I missed Lynryd Skynyrd, Eagles (who gives a shit), Tina Turner, Grateful Dead, Ramones, Aretha Franklin and Marvin Gaye. Coincidentally all artists I
haven't listened to or aren't immediately recognisable. REM was easy cos of Stipe and Pink Floyd because of Roger.
RHCP are one of my favorite groups ever, and I never get a chance to talk about them with people here because nobody likes them. This was a great cover. The video's been taken down, but here's another(partial) one:
Seems like it's always Anthony people have a problem with. Everyone always respects Frusciante, Flea, Klinghoffer, Chad Smith(the drummer), but Anthony always turns them off, which I think is unfortunate and not wholly deserved. If you can take Anthony, there's a really great fucking band behind him, especially in the Frusciante years. BSSM, Californication, By The Way, Stadium Arcadium, some of the best rock albums of the last few decades.
This concludes my mandatory RHCP-fan post upon seeing someone else mention them.
Man I think they cop way more shit than they deserve. I've listened to them a lot and while I wouldn't really call myself a big fan, I am sympathetic to them for sure. I spent a lot of time listening to their music and watching live clips and reading books about them with a good mate of mine when I was a teenager and young adult. They've got a lot of good output.
I've never seen them live, but I deeply regret not going to see them on the Stadium Arcadium tour. I didn't like that album much but I adore By the Way (comfortably their best album if you ask me) but that was the last time they played with Frusciante. I don't think I had the money. BUT, on that tour, they did a half-hour live improv jam at Fed Square in the city, it was billed as a Chad Smith drum solo but ended up being him, Frusciante on guitar and Flea on trumpet, and Josh on keys, and it was fucking absolutely amazing.
Anthony is definitely the weak point, but you're right in the band around him, and when the band around him is great it doesn't really matter that he's not a great singer or rapper. He is perfectly fine and that's all you need. I adore By the Way, Californication and Blood Sugar less so but both pretty iconic albums, and I think there's a lot of great music to be found on their earlier records as well, like Freaky Styley, for instance. I think I've heard every album, aside from the newer ones. I don't think I can say that about many bands to be honest.
I also just found a clip of them doing a cover of Bowie's What in the World. They've seriously got great taste. Introduced by Flea, who is one of the world's best people.
