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"Me and Anthony and Flea showed up wearing dildos": The night Jane's Addiction and Red Hot Chili Peppers played a freaky private Halloween party for a high roller called 'The Colonel'
By Paul Brannigan published
"The Colonel had all the money, the big mansion, the cocaine, the champagne... and now he's King Of Cool Hill with Jane's Addiction playing his birthday party"

Watch Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante sing Spinal Tap's Tonight I'm Going To Rock You at chaotic 1991 Los Angeles club show
By Paul Brannigan published
Red Hot Chili Peppers guitar hero John Frusciante shows off his vocal chops with enthusiastic Spinal Tap cover at 1991 club gig

Watch Dave Grohl, Chad Smith and Taylor Hawkins' son Shane cover Led Zeppelin, Queen, AC/DC and Van Halen classics in a pizza joint
By Paul Brannigan published
Chevy Metal rocked a Californian pizza restaurant earlier this week with a few famous friends, including Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith

10 hard rock and heavy metal music videos that got banned for the dumbest reasons
By Stephen Hill published
Classic songs by Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Slipknot have all been taken off the airwaves with the most frivolous excuses

"It had a very spiritually sexual vibe": Red Hot Chili Pepper's John Frusciante once claimed to have an encounter with a horny ghost whilst recording Blood Sugar Sex Magik in a haunted mansion
By Liz Scarlett published
When RHCP recorded their hit album Blood Sugar Sex Magik in a spooky Hollywood mansion, guitarist John Frusciante experienced paranormal activity of a very welcoming kind

"Red Hot Chili Peppers are being used by the Satanic powers of darkness": How Anthony Kiedis incurred the wrath of evangelical Christians, and his granny, at the 1992 MTV Awards
By Paul Brannigan published
Do Red Hot Chili Peppers really "pay homage to Satan"? Only Anthony Kiedis truly knows

These are the rock and metal songs that have achieved a billion or more streams on Spotify
By Paul Travers published
Queen, AC/DC, Nirvana, Journey, and who else? The rock tracks that have achieved over one billion streams on Spotify

“You could record yourself on a computer”: John Frusciante once wrote Jimmy Page a letter asking him to appear on his best friend’s album
By Henry Yates published
Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante wanted Jimmy Page to appear on The Mars Volta’s Frances The Mute album

Red Hot Chili Peppers' Anthony Kiedis cried with Flea after discussing his lack of confidence in his abilities as a musician
By Liz Scarlett published
Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea discusses the heart to heart chat he had with Anthony Kiedis that reduced them both to tears: "He used to say we should change the band’s name to Idiot and the Three Geniuses"
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