Flea Goes Back To School
Flea uses Red Hot Chili Peppers hiatus to go back to school. He decided to enroll at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he’s studying music theory, music composition and jazz trumpet.
Here is what he has to say about education in general: “Being in a band has been an education, and being on tour has been an education, so this is just me furthering my education in a different way,” Flea told MTV News. “When I was a kid and it was time to go to college, I thought, ‘College is for people who don’t have the street smarts to make it on their own — get in a band, get in a van and get rockin’.’ That was a good philosophy for me at the time, [but] there were a lot of things I wanted to learn, and I want to learn them now.”
When it comes to Red Hot Chili Peppers though, he is not sure when they will reconvene and start working on a new album: “We’ve just kind of stepped away from it for a while,” Flea said. “We’ve been working so hard for such a long period of time that we needed to get away to get a fresh perspective, and that’s what we’re doing.” According to Flea, the band originally decided to take two years off. RHCP finished their world tour a year ago, “so I think [we're looking at] another year or so,” he said.
“Being a rock star isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, let me tell you,” Flea continued. “You go on tour for a year and a half, and it’s great. I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you’re playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you’re lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it’s like, ‘I want to be home. I’m a dad, I’ve got kids.’ It’s nice to be home and do that stuff and work on music, but the time will come when that will shift again.”
The original article was written by Chris Harris, you can read the whole article here. I suggest you to do so, especially if you’re interested in Flea’s solo career.
