now I want to rock this Ry
ground you tell me to and show me what
to do to know how to make it
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whoa that was the Red Hot Chili Peppers
and here we have from the Red Hot Chili
Peppers Anthony and John welcome Anthony
and John to this beautiful cool room
thank you for very much for being here
as well hi hi has it how long has it
been since you visited Australia as a
band the last time we were here 90
somewhere in the '90s last Century flee
gets back a bit day doesn't he yes H
indeed does the band get to crash at his
house when you all come and visit
Australia um have I've I've crashed
there lucky on the floor uh I slept in
his daughter's bedroom excellent yeah
Californication the new album is finally
here now a few years ago a lot of the
fans were a little bit scared that the
end of the chilies was nigh now the
album is here how does it feel for you
it feels good it feels like a nice place
to
be um I'm excited about being in this
band I'm excited about playing music
with the people in this
band uh you know touring has been a gas
but I'm really kind of I have this uh
this thing I'm looking forward to this
anticipation of writing new music
because uh both John and flee are are
very uh deep Wells of of ideas and and
and love for you know tapping into sound
and I just look forward to uh finding
out what we're going to do next yeahmy
blood sugar Sex Magic was your last
record not in this one with your mom
doing some backing vocals um on under
the bridges well helping out on there
very nice indeed and and now back for
the Californication how does it feel to
be back yeah yeah yeah my mom's saying
under the bridge and it feels good to be
back I don't know why I put that video I
was trying to look like I was well
researched or something but yeah and
it's a yummy record the new one tell us
a bit about the title Cal
forication uh wow I mean it's the type
of word that definitely has a nice feel
to it and uh just seems to describe the
contents in a
open-ended freestyle
format it's the process of being touched
by something and in this case perhaps
it's the winds from California okay okay
so it sums up the whole vibe of the you
know if if if the world around us was
the only way that we put together ideas
in our head then everything would make
would be in that realistic sort of order
and it's a beautiful thing about words
the way you can take two completely
separate Concepts or separate ideas or
separate parts of reality and make them
into one thing indeed in either a line
of poetry or a word one indeed and it
does flow off the tongue beautifully
doesn't it does um leaving R Hollywood
inspire a lot of your
music uh I think so yeah that happens to
be where we live and it's not just
Hollywood it's just like
this this whole kind of you know edge of
of America type of a feeling there and
um it's you know where America stops
yeah it's the very edge there and it
just feels nice to be on the sea with
the mountains and the palm trees and the
Desert Winds and a lot of kind of
chaotic thinking and a lot of beautiful
thinking and an interesting history for
a young town and it yeah it's inspiring
it's an inspiring place to to live it
seems to get a a big audience for the
the funk Punk or Funk metal kind of
sounds around the California area
doesn't it with fish bur and yourselves
and fonus monster and so on why do you
think they dig that style of music so
hard there yeah I think you know people
like uh people always like little
hybrids of music and and people but why
there in particular why the the
California why are they loving it so
hard or you have people mixed up you
know you have different races mixed up
and stuff and everybody body's uh
influenced by everybody's style you know
and it's not uh it's not that segregated
you know so it's about bringing the
world together yet again just different
you know you see different types of
people you hear different types of
things growing up in school you hear
about different types of music from kids
who grow up in different areas and you
know and the music just sort of reflects
the the
uh all all the different cultures that
are in one place you know it's a bully
Bas yeah yeah why do you why are you
drawn to funk music so
hard I'm drawn to all kinds of music um
I'm just drawn to music I'm you know
funk music is something
that you know it's a I can mean anything
to anybody but you know to me it's
something that's very uh magical and
rhythmic and sexual and deep and uh just
you know coming from a place of of of
Love soul and humor and sex and a lot of
things that that I relate to is it just
a lyrical content that's sexy what makes
it so sexy uh I guess the Rhythm you
know the fat
bottom yeah often
you often fun music is you know it it's
its Origins is you know it was it it was
a really intense form of dance music you
know you had like you had like your
rhythm and blues and stuff in the 50s
and you had duop and stuff but when
James Brown came out with the with the
sound of what we still sort of Base Funk
on it was uh it was a really sort of
ultimate kind of dancing music to you
got big plans for the rest of the
Millennium how long is the Millennium
anyways I don't know if it's actually
started officially I figured I'd die at
some point during this uh interesting
I'm join you onund years yeah yeah what
about the band's plans just keep on
playing all around the world safe to say
death if we're all in the band at some
point in this that's inevitable yeah uh
yeah right now I think we're pretty
happy playing and we're going to keep
playing and
uh make things we're going to make
things where there was nothing we will
create something that's beautiful may I
see what you've created in our Rock book
quotation okay this is a book about
fruit that I wrote uh if we were fruit
we'd be a juicy tart in a nice blue suit
just for the sake of a little rhyme
there in the image and John wrote uh I
would be a pony fruit a pony fruit yes
what a beautiful way to end our chat
today um thank you so much for joining
us here in our room May the funk be with
you and enjoy the rest of your St the
with you sir oh thank you very much it's
been an absolute pleasure let's go out
now and see some more Red Hot Chili
Peppers at big day out
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