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The Red Hot Chili Peppers Self-Titled Limited 180-gram UK Simply Vinyl M-/Mint
Sold Date:
June 27, 2014
Start Date:
June 16, 2014
Final Price:
$37.50
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers ~ The Red Hot Chili Peppers Made in the U.K.
180-gram Limited Edition pressing. Simply Vinyl Records - SVLP 156A Vinyl is Mint- to Mint: A-1 is VG++ to Mint-, mostly Mint- with one, very faint and minor background ghost-like thud. Cover is VG++ to MInt-, mostly Mint-: small, minor mini-bend on the top-right corner. Thick plastic, outer-sleeve is Mint-. Out of Print album. "Few rock groups of the '80s broke down as many musical barriers and were as original as . Creating an intoxicating new musical style by combining funk and punk rock together (with an explosive stage show to boot), spawned a slew of imitators in their wake, but still managed to be the leaders of the pack by the dawn of the 21st century. The roots of the band lay in a friendship forged by three school chums, ,, and , while they attended Fairfax High School in California back in the late '70s/early '80s. While and showed great musical promise (on trumpet and guitar, respectively), focused on poetry and acting during his high-school career. During this time, taught how to play bass, while the duo encouraged to start putting his poetry to music, which he soon did. Influenced heavily by the burgeoning L.A. punk scene (, , , , , etc.) as well as funk (-, , etc.), the trio began to rehearse with another friend, drummer , leading to the formation of Tony Flow & the Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem, a quartet that played strip bars along the Sunset Strip during the early '80s. It was during this time that the four honed their sound and live act (as they stumbled across a stage gimmick that would soon become their trademark -- performing on-stage completely naked, except for a tube sock covering a certain part of their anatomy). By 1983, had begun to go by the name "," and the group changed its name to ."...
-allmusic.com
