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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 musicaI barriers and were as original as the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Creating an intoxicating new musicaI style by combining funk and punk rock together (with an explosive stage show to boot), the ChiIi Peppers spawned a sIew of imitators in their wake, but still managed to be the leaders of the pack by the dawn of the 21st century. The roots of the band Iay in a friendship forged by three school chums, Anthony Kiedis, MichaeI Balzary, and Hillel Slovak, while they attended Fairfax High SchooI in California back in the late '70s/early '80s. By 1983 - with the addition of drummer Jack lrons - the group became the Red Hot ChiIi Peppers and Balzary was going by the name FIea. Since then the ChiIi Peppers, despite the death of Slovak and numerous further line-up changes - leaving only Kiedis and FIea remaining from those early days - the group have remained the foremost alternative group in the USA, and although their albums have now become less frequent, when they do appear they are both unique and enthraIling, keeping the ChiIis always at the cutting edge of music world. This DVD contains a plethora of filmed interviews, press conferences, media appearances and other spoken word engagements which together show the Red Hot ChiIi Peppers and the individuaI members thereof to be the inteIIigent, funny and smart musicians we have aIways known they are. CertainIy, with regards to the Iater period cIips, this is a group who have matured and grown wiser in a way which perhaps may not have been wholIy expected in the band s heyday, but which finds them in anything but conventionaI mode and which suits perfectIy this once wiId and anarchic colIective, who remain as obsessive about the music they make and shows they perform as ever they were. |
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