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Uncle Sam's Revenge: Red Hot Chili Peppers at London’s Dingwalls

Live Review by Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 14 September 1985

FROM THAT catastrophe-fraught fusion chamber where funk meets guitar noise comes the world’s most crazily perfect punk-funk band, The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Tonight Husker ...

Freaky and Stylish: When the Chili Peppers Met Dr. Funkenstein

Book Excerpt by Jeff Apter, 'Fornication' (Omnibus Press), 2004

By 1985 the Red Hot Chili Peppers were a band in trouble. Their self-titled debut album, released the year before, had been a disaster, and ...

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Red Hot Chili Peppers (1985)

Interview by Simon Witter, Rock's Backpages audio, 24 August 1985

Peppers Flea and Hillel Slovak run down the band's history, compare and contrast production methods of Andy (Gang of Four) Gill and George Clinton, chat about punk and funk, and generally rabbit on!

File format: mp3; file size: 43.3mb, interview length: 47' 18" sound quality: ***

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The Red Hot Chili Peppers Will Pose Nude In Public...

Interview by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, L.A. Weekly, 31 May 1984

THERE WAS gonna be a free newfangled video-disc taped to the cover of this Weekly . Yes, we music critters in the business (we in ...

What's Red Hot and Chili?: Red Hot Chili Peppers

Interview by Glenn O'Brien, Spin, May 1985

THE RED HOT Chili Peppers are the greatest rock band in the world. You can tell by watching them perform or you can guess by ...

Red, White & Blue: The Red Hot Chili Peppers

Report and Interview by Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 28 September 1985

2004 note: In August 1985 I got a phone call from George Clinton, saying that the P-Funk All-Stars show at Hammersmith Odeon that weekend had ...

The Red Hot Chili Peppers: Freaky Styley (EMI America/Enigma)

Review by Ira Robbins, Rolling Stone, 24 October 1985

AFTER NEARLY two decades of racial division, popular music is in the midst of an overdue and exciting (if modest) effort to integrate itself. One ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Freaky Styley (EMI America/Enigma)

Review by Richard Gehr, Glenn O'Brien, Spin, November 1985

WELCOME TO THE Day-Glo minstrel show, bro, brought to you by the baddest posse of white funk puppies west of the mighty Mississip. ...

When You’re Hot: Red Hot Chili Peppers. When You’re Not: The Untouchables

Review by Don Snowden, The Boston Phoenix, 5 November 1985

ROCKABILLY AND COUNTRY have fit in right nicely with the white-boys-(and-girls)-making-white-noise ethos that underlies the return-to-sources rampage of recent Los Angeles rock. ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Palace Theatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 7 February 1986

PEPPERS' HIGH JINKS ...

The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Cabaret Voltaire: The Limelight, New York NY

Live Review by Frank Owen, New Musical Express, 28 November 1987

TEN YEARS ago, Cabaret Voltaire gave the appearance of being needed on the principal that today's avant-garde is tomorrow's ready-to-wear. These days there's nothing as ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Interview by Glenn O'Brien, Interview, 1988

THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS ARE PLAYERS & ATHLETES & POETS & HOMEPERSONS. THEY RIFF, THEY RAP, THEY BARK, THEY BITE, THEY STRIP NAKED AND ...

Lust In Space: The Red Hot Chili Peppers

Interview by Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 16 January 1988

Stardate ’88.Warp factor 10. The Red Hot Chili Peppers are preparing to pervert the planet, "hit it to hell in the bread-basket", and, er, do ...

The Red Hot Chili Peppers: The Uplift Mofo Party Plan (EMI America Import LP only)

Review by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 16 January 1988

EXPLODING PARTY PEPPERS ...

Tribal Sex-Funk! Starring the Red Hot Chili Peppers

Profile and Interview by Simon Witter, i-D, March 1988

Judderfunk Giants of the Hollywood Hills, and foes of all things orderly, the Red Hot Chili Peppers have just released The Uplift Mofo Party Plan, ...

