Red Hot Chili Peppers performs on the Jonathan Ross Show (10.09.2011): "The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie" live followed by a short interview with Anthony Kiedis and Flea
flea has been doing backup vocals since their first albums, and to say josh can't perform the backups is a huge understatement as he has a incredible vocal range.
I agree. I saw Josh live in 2007 when he played alongside John for the Arcadium tour, and he's a very talented musician. I don't get what all the hate for Josh is. Sure John was amazing, but Josh is great as well. If Anthony and Flea didn't feel Josh was suitable then they'd fire him at the drop of a hat like they did with previous members. Let's also not forget John did take over from previous members of the band, too...
If he genuinely hadn't up a trumpet in two years he did really well there, you would probably remember the valve fingerings but really surprised he could sound notes so easily and still had something of an embouchure!
John left on his own accord to continue working on his solo stuff, which it isn't bad btw. I'm hoping though that he misses the band atmosphere and comes back with Josh still on board, that would be epic :)
I went to see RHCP in Croke park in Dublin in 2012 and that was my first ever concert. I was 8 at the time and I didn't know that Josh had replaced John. I was so upset. Then I realised that Josh is a great and very worthy replacement for John even if John will always be my idol.
Was I the only one that heard Josh's awesome solo there :O He may not be Fruiscante but why cant people accept him because he is a great guitar player!!!
I disagree. They aren't regular chat-show-invaders and they're sort of obliged to do so after a long hiatus. It was also to break in Josh to the public. Their fans in the UK obviously would like to hear from them and so that's why they did it- RHCP are not about the money. Frusciante is well aware of that. He's simply a great believer in change+experimentation and he wanted to leave on a high+do other things. Listen to his album the Empyrean and you'll see this was a good move.
when he wrote scar tissue, kiedis was candid about every single drug he ever took in his life except steroids - I wonder why - how is it possible to be a junkie for years and still look muscular like he does - like he always did? that has always baffled me. thoughts anyone?
You don't think John did stuff like this when he was in the band? There are tons of interviews like this they did all over the world, including a really good one in Germany in the years before he left the second time. John left because he wanted to pursue his solo career and had enough of playing in the band. Like the Peppers (who have been going since 1983 and have tons of international awards) need Jonathan Ross to promote their album :/
Josh is a fine musician, just not to everyone's taste, it's very difficult to replace another guitar player and please the fans that have gotten used to a certain style and sound, especially one as distinctive John Frusciante. You can only do perhaps it by modelling yourself or being a fanatic of the band perhaps, like John Frusicante was to some degree of Hillel Slovak era Chillies. But I'd rather see someone bring their own thing and he is doing that
That would be a fine comment if it weren’t for the fact that Klinghoffer is trying to copy Frusciante’s style, movements, even his way of playing the guitar. He’s standing on the shoulders of a giant, and fairly new to it all at 2 years, but he needs to be himself, just as Frusciante quickly learned to stop trying to be Slovak. I wish I could like him (Klinghoffer) more, I really do.
I feel like Rain Dance Maggie has a really solid verse and the chorus is just a complete let down.. obviously John wrote the chorus' and melodies for them.
In interviews they say they all developed songs together from an idea, a riff, some words, or whatever. Frusciante was creative beyond measure; he was never going to be superseded or replaced, but I agree with you about this song - it grooves along but goes nowhere, lost in what it might have become. Perhaps Frusciante’s depth of musicality is missing, not to be found in the others. He would have understood the effects of particular chords (for example), he knew song structure, how music gets resolved, and he was an expert harmoniser - these were just some of the skills he brought to RHCP.
