Josh Klinghoffer at the Fender Custom Shop in Corona, California.

Josh Klinghoffer left with four 1960 Fender Stratocasters and a ’69 Strat that he is using in the studio and on the Red Hot Chili Peppers current tour.

Source: http://www.fender.com/news/josh-klinghoffer-tours-fender-custom-shop

      

Blackie Dammett, father of Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman, Anthony Kiedis has just published Lords of the Sunset Strip, a no-holds-barred account of his explosive lifestyle and wild times with some of the world’s biggest celebrities and musicians on L.A’s Sunset Strip.

Blackie’s memoire also tells of his unconventional father-son relationship with Anthony Kiedis and shares previously unheard of stories about the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Lords of the Sunset Strip is currently available as a Kindle eBook and can be purchased from Amazon. You don’t need to have a Kindle to read it as Amazon provides a free reader application which can be run on PCs, Smartphones and Tablets.

A physical version of the book may be in the pipeline, depending on how well sales of the Kindle eBook do. Please leave a message in our related Forum topic if you’re having any problems downloading the book or using an application to read it.

Buy Lords of the Sunset Strip | View Press Release | Read Chapter One

      

Red Hot Chili Peppers Bassist Flea Michael Balzary recently appeared on Episode 11 of The Gorburger Show, produced by Funny Or Die and The Warner Sound and Directed by The Director Brothers. The Episode was originally filmed on December 10th, 2012 and then published on March 11th, 2013. Watch the full episode with Flea below.

Red Hot Chili Peppers Bassist Flea on The Gorburger Show

The Gorburger Show features oddball interviews with bands, musicians, and celebrities. The premise of the show being that Gorburger is an alien (Played by T.J. Miller) from outer space that has invaded Xoom Xoom, a Japanese TV Network which he now uses to host his own talk show.

Flea on The Gorburger Show Episode 11

In this Episode of The Gorburger Show, Flea talks about the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ tradition of wearing Socks On Cocks and performs a dance move called The Worm which was popular in the early punk scene in Los Angeles. Gorburger also has “Tea with Flea” courtesy of his kidnapped TV assistant, Yoko (pictured below).

Flea and Gorburger's Assistant Yoko (Played By Ami Haruna)

Deleted Scene
An additional scene with Flea and Gorburger wearing Grass Skirts while Flea plays a Ukulele was not included in the final cut of the Episode. The image below is a HQ promo shot of Flea during the cut scene.

Deleted Scene: Flea Plays The Ukulele on The Gorburger Show

More images from the cut scene are show in the first row of the gallery below. Additional images can be found on our Facebook Gallery.

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Fuel TV Australia’s “The Crew” TV Show recently paid a visit to Anthony Kiedis at his Malibu Home and messed around with his home entertainment system. The footage is featured in Episode 3 of the TV Show, which originally aired on Feb 24th, 2013 at 9pm EDT on Fuel TV’s cable and satellite channel.

Anthony Kiedis at his Malibu Home on The Crew Episode 3

The Crew’s Macario De Souza aka ‘Kid Mac’ described meeting Anthony Kiedis…
“Anthony Kiedis was awesome. We all got the opportunity to go up to his house at Malibu and show him the rough cut of the film. I couldn’t speak, I was so nervous because I was just… I loved him, and the boys were baggin me.”

The Crew is a no-holds-barred look into the life of three best mates from the ’burbs as they struggle to break free from the shackles of troubled childhoods and realise their dreams. The story focuses on the lives of aspiring musician Kid Mac, big wave surfer Mark Mathews and would-be MMA fighter Richie ‘Vas’ Vaculik, the trio taking viewers on a rollercoaster ride of terrifying highs and devastating lows.

Below are two preview clips from the episode which have been uploaded to Fuel TV’s YouTube Channel. Unfortunately the episode isn’t currently available online, but is being repeated on Fuel TV’s cable and satellite channel.

The Boys Go To America

This Week On The Crew

View the Fuel TV Schedule for future airings of this Episode of The Crew.

      

Red Hot Chili Peppers Anthony Kiedis and Flea feature in a new Photo Shoot in the April 2013 issue of Vogue Russia Magazine with American Models Ruby Aldridge, Alana Bunte and Faith Epton. The photos were taken in December 2012 by RHCP’s tour photographer, David Mushegain.

