hello people of Facebook
we're live in London with Anthony Kiedis
and the record chili peppers my name is
Simon Harper I'm the editor of clash
magazine and we here to premiere the
video of that necessity and take some
questions
Florrie taking questions yes oh sorry
hey don't I'm very well thank you
weren't you nervous at all little bit me
too about four people watching I think
it's down to three we started we lost
one already
we started with four we're down to three
let's try and build up again or at least
make those three very happy so there
have been questions that have come and
been sent from your fans
let's start with Pablo from Buenos Aires
in Argentina
Pablo asks it seems the getaway started
a new era and the Chili Peppers life it
feels so fresh and so on so many levels
but at the same time you keep writing
about all the things you've been through
the dark ugly and under painful stuff
how do you manage to transform all that
in an energy in so many beautiful vibes
and such powerful artistic expression
first of all a plus of a question very
thoughtful Pablo from Buenos Aires thank
you for noticing that we worked hard on
this record and that we covered some
dynamics and some dimensions I guess the
the secret to the way we work has to do
with chemistry and it's a bad effort
it's a team effort so when it comes to
tapping in to experience in life and joy
beauty and pain and suffering and
darkness and light it's something that
we do collectively if I had to do it by
myself I think I'd be a little lost but
the minute I see
here Flay and Josh put together chords
and notes and rhythms and things it
instigates ideas and it gets me in touch
with life and things that I've been
through things that we've been through
just things that I imagine are worth
writing about and there are days when I
fail miserably and I write something
that's just not worth keeping and I move
on to the next and every now and then
you can feel it when you when you tap
into something that's true and it's
magical and real and mean something and
then you just get your poetry on and
hope for the best
you mentioned the you write about some
of the dark and painful stuff you ever
hesitant about putting painful things no
no if I'm hesitant when when the poetry
is bad whether it's about darkness or
lightness if it comes out feeling like
it it resonates with my heart an honest
way then I'm okay Dario from Bologna in
Italy says I'm a huge fan I've grown up
listening to your songs and I really
appreciate the courage to evolve your
music into something new and different
like you have done for the getaway what
is your favorite song from the new album
what's her name Daria Daria hi Daria my
favorite song I'm hoping will change
frequently when we finished the record
and it was all done my favorite song was
definitely the getaway the song itself
because it didn't feel like an evolution
for our band it was something that Brian
Burton had a lot to do with the creation
of played by my guys made up by my guys
but directed musically directed by Brian
and the very first time I heard that it
just touched me like immediately and I
took the music and I went and sat in my
car alone with the instrumental track
and just started writing to it because I
couldn't believe what a beautiful piece
of music was especially the ending the
sort of climactic outro it just it
sounded beautiful to me enough for today
that's my favorite you know in six
months down the road
I'm hoping it changes yeah Jasper from
the Netherlands says how did the switch
to another producer which you just
mentioned O'Brien is a Danger Mouse how
did I work I didn't work out for you
guys and in what aspects was there any
different from working with Rick Rubin
Jasper from where the Netherlands the
Netherlands hello Jasper from the
Netherlands well they have similarities
and they have big differences both are
masters of their craft and were lucky to
work with these guys brian was new and
anytime you're doing something with
somebody new it's kind of invigorating
and his process is very different than
Rick's but they're they're both wildly
in love with music all day every day so
they they live at they Bri that they
talk about it they're very smart very
analytical and Brian is a guy who likes
to create in the studio which is
something we hadn't done before so we
would show up with nothing on the day on
a morning of recording and he would just
start instructing us like you know put
down a beat play play drums for 10
minutes and I'm gonna keep my favorite
30 seconds of that 10-minute performance
and then we would build on that and so
we built songs in the studio live which
was new and exciting and some of that
song
so it's CUNY to event it was there's a
lot of pressure but you know sometimes
you need that pressure to bring out
weirdness that's inside of you that is
yet to have been discovered by your more
conventional methods so I credit Brian
for poking around inside of us and
finding things that were new Matt from
New York City suits hi Antony how do you
come up with your lyrics do you draw
from life experiences past and present
while thinking methodically about it or
is it more of an improvisational kind of
process I think it might be both it is
improvisational but it does come from my
dreams and my life and my friends
experience and my wanted experiences and
sometimes I don't really know where it
comes from but if I sit down and block
everything else out and just listen to
music and start writing
hopefully my pencil knows what to do you
know sometimes you come up with the
melody first and the words will just
fall into place sometimes you can't
sleep at night and you get up and you
start writing things down in the middle
of the night and you realize suddenly
you've got a few decent lines of poetry
that reflect a broken heart or a bad
relationship or whatever and then you
just build on it sort of gains its own
momentum so there is a spiritual aspect
where it doesn't necessarily seem to all
be coming from me but maybe inspired by
just random energy that circulates
around you just have to make yourself
available to that to happen mainly just
do it just sit down and do it something
loud do you find it you have to be in a
certain place to your right you've got
to get into the zone I like certain
places but it can be anywhere
my motorcycle is really good I have a
sound system on my motorcycle and when I
play the jams from the day and I write
around
la ideas come to me airplanes are good
trains are good cars are good beds are
good the Hawaiian Islands have been good
to me
it could happen anywhere you just have
to make yourself available one esse
from Brazil sees Anthony which song took
the most time to finish on they get to
weigh in wine there were two that
confounded me that stumped me if I was a
contestant on Jeopardy I would have come
in last because I just couldn't get to
the buzzer of figuring out two songs one
was called dreams of a samurai and the
other was called we turn red so I'd been
given the music and fell in love with it
but just couldn't find my place in the
song like I tried to over and over and
over and dreams of a samurai comes in a
very cockamamie time signature it's not
a typical Rock time signature and I
