![]() Yeah, we were kind of looking to change it up, which is always great. Supposedly between One Hot Minute and Californication, there was a moment when you guys were shopping for an electronica producer and talked to people like William Orbit. Red Hot Chili Peppers Play the Hits, Lana Del Rey Is Perfectly Moody at Lollapalooza 2023 People think he was just crazy and playing whatever, but Stephen broke down how he was playing off the vocal, and the dynamics of it. Look, any rock drummer loves their Keith Moon. I loved the part where he breaks down Keith Moon’s drumming on “Who Are You.” A lot of people are pointing that out as a highlight.Įxactly. And I loved Stephen Perkins in it he’s such a drummer’s drummer. I really loved that they highlighted female drummers and how important they are to music, because that’s sometimes overlooked. But I think they made it palatable for a general audience. Often with these drum things, they’re a little too drum-nerdy, where you have to be a drummer to really get it. And I was really pleased with the final cut. I think any time is the right time, because “W e don’t get enough respect, man !” Nah, you know, any drum-oriented thing, I’m down to wave the flag. Did you feel that a celebration of drummers and drumming was particularly needed right now? You signed on early to the Count Me In documentary about drummers. And it ends up winning the Academy Award for Best Short Film in 1992! The movie is just so bad, and it’s a half-hour long. It was about this band and they’re breaking up and the guitar player wants to quit and and I’m the drummer in the band. So we had a little downtime and for two weeks I was in a film called Session Man. Well, trivia fact, actually - in 1991 we were getting ready to record Blood Sugar Sex Magik, and we were having trouble getting off our label at the time, EMI. I hope it all works out for everybody.ĭo you really have no clue where Anthony got the idea that you wanted to be a movie star? ![]() I know other guys in bands that are out and they’re just walking this Covid tight-rope thing. But it needs to be safe and fun and have some consistency. As you get a little bit older, you appreciate it more. It will be really exciting, and I see us not taking that for granted at all. ![]() We’ve written some of our best songs with these these four guys, and we do have something special. No one wants to see that! Old balls!… I know there’s gonna be people, even Chili Peppers fans, that have never seen this lineup. We’re like, “Fuck it, balls out!” We’ll literally have our balls out. Live Nation was really confident that we could do it, and we’d never done it. How do you feel about the fact that at this point in your career, with John Frusciante back in the fold, the Chili Peppers are finally doing their first U.S. ![]() (He also revealed that the band is nearly done with a new album, recorded with longtime producer Rick Rubin.) Smith spoke about the Chili Peppers’ upcoming stadium tour, the film, his work with Eddie Vedder, and more. Jane’s Addiction’s Stephen Perkins, Cindy Blackman of Santana, Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins, and many other drummers also show up. “I don’t know where he got that from.”Įven so, Smith is one of the stars of Count Me In, an entertaining new documentary on Netflix (directed by Mark Lo produced by John Giwa-Amu) about the history, art and joys of rock drumming. “That’s bullshit,” Smith says with a laugh during a recent Zoom interview. Smith didn’t reveal a name or release date for the band’s 12th studio album, but said it would be arriving before the band embarked on their global stadium tour in mid-2022.Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis wrote in his 2004 autobiography, Scar Tissue, that the band’s drummer, Chad Smith, originally came to Los Angeles from his native Detroit with dreams of becoming a movie star - though Kiedis apparently failed to fact-check that bit with his bandmate. It sounds like Red Hot Chili Peppers, but it’s different and new, and to me that’s great… We really like it and we’re proud of it and it has to start there.” So of course it’s going to sound different, but it’s gonna sound like the four of us because we do have this special chemistry together. He added: “John hasn’t been in our group in ten years. ![]() “You can’t really go, ‘Oh, gee, I hope it’s as good as…’ Then you’re starting to have preconceived notions about what you want to write.” “All of our records are just real good snapshots of where we’re that time,” he said. Frusciante’s time in the Peppers has yielded some of the band’s most celebrated albums, including Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Californication and Stadium Arcadium. With this upcoming album however, Smith says the band made it a point not to try living up to the reputations of those records. ![]()
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