THE TRUTH ABOUT: 3 - Caught on Camera

"Me and Anthony and Flea showed up wearing dildos": The night Jane's Addiction and Red Hot Chili Peppers played a freaky private Halloween party for a high roller called 'The Colonel'

"The Colonel had all the money, the big mansion, the cocaine, the champagne... and now he's King Of Cool Hill with Jane's Addiction playing his birthday party"

Metal Hammer · Aug 31, 2023

Watch Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante sing Spinal Tap's Tonight I'm Going To Rock You at chaotic 1991 Los Angeles club show

Red Hot Chili Peppers guitar hero John Frusciante shows off his vocal chops with enthusiastic Spinal Tap cover at 1991 club gig

Metal Hammer · Aug 25, 2023

Red Hot Chili Peppers prove to be ageless, compelling crowd with psychedelic performance

The final song of the night was crowd favorite “Give It Away,” illustrating the organic combination of rock, rap and funk that helped earn this band induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 7, 2023

Flea names the one bassline that he would “go back and fix” from the Red Hot Chili Pepper's 1995 album, One Hot Minute

Flea on the making of One Hot Minute: “I thought it sounded like another stupid white boy trying to be funky!”

Guitar World · May 31, 2023

On my radar: Arlo Parks’s cultural highlights

The Mercury prize-winning musician on an inspirational rapper, a Nobel laureate’s views of Paris, where to find chillies and a Red Hot Chili Pepper

The Guardian - UK · May 27, 2023

Mike Watt: “I think for every 7-string bass they should make a 1- string!”

The patriarch of punk unravels his punk rock roots and the making of his 1995 solo album Ball-Hog or Tugboat?

Guitar World · May 16, 2023

Watch the trailer for Flea’s new podcast series

First guests on the show will include Rick Rubin, Patti Smith and Thundercat

Guitar World · Apr 5, 2023

Watch Vulpeck's Joe Dart break down Flea and Victor Wooten's slap bass technique

How Will Smith brought back, er, slap: "The two main slap basslines of our generation were Will Smith samples..."

Guitar World · Mar 30, 2023

Appreciation: Wayne Shorter, dead at 89, a tireless music giant: 'A song is never really finished' he told us

Like the shape-shifting music he made throughout his life, Wayne Shorter was always pushing forward, always seeking new aural adventures and challenges. His death Thursday in Los Angeles at the age of 89 marks the passing of a tireless innovator whose fans ranged from countless jazz artists to such admirers…

Tribune News Service · Mar 3, 2023

Red Hot Chili Peppers star Flea, 60, welcomes first child with wife Melody Ehsani

The star is thrilled to add a third child to his family - having welcomed two daughters in the past and now welcoming his latest child with his fashion designer wife

Daily Mirror · Dec 17, 2022