Red Hot Chili Peppers

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Red Hot Chili Peppers are a Californian rock band whom has combined aspects of funk and hip-hop with rock and roll, pioneering funk metal. The band started in 1984. From the time they formed in the early 1980s, the Red Hot Chili Pepper have played an innovative blend of punk, funk, rap, and metal. While they gained most of their notoriety for their energetic shows as well as their battles with addictions, their sound exerted a strong influence on alternative rock throughout the 1990s. With various members undertaking solo projects or touring with other bands, and their lack of permanency in the lead guitar spot, the Peppers always seemed on the verge of breaking up. In 1999, though, they reunited the lineup that appeared on their 1991 breakthrough Blood Sugar Sex Magik and released the album Californication to critical and popular acclaim. The two men who have been Peppers from the beginning, vocalist Anthony Kiedis and bass player Michael Balzary, became close friends in high school in Los Angeles. They joined with fellow classmates Hillel Slovak on guitar and Jack Irons on drums to form the band Anthem. Their band, Anthem, ended shortly after the creation. Michael left to play with the punk band Fear, while Jack Irons and Hillel Slovak joined a group called What is This? Although all four of them remained busy with their own projects, they often crossed paths. One night they briefly reunited for a one-song performance on the spur of the moment at a Los Angeles club. This spontaneous gig went over so well that they soon became a regular presence on the Hollywood club circuit under their new name, Red Hot Chili Peppers. That reputation continued to grow with the cover of the 1988 album Abbey Road, which had the band posed crossing the street in imitation of the famous cover of the Beatles’ album of the same name. The Peppers, however, each wore nothing except a

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