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The History
of Red Hot
Chili Peppers
Chapter
11
Recent
Events
At
the beginning of 1997 Flea and
Dave
participated
with Porno for Pyros
on "Howard Stern Private parts"Soundtrack.
And they made a video for the song (Hard Charger).After
this they played with Porno for Pyros again for the Premier Party of the
movie. That night they played Hard Charger and Jane's
Addiction's Mountain Song (If you have
some doubts about Jane's Addiction go to my FAQ) there was were the rumours
of a possible reunion of Jane's started
On March 3 1997
, Chad Smith
had a baby girl with Maria
(his wife),she was called Manon St Jonh
Smith ,and she
was
born at 10:42 A.M.
After some months of inactivity Anthony Kiedis
came back from India (where he was with Dalai
Lama) and once again he started working in
the new album.The band is invited to participate again in the Tibetan
freedom concert ,but they cancelled because
they felt like they were not prepared to play.
On July 13 Anthony
crashed in his car and he broke his wrist ,and some days after he played
on Mt. Fuji Rock festival.But
the concert (these was the only concert they played in the whole year)
lasted only 45 minutes
because it had to be cancelled because of a typhoon.
After a month Chad Smith
also crashed on his motorbike and he dislocated his shoulder.This is why
they
cancelled the Hawaii ,Alaska and Las Vegas concerts.
In august the rumours of a possible Jane's
addiction reunion became true ,but Flea was
the bassist instead Avery.They decided to make a mini-tour over the united
states (it started on october 31 and it finished on december) and in november
they released a new album (it had 4 new songs).The album was called Kettle
Whistle.
In september during an interview from Mtv to
Anthony ,he said that he had been using Heroin
during the last tour (1996 O.H.M. Tour).
In december Dave Navarro
also admitted to had been using drugs some months ago. And the cancelled
concerts were canceled definitely.
In February and March 1998 Dave
& Chad recoded
their duo album.
On March 31st 1998
a new cd was released by EMI it is a limited edition called Under
the Covers it contains old songs of all albums
except OHM and some live unreleased ones.
Meanwhile Flea
continued working on his solo album.
On april 3 1998
Dave left the
band ,he did it because of different creative
feelings with the rest of the band.So he decided
to dedicate most of his time on Spread.
So the band will had to look for another guitar player so they talked
to John Frusciante
and he came back on April 29th 1998
his firs perfomance with the band was on a radio.
Chapter
10:Soundtracks & Special Appearances
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