The Red Hot Chili Peppers are selling the publishing rights of their catalog to Hipgnosis Songs Fund for upwards of $140 million, Variety reports. The transaction marks the latest catalog sale from a major legacy artist and one of the highest profile acquisitions to date for Merck Mercuriadis’ fund.
Jack Sherman, the guitarist who appeared on the debut album of Red Hot Chili Peppers, has died at the age of 64, Louder reports. Sherman, who joined the band on their first US tour in 1984, also worked on future RHCP albums 'The Abbey Road EP' and 'Mother's Milk'. Sherman also worked with other prominent artists including Bob Dylan and George Clinton. "He was a unique dude and we thank him for all times good, bad and in between. Peace on the boogie platform" - a tweet on the RHCP's official account reads.
On-and-off Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante is back in the band again, after ten years of absence. Frusciante first joined the band in 1988 and wrote and recorded 1989’s 'Mother’s Milk' and 1991’s 'Blood Sugar Sex Magik' with the band. He left in 1992 and then rejoined in 1998 to do 'Californication', 'By the Way', and 'Stadium Arcadium' with the RHCP. He left […]
By the age of 12, Flea was smoking joints regularly, had acquired his nickname, based on his fidgety nature and diminutive stature, which made him develop - "an undying sense that something was wrong with me, that everyone else is clued into a group consciousness from which I am excluded”, he writes in his new […]
Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready hosted the first-ever Peak to Sky Music Festival in Big Sky, Montana this last weekend, and two-day fest led up to all-star super jam consisting of McCready, Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ drummer Chad Smith and guitarist Josh Klinghoffer, and Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, […]
Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers performed a 15-minute solo set last week, alongside Patti Smith at the Pathway to Paris concert in Los Angeles, which focused on “the potential for cities to push for, achieve and go beyond the climate targets highlighted in the Paris agreement.” Meanwhile, Flea is set to publish his memoir this […]
