THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
The Red Hot Chili Peppers is the debut studio album by American funk rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on August 10, 1984 on EMI Records. The album was produced by Gang of Four guitarist Andy Gill, and is the only album to feature Jack Sherman on guitar who was fired by the band at the end of the tour in support of the album and replaced by founding member, Hillel Slovak. (More from Wikipedia)
After leaving Code Blue, Michael Ostendorf was in an all-star line-up called Toni and the Movers that was formed by singer-songwriter Toni Childs in 1979. The other bandmembers were Jack Sherman, who has had an active career in music and is best known for being an early member of Red Hot Chili Peppers and playing on their debut 1984 album, The Red Hot Chili Peppers; and Michael Steele, who was in two different all-female rock bands, the Bangles and the Runaways (she was known as Micki Steele in the latter band).
(September 2012)
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Over a period of time, and following multiple changes in personnel, Red Hot Chili Peppers became a very big deal; and they have sold 80 million albums worldwide, with their fifth album Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991) being their commercial breakthrough. However, neither Hillel Slovak nor Jack Irons played on their debut album, The Red Hot Chili Peppers (1984). I am used to going to concerts where most of the people there are a lot younger than I am, but I have never felt so out of place as the night we went to see Red Hot Chili Peppers in New York.
(April 2015/1)
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The liner notes for High Tide (Big Noses & Pizza Faces) relate the time in 1985 that the Tell-Tale Hearts opened for the Red Hot Chili Peppers (right after their first album, The Red Hot Chili Peppers came out) and the Cramps, one of their idols. “When the Cramps finally took the stage around midnight, we were absolutely blown away. The level of talent and professionalism was beyond belief – higher than we could have ever aspired to – yet they managed to lose none of their raw, powerful edges. . . . We were further treated to a backstage meeting with the group later that night, who said that we ‘looked and sounded just like the Shadows of Knight’. They truly must have understood how much that meant to us. A nicer, more down-to-earth group of people would be hard to find.”
(September 2017)