Anthony Kiedis and Model Ruby Aldridge in Vogue Russia Magazine

Vogue Russia Magazine

Scans from Vogue Russia Magazine – April 2013

Vogue Russia April 2013
Photographer: David Mushegain
Fashion Editor/Stylist: Olga Dunina
Hair Stylist & Makeup Artist: John McKay
Models: Ruby Aldridge, Alana Bunte & UTMs

      

Red Hot Chili Peppers - 30 Years of Funk

The original lineup first came together at L.A.’s Fairfax High School, where they formed the band under the short-lived name of Tony Flow and the Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem. Anthony Kiedis first started as an introductory MC for his friends previous bands, but on this occassion he would join Flea, Hillel and Jack on stage.

Opening for the band, Neighbor’s Voices at the Rhythm Lounge, the foursome played only one song titled, “Out in L.A”, which was originally based on a guitar riff that Hillel Slovak wrote while jamming with Jack Irons, and was not meant to become a real song until Anthony Kiedis decided to rap over the instrumental.

Red Hot Chili Peppers 30th Anniversary February 13th 1983

Following their first performance, The Rhythm Lounge’s owner was so impressed that he invited the band to return the following week, except with two songs. Equipped with a second song, “Get up and Jump”, the band returned to the Rhythm Lounge for another two shows in 1983. After several more shows the band changed their name to the Red Hot Chili Peppers in early March, 1983. The band continued to add more songs to their repetoire and played over 25 gigs in California in their first year together.

Anthony Kiedis described the performance in his autobiography, Scar Tissue.
“All the anticipation of the moment hit me, and I instinctively knew that the miracle of manipulating energy and tapping into an infinite source of power and harnessing it in a small space with your friends was what I had been put on this earth to do.”

Flea also described the first performance.
“I had a bass line and had Hillel do guitar to it, and then we went to the show and played and people love it. We had a whole choreographed dance thing. We did our dance and then played “Out In L.A.” and it was pretty fucking explosive. We did it and it was just BAM! From the first note. A five-minute set. Anthony came with a boom box and the dance, and then the song — it was like two minutes. Sometimes bands just sort of creep into it and find their way, and bam — for us it was from the get-go.”

      

Red Hot Chili Peppers presented with Longboards designed by Caspian de Looze

Posca Artist Caspian de Looze was commissioned by Warner Music’s Australian division to design the four longboards for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The boards feature design elements from the I’m With You album cover (designed by Damien Hirst) and the I’m With You B-Sides cover artwork (designed by Kelsey Brookes).

Sydney based videographer Bryan Dalli filmed Caspian over three days as he illustrated each of the boards. Check out the design process below…

Credits
Longboard Artist: Caspian de Looze | Video: Bryan Dalli Productions | Longboard Manufacturer: Arbor

      

Red Hot Chili Peppers during their Big Day Out Press Conference on January 17th 2013

Contemplating their impending 45-Day Australian tour, Flea said, “Sometimes, it honestly does kind of trip me out. Not that it feels strange; it feels the same as ever in terms of the hope and potential that lies ahead and the burning desire to try and be better at what we do, but …in terms of the world of youth culture and music, we’re not very kids any more. But my enthusiasm hasn’t dampened one modicum of an iota.”

Anthony Kiedis described touring as “Feeling terrified with a hard-on”.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers speak to Journalists about their enthusiasm and love for music that has kept them going for so long.

Red Hot Chili Peppers Big Day Out Press Conference Video January 17th 2013 – Part 1

Red Hot Chili Peppers Big Day Out Press Conference Video January 17th 2013 – Part 2

RHCP will play as headliners on the opening day of the Big Day Out Festival on January 18th, 2013 at the Sydney Showgrounds at the Sydney Olympic Park in Homebush.

According to sources, the Red Hot Chili Peppers will dedicate all of their Australian I’m With You Tour shows to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, and will also incorporate digital art from the group’s Australia charter into the video backdrop on stage. Read more…

Chad Smith, Anthony Kiedis, Flea and Josh Klinghoffer - Big Day Out Press Photo Shoot

      

“We’re playing up until April of next year and then we’re gonna take a little break and then we’ll start writing songs,” said Chad Smith on October 16th, 2012.

Red Hot Chili Peppers to start working on 11th Studio Album in middle of 2013!

“We’re all re-energized and Josh Klinghoffer is playing better every day and we’re more connected as a band now obviously through time and playing.”

