Me and My Friends #27 - An Opening
At the very first Red Hot Chili Peppers show all those years ago, the band played one song: “Out In L.A.” This short song is the perfect Chili Peppers track,...
Me and My Friends #26 - 17 notes on Blood Sugar Sex Magik
The drone you can (just barely) hear in "Power of Equality", at about 2:38 in the left channel -- I think it's a result of John not quite releasing the Eb...
Me and My Friends #25 - I Do Feel Maya
This band has little occurences -- factoids, riddles, situations -- that tickle the mind to think about. The kind of thing you'd reject for being too bizarre...
Me and My Friends #24 - Five Ways the Chili Peppers Can Spice Things Up!
Apologies for the clickbait title. I couldn’t resist. Are the Chili Peppers stagnant? Yes and no. Things have changed, of course; they just swapped out their...
Me and My Friends #23 - Jack Sherman
I wasn't sure what to write about Jack, but I wanted to make sure I said something before the news cycle moved on. Jack was a very kind and open man who was...
Me and My Friends #22 - Bram Van Splunteren interview + new rips of Lolapalusa, May 11 1994 and "Stuff"
Hello friends, Something very fun happened last week! Friend of the site Jack Bratt (who owns the world’s coolest shorts) let me know that he’d been speaking...
Me and My Friends #21 - Yes I Can Hear You Clem Fandango
Hello dear readers, I’m about 60% through the first draft of my book about the RHCP in 1983. There are many more people I need to talk to, and further...
Me and My Friends #20 - A Deep Dive Stream
Hello all, This shuttered world has become one of low resolution up-the-nose conference calls, fan streams, and quarantine specials, and here’s one more for...
Me and My Friends #19 - レッチリ大宮
Heyheyheywhatshappening, In an earlier edition of this newsletter, I dove a little into the chaotic period up to John's last show with the band in 1992....
Me and My Friends #18 - the RHCP Live Archive
The RHCP Live Archive is the best website on the internet. Picking up where sites like The Side left off, it catalogs every show the band have ever played,...
Me and My Friends #17 - What if By the Way were weirder?
When I think of an album by the Chili Peppers, I tend to think of the attributes given to it by things external to the music itself; the media that review...
Me and My Friends #16 - Funkus Amongkus
Hi all, In honour of the late, great Andy Gill of the incredible Gang of Four, this month I'm sending out a piece about the band's first album. I wrote this...
Me and My Friends #15 - Trading Places
August 26, 2007. Bramham Park, Leeds, United Kingdom. The Red Hot Chili Peppers have limped to the end of a year-long world tour for their ninth album,...
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...