I’m sorry but I don’t have a transcript for this and have no idea what it says but RHCP feature on the cover of a Russian magazine; there’s a three page article with lots of photos, a two page photo poster of the band and an article which I assume is about I’m With You.
Full scans HERE
I’ve just got a copy of the edition of Guitar World featuring the interview with Anthony Kiedis & Josh Klinghoffer (both are featured on the cover). The interview is very detailed, well written and has a few unique photographs of Kiedis & Klinghoffer that were commissioned for the article.
Here’s an extract:
“Josh is a subtle, sublime and poetic musician,” Flea says. “He’s not this guitar virtuoso/guitar hero guy. He’s a real all-around musician. He plays drums and piano as well as guitar, so he gets a real big picture of the music and has a real intuitive sense of when something is serving the song or not. He puts chords together in a beautiful, unique, Josh kind of way. At the same time he’s very rooted in traditional songwriting and the traditional way chords move. He really has his own take on it and pumps up the system. And he has a very warm, beautiful sound on the guitar.”
But Flea wasn’t always so gung-ho for the new guy. If Anthony Kiedis is the band’s self-pro-claimed “pathetic optimist,” Flea tends to skew the other way. At first he didn’t want to continue the band without John Frusciante.
“Oh. I’ve considered pulling the plug a million times,” he confides. “That’s nothing new for me. Things get to be a bummer and I start going, ‘Mmm, this is kind of a drag.’ And I just couldn’t imagine doing it without John. When he did up and leave, though, some time went by and I just started feeling this deep love for the band and wanted to continue it. Plus, I missed Anthony. So we got Josh.”
The newest Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist is appreciably younger than the other Chili Peppers. But that doesn’t seem to be an issue for anyone. “I’ve always been the youngest one in most performing situations,” Klinghoffer says. “The funny thing is, I’m probably in the worst shape, physically, of all the guys in the Chili Peppers. But being in this band doesn’t feel too dissimilar to anything I’ve ever done before. I’m just making music with people I love, which I have a habit of doing. I’ve never done anything other than what I love.”
Read the rest of the article plus full scans HERE: RHCP Guitar World October 2011
The Red Hot Chili Peppers appeared on the UK’s Jonathan Ross TV show last Friday night (9th September 2011) . There were a few shots of them waiting to go onto the show (it’s a guest show and Jonathon Ross interviews different guests in turn and there are also shots ‘backstage’ interspersed with that) and they seemed in fine form joking around on camera e.g. one of the other guests is an actor who has performed as Sherlock Holmes and there was a scene of Anthony and Flea dressed up as ‘Sherlock Holmes’ with pipes and deerstalker hats and for another sketch about the length of a man’s ring finger being indicative of his sexual prowess …they are had very long fingers! Anthony and Flea were interviewed very briefly and then the band performed The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie.
An interview (with mostly Anthony Kiedis but Flea also talks about the track Ethiopia) has been published in Loaded magazine in a feature on the Red Hot Chili Pepper’s new album? I’m With You? in the latest edition.
Here’s an extract:
And there’s no missing the most distinctly named bassist in the world. With his turquoise hair and matching tracksuit he dicks around on his guitar while talking at several million words an hour. Before we’ve even asked the obligatory question about the new album? he’s off. “There is a song called Ethiopia on the new record?” he starts. “Did you know I got lost out there?” It’s crazy? right? But I totally did.
“Damon Albarn has started his African Express Project? where basically a group of musicians go to a different country in Africa and jam with Africans? listen to African music and trip around. It was fucking amazing. So? Josh and I decided we’d go to Ethiopia. One day? we got the bus somewhere? before I got out to check this little side road. I turned around and the bus was gone. I was totally lost. I walked around this little town for about an hour. No one speaks English there and it was kind of crazy. I started getting really scared.” He looks scared even now? telling us about it.
“People were coming up to me and speaking to me? but I didn’t understand. I was tripping out with all these people staring at me and speaking to me. Eventually I managed to track down this guy and started screaming at him that I didn’t understand. But then? I thought? hang on so I do. So he found my friends and was totally nice. I told that story to Anthony when I got home? he wrote some lyrics and it became the song. To me it reflects the feelings of never letting fear dictate anything? only love.”
Full scans and transcript HERE
If you can please buy a copy of the magazine- I picked it up yesterday so it should be available for people in the UK to buy 
The Red Hot Chili Peppers performed ‘I’m With You’ live in Cologne, Germany on the 30th August and the concert was broadcast worldwide later that night in selected cinemas.
