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shawn time 01.05.20..04.05.06
rhcp in pdx
new chili peppers album in may. a double.
i have been listening to these guys for a long time.
tim reese and shane reaney controversially threw "mother's milk" into the pa system at spartquake in 1990 for all of 1st and 2nd lunch to enjoy. i am not sure the principal quite knew what they were singing about. i am not sure i did either. i am not sure anyone else in the school even knew who the red hot chili peppers were, but when i heard what i heard, it hooked me.
in the fall of 1991 they released "blood sugar sex magik". its their best album. subsequently, they toured to promote that album.
i passed up a chance to see them play in january 1992 at the salem armory. some band named nirvana was opening for them. and another band....what was their name....oh...pearl jam.....pearl jam started the night off. (interesting note: the chili peppers opened for pearl jam in seattle in 2000. 8 years later, roles reversed). i think the only guy i know that went to it was roone meier. the rest of us were dumb. i think eddie vedder and kurt cobain got in a fight soon afer that gig and one of them left the tour. mkinmotion probably knows the trivia on that and can fill in the details.
i dont know why i didnt go to that show. money maybe. a ride to salem maybe. no one knew really who pearl jam was at the time. and i gotta tell ya, nirvana in 1991/2 was not the nirvana that exists today. there was no legacy, no suicide, no legend. heck, there was hardly anything except "smells like teen spirit", which was so overplayed on 970, kufo, and mtv that we all made fun of it. it was not cool to like nirvana in 1992. they were popular, and popular was not cool. nirvana played SNL a week after that salem chili peppers show i didnt go to. chili peppers played SNL a month later. pearl jam 2 months after that.
anyway...i saw them (rhcp) play in portland a few years ago (supported by the flaming lips). i got the tickets before i knew that frusciante was back with them. it was the first time i saw them play live. over ten years (closer to 15) since i started listening to them. it was an alright show. i made me kick myself for missing that show in 1992. missing the chance to hear freaky styley, upliftmofopartyplan, or mothers milk live. missing the change to hear blood sugar. this most recent concert consisted mostly of content off of their last few albums. only a few songs off those older albums (give it away, under the bridge, and i think they did their cover of hendrix' fire). i dont blame them. new music. new times. new fans.
so, now, a new double album and another tour (as well as helping perry ferrell keep lollapalooza back on track this summer). i gotta admit that although these last three albums have not been poor...i still long for some old school, 1st decade chili pepper sounds. i wouldn't be sad if flea slapped it up a bit. if frusciante just played a few chunks here and there. anthony rocked some of that LA whiteboy rap stuff he's got. would that be so wrong? they have a new set of fans that i dont think know that they have a half dozen albums before californication...or that the cool lick in that crazy town song is a chili peppers sample.
looks like they'll be comin' portland first...i think i will go...
screen capture taken from RedHotChiliPeppers.com
and this from their itunes page...
although i could pre-order the album through iTunes and get it the instant it "drops", i think i will find a tower records and go buy it in the store like we did way back in 1992.
oh, and i think i will buy the new ipod if its black...with a red scroll wheel.
Comments
traci wrote this at 13.28.41..04.05.06
are you making fun of black ipods with red scroll wheels?
MKinMotion wrote this at 14.10.43..04.05.06
Pearl Jam is coming out with a new album too. Self-titled, you know what that means?
28 tracks from RHCP...
MKinMotion wrote this at 14.58.42..04.05.06
By the way (no pun intended), what do you think of the new RHCP single? You weren't to hot for By The Way, so I ask.
rameytime wrote this at 18.43.36..04.13.06
dude...black ipods with red scroll wheels are cool. and i will just assume that your comment about them simply reveals your jealousy.
black ipods with red scroll wheels use less batteries (at least the ones without the color display). so not only are they cool, they are better.
howdoyalikemenow!
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