Speaking about the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ current I’m With You tour, Chad Smith added that he’s happy about the bands’ recent decision to sell digital downloads of all their concerts on the official Red Hot Chili Peppers website.

“I think we’re a really, really explosive live band so to document those shows is great. Mistakes, they’re on there…but we take chances. We take musical risks and that’s what I want to see out of an artist and out of a musician.”

Source: ABC News Radio

      

Silverlake Conservatory of Music Benefit Auction on Flea's 50th Birthday

LA can be brutal.

What am I doing here? Why am I so far from home, living in an area primarily dominated by people trying to be famous? The stereotypes far too often ring true.

But when I arrived at Flea’s Los Feliz house a few hours before his 50th birthday party and The Silverlake Conservatory of Music Fundraiser began, I had a feeling I’d remember everything I love about the sometimes seemingly morally decrepit city.

This place can be magical. Here I am about to get a chance to spend an equal amount of time as Rolling Stone and CNN with one of the most legendary and charismatic bass players of all time, discussing a subject he actually wants to talk about.

And that’s just it. Seconds after meeting him, it became very apparent how near and dear the Silverlake Conservatory of Music was to the overwhelmed Flea.

“Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos,” he told me.

The goal of the night was to raise a significant portion of the money needed to purchase a new building for the Conservatory. Artist Dana Louise Kirkpatrick made the invitation for the evening (Main Image), and managed to wrangle art pieces by Raymond Pettibon, Shepard Fairey, Banksy and Takashi Murakami amongst others for a silent auction. Bidding wars took place between Edward Norton, Tony Hawk, Rick Rubin, Owen Wilson and other guests (especially UFC’s Dana White) ready to drop a pretty penny for the cause, some of which spent over six figures.

Rancid performed, as did Ben Harper and The Red Hot Chili Peppers. I’m gloating a little, but just let me have a moment as I relive what is surely to be a permanent memory. I wish it were everyday that I was watching “Soul To Squeeze” in the backyard of the person who wrote it, but it’s simply not my reality.

Yes, Los Angeles is beautiful. And hearing the story of The Silverlake Conservatory of Music from it’s founder I was reminded there is so much more out here than what’s on the surface. LA has depth, culture and history. You just have to look in the right place.

Thank you Flea for all that you do and all of who you are.

Flea with art donated to the Silverlake auction by contemporary Japanese artist, Takashi Murakami

Deroche: Why the Silverlake Conservatory of Music?

Flea: I grew up in Los Angeles in public school, and I come from a pretty low income family. When I was in school you could pick any instrument you want and they’d teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school and it sent me on my path as a musician.

Shortly after I graduated high school they passed Proposition 13, Reagonomics, and they cut out a lot of the art programs in the LA schools and kids stopped having that opportunity. About 13-14 years ago, I went back to my alma mater, Fairfax high school, and ran into the music teacher. She invited me to come speak to the kids about the viability of a music career. When I went into the room where I used to play everyday in a big orchestra, they had nothing!

No instruments, a volunteer teacher, a boombox… they listened to music and talked about it.

I was just shocked. I couldn’t believe it. This vibrant thing, just done. So I decided to start a music school. Whatever it takes, I’ll pay for it. So we rented and built out a space and started a music school in Silverlake called the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It’s a nonprofit school, we’ve been going now for 11 years. It’s flourishing. We have 700 students, about 200 of whom go for free.

We teach all the orchestral instruments, all the band instruments, we have group classes, private classes, adult’s choir, children’s choir, big orchestra, we got it all going on. It just takes a lot to run it, man.

I paid for it all by myself to a certain point and then just couldn’t, so we’ve been vigilant about raising money. Our goal now is to get our own building where we can have a performance space, have room for group classes, be able to have twice the student body, be able to have more scholarship students cause we’re packed where we are. We just want to be able to serve better.

The idea is for this music school to be an institution that is flourishing long after we’re gone. To keep it rolling, you know? It takes dough, man. So that’s what we’re doing tonight, and we have our eye on this building we want to get on Hollywood and Edgemont that’s really fucking cool and the perfect spot.

Deroche: Why Silverlake?

