was playing. My son called them an old time band. Their first album was 1984 and I was in high school. So for him it's a 40 year old band. That was like me listening to the Andrews Sisters singing about the Boovie Woogie Bugle Boy in 1984

It is kinda scary when you put it that way. And kids (I use the term lightly) in the teens and early 20s are often living in a completely different world than those 30+ much less those 50+ but that's probably been true for every generation. The difference is the Andrews Sisters had kinda disappeared by 84, their stuff still wasn't all over pop culture (though it still popped up from time to time) whereas things like the RHCP still do. There's a great theory about how pop culture is "stuck" in a way that it never has been before in modern history (thanks to nostalgia, internet trends, creating IPs that last forever, etc.) and I think there's some truth to that even if a lot of stuff we might consider "newer" is in fact, quite old now and is viewed as such by younger people.

[BudgetMego]

Listening to the radio with my son and Red Hot Chili Peppers was playing. My son called them an old time band. Their first album was 1984 and I was in high school. So for him it's a 40 year old band. That was like me listening to the Andrews Sisters singing about the Boovie Woogie Bugle Boy in 1984

I like The Andrew's Sisters. Not that I bought their records, but I liked their numbers in the Abbott and Costello movies. Buck Privates, Hold That Ghost, and In the Navy. They used to play on the weekends, in the days before VCRs. " The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B."

[Jorge Galvan]

Josh Klinghoffer, Arik Marshall, John Frusciante, Dave Navarro, Hillel Slovak. The Peppers always had some unique guitar players.


Flea and Anthony always modeled themselves after Parliament -Funkedelic and they have done a really excellent job while remaining true to their LA background.

Not a lot of people know, but Flea & Anthony went to MIT (musicians Institute) there in Hollyweird and were looking for replacements and that is where they found Chad and John. John was the ONLY player obsessed with Hendrix, while everyone else was mastering SHREDDING!

So John got the gig.


Chad was into John Bonham and could actually GROOVE while all the other drummers where playing kits with 4-6 Floor Toms and playing like Alex Van Halen, Carmine Appice or Cozy Powell on SPEED!

Anthony and Flea have TRIED to keep those facts a secret for decades.


I did feel sorry for Arik, he was in a no win situation. Actually all the guitar players that have been in the band. They ALWAYS try to COERCE Frusciante back into the band. But John like Hillel had a bad smack habit.


I hope he is finally off that ****.

[shaunaconda]

The Chili Peppers are great! Got to see them a couple times back in the day. In 89 and the 92 Lolapalooza!