Red Mosquito

You said that last time I said something about playing drums.

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Same era.

Even just the first two mins of this show his groove, and how he pushes the beat.

Thanks for sharing that. It’s something I’ve been working on with my own playing over the past 3-4 years. I never learned about playing with ghost notes when I started playing and using them and incorporating them into my style has been a challenge.

Chad makes it look easy

One Hot Minute. This is the RHCP album I had a relationship with growing up, but I never fully got it. Basically it was the only album by them I owned and at times it scared me and made me feel uncomfortable. I was unfamiliar with the rest of the band's work, save the radio singles, and as such I had zero appreciation for what Navarro was bringing to the table by contrast. I listen to it now and I realize that Navarro is exactly what "scared" me about this music. His guitar takes the band to such dark territory. I remember how good but how creepy the hand drawn liner notes were (this one and Vitalogy gave off the same late 19th century haunted antique store vibe) and how perfectly it matched the slightly satanic feel of this album. Catholic guilt is a very real thing with me.

I listened to this album start to finish for the first time in at least 20 years last night and it paid off ten fold from when I was a young poser kid who just really loved "Aeroplane". Tearjerker and Porcelain, my god. Each of these songs just sort of shapeshifts around Navarro's guitar lines. Even Californication, a bonafide classic, pales in comparison to how I feel about One Hot Minute. Has a band so known for a certain sound ever detoured this hard for just a brief moment in time before reigning it back in? No Code maybe? Up?

Anyway, what a great album. If time travel is ever invented, one of the things I'll tell my younger self is to be more patient when "Deep Kicks" comes on. Maybe this album could have taught me sooner how to listen to things more intentionally.

Im a huge fan of OHM. But im also a huge fan of Jane´s so its not surprising i guess. I love what Navarro brought to the band and were he pushed them...and i agree its dark as fuck, but also those guys were in a super dark place, specially Kiedis and Flea.

I always loved that album as well. Californication is weirdly the real separation for me more than this. I always kind of treated this as not really an RHCP album probably because of how different it was from Mothers Milk and Blood Sugar Sex Magik. I really love a lot of what this band produced in its day and hope the new album is good too.

Transcending is one of my favs from the 90s. I also love the lyric and that bridge.

Anthony sounds awesome.

they all say this right? ¨WE HAVE ANOTHER ALBUM COMING SOON!¨

and then it takes 4 years or so

Heard the first single again today and could not stop laughing at the weird Irish accent in the first verse. Just a bizarre choice.

tragabigzanda wrote:I agree it’s not great. But it’s not enough to make me hate the song, which seems to be a common reaction

It's good to have Frusciante back. Still interested to hear more.

cool!

Are they going to be interviewed by him?

nice!!

sounds awesome

I’ve been singing Black Summer all morning

I wonder if this album will leak