Flea: It’s a community that I’ve lived in for a long time and I really like it. All communities have their value of course, but it’s pretty ethnically and economically mixed compared to a lot of places. It’s changed a lot over the years since I first lived there in the early 80′s. I live here in Los Feliz and it’s nearby. It’s all about making the school happen and it takes a lot of work. It’s a huge part of my life outside of my professional life with the band. I spend a lot of energy day in and day out keeping the school together.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers perform at the Silverlake Conservatory Auction

Deroche: Do you have any stories about any of the students that have stuck out to you?

Flea: There’s so many. We’ve had thousands of kids come through in the last 11 years. I haven’t taught there a lot because I’m working so much in my professional life. But about five years ago, I had about a six-month period where I taught and there was this one kid that I was teaching to play the trumpet.

He’d had kind of a difficult time, he had been tossed around from foster home to foster home, government institutions and stuff. It’s a rough life for a kid. When I started teaching him he was a pretty troubled kid, but he had this determination to him. He’d put the trumpet to his lips and you’d see this look in his eyes. He’s going for it so hard, and I could just feel this intensity and desire. To make matters short, he’s now at USC and I know that the music was a huge thing for him. He’s in the music department, and he’s doing great.

That’s just one. Little triumphs all the time, there’s all kinds of kids.

Just so people know, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music is not at all about celebrity or fame or being a star. It’s an academic music school.

Deroche: What would LA be without music?

Flea: The answer to that question is – if you have to ask, you will never know.

I know that you know the answer, so I’m not directing that at you.

I was a kid in the street robbing houses, doing drugs, heading for crime. I got to go to school everyday and play my trumpet in my junior high, and it gave me something to believe in.

Music is the voice of God, man. It’s the thing that keeps us together. It crosses every boundary that exists. Every boundary. I’m talking about boundaries to other dimensions beyond ethnic, economic, social-economic and every boundary.

Music brings us together. Music is the voice of the people. Music is love. Music saved my life.

Source: HuffingtonPost | Silverlake Conservatory of Music

      

Thanks to Adam King/Funky Monks102

October 16th marked Flea’s 50th birthday, and the iconic bass player of the Red Hot Chili Peppers held an event celebrating both his life and his life’s focus on giving back.

Flea with his new trumpet, a 50th Birthday gift from Chad Smith

An army of caterers scurried around his Los Angeles backyard on Tuesday, preparing for a party that was a birthday bash as well as a fundraiser for the Silverlake Conservatory of Music, the nonprofit school Flea co-founded 11 years ago.

Flea’s days of rock star excess are clearly over — unless you count the silent auction, where a Banksy drawing of a rat fetched $100,000 and a spirited bidding war erupted between actor Owen Wilson, musician Ben Harper and producer Rick Rubin over a crayon-colored cashmere blanket that ultimately sold for $2,250.

Shortly before his guests arrived, Flea reflected on the first half-century of his life — which has been just as colorful as the cashmere blanket that caused such a ruckus during the silent auction.

With the Red Hot Chili Peppers, he’s won seven Grammys, pioneered a bold style of rock infused with funk and rap, overcome drug dependency and earned induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. On his own, Flea’s found purpose and personal satisfaction in giving back.

CNN: Happy Birthday, Flea! 50. How does it feel?

Flea: Outstanding! I woke up this morning and I just felt so grateful for everything. Grateful to be alive, grateful to be exactly where I am. I give and receive love every day, (and) I feel creatively vibrant. I have some great friends; I feel like I’m capable of giving a lot to the world. And ultimately, that’s what I really care about, is just giving.

CNN: Tonight you’re also holding a benefit for the Silverlake Conservatory of Music, which you co-founded 11 years ago.

Flea: The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages — people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people. But we teach all the orchestral instruments, all the band instruments, group lessons, private lessons, orchestra, adult choir, children’s choir, all kinds of music groups. And we’re not about fame or celebrity or anything like that. We’re academic, teaching theory and fundamentals of music and technique on a particular instrument. Unfortunately, the public school system has cut the funding to music programs, and there’s a big void, so we’re doing our best to fill it in our community.

CNN: What made you decide to bring the annual fundraiser to your own home this year?

Flea: Well, I’ve done it before, but this is a special night tonight. We’ve had incredible fine artists donate to our auction tonight — Damien Hirst, Takashi Murakami, Banksy, Matt Monahan, Laura Schnitger, Barry McGee, Ed Ruscha. Some of the great people in the contemporary art world have come out to support our music education.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are playing tonight, Rancid is playing tonight, and it’s all happening in my backyard, and it’s my birthday. You know, 11 years ago we had the opening night for the school party and it was on my birthday. So it’s always an incredible birthday to have. In a minute, I’m going to go shower, put on my suit, and it’s on.

