Besides, it's not "Magik." It's "Magick." Ask Drew Barrymore, she'll tell ya.
Internets: No one – NO ONE – ever really loved the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Uh uh, shut up, you don’t, and neither does anyone else, not even the band members, not even their own moms.
Maybe you dig on their fonky sounds, or had sort of a thing for Keidis back in the day (even though he’s always sort of looked like he doesn’t wipe very well), or played “Under the Bridge” a million thousand goddamn times that one winter after your crummy breakup, or their shit is part of a “Yay 1991!” playlist on your iPod, or whatever. That’s all valid. I mean, I myself once paid to see them live (a mad mad mad roadtrip to the Metroplex with LW and SJ and CB, in which we drove too fast and screamed too much and acted like banshees and actually flagged down a car full of hot guys ON THE HIGHWAY to get their numbers – well, SJ and CB did; Gleemonex the Righteous Teenage Virgin stayed right out of that) and it was a pretty good show.
But nobody LOVES them, really truly in their hearts loves RHCP.
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PS: Mr. Gleemonex’s response to the first line of this post – which I said out loud for reasons unremembered at some point this weekend – was: “Maybe people who grew up in LA.” To which I said, “I ain’t got time for them.”
Labels: balls in YOUR mouth sir, I'm just sayin, way too old for this kind of shit anymore
posted by Gleemonex at 11:28 AM
4 Comments:
hahaha, they officially killed Lollapalooza (1991?) for me. After reeling from amazing sets by Jesus and Mary Chain, Ministry etc etc, when RHCP came on, my girlfriend and I looked at each other, shrugged, and were like meh, and went back to the campsite. not a big fan.
As one who grew up in LA, I must agree with Mr. Gleemonex. If one was seeing the Red Hot Chili Peppers for the first time in an arena in 1991 in the Metroplex then they did not really experience the band. I am sure that some of the "fans" at the Metroplex show had probably been listening to New Kids on the Block just a few years earlier. The true RHCP died in 1988 when Hillel Slovak OD'd. Most of the people who love the RHCP (and those people do exist, although I am not one of them) were seeing the band in the LA area circa 1985-1987.
You know what, though? A hell of a lot more people love RHCP than even just barely tolerate Lenny Kravitz. No one loves Lenny Kravitz.
RHCP belongs in the Academy of the Overrated. However, I will say they were stunning at Woodstock 94 with Dave Navarro on guitar. It was amazing.
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