Have you visited drumchannel.com yet? If not, I think it’s about time you do that, as our favorite drummer Chad Smith is going to host his own show on their website very soon!
Here is a teaser:
Oh, and make sure to check out this lengthy interview with Chad Smith too.
it’s good to see all the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ members active in one way or the other… I just hope they get together soon.
Here are some more exciting news! I bet every one of you has been looking forward to this. I know I did. It’s official now. New John Frusciante solo record – The Empyrian – is going to be released on January 20th 2009. And, to get to the point, here is the word from John himself:
Friends and Fans,
The Empyrean is my new record and will be released worldwide via Record Collection on January 20th 2009. It was recorded on and off between December 2006 and March 2008. It is a concept record that tells a single story both musically and lyrically. The story takes place within one person, and there are two characters. It contains a version of Tim Buckleys, ‘Song To The Siren’ and the rest of the songs are written by me. My friend Josh plays on it, as does Flea. It also features Sonus Quartet, Johnny Marr and The New Dimension Singers. I’m really happy with it and I’ve listened to it a lot for the psychedelic experience it provides. It should be played as loud as possible and it is suited to dark living rooms late at night.
- John Frusciante, November 3rd, 2008
The Empyrean Track listing:
I hope you have had found some time to post your questions for Red Hot Chili Peppers’ drummer Chad Smith on MusicRadar so now you can hear the whole interview and see which questions they got to ask him.
Anyway, I am posting here, for all you readers, just a part of the interview where Chad Smith talks about the future of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and his connection with the band:
To hear the rest of the interview, and read about it, please go to MusicRadar. In the first part of the interview Chad Smith talks about Chickenfoot, and here is what he said about his new ’supergroup’, during a pre-interview chat: “It’s so crazy, I’ve never been in a situation where there was so much interest before a single note of music made it to the public. I would say it feels like pressure, but we’re doing this for ourselves as much as anybody else, so we’re hell-bent on keeping it fun.” …Sure sounds interesting and worth checking out to me!
Anyway, make sure you listen to the last part of the interview, to see if your questions has been asked, or just to hear how creative people got!
This is your chance to ask Chad Smith, one and the only, Red Hot Chili Peppers famous drummer, something you always wanted to. Here is how it works:
Register here for a musicradar.com account or log in if you already have an account and then you can leave your question as a comment using this form. Pretty neat, don’t you think?
Currently, as you should already know, Chad Smith is keeping busy recording with Chickenfoot.
So don’t hesitate and do it now. The most interesting questions will be picked and asked during the interview. So get ready and think of something creative and enjoy your chance to be a part of this.
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.
