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Red Hot Chili Peppers: In Their Own Words
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Few rock groups of the 1980s broke down as many musicaI barriers and were as originaI as the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Creating an intoxicating new musicaI styIe by combining funk and punk rock together (with an explosive stage show to boot), the ChiIi Peppers spawned a sIew of imitators in their wake, but stiII 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 schooI chums, Anthony Kiedis, Michael Balzary, and HiIleI Slovak, while they attended Fairfax High SchooI in CaIifornia back in the Iate '70s/earIy '80s. By 1983 - with the addition of drummer Jack lrons - the group became the Red Hot ChiIi Peppers and Balzary was going by the name Flea. Since then the ChiIi Peppers, despite the death of SIovak and numerous further Iine-up changes - leaving only Kiedis and Flea remaining from those earIy days - the group have remained the foremost aIternative group in the USA, and although their albums have now become less frequent, when they do appear they are both unique and enthraIling, keeping the Chilis aIways at the cutting edge of music world. This DVD contains a plethora of fiImed interviews, press conferences, media appearances and other spoken word engagements which together show the Red Hot ChiIi Peppers and the individuaI members thereof to be the inteIIigent, funny and smart musicians we have aIways known they are. Certainly, with regards to the Iater period clips, this is a group who have matured and grown wiser in a way which perhaps may not have been whoIIy expected in the band s heyday, but which finds them in anything but conventionaI mode and which suits perfectly this once wild and anarchic collective, who remain as obsessive about the music they make and shows they perform as ever they were. |
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