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RED-HANDED? The Peppers are going back to Cal

Red Hot Chili Peppers

The Red Hot Chili Peppers couldn't have picked a better year for an attempted
comeback. Way back in the '80s, the Chili Peppers' overflowing keg of metal,
rap, and funk pioneered the funky-white-boy pose, at both its best and worst.
After the stumble of 1995's almost-there One Hot Minute, though, they laid
conspicuously low (thanks, in part, to accidents and recurring drug habits),
and maybe that wasn't such a bad idea: How much longer could they have
carried on the horny-shirtless-stud shtick before descending into
self-parody?
Starting with its elbow-in-ribs title (which makes one think they've been
spending quality time with fellow sex-pun groaners Van Halen),
Californication has the whiff of desperation. And when Anthony Kiedis opens
his mouth, the situation grows even more dire: ''All around the world, we
could make time/Rompin' and a-stompin', 'cause I'm in my prime,'' he raps on
the first track, ''Around the World.'' You're tempted to hit the stop button
on your stereo then and there.

But then something startling happens. Perhaps it's the return of guitarist
John Frusciante, who played such an integral role in 1991's Blood Sugar Sex
Magik. For the bulk of Californication, the Peppers sound more relaxed, less
grating, and, in their own way, more introspective than ever before. The
soul-searching sentiments of ''Otherside,'' ''Californication'' (which
appears to take digs at Courtney Love and ''celebrity skin''), and the
sobriety-imbued ''This Velvet Glove'' are set to music that's lilting and
freshly scrubbed.

The rockers are powerful but not obnoxious (or clotted with popping bass
lines), and the whirlybird pulse of ''Parallel Universe'' also marks new turf
for them. The Chili Peppers -- Kiedis, in particular -- can't refrain from
sub-beat-poetry lyrics, throwaways like ''I Like Dirt,'' and the naughty
finger-painting ode ''Purple Stain.'' But those tendencies are kept to a
minimum. Californication is the sound of aging party animals who sense the
room is emptying out and that they'd better look for another, healthier buzz.
Grade: B+ -- David Browne

Over the years, the Red Hot Chili Peppers have been rock-hard, funked up,
inspiring, and infuriating. The Californians have lost friends and one
guitarist (the mighty Hillel Slovak) to drugs, have been busted for exposing
themselves onstage and harassing female fans, have squandered more talent
than most bands will ever enjoy, and have otherwise acted as the sexiest
musical clowns on the block. But never, ever have they committed the ultimate
rock and roll sin of being dull.

Happily, that record is still untarnished. Fifteen years (!) after the RHCPs'
debut album, after dizzying personnel changes and legendary personal
animosities, the latest lineup -- volcanic drummer Chad Smith; bassist (and
the band's eternal heartbeat) Flea; second-time-around guitarist John
Frusciante, of "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" fame; and motormouth frontman Anthony
Kiedis -- are touring behind "Californication," the long-awaited follow-up to
their disappointing 1995 release, "One Hot Minute."

The record's been greeted with decidedly mixed reviews, but there's no
denying a resurgent, relatively positive energy within the band, especially
when compared to its vibe during what Flea has referred to as "the year of
nothing" prior to Frusciante's return. The concerts have some of the ungodly
energy of their early shows; everyone, apparently, is clean and sober; and
they've even been profiled on VH1's "Behind the Music." That's right. VH1.
Who'd have thunk it?

Kiedis recently spoke with Roger Coletti of the MTV Radio Network about
what's been happening to the band, what it was like to reunite with
Frusciante, his feelings about ex-guitarist Dave Navarro, the bonfires at
Woodstock... oh, just a whole mess of things. Let's get to it

Some say that the depths of hell and the streets of L.A. are one and the
same. One thing we can all agree on: the Red Hot Chili Peppers have been to
both and back.

The band's history plays like a miniseries just begging to be televised:
deaths, near-deaths, various addictions, broken bones, ever-changing guitar
players, motorcycle crashes. Pick any bandmember, and chances are he's the
stuff rumors are made of.

