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 The birth of Red Hot Chili Peppers and the very early years. 1984 saw the release of the band’s self-titled Red Hot Chili Peppers album with Freaky Styley being released the following year; Uplift Mofo Party Plan followed in 1987 and Mother’s Milk in 1989. The period saw a number of changes of band members within the band including the appointment of John Frusciante and Chad Smith; tragically the period also saw the death of guitarist Hillel Slovek from a drugs overdose in 1988.

 

 

1990 saw RHCP change labels to Warner Bros with Blood Sugar Sex Magik being released the following year in 1991. In 1992, John Frusciante, unable to cope with the pressures of fame & touring, abruptly quit the band and a period of change over the role of guitarist followed with Arik Marshall, Jesse Tobias and eventually Dave Navarro stepping into the role.

 

  

 

Essentially the Dave Navarro years; Dave first appareared with the band at Woodstock 1994. This period saw the release of One Hot Minute in 1995.

 

 

 

 In April 1988, it was annouced that Dave Navarro had left the band thus paving the way for the return of one, John Frusciante. The band were back on top form and this was proved with the release of Californication in 1999 which launched RHCP back on top! In 2001, the Chili Peppers released their first concert DVD, Off the Map. 

  

 

Following the two year tour for Californication, the band immediately started writing for the follow up album, By The Way, which was released in 2002. Red Hot Chili Peppers’ second live DVD, Slane Castle was released in 2003 followed by the live album, Live in Hyde Park in 2004.

  

 

The Stadium Arcadium years; the album and then the tour.

 

   

 

 Very few band interviews as a whole during this year as RHCP went on hiatus following the gruelling Stadium Arcadium tour. This period saw the departure of John Frusciante announced via his blog in December 2009 although it seems that he had actually left Red Hot Chili Peppers a while before. The individaul Chili Peppers went their separate ways and pursued other projects, etc. in the interim. In January 2010, Frusciante’s friend and musical collaborator, joined RHCP in his place. Rehearsals for the new album followed with recording beginning in September of that year.

 

 The come back year for RHCP with a new album, ‘I’m With You’ and the new line up featuring Mr. Josh Klinghoffer! Early in the year articles started to appear mentioning the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ album as one of the must hear/most anticipated albums of 2011 and since then the articles have started to pour in with the announcement of the album name and it’s release date & as a result of the promotional interiews the band did in June. ‘I’m With You’ is due out at the end of August and RHCP are starting a world tour that month so we anticipate a lot more articles to come

 We’d love to hear from anyone who can share articles and scans with us- we will always credit! My email is squitherwitch@hotmail.com)

 

 

Reviews of Red Hot Chili Peppers’ concerts.

 

 

 

 The Rockinfreakapotamus Fanclub was the official RHCP fanclub and ran in conjunction with the official Red Hot Chili Peppers website under the care of Blackie Dammett (father of RHCP lead vocalist Anthony Kiedis) and it produced magazines and frequent newsletter updates on the band.

 

 

 

 This is the place for all of the extras; over time we’ll add scans of RHCP adverts, past competition features and anything else of interest!

 

 

 

 

 All magazines, scans and articles are included in the appropriate place in the yearly sections but links have also been added here to make it easier to find non-English articles. We have articles in a number of different languages including Japanese, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Dutch.

 

 

The RHCP Band Members Index

A quick search category for the individual members of Red Hot Chili Peppers which includes magazines where the individual Chili Peppers feature in solo interviews, appear on magazine covers by themselves or feature heavily in an interview of the Red Hot Chili Peppers as a whole.

 

 

 

 

 

Link to whole list of whole magazine scan list

It has cost a lot of time, effort and money to collect & upload these back issues so please do not copy them to another website without a credit/ link back to this site. If you have any magazines/scans that you would like to give, exchange for original scans or sell, please contact me. Help is also gratefully received with any translations of articles that people can offer or typed transcripts of the magazines.

I hope you enjoyed these articles; please keep checking back to see what else has been added as I still have over 50 magazines to scan & upload! 

 

 

 Many thanks to Hannah R for kindly giving us permission to use her art work as our logo .

 

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