Me and My Friends #14 - Revenir
Hello friends, both old and new. Still doesn’t feel real, does it? I’m still waiting for the pinch, the correction, the jolt back to reality. But who knows...
Me and My Friends #13 - J...
Of course I didn’t believe it at first; they’d clearly been hacked. Why wasn’t it on their Facebook? Their official site? Why was there complete radio...
Me and My Friends #12 - Consequence and change
What is the least consequential Chili Peppers song? I don’t mean the worst, or the one with that charted the lowest, or the one that the band have dismissed,...
Me and My Friends #11 - New things, old things, and torn down things.
Hello friends, both old and new. This issue is more of a collection of links and thoughts as opposed to something themed on a specific thing. This is just an...
Me and My Friends #10 - Fleamail & Teatro Memories
Hello all, To celebrate the release of Flea’s book, Acid For The Children, I thought I’d put together a sequel of sorts. Here is a link to an epub ebook made...
Me and My Friends #9 - ST IRL
Hi folks. Scar Tissue is an amazing book. I love it. It's like a limb. It's the kind of thing I dip into constantly, so in a way, really, I'm always reading...
Me and My Friends #8 - Like, Totally Random
Hi everyone, I really have zero time for setlist complainers. We’re lucky enough that the Chili Peppers are not only still together, but that they tour...
Me and My Friends #7 - a followup on last time, and some thoughts on Stadium Arcadium
Hi gang. Not a whole lot to talk about this time, but hey - let’s see where we end up. Up front, here’s a few extra things about the band in Japan in May...
Me and My Friends #6 - Falling apart in 1992
Hello, everyone. A mea culpa to begin with. In the first ever edition of this newsletter, I “deduced” that the first ever RHCP gig was February 3, 1983. I’ve...
Me and My Friends #5 - a real Greatest Hits
Hi gang. The RHCP have two retail "greatest hits" collections.1 The first, What Hits!? is mostly a joke, and only contains five or six songs that could...
Me and My Friends #4 - Rising again in 1998, part 2
Hi friends, I suggested in the last edition of this newsletter that Dave Navarro was fired from the Red Hot Chili Peppers earlier than the band would like us...
Me and My Friends #3 - Rising again in 1998, part 1
Hi folks, First up - apologies if the banner that used to accompany this letter was too wide, and made it hard to read the text. It's gone now - and if you...
Me and My Friends #2 - live in Sydney
Hey gang, I'm writing this next entry a little earlier than I intended, but I guess if there's any reason for me breaking my once-a-month-rule it would be...