Here’s the advertising trailer:
My Overview
At pretty much the last minute, babysitting got sorted as my husband came to the rescue and I was able to go to see it in the cinema in the next town as it was being shown there (Shrewsbury, England for anyone interested) and this is my overview of the movie as I know some people weren’t able to see it & have been asking about it:
The movie started with various random (mostly black & white) photo shots of scenes & brief videos taken from the concert e.g. shots of guitar sound checks, walking along the queue of people waiting to go into the concert, etc. with the RHCP asterisk (and album advert) flashing between scenes and a countdown saying 18 minutes to go, 10 minutes, etc. That lasted for about 20 minutes (I missed the start -as that was how timing worked out but that was better than not seeing it at all- so it might have been slightly longer). As it got closer to show time, the warm up changed to clips of the official RHCP video that was released (added below) talking about Josh Klinghoffer joining the band, etc. cut in with ‘exclusive cinema’ clips of the band backstage talking about the show to follow- they commented on how cool Josh is (the iceman), a definition of his name in German that they were told earlier, how they were going to play the whole album but maybe miss out one track (Anthony Kiedis explained that part and he also said they might change the order and have ‘Monarchy of Roses’ followed by ‘Dance, Dance, Dance’ but that wasn’t the case; ‘Even You Brutus?’ was the track that was omitted). They also started to discuss which other track each of them would chose but that didn’t go very far. Anthony Kiedis seemed quite tense and a bit apprehensive about the whole thing, Flea said he was nervous and was talking nonstop (to cover the nerves?!), Josh was unflappable and Chad was well, Chad! It ended with them pointing out they had two minutes to go before they were due onstage…
Official RHCP video that was used in the pre-concert section:
The pre-concert footage ended and we got the British Film Certification certificate flashed up saying it was suitable for over 12s and then a warning that as it was recorded live and hadn’t been checked & that it might contain swearing (it did! Flea was on fire at times, lol)
Then the actual broadcast of the recorded concert started. It showed a little bit of the crowd in the concert venue and then Chad, Josh and Flea came onstage and started to jam; they were followed shortly afterwards by Anthony Kiedis.
Chad was wearing a red top, trousers and hat; Josh was all in black, Flea was topless with red trousers and trainers (sneakers) and Anthony came on stage wearing black trousers and a very cool black tailed jacket that had multi-coloured silk sections (white background with mostly red and blue abstract streaks on it) but that was soon removed and he played bare-chested for the remainder.
RHCP were joined on stage with a few additions; Mauro Refosco joined them on percussion (there was a funny shot of him with the infamous cow bells at one point), Michel Bogley (?) a teacher from Silverlake Conservatory of Music played piano on a couple of tracks and he played the trumpet solos on ‘Did I Let You Know’ and Chad’s drum tech also played extra percussion.
Shots throughout the concert were mostly of the band members either as individuals or the whole band onstage but there were some crowd shots and other shots showing people on the edge of the stage- Anthony’s son, Everly Bear, was seen really briefly at one point.
They played through the whole of ‘I’m With You’ in order with the omission of ‘Even You Brutus’ and it sounded amazing! There were a couple of jams too. Flea swapped his bass for the piano on ‘Happiness Loves Company (?)– he also played a piano solo after Anthony asked him to play something prior to beginning the song. Part way through, Flea started to shake his hands after each song and I assumed it was to remove the sweat as he was dripping with it but then he commented that he needed a break of a minute or so as he had cramp! Chad filled in the ‘silence,’ after some funny back chat between the band, with an impromptu drum solo.
A couple of the songs were introduced by name but most had no name given to them and a couple were referred to as ‘another new song’. Flea seemed to do most of the talking to the audience- chatting about various thing (he likes potato cakes!) but Anthony Kiedis also said some things too e.g. he name-checked his mum (“Hello to my dear mother”) which was really sweet; he also said something about knowing one person at least who would be watching the show and then he asked if Cassia (?) would be watching and said he didn’t know how he felt about that (it looked like something had been said to him but we couldn’t hear what it was). I’m trying to remember what was said (I did start to take notes but gave up as it was too dark in the cinema to write) but they joked about Flea menstruating and being the only man to have a period (this was after the cramp thing). The last band chat (mostly Anthony and Flea) was about the time running out and the 90 minutes nearly being over and that they were grains of sand in an hour glass that was running out.
They then played an encore but after a (partly heard) discussion that took place a couple of times, they announced they would be playing ‘Did I Let You Know’ again as part of the encore as there had been a problem with the trumpet playing on it (or something like that; the playing by Michael sounded great both times so I think it was a technical thing!). In the end, for the encore they played ‘Me And My Friends,’ ‘Did I Let You Know’ and an amazing version (if brief) of ‘Give It Away’.
The band was so dynamic and into the whole thing- you could sense the love and enthusiasm they had for each other, the new songs and playing together. Anthony need seem to be really concentrating on the vocals but in a good way but he was dancing around madly at times too, Flea was strutting his funky stuff as only Flea can, Chad was infectious in his enthusiasm and Josh was wild!