Sounds like we might all be able to get past that... for now, at least.

Following the Chili Peppers' divorce from its last guitarist, Dave Navarro,
the band has reunited with John Frusciante, the axe-wielder from the band's
multi-platinum heydays of "Mothers Milk" and "Blood Sugar Sex Magik."

Cleaned up and startlingly pre-Raphaelite-looking, Frusciante's mere presence
has giddied and funked up the band in a way that's making everyone sit up and
care about them all over again. Not to mention that the band's latest LP,
"Californication," finds the guys sounding fresh and invigorated. It could be
their best work since (surprise) "Blood Sugar Sex Magik." (Here come the new
Peppers, same as the old Peppers?)

MTV News' Kurt Loder recently sat down with the band to discuss the new
album. Between slap-fights and impromptu wrestling matches, the guys got
serious about the politics and emotions behind Frusciante's departure (and
return), addictions and rehabilitations, the thrill of hitting the road, and
that Navarro guy.

Get ready for some serious Californicatin'.

Reds for the Red Hot Chili Peppers?

The Red Hot Chili Peppers will make their first foray into mother Russia next
week when the band stages a free concert near Red Square in Moscow.

The program will be taped on August 14 by MTV's international affiliates for
broadcast in October as "MTV Live with the Red Hot Chili Peppers," which will
go out to some 296 million households in 83 countries.

The group name-checks Russia in its new single, "Around the World," and in a
recent interview with the MTV Radio Network, frontman Anthony Kiedis talked
about how the band decided to bring its raucous live show to the heart of the
former Soviet Union.

"[The promoters] wanted to know would we play live, outdoors, somewhere
around the Red Square in Moscow," Kiedis said, "sort of between the Kremlin
and some beautiful church. We've never been to Russia, so we were thrilled at
the concept of going there to play music for some Russian people, outdoors in
the middle of summer. What could be better? And they were gonna pay us,
so...." [RealAudio]

The Chili Peppers will play Moscow as part of its current European tour,
which is slated to wrap up with performances at the Reading Festival in
Reading, England on August 29 and the Leeds Festival in Leeds, England on
August 30.

To read and hear more from the Kiedis interview, check out the MTV Online
Feature "Red Hot Chili Peppers: A Conversation with Anthony Kiedis".

For more on Red Hot Chili Peppers, check out the MTV News Gallery.

Over the years, the Red Hot Chili Peppers have been rock-hard, funked up,
inspiring, and infuriating. The Californians have lost friends and one
guitarist (the mighty Hillel Slovak) to drugs, have been busted for exposing
themselves onstage and harassing female fans, have squandered more talent
than most bands will ever enjoy, and have otherwise acted as the sexiest
musical clowns on the block. But never, ever have they committed the ultimate
rock and roll sin of being dull.

Happily, that record is still untarnished. Fifteen years (!) after the RHCPs'
debut album, after dizzying personnel changes and legendary personal
animosities, the latest lineup -- volcanic drummer Chad Smith; bassist (and
the band's eternal heartbeat) Flea; second-time-around guitarist John
Frusciante, of "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" fame; and motormouth frontman Anthony
Kiedis -- are touring behind "Californication," the long-awaited follow-up to
their disappointing 1995 release, "One Hot Minute."

The record's been greeted with decidedly mixed reviews, but there's no
denying a resurgent, relatively positive energy within the band, especially
when compared to its vibe during what Flea has referred to as "the year of
nothing" prior to Frusciante's return. The concerts have some of the ungodly
energy of their early shows; everyone, apparently, is clean and sober; and
they've even been profiled on VH1's "Behind the Music." That's right. VH1.
Who'd have thunk it?

Kiedis recently spoke with Roger Coletti of the MTV Radio Network about
what's been happening to the band, what it was like to reunite with
Frusciante, his feelings about ex-guitarist Dave Navarro, the bonfires at
Woodstock... oh, just a whole mess of things. Let's get to it.

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