As fellow L.A. Times blog All Things Trojan reported last night, Michael Balzary — better known as Flea ’round these parts — is indeed a freshie at USC. I interviewed the bassist last week about Hullabaloo, the upcoming benefit concert for the Silverlake Conservatory of Music, which he founded with childhood friend Keith Barry in 2001, and we got a chance to gab about his classes, his upcoming solo work and whether or not things will be resuming with the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

–Margaret Wappler

Here is a part of the interview that is refering to Red Hot Chili Peppers. No good news, I’m afraid! I guess will wait a bit longer for a new record, if there will be any at all. Here is what Flea said in the interview:

So, are the Chili Peppers working on a new album?

No, we’re on a major hiatus. It’s a two-year hiatus.

And that was very set? You said, ‘Two years and then we’ll talk about starting again”?

Basically, yeah. We just needed two years. We had our noses to the grindstones so hard for so long. We needed to get away from it and get a fresh perspective on things.

At this point, do you guys have plans to get back together and record something else?

We’re just taking the two years off and seeing where we are at the end of that.

-And for the rest of the interview, for everyone interested in Flea’s solo work, click read the rest of this entry, I think it’s worth checking out!-

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