Red Hot Chilli Peppers: The Clarendon, Hammersmith, London

Live Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 5 March 1988

SO THE Clarendon faces closure, and yes it's a sad day for rock, another step in the drawn-out death of the London gig circuit, and ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers: The Uplift Mofo Party Plan

Review by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, 12 March 1988

SO THIS is where all the funk went. The Red Hot Chili Peppers have triumphed in a medium I thought you could only blunder in ...

The Red Hot Chili Peppers: Electric Ballroom, London

Live Review by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, 28 May 1988

AS SIMON Reynolds said last time they tripped over here, The Red Hot Chili Peppers are totally WRONG. This alone makes them great. The mix ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Thelonius Monster: Mishas, Hollywood

Live Review by Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 17 September 1988

CHILI TO GO ...

Chili Peppers Taste Success at Last

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 7 January 1990

After seven long years, L.A.'s loony punk-funk band finally gains respect for its music as well as its off-stage antics ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Milk Men

Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 10 February 1990

Spicy US quartet the RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS are currently deliverin' vitamin-packed daily doses of their latest album, Mother's Milk, to the troops up and ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers: The Ritz, New York

Live Review by Evelyn McDonnell, Billboard, 2 June 1990

LIKE PUBLIC Enemy, Red Hot Chili Peppers appear to want to do the right thing. It's just that they keep sticking their feet in their ...

Anthony Keidis: Jungle Fever

Interview by Pippa Lang, Metal Hammer, 1991

As the Red Hot Chili Peppers' fifth album, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, prepares to confuse and amuse, Pippa Lang visits leading luminary Anthony Kiedis at ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Magicians followed but not chaste

Interview by Simon Reynolds, The Observer, 29 September 1991

One of the most hyperactive rock scenes in the United States is a genre called 'funk-metal' or 'funk 'n' roll'. Groups like Faith No More, ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Blood Sugar Sex Magik (Warners/All formats)

Review by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 12 October 1991

TOOLS YOU CAN TRUST ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Lost In Spice

Interview by Cathi Unsworth, Melody Maker, 21 March 1992

CATHI UNSWORTH travelled to Liverpool to join the Peppers on their current UK tour and found out just how the band's mammoth jaunt around the ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers: See You Later Ejaculator

Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 21 March 1992

THINK OF one word to sum up the Red Hot Chili Peppers. COME ON! COME ON! Sex, right? Right. ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Ich Bin Ein Chiliburger

Report and Interview by David Quantick, Vox, April 1992

The Red Hot Chili Peppers' latest album BloodSugarSexMagik is powerful enough to blow anyone's socks off — so perhaps that's why David Quantick found them ...

'Looza Takes All

Report by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 8 August 1992

The LOLLAPALOOZA II festival winds its way around America with a bill as exotic as its name. Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ministry and Pearl Jam ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Red Hot 'n' Blue

Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 8 August 1992

The last few months have been pretty hard to swallow for the RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS. They've had to cope with the rising tide of ...

Lollapalooza 2: One Nation Under a Groove

Report by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 15 August 1992

It's Glastonbury on wheels, a mobile Reading, the lovechild and legacy of ex-Jane's Addiction frontman and all-round chap, Perry Farrell. It's LOLLAPALOOZA, in its second ...

Rick Rubin: The Buddha of Suburbia

Interview by RJ Smith, Details, July 1993

Rick Rubin built a recording empire from a dorm room at NYU. With Def American Recordings, he's taken the sound of the streets to the ...

Essential Guide To "Explicit" Albums

Guide by Stephen Dalton, Vox, August 1994

Back in 1985, one seemingly harmless song led a woman to take unprecedented action against the American recording industry. Thanks to her moral crusade, albums ...

Woodstock II: Sodden Life Is Rubbish

Report by John Harris, New Musical Express, 27 August 1994

Take 250,000 hippy children (Please! — Ed) and baby boomers reliving the 'glories' of the '60s, stick them in a sea of mud and charge ...

Reading 94 Sunday. Main Stage

Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 3 September 1994

WOKE UP. No longer in hospital. Cool. Thought I'd check out this "rock festival" stuff. ...

