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RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
1989 - Mother's Milk.
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August 16, 1989 - 2024: 35 years of: Mother's Milk.

Suck on these !

From the City Of Angels arises the spicy beast known as the RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS. Parallel to the colorful West-Hollywood scene, the fearsome foursome wanted none of it's flair and clichés. Label them: alternative, hip, groove, boogie and definitely funky ...these hot PEPPERS are hitting hard.

Part rock-guitars, part freestyle-drums, part funk-bass, part hiphop-vocals and all fun, these shenanigans were put to tape and nourished a distinctive niche crowd. 1989's Mother's Milk LP is a fully matured band, that also solidified this new fresh-rock movement that lurked at the turning of the decade. FAITH NO MORE, LIVING COLOUR, 24-7 SPYZ and PRIMUS, where the new breed and new hope for hard rock's future, everything was set in stone ...until Seattle changed the face of music in Autumn '91.

The good times kicks-in with "Good Time Boys" a loud hard track that gets every parts of your body into a frenetic motion. The trumpet shuffle found on "Subway To Venus" is a clear rhythm and blues influence and the energetic "Magic Johnson" is as energetic as the big man himself.

The addition of Jimi Hendrix's classic "Fire" is a nice bonus to pack the house, while "Knock Me Down" possesses an infectious heavy beat, peppered with Flea's infectious slap-bass ...an instant-hit. Still the Stevie Wonder reprise of "Higher Ground" remains the LP's stand-out track. Still present in the band's current set-list "Higher Ground" became the PEPPERS's own with it's lethal dose of raw-ness and distinctive high-octane stamina.

RIAA-certified Platinum, these young mans are hungry, angry and ready for rock-stardom. Mainstream recognition came with 1991's multi-Platinum Blood Sugar Sex Magik CD ...yet the madness started right here in it's infancy ...with sweet Mother's milk.

RIP Hillel Slovak (1962-1988)

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Higher Ground = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3mRasO5bvo
Knock Me Down = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STHllreT1Vk
Taste The Pain = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUgnPeRi_Ys
Mother's Milk = full LP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJEFWFEOYng&list=OLAK5uy_lk6MRc0hf3TYyOoLIEa2tWum8-9r7RqlA
Interview in 1989
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6rp_1GmbQo
Psychedelic Sexfunk Live From Heaven = full VHS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEeZbJGXKPk
Live on Letterman in 1990
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQVKfnkrmzw
Live at Pinkpop in 1990
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSn_LXu8UPo

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