To say sorry for missing the last couple of weeks, I’ve popped out today and bought every music magazine I could find featuring the Red Hot Chili Peppers whether I’m With You reviews or just features because the boys are back in town!
If you live in the UK, Kerrang! are running a competition to win VIP tickets to the RHCP concert in November 🙂
Q Magazine features a full page review of I’m With You
Kerrang! features an A-z of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
NME review of I’m With You
Big Cheese Highs and Lows of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
Classic Rock review of I’m With You
Please note: All of these magazines are in the shops NOW so if you live in Britain, please go out and buy an actual copy.
Have you got your copy of the album yet and if so any comments on it?
Don’t forget the RHCP I’m With You concert showing in movie theatres today too!
And thanks to Simona for this; taken from USA Today:
The Sun has done a follow up to yesterday’s interview with Anthony Kiedis about Red Hot Chili Peppers’ new album, I’m With You.
Transcript:
TRYING to keep up with Flea as he talks nineteen to the dozen and leaps around the room is no easy task.
The Red Hot Chili Pepper’s enthusiastic bassist, dressed head-to-toe in turquoise — and by that I mean a turquoise jogging suit and his hair dyed the exact same colour — is telling SFTW for about the 22nd time how “beautiful life is” and “how grateful he was for John Frusciante”.
Without taking a breath and speaking at Olympic sprint pace, he says: “He is a phenomenal musician, one of the best I’ve ever seen. He’s unbelievable.
“He gave us soooooo much as a musician, as a songwriter as a friend and a bandmate. He’s the greatest. He’s irreplaceable. No one could ever be John. He’s a one of a kind, incredible, classic, historically important musician. And he didn’t want to do it any more and now he’s doing what he wants to be doing.”
SFTW are in Santa Monica’s Casa Del Mar hotel with the Red Hot Chili Peppers for their first day of press for new and tenth studio album I’m With You.
Journalists from all over the world have flown in to chat to the global superstars who have two suites between them.
Singer Anthony Kiedis and new guitarist — and John’s replacement — Josh Klinghoffer are in one room, while Flea and drummer Chad Smith are next door.
STUPID
John, the genius guitarist of the band, quit in December 2009. He was responsible for their great riffs and shaped their sound since breakthrough album Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991) through to their biggest hits such as Dani California, Scar Tissue and Californication.
Flea says: “In the end, it was obvious to everyone that John didn’t want to be there.
“That makes it really hard, when you’re not a unit, to live inside it and enjoy it.”
Flea had tempted John back when he had quit before.
John, who joined the band as an 18-year-old superfan for the band’s 1989 album Mother’s Milk, had walked out on tour in Tokyo in 1992. He was depressed and had a heroin problem.
But Flea was lost without him and the album they recorded with Dave Navarro on guitar (1995’s One Hot Minute) was a commercial flop.
A clean Frusciante rejoined the band in 1998. This time there was no pleading or begging from Flea. He says: “It was different this time. We’d made those three records with him back and we’d had a lot of success and John’s creative input and writing was such a big part of it.
“I thought we’d never do it without John — it would be stupid to try. But then when he left, I was presented with this new reality of what it was and it made me realise we had to go on and could go on.”
Anthony agrees: “The time John revealed his plans to move on was something that everyone had sensed and was emotionally prepared for.
“You can’t carry someone who doesn’t want to be there — not that he was kicking and screaming. He played his ass off till the last note so his departure was a relief but a positive relief.
“Then 18 months ago Josh joined us and we went back to work. We only took two years off really even though we’ve not made a record in five years.” New boy Josh sits nervously on the sofa. A former session player for PJ Harvey, Beck and Gnarls Barkley, he first played live with the band in 2007 on the final legs of their Stadium Arcadium tour.
At 31, he is 17 years younger than Anthony and Flea and while he has been playing with the band live and in the studio for the last year and a half, he says talking to journalists is an altogether new thing.
Anthony jokes: “Be kind to him… and I want you to ask him as many questions as you ask me.”
Josh scurries off to the kitchen area to grab a biscuit before returning to plonk himself down on the sofa, hugging his knees and peeking through as he answers.
He says: “I’ve known them for so long that it’s just been like hanging out. We recorded 14 songs but we wrote much more music than that.”
Anthony adds: “There was an absurd wealth of musical ideas and if we lived in a different time and place we could have put out a double or triple record.
“Writing songs wasn’t an issue. It was getting rid of them that was difficult.”
While John was seen as the musical force on previous albums, in particular 2006’s Stadium Arcadium, Flea has taken the reins on I’m With You.
