If you felt like you always wanted to ask John Frusciante, a Red Hot Chili Peppers’ guitarist something, now is the right time. You can go to music radar and do it now. Don’t forget to register first and then… knock yourself out!

Just remember to be creative, so they pick your questions and ask them during the interview. Best of luck!

On another note, I am currently working on a new design/theme (call it whatever you like) for this website. It should be ready someday next week.

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:

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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.

 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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Here is an interesting interview from Post Gazzete by Scott Mervis where Anthony is talking about The New American Music Union festival and a little bit about Red Hot Chili Peppers … And here is the part of the interview where he talks about the band:

Back in 2000, for the launch of the Rolling Rock Town Fair, Anthony Keidis turned up shirtless and mohawk-ed to headline with the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Eight years later, for the first-ever American Eagle New American Music Union festival, the 45-year-old singer is on board again, this time in a more subdued, administrative role (though you never know ??).
Keidis was asked by American Eagle to curate the festival, and he followed through with a lineup that even the biggest indie-rock snobs have been hard-pressed to challenge.
Last week, he took a few minutes on the phone to explain his vision for NAMU.
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So, what’s happening with the Chili Peppers?

We worked very hard for a long time. That goes back to when John [Frusciante] came back to the band in 1999, which is when we did “Californication.” Pretty much from that point forth, we never took a break. We did the songwriting, rehearsing, recording, touring, took a few deep breaths, back into songwriting, and we did that over and over a couple times, one of which was a double album, which was doubly hard. And when we got off of our last tour, we were thinking, let’s stop for a minute and do other things, and learn something new and let it breathe and reinvent for a while. So, we’re in that space, and how long that lasts and what will come out of it, no one knows. It actually turned out to be perfect for me, cause I had a son about one month after we got off the road. …

Oh, congratulations. How old is he now?

Ten months. I would have been at a complete loss if I was to miss this portion of his life. You know, waking every day and having him be the first guy I see and hang out with. I wouldn’t wanted to miss that, so I have to thank the universe for orchestrating that for me. When it’s time for us to go back together and go into our little room and start re-creating, I think we will.
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To read the full interview go here and to get even more information about this music festival go to Pittsburgh Live here

just a small update!

For those of you interested in seeing the pictures from this music festival, go and visit this link for photos by CC Chapman and this one for photos by WYEP.