![]() More impressive than the album, the Chili Peppers - Flea (born Michael Peter Balzary), Frusciante, singer Anthony Kiedis, 59, and drummer Chad Smith, 60 - are set to tour this summer as one of the very few Gen X rock bands capable of filling stadiums at a moment when hip-hop dominates pop music.Īmong their opening acts will be fellow Angelenos Thundercat, Anderson. (Frusciante, who’s now 52, returned in 1998, then left again in 2009.) On Friday, the day after the band is set to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Chili Peppers will release “Unlimited Love,” their 12th studio album in a career that’s contained no shortage of turmoil.įull of springy punk-funk jams and lightly psychedelic ballads, the new 17-track LP is the Chili Peppers’ first since 2006’s Grammy-winning “Stadium Arcadium” with guitarist John Frusciante, whose playing on hits like “ Give It Away” and “ Under the Bridge” helped propel the group to alt-rock superstardom in the early ’90s before the rigors of fame and a debilitating drug addiction led him to quit. ![]() in the mid-1980s are somehow still thriving. Unless you’re the Red Hot Chili Peppers, which nearly four decades after forming in L.A. You can put a bunch of great players together, and it doesn’t mean they’ll create magic.” But basketball, like music, is such an energetic, spiritual thing. Really love Austin Reaves - you know, ‘Hillbilly Kobe.’ When they boo Russell Westbrook, it breaks my heart. “It’s hard, because I really like all the guys,” he says. ![]() Flea has been a Lakers season ticketholder for 22 years, and he reckons that this latest go-’round, in which the iconic NBA club is struggling to find a spot in the playoffs, “is the single most disappointing season in the history of the team.” ![]() “It’s the best way to get around this town,” he says of the motorcycle, which the bassist’s wife, streetwear designer Melody Ehsani, recently had painted Los Angeles Lakers-style for his 59th birthday. Dressed in the signature colors of the basketball team he loves - loves even when the team pains him as it has over the last few months - Flea comes roaring into the parking lot of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Van Nuys rehearsal space astride a glittering Harley-Davidson that matches his purple sweatpants and gold sneakers. ![]()
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