CNN: When you woke up this morning, did you reflect back?

Flea: Yeah, turning 50 is a little bit of a taking stock moment. I feel probably a little dumber. I don’t think I’m as sharp as I was when I was younger, but I’m definitely wiser, and less likely to make gigantic blunders of an intellectual, spiritual, emotional or physical type. Less likely to do something dumb, but I’m not as quick. I feel a little bit wiser, but more than anything the passion for the things that I really care about like playing music, and being kind, and children, and the things I love — sports, books, art — my passion for all these things has deepened. It just feels like there’s an infinite well of greatness to get into. I just feel like I go deeper and deeper into it. I feel like I have a profound spiritual life, as well.

CNN: When you were young, did you ever think you would achieve the level of musical success that you’ve had?

Flea: No. I’ve always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don’t think that far in advance or have any idea what’s around the next corner. And I never have. I just kind of try to make the best decisions as they come up. And as life has gone on, I really have faith in that philosophy a lot. I really have faith that each thing that comes up is a gift, and I’m grateful for the opportunity, whether it be a difficult thing or a fun thing.

CNN: You’ve been in the Chili Peppers for more than half your life. Do you see yourself continuing with them for eternity?

Flea: I love the Chili Peppers, and I would love to. If there’s anything I know, it’s every time you start making plans, you don’t know what’s going to come up next. Anything can happen. So I love being in the Chili Peppers and it’s my home, and I’ve been doing it for more than half my life. Of course, during the course of doing it, there’s been all kinds of ups and downs, and moments of extreme (positivity), floating on clouds of greatness, and times of just groveling, and misery, and uncertainty, and anger, and love and all those things. Like being in a family. I really can’t predict. But I love being in it for now, and right now, about as far as I’m thinking is getting through this tour that we’re doing, performing at the highest level possible, then hunkering down and writing another record.

CNN: You also keep busy with side projects. You performed with Patti Smith a couple of days ago, then you have the Atoms for Peace project. Where is that going?

Flea: Wherever it goes, it goes. I’ve been very fortunate to play with some great artists in my life, and Patti is one of them. I love her to death. I’d do anything for her. And if she says, “Flea, come play,” I come. She’s just the greatest. And my thing with Thom (Yorke from Radiohead), Atoms for Peace — Thom, and Nigel (Godrich), and Mauro (Refosco) and Joey (Waronker) — is just fun, and I’m grateful for that, as well. I love those guys.

CNN: Looking back on your 50 years, is there anything you’d do differently?

Flea: Nothing!

CNN: It must be nice to wake up in the morning and think that.

Flea: Yeah. Of course. I’ve made a billion mistakes, but I wouldn’t have learned without making them. I needed to make errors, and misbehave, and be an insensitive, thoughtless person to work my hardest on becoming a kind, caring one.

CNN: So when you blow out the candles on your birthday cake, what are you going to be wishing for?

Flea: A Lakers world championship.

Flea's 50th Birthday Cake

Source: cnn.com

      

Thanks to Adam King/Funky Monks102

Flea says his Helen Burns EP is not rhcp music or even close to it. It's a trippy freakout.

The EP was recorded shortly after the Stadium Arcadium Tour and will feature mostly instrumental songs, with Flea playing most of the instruments, including Trumpet, Bass, Synthesizers, Drum machine, Piano, and a “bunch of other shit”. American singer/songwriter, Patti Smith will also perform vocals on at least one track. In one of his tweets Flea described the sound as “not rhcp music or even close to it. it is a trippy freakout”.

The Helen Burns EP will be available in digital and vinyl formats. Fans will be able to specify how much they’d like to pay for the digital version. An autographed vinyl version will also be released for $75.00, which also includes a piece of Flea’s Bass String which was used during one of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Concerts.

More info coming soon…

Flea’s Twitter Page | The Silverlake Conservatory of Music

      

Josh Klinghoffer reveals more info about I'm With You B-Sides

Almost exactly a year after releasing I’m With You, their first album with guitarist Josh Klinghoffer, the Red Hot Chili Peppers will stagger the release of 17 unheard outtakes from those sessions over the next several months, both digitally and on seven-inch vinyl singles.