The Red Hot Chili Peppers: Red Hot and Renewed

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 10 September 1995

For Chili Peppers bassist Flea, the road to success was paved with physical and emotional burnout. But these days, he's feeling rejuvenated as the band ...

Why Are Records Too Long?

Report by Roy Trakin, Musician, November 1995

And other odd twists of the CD revolution. ...

A Conversation with Anthony Kiedis

Interview by Steve Roeser, Goldmine, November 1996

THERE'S A PARTICULAR high school campus in Los Angeles, in a section of that sprawling city where the California 5 freeway cuts through an area ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Californication (WEA 9362 473862)

Review by Tom Doyle, Q, July 1999

Troubled Funk: The band who're always going to split up... ...

The Red Hot Chili Peppers: To Live and Die in L.A.

Interview by RJ Smith, Spin, August 1999

IN THE FOUR YEARS SINCE THEIR LAST ALBUM, THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS HAVE SURVIVED DRUG RELAPSES, MENTAL FREAK-OUTS, AND THE DEPARTURE OF DAVE NAVARRO. ...

An Interview with John Frusciante

Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, March 2001

WHEN FRESH-FACED, 18-year old New Yorker John Frusciante was originally recruited as guitarist by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, following the heroin-related death of original ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers: By The Way

Review by Peter Murphy, Hot Press, 17 May 2002

AHEAD OF THE Red Hot Chili Peppers' forthcoming Lansdowne Road show on June 25th, Hot Press has been granted an Irish exclusive preview of the ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers: SECC, Glasgow

Live Review by Simon Price, Independent on Sunday, 9 March 2003

"YOU'RE THE SEXIEST man on earth!!!" Anthony Kiedis probably can't hear the shriek of Scots approval from 50 yards' distance, but I sure as hell ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers/The Mars Volta: Docklands Arena, London

Live Review by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, 22 March 2003

IT TAKES A RARE band to transform a large cavern sucked of all life into something approximating a Saturday night party. Many try, most fail. ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Retrospective by Devon Powers, PopMatters, 3 December 2003

TRUTH BE TOLD, Blood Sugar Sex Magik is not my all-time favorite album, no matter how you slice it. ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers: American Spice

Profile and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, The Independent, 16 June 2004

ANTHONY KEIDIS'S house, an expanse of glass and whiteness, is right on top of the Hollywood Hills. Walk down the steps into the vast, white, ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Profile and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, July 2004

Clowntime is over for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the L.A. punks who defied death, grunge and a burning crack den to play the music ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers/James Brown: Hyde Park, London, 20th June

Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, September 2004

JUST HOW SERIOUSLY can you take the Red Hot Chili Peppers? Or am I missing the point? ...

The Holy and Sacred thoughts of His Bobness

Book Review by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 11 December 2004

THE GREATEST music book this year, of course, is Bob Dylan's Chronicles, Vol. 1 (Simon & Schuster, £16.99; offer £13.39) — a cultural event so notable ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Out Of Their Tree

Profile and Interview by Alan Light, Spin, May 2006

TWO YEARS AGO, RHCP went to Europe to play in front of the largest crowds of their 20-plus-year-career. After surviving numerous personnel changes, drug problems, ...

The Hottest Band in the World: Red Hot Chili Peppers

Profile by Andy Gill, The Independent, 3 May 2006

IN RECENT YEARS, mountain-man lookalike record producer Rick Rubin has been justly fêted for his career-revival work with Johnny Cash, which effectively recontextualised the Man ...

Rick Rubin: The Man Who Made The Chilis Hot

Report and Interview by Robert Sandall, Daily Telegraph, 4 May 2006

As the Red Hot Chili Peppers release a monumental new album, their producer Rick Rubin tells Robert Sandall how he tamed one of pop's most ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Interview by Robert Sandall, GQ, June 2006

Sex, drugs and a fatal overdose: the history of Red Hot Chili Peppers reads like a crash course in overindulgence. Here, in their own words, ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Stadium Arcadium

Review by Tom Doyle, MOJO, June 2006

A trilogy in two parts. The Chilis' ninth sees their star still in the ascendance. ...

see also John Frusciante

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