Biography

Few rock groups of the '80s broke down as many musical barriers and were as original as the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Creating an intoxicating new musical style by combining funk and punk rock together (with an explosive stage show to boot), the Chili Peppers spawned a slew of imitators in their wake, but still managed to be the leaders of the pack by the dawn of the 21st century. The roots of the band lay in a friendship forged by three school chums, Anthony Kiedis, Michael Balzary, and Hillel Slovak, while they attended Fairfax High School in California back in the late '70s/early '80s. While Balzary and Slovak showed great musical promise (on trumpet and guitar, respectively), Kiedis focused on poetry and acting during his high-school career. During this time, Slovak taught Balzary how to play bass, while the duo encouraged Kiedis to start putting his poetry to music, which he soon did. Influenced heavily by the burgeoning L.A. punk scene (the Germs, Black Flag, Fear, Minutemen, X, etc.) as well as funk (Parliament-Funkadelic, Sly & the Family Stone, etc.), the trio began to rehearse with another friend, drummer Jack Irons, leading to the formation of Tony Flow & the Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem, a quartet that played strip bars along the Sunset Strip during the early '80s. It was during this time that the four honed their sound and live act (as they stumbled across a stage gimmick that would soon become their trademark — performing on-stage completely naked, except for a tube sock covering a certain part of their anatomy). By 1983, Balzary had begun to go by the name "Flea," and the group changed its name to the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Top Albums
1. Red Hot Chil..	2. I'm With You	3. Californicat..	4. Stadium Arca..	5. Blood Sugar ..
6. By the Way	7. Blood Sugar ..	8. Red Hot Chil..	9. Snow (Hey Oh..	10. Mother's Mil..
11. Californicat..	12. One Hot Minu..	13. Dani Califor..	14. By the Way (..	15. One Hot Minu..
16. Freaky Style..	17. The Uplift M..	18. Tell Me Baby..	19. Red Hot Chil..	20. What Hits?

Top Songs
	Name	Album	Time	Price
1.	Under the Bridge	Red Hot Chili Peppers: Grea..	4:25	$1.29
2.	Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie	I'm With You	4:42	$1.29
3.	Scar Tissue	Red Hot Chili Peppers: Grea..	3:35	$1.29
4.	Californication	Red Hot Chili Peppers: Grea..	5:29	$1.29
5.	Otherside	Red Hot Chili Peppers: Grea..	4:15	$1.29
6.	Snow (Hey Oh)	Stadium Arcadium	5:34	$1.29
7.	Dani California	Stadium Arcadium	4:42	$1.29
8.	Give It Away	Red Hot Chili Peppers: Grea..	4:44	$1.29
9.	Look Around	I'm With You	3:28	$1.29
10.	Soul to Squeeze	Red Hot Chili Peppers: Grea..	4:49	$1.29
11.	Can't Stop	By the Way (Bonus Track Ver..	4:29	$1.29
12.	By the Way	Red Hot Chili Peppers: Grea..	3:35	$1.29
13.	Higher Ground	Mother's Milk	3:22	$1.29
14.	Zephyr Song	By the Way	3:51	$1.29
15.	Suck My Kiss	Red Hot Chili Peppers: Grea..	3:35	$1.29
16.	Tell Me Baby	Stadium Arcadium	4:07	$1.29
17.	Can't Stop	By the Way	4:29	$1.29
18.	Snow (Hey Oh)	Snow (Hey Oh) - EP	5:34	$1.29
19.	Breaking the Girl	Red Hot Chili Peppers: Grea..	4:54	$1.29
20.	Under the Bridge	Blood Sugar Sex Magik (Bonu..	4:25	$1.29
21.	Around the World	Californication	3:58	$1.29
22.	Monarchy of Roses	I'm With You	4:11	$1.29
23.	Californication	Californication	5:29	$1.29
24.	Otherside	Californication	4:15	$1.29
25.	Scar Tissue	Californication	3:35	$1.29

Top Music Videos
1. Dani Californi..	2. Californicatio..	3. Can't Stop	4. Under the Brid..	5. Dani Californi..
6. Scar Tissue	7. Otherside	8. By the Way	9. Under the Brid..	10. Give It Away
11. The Zephyr Son..	12. Around the Wor..	13. Can't Stop	14. Can't Stop (iT..	15. Dani Californi..
16. The Adventures..	17. Suck My Kiss	18. Tell Me Baby (..	19. Around the Wor..	20. iTunes Origina..

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