Wilsoni on Shuffle | Funky Crime - Red Hot Chili Peppers (1987)

Credit: https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/5yyzz2/red_hot_chili_peppers_1984/

I totally forgot about this one - and the lyrics are much more pertinent to my current musical manner than I'd previously figured when we were jammin' this in High School!

Like many of my generation, I was a big Chilis fan as a teenager. Flea and Stuart Zender helped foster my love of the low-end, and I was pretty slap happy for a few years. I've considered myself to have grown out of them now, but then something like this pops up on shuffle and reminds me that when they were the best of Funk and Punk, the Chilis were pretty bad! This tune's from what I'd consider their definitive record - The Uplift Mofo Party Plan - the only with the full original line up of Anthony Keidis (Vox), Flea (Bass), Hillel Slovak (Guitar) and Jack Irons (Drums), before Slovak died of an overdose and drove Irons to a mental institution. Check out (George Clinton produced) Freaky Styley for Hillel's gnarly dive-bombs!

Obviously BloodSugarSexMagick is the classic established line up album, and it's really great. I think they lost a lot of steam after Frusciante cleaned up. But that's fine, their prerogative to do different! I'd probably chill out in my middle age too, if I was in a Punk/Funk band.