The world's 2nd biggest rock band (hurhur the 1st being U2 of cos) are baaaaaaack!
Ok the purists will call them Punk-Funk dung, not rock =))
Their 9th studio album Stadium Arcadium is due to be released..errr..today =)) And Dani California is the 1st single off the block.
I first heard of the RHCP, strangely, on the Pretty Woman soundtrack with Show Me Your Soul. Not exactly a very happenin' album to be in for funky frontman Anthony Kiedis and the boys. Especially when you have to jostle for space with Roxette's It Must Have Been Love =)) That was in 1990, good god!
And who can forget 1992's Blood Sugar Sex Magik which produced the make-the-crowds-go-crazy-at-HardRockCafe tunes Give It Away and Under The Bridge. Their early millenium hits Californication and By The Way are still on the airwaves. And I remember buying my precious Soul To Squeeze CD single (Coneheads soundtrack) from a supermarket checkout counter in Queensland in 1993.
Anyway to me, there are 2 great bassists alive today, U2's Adam Clayton and RHCP's Flea. They should do a duet one day, mebbe a funked-up version of the strong bass-lined With Or Without You where Bono and Kiedis can try to out-warble each other =))
In the meantime enjoy Dani California, which is a song about Dani, a girl who is supposed to be a representation of all the girls Kiedis has met in his entire life. Go figure!
With a bod like dat, that would pretty much mean 1/4 of the chicks in North America =))