VinylGuy wrote:I still feel bad for Josh. John should have called him too. What an asshole.
Also i feel Kiedis dont quite like John.
I feel like there's a lot of John/Josh fanboys losing their shit over nothing, case in point above. It sucks for Josh, he seems a reasonable guy, but there's no doubt the winners are the fans, Frusciante is a better guitarist, backing vocalist and songwriter.
If I was getting booted from my job, I'm not sure my replacement calling me up to tell me he was replacing me would make it any better than if my colleagues did, band dynamics are different than a 9 to 5 but I still think the point stands.
Loving the additions of B-sides to these mixes, particularly the By The Way stuff, always found the more experimental outlying stuff more interesting than some of the album tracks. Have also long been of the opinion that RHCP should fire whoever picks their singles, whether it's them, management or label. SA in particular was a shitshow, some great songs on there and they went with 2 of the most generic, for-the-masses numbers in Dani California and Tell Me Baby. I've probably answered my own question as to why they went with them, but these guys are rarely far from a chorus even in their more off-kilter numbers.
) ,rather than the rock songs from these sessions. For some reason "Warm Tape" is one of my favourites, when no one else really seems to like it. The further away the songs stray from the Californication sound the more interesting to me, even though I do like that record.
