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Red Hot Chili Peppers
Red Hot Chili Peppers


Background information
Origin Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Genre(s) Alternative Rock
Funk Rock
Years active 1983—present
Label(s) EMI Music
Associated acts John Frusciante
Ataxia
Swahili Blonde
Atoms for Peace
Chickenfoot
Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats
Dot Hacker
What Is This?
Thelonious Monster
Jane's Addiction
The Mars Volta
The Bicycle Thief
Eleven
Fishbone
Pearl Jam
Website Website
Members
Anthony Kiedis
Flea
Chad Smith
Josh Klinghoffer
Former members
John Frusciante
Dave Navarro
Jesse Tobias
Arik Marshall
D.H. Peligro
DeWayne "Blackbyrd" McKnight
Hillel Slovak
Jack Irons
Cliff Martinez
Jack Sherman



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Red Hot Chili Peppers Confirm Two Year Hiatus

October 1, 2008
Red Hot Chili Peppers Confirm Two Year HiatusRed Hot Chili Peppers have re-iterated their plan to take two years away from the music industry.

Earlier this year, frontman Anthony Keidis revealed that the band had decided to take time off following extensive touring of their last record, ‘Stadium Arcadium’.

The singer said the group had been left “emotionally and mentally zapped” by the tour.

Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, bassist Flea confirms Keidis' comments. "We just needed two years. We had our noses to the grindstones so hard for so long,” he said.

“We needed to get away from it and get a fresh perspective on things."

Flea recently enrolled in the University of Souther California's music programme in order to learn “the math and academics” of music.

"I'm glad my music education has developed the way that it has, but it's so much fun to learn this stuff because I never knew anything," he said.

"I played trumpet in the school bands. learned things I liked to play on my trumpet but I didn't learn why this note goes with this note and why it produces that sound. Or how to create tension in the composition.

"The Chili Peppers did that in our song structures but all based on emotion and intuition as opposed to knowing the math and academics of it. Knowing the structure is really fun."

(by Jason Gregory)



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