Chad Smith gave a new interview for CraveOnline. He talked about his band Meatbats, and of course there is a lot about Red Hot Chili Peppers. This time though, he gives us much more. Go on and read a part of the interview where he talks about Red Hot Chili Peppers and enjoy!

CraveOnline: How are you gearing up mentally for the Chili Peppers to kick back into gear?

Chad Smith: Yeah. But John’s… John is John, and there’s nobody else like him. And Dave as well! We’ve just been fortunate to have played with such great musicians. The material just doesn’t find a common place presently.

To read the rest of this interview and find out more about Chad’s other band – Meatbats, go to CraveOnline.com and read the whole interview by Johnny Firecloud!

For those of you unbelievers here is a transcript of a Chad Smith interview where he talks about Red Hot Chili Peppers, their plans for reunion and making new music, as well as the future of his other two bands – Chicknefoot and Bombastic Meatbats.

You just joked about it, but the question is, how can you divide your time between three different bands?

“Luckily, everybody is very cool about my situation. The Chickenfoot guys, who I love dearly, they’ve been great about the fact that, come October, I’m going to be doing the Chili Peppers again. They could have acted not so cool about it, but they knew going into this that I was still part of the Chilis.”

Is October when you originally saw going back to the Chili Peppers?

“Hard to say. We initially decided on a year’s break, then that turned out to be two years. It could’ve been longer. It’s been a very fruitful time for us: I did Chickenfoot and the Meatbats, Flea went back to school, Anthony’s been doing a TV project.
“It was important to be people again. We’ve traveled, had babies, hung out with our families – lived our lives, you know? So now we’re very fired up to give the Chili Peppers our all.”

Do you have any demos written?

“There’s ideas floating around. One of them dates back to 1999, I think. Flea, Anthony and I did jam recently. That felt good. But as far as demos go, we’ll just start writing in October.”

What about John Frusciante? He’s the one guy who’s always been in question. In fact, earlier this year he told me that he had “no plans” to do anything with the Chili Peppers.

“I know he said that. Like all of us, he was coming out of a real Chili Peppers pressure-cooker. I’ll be honest: I haven’t seen John, but Flea had a sit-down with him recently, and from what I understand it was very positive. I have every reason to believe that, come October, we’ll all four be making music again as the Chili Peppers. John’s a very important component of the band. I love the guy. He’s an incredible musician.”

This is just a part of the original interview where he talks strictly about Red Hot Chili Peppers, and I think we should soon expect to read some more articles and interviews from their recording studio! To read about his other two bands – Chickehfoot and Bombastic Meatbats, go read the rest of this interview on musicradar.com

Yesterday, in an interview, Chad Smith denied the rumors about Red Hot Chili Peppers splitting up. However, they are still not planning on making new music. Instead, they just seem to be enjoying themselves with their solo projects and their well deserved break!

As Chad Smith said in the interview he has given for British Q Magazine:

“No we haven’t split up,” he insists “We’re not playing right now, but shit, man, we played a lot. It was time to take a little break and live your life. We’re not some conveyorbelt”.

However Smith confirmed that: “Everybody’s kind of doing their own thing right now” but Smith claims the band – also including guitarist John Frusciante- are planning to “reconvene at the end of September or October”. “We make music when it feels right you cant force people to do stuff. If you’re not feeling it, so why do it? Do other thing and come back to it re-energised”

So they are coming back with some new tunes, it’s just a matter of time now it seems that they just extended their break, and hopefully, we’ll hear some new, fresh Red Hot Chili Peppers music when they come back in September!

In the Last interview with Chad Smith about Chickenfoot, the ‘supergroup’ he’s formed with Sammy Hagar, Joe Satriani and Michael Anthony, he said that Red Hot Chili Peppers were on a hiatus, taking a one-year break, before getting back together. It’s been well over a year now and there are still no news about the band and when or if they are planning on getting back together and creating new music. In recent interview with John Frusicante, after he’s new solo album The Empyrean, he firmly stated that there are no plans for Red Hot Chili Peppers to reconvene. “We’re on a hiatus of indefinite length,” he said on that occasion, “There’s other things to life.”

This time, musicradar asked Chad Smith about the future of the Red Hot Chili Peppers again.

“We’ve been on a break for a year and whatever,” Smith said. “I can’t speak for John – he’s doing his thing and hopefully he’s happy – but I think when we’re all ready to play again, when we feel like it’s time to be the Chili Peppers again, we’ll do it.” It is unsure if John Frusciante is the reason for the band’s extended hiatus, but the famous drummer said: “You can’t force anybody to play who doesn’t want to,” he explained. “I’m not naming names. I’m just saying we all have to feel that the time is right to get it together.”

Chad Smith also explained that even though his first impression was that they would get back together after a year, the added time could be a blessing “A year off might have been optimistic,” he said. “Maybe it’ll be two years, maybe more, who knows? It’s been a very positive time in our lives, actually “The thing is, we’ll only get back together for the right reason: to play music with one another. That’s the only agenda this band adheres to.”

As for now, all members seems to be occupied with their solo works, and projects – John Fruscinate just released his solo album, Anthony Keidis is busy turning his life story into an HBO show, Flea has gone back to school to study music, and Smith is proud to be part of Chickenfoot. “Chickenfoot has turned out to be everything I could’ve hoped for,” Smith enthused. “When people hear this album, they’re not going to believe it’s us; they’re going to think it’s four other guys. It’s far exceeded my expectations and goals.”

As for the future of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Chad Smith seems to be enthusiastic, “Hey, if I can be in two hit bands, like, wow, what a problem,” he said with a laugh, “A drummer should be so lucky.”

Read more in the original interview from musicradar.com

I am wondering what will happen and when we will know for sure if there will be any more new music. I hope for the best. But since they are happy with their current projects for now, we should all just leave it at that. When all members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers feel like getting back together and reviving the special chemistry they had, I have no doubts they will do just that and surprise us with another masterpiece.

“The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I’ll get extremely technical, and other times I’ll just kind of go with the gods of music. I think an artist has to answer to whatever spirits are guiding him. Even if they’re in conflict, that’s OK.” John Frusciante

Without further induce, head over to music radar and listen to the three part John Frusciante interview where he talks about his new album, future of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the way he sees it, and answers your questions.

Also, for those of you who are more interested in his solo work, read about his new album, The Empyrean, described in his own words. Visit John’s blog where he talks about The Empyrean. The so called story consists of three parts, and one of them was posted yesterday by great John Frusciante. Enjoy!

As for the future of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, as you can hear in the interview, he didn’t seem very enthusiastic, or to be more precise, he didn’t want to discuss it, with his plain “no plans” comment… Maybe he is just tired after creating this masterpiece and maybe, I really hope so, they will get back together at some point when they all feel ready for it.