Gentle giant Chad, 49, explains: “I’m very proud of Flea on this album. He’s given it his all.
“He’s been away and bettered himself as a musician at university. And it shows.”
Flea not only taught himself piano prior to the making of this album but enrolled in music classes at the University of Southern California in the autumn of 2008, studying music theory, composition and jazz trumpet.
Flea says: “I wrote music on piano which is a different approach for us.
“I didn’t play piano much before but on this record I composed on the piano and so did Josh.
“When you write on the piano, you write rhythm, bass and harmony and reinterpret it with a rock band.
ENERGY
“We’d never done anything like that before — it had always come from a guitar and bass and drums.”
As well as his extra-band studies, Flea toured with Thom Yorke in supergroup Atoms For Peace as well as with Damon Albarn and Patti Smith.
He says: “It influenced me being around Thom. He’s an unbelievably great musician and a beautiful man. He’s so pure as an artist. It’s less that I would try to copy him and more that just being around someone who channels really powerful energy is beneficial.
“It’s a relationship I will always hope to nurture.
“But the Chili Peppers are a different entity. It was inspirational to play with Thom, Damon and Patti but being in a band with Chad, Anthony and Josh is my home. It’s a beautiful thing.
“During my time off I felt like I was trying to come into myself as an artist and now I’m starting to grow and learn in ways I’ve always wanted to.”
Recorded at Cello Studios, Los Angeles — the same studio in which the band recorded Californication — East West Studios, LA, and Shangri La Studio, Malibu, with longtime producer Rick Rubin, I’m With You shows the band haven’t lost any of their melody or funk with John’s departure.
High points are the jazzy love song Meet Me At The Corner, the pogo anthem Factory Of Faith, the piano-led Happiness Loves Company and acoustic tribute to late friend Brendan Mullen on Brendan’s Death Song. The funk jam track Ethiopia came following a life-changing trip Flea and Josh took to the African country.
Josh says: “It was like a musical field trip. We had outings every day.
“It was like summer camp… and then Flea got lost and when he was lost, he went through a lot of emotions which is reflected on the album. It’s the point where we were starting to really come together.”
Flea recalls: “I got lost in a city called Harar. It was a really amazing experience that really changed everything.
“Damon Albarn had started African Express, basically a bunch of musicians go to a different country in Africa to jam with Africans, listen to African music and trip around. It was f***ing amazing. So we decided we’d go to Ethiopia.
“One day we got the bus and I got off the bus, walked down this little street, turned around and the bus was gone! I was lost.
“I walked around this little town for about an hour. No one speaks English and it’s kind of crazy.
“I started getting scared. People were coming up to me and speaking to me but I didn’t understand.
“Then one guy came up to me and he started speaking in broken English. He found my friends and helped me.
“So when I came home, I told that story to Anthony and he wrote that song. It’s very special to me.”
At the centre of the band has always been Anthony and Flea’s friendship. They are the two original band members who met when they were students at Fairfax High School, forming the band in 1983.
And having a break at the end of the Stadium Arcadium tour “was really nice” says Flea, “because we’ve only ever had six months off before”.
Anthony adds: “We’d had enough of each other then.
“We’d not had any time apart and we weren’t enjoying each other’s company. We needed the time off.”
Flea continues: “My friendship with Anthony was in trouble when we decided to take a break.
“Even with our history and the length of our friendship, we just had to have our own space and do our own thing. Anthony became a father and that’s why we’re enjoying it all again.
“We’ve been through so much together but this is a rebirth, it really is.
“Life in the Red Hot Chili Peppers is… well, it’s just beautiful.”
I’m With You is released on August 30.
He says: “Every day since has been a battle to stay clean, but my son makes me thankful that I am. I feel very lucky.”
And the star says his lad – named after one of his favourite bands, The Everly Brothers – also impacted positively on the Chili Peppers’ latest album, I’m With You.
He says: “Having Everly has changed my life. You can hear the new energy I have, we have, on the new album.”
Becoming a father has meant Anthony has reflected on his relationship with his own dad, actor and Hollywood drug dealer Blackie Dammett, born John Kiedis.
Not your average father, Blackie supplied drugs to and partied with rock stars including Led Zeppelin and The Who’s Keith Moon, movie icons and other celebrities, exposing Anthony to sex and drugs from a young age.
Full transcript and newspaper scans HERE
Two new magazine scans of RHCP interviews have just been added to the site. They are
August 2011 Rolling Stone (Italy) Sorry no transcript yet; a two page article with a half-page photo of the band
August 2011 Vanity Fair (Italy) Sorry no transcript yet; a four page article with couple of new photos of the band – one a third of a page and the other a page and a half big.
Many thanks to Simona and Rita for sharing these with us. Enjoy 🙂
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