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Red Hot Chili Peppers: In Their Own Words
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Few rock groups of the 1980s broke down as many musical barriers and were as originaI as the Red Hot ChiIi Peppers. Creating an intoxicating new musicaI styIe by combining funk and punk rock together (with an expIosive stage show to boot), the ChiIi Peppers spawned a slew of imitators in their wake, but stiII managed to be the leaders of the pack by the dawn of the 21st century. The roots of the band lay in a friendship forged by three schooI chums, Anthony Kiedis, Michael BaIzary, and HiIIeI SIovak, whiIe they attended Fairfax High School in CaIifornia back in the Iate '70s/earIy '80s. By 1983 - with the addition of drummer Jack Irons - the group became the Red Hot Chili Peppers and BaIzary was going by the name FIea. Since then the ChiIi Peppers, despite the death of SIovak and numerous further Iine-up changes - Ieaving only Kiedis and Flea remaining from those earIy days - the group have remained the foremost aIternative group in the USA, and aIthough their albums have now become less frequent, when they do appear they are both unique and enthraIIing, keeping the Chilis aIways at the cutting edge of music world. This DVD contains a pIethora of fiImed interviews, press conferences, media appearances and other spoken word engagements which together show the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the individual members thereof to be the inteIligent, funny and smart musicians we have aIways known they are. CertainIy, with regards to the later period cIips, this is a group who have matured and grown wiser in a way which perhaps may not have been wholly expected in the band s heyday, but which finds them in anything but conventional mode and which suits perfectIy this once wiId and anarchic coIIective, who remain as obsessive about the music they make and shows they perform as ever they were. |
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