i had long hair bandana cut off shirt i looked more like i probably fit in on the sunset strip
with like guns and roses then the chili peppers who were at the time all about like what kind
of funny haircut you had and your tattoos so they looked at me uh get this guy out of here
as i was researching this i didn't realize this at all and i'm sure chili peppers fans will be
screaming at the radio when i say this saying how could you not know this but i didn't realize that
you actually auditioned for the band like you properly auditioned like a screen test audition
how did that come about put my eight breakdown in you know hi i'm chad
no i mean well in 1988 the end of 1988 the you know the group was in a bit of disarray they had
gone through a few members and and um they were looking for a drummer i had moved from michigan
in detroit and i'd been out in california about six months and it was literally a friend of a
friend kind of thing that that knew they were looking for for a drummer and i knew who the
chili peppers were you have to remember this in 1988 they were more of a kind of underground band
but my friend was was a fan he really liked it and and so he was like you're gonna love it man
it's like they do everything and it's crazy and this and you know i was like oh okay and i was
like do they have a record deal and he's like i think so i'm like great i'll try out for him
still meant something back in the day you know and so that was really it and and you know we have
we all have different backgrounds and you know coming from detroit and from michigan i had this
kind of more rocker look or or or to them anyway you know i like rock music of course and other
kinds of stuff but i had long hair and bandana cut off shirt i looked more like i'd probably
fit in on the sunset strip with like guns and roses then then the chili peppers who were at the
time all about like what kind of funny haircut you had in your tattoos so they looked at me ah get
this guy out of here but once we started playing man it all went out the window i'd never played
with certainly or really heard a bass player that played the bass like flea did at that time it was
amazing and john was 18 years old he was super young and he had his own thing and i remember
playing and we just kind of jammed it's kind of still what we did to this day is get in the
room somebody starts playing playing e or a okay then and at that time everything was super fast
and so i was like you know this is this is pretty amazing that energy that happened
you know i for whatever reason the four of us will put on this earth to find each other and make this
special music and you know here we are 30 whatever years later you know it's pretty crazy but
um yeah at the time it was it was yeah it was an audition and then they were like
okay cool you know we'll move we'll let you know or we'll call you or something like that okay and
i walked out thinking like that was pretty great and the producer who was at the time that produced
um the previous record the uplift mofo party plan uh his name was michael beinhorn he was
at the audition he was in the room and i and obviously i was told this later i left and
he said to the other guys that's your guy wow and they were like really
about that guy you got him like this oh they're like this tall whatever i mean it's just funny
how that you know he but he was like that's your guy so i oh michael you know i mean
i remember anthony when we were jamming he was just like walking around the room laughing like
hysterically never a good sign in a job interview never never what you want but it wasn't like well
i'm laughing at you like ha ha like like like uh obviously i never met him you know it was
like this is crazy and later he was like i just couldn't believe what i was hearing it was just
i didn't know how to respond other than i just thought it was the funniest thing ever maybe he
just saw the next 30 years and just thought we're going to be this look at this yeah i don't know