Beginning in August, the band will issue two songs at a time on nine separate 45s, with one exception: an eight-minute rocker captured in a single studio take that will occupy both sides of a single, as Klinghoffer told Rolling Stone from a recent tour stop in Berne, Switzerland.

“We’re going to have to do that old trick where it fades out and fades back in on the B-side,” he said of “In Love, Dying,” one of the tracks Warner Bros. has not yet officially named. In June the label announced only six titles: “Strange Man” b/w “Long Progression” (due August 14th); “Magpies” b/w “Victorian Machinery” (September 11th); and “Never is a Long Time” b/w “Love of Your Life” (October 2nd).

Here’s an exclusive look at the first two of the sets nine forthcoming seven-inch singles jacket covers by Kelsey Brookes!

I'm With You B-Side Cover Artwork By Kelsey Brookes - Piece 2 of 9

All nine seven inch B-Side Jacket covers will line-up together to make up one larger piece of artwork!

I'm With You B-Side Cover Artwork By Kelsey Brookes - Piece 7 of 9

“These songs were always sort of kicking around, and we always intended on putting them out in one way or another,” Klinghoffer said. “It’s not as much of a splash, but it’s really all working out for the better. To be honest, there’s certain songs that, when we initially came up with the sequence for the record, I was a little like, ‘Hmmm, we’re not putting that one on?’”

One of those included “Long Progression,” which will serve as the B-side of the first seven-inch (it was sacrificed for “Goodbye Hooray” at the last minute). Another cut, “Victorian Machinery,” “sounds like a big three-headed monster playing drums,” Klinghoffer said, adding that the band captured “absolute magic” with “Never Is a Long Time,” a “pop-tastic” number featuring Greg Kurstin on piano.

“It’s really one of those cases where they had too many good songs to fit on an album,” said Kurstin, who also played on 1999′s Californication. “They have this cohesive thing in the studio – when they get that take, that’s the take that they keep.”

After joining the band in July 2009, Klinghoffer wrote and practiced with frontman Anthony Kiedis, bassist Flea and drummer Chad Smith for almost a year before they recorded several albums’ worth of material between September 2010 and the following February. Rather than release it all as a double album, as they did with their previous one, 2006′s Stadium Arcadium, the group preserved the best of the outtakes for this collection.

“It’s always difficult, but we use a democratic process and the songs with the most votes are usually the backbone of the album,” producer Rick Rubin wrote in an email. “I can just say as is always the case, some of my personal favorites don’t make the cut. I’m sure everyone in the band can tell you the same.”

Klinghoffer said that the remaining 17 unreleased songs from the I’m With You sessions – they recorded 48, after all – could eventually see the light of day. “It’s possible,” he said. “We just had so much material back then that certain things just straight-up didn’t get enough attention. There’s a couple that will probably just remain in our iPods.”

Meanwhile, though Josh Klinghoffer said RHCP have not written any official songs while on the road, he noted that the band demoed some material during Anthony Kiedis’ recovery from foot surgery, which postponed their tour for two months earlier this year.

I’m With You B-Side Track List and Release Dates – (Announced so far)

I’m With You B-Side Release No.1 – August 14th 2012
Side A. Strange Man
Side B. Long Progression

I’m With You B-Side Release No.2 – September 2012
Side A. Magpies
Side B. Victorian Machinery

I’m With You B-Side Release No.3 – October 2nd 2012
Side A. Never Is A Long Time
Side B. Love Of Your Life

I’m With You B-Side Release No.? – TBC
Side A. In Love, Dying [Part 1]
Side B. In Love, Dying [Part 2]

The I’m With You B-Sides will coincide with former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante’s latest efforts: his EP, Letur-Lefr, will be released on July 17th, while a full-length, PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone, will arrive on September 25th.

Source: RollingStone.com

      

A dedication to Brendan Mullen
Both the song and video of Brendan’s Death Song is dedicated to Brendan Mullen, who was a longtime friend of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and one of the first music promoters to take notice of the band. Back in 1983, Anthony Kiedis and Flea visited Club Lingerie in Los Angeles where they played their demo tape for Mullen while dancing around like maniacs in typical peppers style. What Mullen heard and saw of the duo impressed him and so he offered the Red Hot Chili Peppers an opening slot at an upcoming Bad Brains show. Since their first encounter, Anthony Kiedis and Flea became longtime friends with Brendan Mullen. RHCP credits Mullen with being one of their first major supporters.