couldn't even figure out the rhythm of
where to sing and and then Ryan in his
wisdom asked Josh to played the piano
chords of the song so I could hear
something different that would maybe
trigger some thoughts and it did and I
finally solved the riddle of the puzzle
the mystery of dreams of a samurai but
it took me six months and then with we
turned red I loved the music we wrote
that with Brian in the studio it seems
so funky and live and weird and you know
kind of timeless in a way like it seemed
old-fashioned but it seemed ultra-modern
at the same time and I wanted to
my boys happy and proud and feel like
yeah that's a that's a rockin Jam but I
couldn't and I kept coming into the
studio and singing Brian these parts and
he would look at me like it's not great
just doesn't release can you try again
would you go home and try again tomorrow
I'd be like I mean it's my third time
I've tried but I'll try again and on the
last day of recording I came in to try
one final idea for we turn red and we
recorded it in that fell swoop and I
looked for his approval and he's like
yeah that's that's better than the other
ones we'll keep that for now and then a
couple days went by and he called me up
and he said that's actually pretty great
I think we'll put that on the record
hmm go in and got it in the end but
that's just the way it happens the same
thing happened with can't stop that was
a musical track that I hadn't sung on
and I literally said can we go one extra
day I think maybe I have some words for
that song in the very final 11th hour
there's a question here about Josh josh
is obviously a guitar player the second
album I think that's pretty obvious by
now with them this is from our Ravindra
Shula what is it like working with Josh
was he musician and also a friend what
does he like to work creatively with and
how to see adapt to the lyrics I am
blown away about a few songs that you've
uploaded so far josh has made an
excellent contribution as a me as a
musician and the music is taking to new
heights Riven - Ulla Riven - Oona from
where it doesn't say it doesn't say it's
good name the name oh that's a good name
well josh is wildly generous as a
musical partner he's super patient and
give
and and I don't seem to have any sort of
an ego conflict with Josh whatever he
does whatever I do it's just supportive
sometimes when you're working with
musicians they can be like yeah you know
I could think of something better but
with Josh it's just like dude I love
that let's go play so he makes me very
comfortable he puts me at ease and he's
on a much higher level of musical
understanding than I am like he plays
piano when he plays drums and all
instruments basically and knows about
musical theory and and all these things
and I'm kind of the idiot in the band
who ignores all that and just goes with
my instinct but he loves that and he
honors that and he appreciates it as
much as he would a classically trained
musician and he's constantly building my
confidence by saying really sweet things
that could read you an email he wrote me
yesterday that's just so loving and
supportive and I think he likes being in
this band more today than he ever has in
the last five years that he's been in
the band like he's just the happiest
I've ever seen him that's great
yeah and his contributions are abundant
and beyond that's what he likes to do he
doesn't really like to do much else
other than go home and play guitar and
piano and he's also a fascinating singer
he's got this beautiful range and can
make all kinds of great sounds with his
voice so
ivan has actually asked who had the idea
when you mentioned living well that you
know who had the idea to what was Olivia
Wilde what is the main idea behind the
video came up with it well Olivia
presented herself so when we do a video
we kind of reach out to a bunch of
directors and see if they're interested
and if we like them and they are they'll
write treatments little ideas and we
read several for this song and they were
good but they were a little complicated
and then we received hers and it was
very simple and it was about the the
dark and bruised side of these beautiful
athletes his female skateboard athletes
and it was just easy and clear and
simple and we were attracted to the
simplicity and on a whim we just said
let's go for it you know she has very
little experience but the one video she
made prior looked quite beautiful and
then the phone calls started pouring in
saying I think it's a good idea if you
do Olivia Wilde from other directors so
they kind of had her back and it just
seemed meant to be and you're happy with
the way it turned out I like it a lot I
like her a lot I like the video a lot
I'd work with her again Thanks yeah
Amanda Linney sees hi Anthony I am a
lifelong fan I literally love most of
what you've released my question to you
is when you first began in the 80s did
you ever see yourselves as a band
staying around that's relevant for so
long it's amazing that you guys have
been able to reinvent yourselves over
and over her real name is Amanda Linney
Delaney I feel like that's a made-up
name like a mandolin yeah yeah
if it's even a woman no you don't know
ever over the internet and we don't want
you don't know anyway if it's your real
name it's quite beautiful yeah in the
80s we certainly weren't thinking about
the 90s mm or anything else we were
really just thinking about that day and
maybe that night we started our band for
free and for fun it wasn't about money
or anything else it was just about a
brotherhood of guys making noise
together and our first show was one song
and I don't think we received a dime for
the performance but it was strong and we
felt it we're like this is good let's do
it again and then yeah we weren't trying
to stick around or be big or be small or
be anything we just wanted to play and
it took quite a long time for anyone to
really care about what we were doing on
a mass level clubgoers in Hollywood were
strong and supportive of us for the
first couple of years and then ever so
slowly we started leaking into the
consciousness of other states and other
countries and and we've just been along
for the ride oh it doesn't seem to be
ending No yeah talking of your early
songs Kristen from San Jose and
californium only been watching carpool
karaoke she asks whether he merely me
will never be available for download
download I think that thumb defies
download ability we wrote that in the
mountain
of California up in Yosemite flee and I
am a little backpack trip when we were
16 so I think it's only meant to be
heard by live years okay last question
kalenna asks what overall message are
feeling do you want the fans to take
away from the new album well we don't
really dictate the message of the
feeling that's kind of up to the
individual hopefully everybody gets
something unique out of it you know yeah
it's it's real it's honest it's it's we
love it and we hope that you get the
love out of it but take your own ride
not not the one that we're telling you
to take you know listen to it and see
where it takes you and I'd love to hear
about that thank you very much Fran so
now my kids job well done by the way
thank you yeah appreciate it and you too
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