Red Hot Chili Peppers. Tijekom godina stvorili su vlastiti izričaj kombinirajući funk, rock i punk. Povijest grupe seže u školsko doba, kada su Anthony Kiedis, Michael Balzary i Hillel Slovak razvili čvrsto prijateljstvo. Nakon što su ovladali glazbenim osnovama, i napisali nekoliko pjesama, pridružio im se i bubnjar Jack Irons, tako da su ubrzo počeli vježbati i usavršavati svoj live nastup (po kojem su kasnije postali legendarni). 1993 godine Balzary je počeo nastupati pod imenom "Flea," a bend pod imenom the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Naravno, vijest se o njima brzo širila, no prije objave debitantskog albuma Slovak i Irons su odlučili napustiti bend i posvetiti se svojoj drugoj grupi, What Is This. Našavši zamjene za njih u Jacku Shermanu i Cliff Martinezu, bend je 1984 godine objavio prvijenac "Red, Hot, Chili Peppers". Album nije privukao veliku pozornost, ponajprije zbog očitog nedostatka članova originalne postave. 1985 godine Slovak i Irons su se vratili, te je originalna postava objavila album Freaky Styley, no tek su 1987 godine, albumom The Uplift Mofo Party Plan "zapalili" publiku. 1988 su objavili EP The Abbey Road EP, no tada se desila velika tragedija kada je Slovak nađen mrtav od predoziranja, 25.06.1988. Duboko pogođen, Irons ovaj put definitivno napušta bend. Tada su se bendu priključili Blackbird McKnight i D.H. Peligro, no nisu zadovoljili, a nakon potrage našli su dostojnu zamjenu u Johnu Fruscianteu i Chad Smithu. 1989 su objavili album Mother's Milk koji je bio vrlo uspješan, ali najbolje je tek uslijedilo albumom Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991), koji je lansirao hitove "Give It Away" i "Under the Bridge". Ubrzo je zbog teške ovisnosti bend napustio i Frusciante, a zamijenio ga je (nakratko) Arik Marshall, zatim Jesse Tobias, a naposlijetku Dave Navarro. 1995 godine bend je objavio album One Hot Minute, a grupu je napustio Navarro. Fruscianteova karijera nije umrla nakon odlaska iz grupe; 1995 godine objavio je solo album Niandra Ladies and Usually Just a T-Shirt, a 1997 Smile From the Streets You Hold, da bi se 1999 godine vratio Peppersima i odsvirao sjajan come-back na albumu Californication, koji je bend popratio velikom i ponešto kontroverznom turnejom. 2002. godine objavili su sjajan album By the Way.
Californication
Red Hot Chili Peppers ( Album : Californication )
Psychic spies from China
Try to steal your mind's elation
Little girls from Sweden
Dream of silver screen quotations
And if you want these kind of dreams
It's Californication=20
It's the edge of the world
And all of western civilization
The sun may rise in the East
At least it settles in the final location
It's understood that Hollywood=20
sells Californication=20
Pay your surgeon very well
To break the spell of aging
Celebrity skin is this your chin
Or is that war your waging=20
Chorus:
First born unicorn
Hard core soft porn
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication=20
Marry me girl be my fairy to the world
Be my very own constellation
A teenage bride with a baby inside
Getting high on information
And buy me a star on the boulevard
It's Californication=20
Space may be the final frontier
But it's made in a Hollywood basement
Cobain can you hear the spheres
Singing songs off station to station
And Alderaan's not far away
It's Californication=20
Born and raised by those who praise
Control of population everybody's been there and
I don't mean on vacation=20
Chorus=20
Destruction leads to a very rough road
But it also breeds creation
And earthquakes are to a girl's guitar
They're just another good vibration
And tidal waves couldn't save the world
>From Californication=20
Pay your surgeon very well
To break the spell of aging
Sicker than the rest
There is no test
But this is what you're craving=20
Chorus
By The Way
Red Hot Chili Peppers ( Album : By the way )
Standing in line
To see the show tonight
And there's a light on
Heavy glow
By the way I tried to say
I'd be there... waiting for
Dani the girl
is singing songs to me
Beneath the marquee... overload
Steak Knife Caro Shark
Con Job Boot Cut
Skin that flick
She's such a little DJ
Get there quick
By street but not the freeway
turn that trick
to make a little leeway
Beat that nic
But not the way that we play
Dog Town Blood Bath
Rib Cage Soft Tail
Standing in line
To see the show tonight
And there's a light on
Heavy glow
By the way I tried to say
I'd be there... waiting for
Black Jack Dope Dick
Pawn Shop Quick Pick
Kiss that Dyke
I know you want to hold one
Not on strike
But I'm about to bowl one
Bite that mic
I know you never stole one
Girls that like
A story so I told one
Song Bird Main Line
Cash Back Hard top
Standing in line
To see the show tonight
And there's a light on
Heavy glow
By the way I tried to say
I'd be there... waiting for
Dani the girl
is singing songs to me
Beneath the marquee... of her soul
By the way I tried to say
I'd be there... waiting for
Chant
Standing in line
To see the show tonight
And there's a light on
Heavy glow
By the way I tried to say
I'd be there... waiting for
Dani the girl
is singing songs to me
Beneath the marquee... of her soul
By the way I tried to say
I know you
Looking for
Standing in line
To see the show tonight
And there's a light on
Heavy glow
By the way I tried to say
I'd be there... waiting for