I'd rather play deathly ill than not play at all, but in this particular instance, I was starting to go down, as in to the ground, so I got rushed to the hospital, got some help, and now I get to figure things out. Initially there was an affinity and a marriage to all these other songs, but the only way that we saw this working was to have trust in him and get rid of our old ideas and our old way of doing things and say "If this is going to work, we just have to throw ourselves off the cliff and see what happens". I thought, 'I'm gonna try and do a little baby CPR real quick, see if I can get some air in this kid. On March 15, they performed in Egypt, becoming one of the few acts allowed to perform at the Pyramids of Giza. In 2016, former music executive Julie Farman alleged that two members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers pressed themselves against her and "told me about all of the ways we could make a super sexy sandwich" following a meeting at Epic Records in 1990.

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On April 24, 2017, at their show in Jacksonville, "Encore" made its live debut, after some teases throughout the previous tours. The headlining tour to support the album began in Europe in September 2016 and lasted until the end of the year with the North American tour beginning in January 2017 and concluded in July 2017.At the band's show in Atlanta on April 14, 2017, they shot the music video for their song " Goodbye Angels". The band's influences include Parliament-Funkadelic, Defunkt, Jimi Hendrix, the Misfits, Black Sabbath, Metallica, James Brown, Gang of Four, Bob Marley, Big Boys, Bad Brains, Sly and the Family Stone, Ohio Players, Queen, Stevie Wonder, Elvis Presley, Deep Purple, the Beach Boys, Black Flag, Ornette Coleman, Led Zeppelin, Yes, [192] Fugazi, Fishbone, Marvin Gaye, Billie Holiday, Santana, Elvis Costello, the Stooges, [193] the Clash, Siouxsie and the Banshees, [194] [195] Devo, and Miles Davis. However, after the death of his close friend and bandmate Hillel Slovak, Kiedis's lyrics became much more introspective and personal, as exemplified by the Mother's Milk song "Knock Me Down", which was dedicated to Slovak along with the Blood Sugar Sex Magik song "My Lovely Man". It is unknown whether upcoming shows would be affected as a result [9] Kiedis' mother Peggy posted the following morning on Facebook that "Anthony will be OK. citation needed] The band also contributed to soundtracks including Working Class Hero: A Tribute to John Lennon and Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, [ citation needed] and Flea and Navarro contributed to Alanis Morissette's single " You Oughta Know".

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Drummer Chad Smith said on May 17, 2016, that the band would be playing in Europe for pretty much the remainder of the year once the tour starts with the North American tour not happening until 2017.The groove-heavy melodies, played through either finger-picking or slapping, contributed to their signature style. In his autobiography Scar Tissue, Kiedis described having sex with a 14-year-old fan who was the daughter of a Louisiana police chief, despite knowing her age. The band's May 14, 2016 performance at the KROQ Weenie Roast was suddenly cancelled prior to them going on stage due to Kiedis suffering stomach pains. The Chili Peppers contacted guitarist Dave Navarro, who had just split from Jane's Addiction, but Navarro was involved in his own drug problems.

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In the years following Frusciante's departure, his heroin addiction had left him in poverty and near death. The Getaway made its debut at number 2 on the Billboard 200 chart, behind Drake, who had the number-one album for eight consecutive weeks. After a series of temporary guitarists, he was replaced by Dave Navarro, who appeared on the group's sixth album, One Hot Minute (1995). I'm with You (2011) again featured Kiedis writing about the loss of a close friend, this time in the song "Brendan's Death Song", a tribute to club owner Brendan Mullen who gave the band some of their earliest shows and showed support to them throughout their career.

On The Uplift Mofo Party Plan (1987), Slovak experimented with genres outside of traditional funk music including reggae and speed metal. The production for the arena tour featured over 800 tube lights that stretched out across the audience. In 1997, several shows were cancelled following deteriorating band relations, injuries, and Navarro and Kiedis's drug use.

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The album also featured tributes to close friends the band lost during the recording process including Kurt Cobain on the song "Tearjerker" and River Phoenix on the song "Transcending".

A day after its release, "We Turn Red" made its live debut on June 10, 2016, at the Pinkpop festival while "Wet Sand" was performed for the first time in over two years. Dark Necessities" and " Give it Away" appeared on the television show Le Grand Journal [18] while the remaining six songs, which included the live debut of "The Longest Wave", were recorded for radio station RTL2's "Très Très Privé" concert series. And lo and behold it was meant to be, as these things can be, and when all the dust settled Brian Burton, aka Danger Mouse, emerged and said, "Let's go make a record".