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DVader316
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5/30/06 6:48pm
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Yea, I dont know what's more surprising the fact that it sold over 400, 000 units in its first week or that this is the first time the Peppers have ever had an album debute at number one.
Oh, and this weekend I stumbled on a show called 'Breaking the Album' on Fuse, which featured the Chili Peppers discussing and playing songs from the new album. Pretty good stuff, and they even let Frusciante sing the Bee Gees song 'How Deep is Your Love', which was pretty decent. Check it out if you can.
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Zelda_Skywalker
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I love the Dani California music video.
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Jaden-Skywalker
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Alright, I'm trying to update the history of the band, but the forum isn't letting me post something that long 
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Zaz
Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre
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9/6/06 4:56pm
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Break it up into segments. 
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Jaden-Skywalker
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Still won't work 
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Zaz
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PM them to me.
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Boba_Fett_123
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The concert is sooo close!! Oh, and can't wait to see the history.
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Zaz
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Part #1:
Success didn't stop there, and the movie "Pretty Woman" contained the song Show Me Your Soul, in which Frusciante took his prodigious guitar play to the limits. The group soon moved on to Warner Brothers Records, and in the early months of 1990 Rick Rubin was hired in 1991 to produce their fifth album BloodSugarSexMagik, which would go on to sell seven million copies in the United States alone. The album contained the singles Give it Away which won a Grammy award in 1992 for "Best Hard Rock Performance With Vocal", Breaking the Girl, Suck My Kiss, and Under the Bridge, a melodic ballad that propelled the band to superstardom.
BloodSugarSexMagik was listed at number 310 on the Rolling Stone magazine list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and in 1992 it climbed all the way to # 3 on the U.S. album charts almost a year after its release.
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Zaz
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Part #2:
Success and drug addiction were taking their toll on Frusciante, who abruptly quit the band during the BSSM tour in May of 1992. After headlining Lollapalooza festival in 1992 with replacement guitarist Arik Marshall (of Marshall Law, and briefly with Jesse Tobias of the California based band Mother Tongue in 1993, former Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro joined in 1993.
Dave Navarro first appeared with the band at Woodstock 1994, and a year later appeared on the album One Hot Minute. The album, featuring My Friends, featured the familiar blend of funk, metal, and jazz, but this time showed increased hard rock and psychedelic influences. Although critically dismissed compared to their previous work, mostly due to the lack of Frusciante's more familiar style, the album was a commercial success, selling five million copies internationally and reaching double-platinum status in the USA. It remained on the chart for 55 weeks thereafter.
Ever since Hillel Slovak had died Anthony Kiedis had gone clean and sober, however he relapsed shortly before One Hot Minute was recorded and subsequently, many lyrics on the album are hidden clues to his drug abuse.
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"Looking in my own eyes, hey Lord
I can't find the love I want
Someone better slap me
Before I start to rust
Before I start to decompose
Looking in my rearview mirror
Looking in my rearview mirror
I can make it disappear
I can make it disappear"
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Kiedis tried to hide it from the band, but eventually he was found out and checked in at rehab, getting clean again. Over the next few months, he relapsed continuously. Meanwhile, Dave Navarro was kicked out of the band as Kiedis and Flea had severe disagreements over musical issues.
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Zaz
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Part #3:
Flea soon approached Anthony and told him that he might have to leave the band. After talking with Kiedis, Flea mentioned that the only way he thought he could continue was if John Frusciante came back in the fold, which he did in 1998.
The refreshed, refocused, and re-energized guitarist was on board for the band's 1999 release, Californication. Unexpectedly, it became a massive success, nearly outselling BloodSugarSexMagik and introducing them to a new generation of fans.
The album peaked at #3 in USA and produced three more modern rock hits--the Grammy-winning Scar Tissue, Otherside and Californication, and also made it onto the modern rock charts with Around the World, Road Trippin' (UK single), and Parallel Universe, which broke the Top 40 modern rock charts despite not being released as a single. Compared to their previous albums, Californication contains few rap-driven songs. The band went on a tour which lasted nearly two years and featured some of their largest shows, including a Moscow performance in front of 200,000 people and a performance at the controversial Woodstock 1999 festival. At Woodstock '99,while the crowd burned everything they could get their hands on in protest of the high prices of everything from food&drinks to concert memorabilia and also because of the poor amenities the Red Hot Chili Peppers performed Fire by Jimi Hendrix as a tribute to the late rocker who performed at the original Woodstock. It was considered by some to be the high point of the concert, although it was condemned by the media, who believed the band were inciting the crowd to start fires.
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ApolloSmileGirl
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RHCP were only cool prior to where "Part One" starts.
The jumped the shark, went to far, sold out, blah blah blah, after Mother's Milk.
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Jaden-Skywalker
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How so ASG?
EDIT: I hear how people say they "sold out" all the time, but I don't see it.
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Zaz
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Part #4:
The band returned to the studio in early 2001 and released By The Way more than a year later, on July 9, 2002. The album, at the time, was their biggest chart debut (with over 700,000 copies in first week), entering at #2 and produced the hit singles By The Way, The Zephyr Song , Can't Stop, Dosed, and Universally Speaking which was only released in Europe as a single and video. It is the most subdued album they have ever done, focusing primarily on ballads as opposed to their classic style of rap-driven funk.
The Chili Peppers recorded two new songs, Fortune Faded and Save The Population for their Greatest Hits album released later that year. To the surprise of many fans, only two songs from By The Way included on the compilation, Universally Speaking and By The Way. Much criticism was drawn from the absence of Can't Stop, considered one of the band's most popular songs. Band member Flea reportedly said that a lot of tension was going on between him and John during the recording process. So much so, that, following their By The Way Tour, he was planning on leaving the band. The events that took place during that tour, however, forced him to change his mind.
In 2004, the group released their first ever full-length live album, Live in Hyde Park; recorded during their 2004 performances in Hyde Park, London, due to the high attendance rate. In the three nights they performed there, the band took in an estimated 17 million dollars, making it the highest grossing concert at a single venue in history.
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ApolloSmileGirl
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They went from a funk rock band, to pop-pseudo rock afterwards.
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Zaz
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And, finally, Part #5:
In 2006, they completed their ninth studio album, Stadium Arcadium. Although 38 songs were created with the intention to be released as 3 mini-albums spaced six months apart it was released in May 2006 as a 28-track double album. It was their first album to debut at #1 on the US charts, where it stayed for two weeks, and debuted at number one in the UK Albums Chart and 25 other countries as well. In the album's first week, it sold 442,000 units in the United States alone, and over 1,000,000 worldwide, setting a personal record for one week sales. The record's first single Dani California, was the band's fastest-selling single, topping the Modern Rock chart in the US, peaking at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100, and reaching #2 in the UK.In addition to Dani California, Tell Me Baby reached Billboard's hot modern rock tracks in early July. The songs Storm in a Teacup, Snow (Hey Oh), Tell Me Baby, Stadium Arcadium, If and Especially in Michigan are predicted to be the singles released from this album.
In 2009, The Red Hot Chili Peppers will be eligible to enter the prestigious Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Currently, groups or individuals are qualified for induction 25 years after the release of their first record. Nominees should have demonstrable influence and significance within the history of rock and roll).
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