Blood Sugar Sex Magik – Laurel Canyon mansion with Rick Rubin
In spring 1991 the Red Hot Chili Peppers moved into a Laurel Canyon mansion with Rick Rubin and cut Blood Sugar Sex Magik in roughly seven weeks of live tracking.
By the Way – Melodies over the funk flex
On 9 July 2002 Warner Bros. released By the Way, the Red Hot Chili Peppers' eighth studio album, cut with Rick Rubin after writing sessions at the Chateau Marmont.
Californication – Frusciante back, California on the tongue
On 8 June 1999 Warner Bros. released Californication, the Red Hot Chili Peppers' seventh album and the first with John Frusciante back after Dave Navarro's exit.
One Hot Minute – The Dave Navarro chapter
On 12 September 1995 Warner Bros. released One Hot Minute, the only Red Hot Chili Peppers studio album with Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro.
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Funk that refused to stay small
In Los Angeles in the early 1980s, Anthony Kiedis and Flea built a band that played hard on stage and kept the groove physical.
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Under the Bridge
RHCP’s Under the Bridge, from Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991): Kiedis, Frusciante, Rick Rubin, Billboard Hot 100 No. 2.
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Give It Away
In the spring of 1991, at The Mansion in Los Angeles, Flea's bass line gave Anthony Kiedis a place to put a sentence Nina Hagen had handed him with a jacket.
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Universally Speaking
Universally Speaking was already in the set at V Festival in August 2001, ten months before By the Way reached the shops, and it only became a single in Europe.
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication
The title track of Californication was the first song the band tried when John Frusciante returned, and it still took seven months to find the chord.
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Snow (Hey Oh)
Snow (Hey Oh) was already in the set at a London club on 14 April 2006, before Stadium Arcadium reached the United States, built on a guitar part Frusciante thought the others might not fit.
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