Chords for Red Hot Chili Peppers - iTunes Originals Interview (Part 1)

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[G] _ [D] _ _ _ [Em] _ Anthony, where'd you get those shoes?
You like my shoes?
Yeah, I really do.
I was in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
[N] And it was around Christmas time.
I was there visiting my family.
_ And I wandered into a bit of a second-hand shop.
That's where you got them.
Looking for gifts.
Uh-huh.
And I found shoes that not only fit,
and had been previously owned,
but didn't seem gross and weird like
I was putting my foot into somebody else's life.
And I thought for sure you bought those
from some like billion-dollar designer.
No, they were probably like seven bucks.
Jesus.
Those are really dope.
My name is Chad Smith.
I'm Anthony Kiedis.
My name is Hilarious J.
Moneypants.
And I'm Thlee.
We're the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Collectively, if you will.
And we're on iTunes.
And we're very happy about it. _ _
In about _ 1985 and a half, 1986,
Rick Rubin, who was a much younger man,
and he strolled into the belly of EMI Records
where we had a little recording space.
They were about to sign to a new record company.
And the person from the new record company
suggested that I get together with him
and see what happens.
Yeah, he had a couple of the Beastie Boys in tow.
And they just wanted to see
what this scuttlebutt was about.
A local club band called the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Just to check us out, we were going to play for them.
And they looked at us terrified and in shock horror.
And after a couple of songs, they got up and said,
we've got to go.
And we did not see them again for years.
I later found out they were scared to death
of the energy that was in that room.
_ Rick did not know what to think of it.
He thought we were madmen on the brink
of complete and utter death and disaster.
He did.
He thought someone was going to die that day in a room
and he didn't want to be there for it.
It was just like the dismal display
of lack of human spirit that he had ever witnessed. _
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_ [E] _ _ [Am] [B] Yes, it is true.
What was true, Flea?
It's very true.
What's true?
It's very true that Mark Romanek,
who directed the Can't Stop video,
was inspired and wanted to replicate
and found inspiration in the sculpture
of the great German sculptor Erwin Wurm,
the contemporary sculptor
who we had looked at many, many treatments for this video.
People with all these rocky ideas
[D] and then we finally saw a picture of a guy
with a pencil coming out of his nose
and we were like, this is it.
Let's do it. _
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_ _ _ Sometimes [N] you just know that it's it.
All you need is a little scrap of paper
with a drawing on it.
But he was also inspired by being a director
and just going to studios where you film stuff. _
Because the other day when we were filming stuff
in a giant TV studio,
there was tons of that yellow piping everywhere.
And I sort of realized where he got his inspiration
for that whole traveling through the state
because he sees it every day at work.
He runs into that shit every day. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ I _ _ nearly had a heart attack
when we got nominated for Californication.
I'm just kidding.
_ You know, really, our band,
the things that make us really excited and happy
are when the creative process
is a richly rewarding experience
and when we are in love with each other enough
to really connect on a deep level with our music.
And all the other stuff is really,
like I sing, you know, it's nice to recognize
and we're grateful for people to enjoy our music,
but it's really not something
that we put a lot of value in.
For me, the time that I really feel that sense of surprise
is a lot of time when we're writing.
At the end of the day, we have some song
that just came out of nowhere
and we're just like, where did that come from?
Or when I'm in the studio
and we're doing guitar solos or something
and I listen back and there's just this solo just happened.
When you go with these things
that are based on inspiration,
they just happen and they come out of nowhere
and you don't even remember your subconscious activity
so strong that you're not really even conscious
of what's going on.
And that's a big place that our music comes from.
So that's usually the times when we're surprised.
Like the success, it happens so slowly.
Yeah, just like getting invited to a corporate party
just doesn't hold the same impact
as like writing a great song
and like hearing it back for the first time
from the speakers when you're in the [Fm] studio
and you just like rock with your brothers. _
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[Abm] We can talk [G] about the crazy by the way stunts
in the video for By The Way.
I did all my own stunts.
I actually broke my leg in that video.
In three places, I fractured my femur,
broke my little toe,
John drove over my foot and he's never said sorry. _
You did do your own stunt though, I remember,
in the video.
I did a couple of stunts.
I did one stunt where I had to break a window with my elbow
and I did it really hard.
And then I had to crawl out a moving vehicle
and jump from one vehicle into another vehicle.
They wanted him to use the stunt man
but he said, no, I'm not going to do this.
He said, I'm way too much of a stunt.
I got on the phone with Clint Eastman
and I was like, they want to use the stunt man.
He's like, don't let them do it.
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_ _ _ [F] It was a weird feeling meeting your own stunt man.
He's this guy who bears a sort of resemblance to you
but he's not really you.
But from the back he looks like you.
He was similar to me, certainly,
and not in other ways.
I still don't know why they got a small female Filipino
to play me as a stunt person.
The directors were inspired by that movie Amor des Perros.
They wanted to make it look like that.
John and Val, directors of the By the Way video.
Dayton and Ferris.
And they have a new movie, Little Miss Sunshine.
It's really funny.
[D] Really funny movie.
And I have a daughter named Little Miss Sunshine.
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