Was brought up with their music and my first gig i went to was on my 12th birthday and was rhcp at Wembley arena in 1999, I've still got the t-shirt I brought and because of flea, I've played bass since I was 10 and he is the man!
Me too, meet him in new Haven during the positive mental octopus tour, I was fifteen. And have been playing bass since, I’m 47 now. My mom met him too. When I said I wanted to play bass she started playing me Ohio players, brothers Johnson, funkadelic and meters albums. She’s a white Irish woman and my dad is black. She played Curtis mayfield and my dad played zeppelin and Hendrix, Black Sabbath and dp, I was a skate punk listening to beastie boys and jfa, bauhaus, husker du, black flag, descendants and suicidal, so flea brought it home, then I found fishbone and saw the truth and soul tour, 24-7 spyz, follow for now and primus. I was raised by the best, there are so many more I would ramble on
i was gonna call BS on the 20 beers, but then i remembered the one time i went to a redskins game with my dad and drank about ten in the parking lot tailgating then proceeded to drink 7 or 8 more in the stadium and finished off the, expected, loss with a few tequila shots at the bar LOL
First time I picked up the bass after playing the guitar for years I realised how hard it is. To organise all your fingers to pluck, slap and pop strings on the bass is crazy. Then flea makes it look effortless and flies up and down the neck
I found it a lot easier than guitar. You have to be a bit heavier handed because of the string gauge but with a good set of pickups you can counter that. What you can't counter is the techniques that apply to guitar over bass. Where guitar requires fine-tuned harmonics, and with some guitars an exact location between frets, the bass can get away with low end frequency distortion hiding some of the misses. If you listen to this solo carefully, you will notice it's actually really bad. He may have had bad monitors or something but his runs were inprecise and merely a quick-step noodle to the next note, which wasn't always the right one in the mode.
I know Flea is a fan of Metallica, it sounds like he took a page out of the Cliff Burton book when he did this distorted bass solo. Flea is the man and an absolute killer god of a bass player that can play practically anything. I am a huge fan. Extremely talented dude.
Reading the comments on here gives me the impression that some people just hate Flea because he's popular. Nobody cares that your favorite jazz snob bassist can play a superhypermetamegaultraepic locrian passage in a 420/69 time signature in their sleep. I still don't think that bass is a solo instrument, but if one MUST do it, throwing on some dirt and playing with attitude will get the average listeners attention. Which (fun fact!) makes up the majority of most audiences. Flea gets people moving, either with the band or solo, and has stage presence. Music is not a meritocracy, and it never should be. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
loved this playing since the beginning, controlling so many Technics and still hanging kept his place in the whole synchronicity of the band...awesome player and truely one of my heroes. Even love the compassion which is often misunderstood by anger or temper. a driven sou lwith a golden heart ❤
Always a crazy outfit, always a great bass sound. Flea is so adorable and magical. Such a nice guy and best friend of his band members. I like RHCP since beginning and forever. 🙏❤️👏❤️👌❤️🤗❤️
Saw them live in Cologne back in 2016. Flea played a similar solo as the intro Jam for Around the World. The whole Arena was shaking! miss this night...
Actually, FLEA influenced me a long time ago on bass also. I went on to singing and writing, but the best thing by far about the RHCP is this man's bass chops. He could probably have a solo career just going around doing crazy instrumental shit, and I kind of wish he would.
The spirit of Hillel Slovak lives on in the Peppers music. Back in the day he took Flea under his wing and taught him how to play bass guitar. Decades later, Flea would still get emotional when talking about the experience. Flea knew that being in a band was a huge deal to Slovak, and the fact that he chose him, a guy that had had never played bass before, to fill that role in his band made Flea feel wanted and loved, a sentiment he did not find in other areas of his life.
This is a lovely story, but it's wrong in its entirety. Well before Flea ever met Hillel, Anthony, Jack Irons, etc he was an accomplished trumpet player and was well into playing bass by then too.
i was backstage at RHCP. Every person was cool as hell. Anthony wouldnt even acknowledge me. Like imagine standing right next to someone saying Hi...hello...reaching ur hand out and they just denied your existence.
i owe everting to this man and this band, with what I became as a musician. still to this day i have no shame in admitting that my whole style image and ability on stage originated, stemmed and grew from this man playing bass. 2002 i had never picked up a instrument in my life......current music at the time to me was a unknown, i was born and bred on the 70s, Zeppelin, purple, who, sabbath, Floyd and the rest . But for the awful fear of been left out of social groups in high school with a number of new bands starting to form, everyday, i came out with the words to my friends...I'll learn the bass!!!.. I then went through life changing problems and struggled with life in general from some time then a song called Brendan's Death Song came on and it change everything . until from then on I went on a absolute unbelievable Journey teaching my self everything about bass and taking lessons from amazing tutors' (Ben, if you are reading this its Deane Peacock and i mean you!!!) on bass to a point where no teacher local to me could get me any further. only then did i realise just how fantastic a bassist cloud be, i learned everything from all the best. but still only one man sat deep inside me with how i wanted to play. i then counited my journey to write records with a home based bands that sold well on the likes of iTunes, Spotify, and RU-vid while continuing to play with the energy, passion and raw funk that flea had implanted on me. unfortunately the band split. but still to this day nearly 7 years since i last played live, ill pick up that bass up and give it everything i have. every inch of skill. just like flea always has ,110% passion, heart, emotion and love for music untill the day i can no longer hold a bass in my hands. Flea (Michael Balzary) i thank you to the bottom of my heart for the bass.
This was at reading and Leeds 2016 I remember watching this with my parents a week before I started year 5 ( 4th grade) and I think it was before around the world and I think it was the first time I saw them performing it with Josh.
Michael Peter Balzary (Melbourne, Victoria, 16 de octubre de 1962), conocido como Flea, es un músico, bajista y actor australiano-estadounidense. Es uno de los fundadores de la banda de funk rock Red Hot Chili Peppers. 61 AÑOS. (62) 🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝
I was watching a video of Nikki Sixx performing a bass solo. Most comments praising his bass playing skills. Then this video shows up on my recommendations. Well I’m not much of a RHCP fan, but this Flea guy sure can play!
Somebody told me that bass is boring without the guitar forgot his name but he commented on the video when John Frusciante breaks his string in the 1999 brazil performance which was uploaded by this channel well it was an amazing solo from I'm huge flea fan it's been years they've realeased a new album I know how much it takes to realese an album I think because of covid everything is getting delayed and they announced They'r working on an album let's wait for the mean time
