First I'll start with a negative. There was barely any interaction with the crowd. Apart from the Flea (with his usual energy and enthusiasm), lead singer Anthony Kiedis forgot that it's always a good idea to speak to the crowd. I think he might've said like one sentence to the crowd the whole night.Back to the positives. The songs sounded even better live (a sign of a good live performer) than they do on the albums, and the improvisations were great (especially by Flea). You'll notice that I'm very Flea biased (for all y'all who don't know Flea - he's the bass player for RHCP) because his genius on the 4 strings inspired me to start playing bass. They played quite alot of material from Stadium Arcadium, but it was the older songs that I was enjoying. Best songs IMHO were 'Get On Top', 'Suck My Kiss', 'By The Way' & 'Hump De Bump'. Was quite dissapointed that they didn't play 'Under The Bridge', 'Otherside' or 'Soul To Squeeze' but must remember that due to the size of RHCP's discography it'd be hard to please everyone. To the end the night, Flea (bassist), John Frusciante (guitarist) and Chad Smith(drummer) played out a 15 minute instruments only session which was amazing - each musician having their time to shine and showing their musical prowess.
Overall I still thought U2 was more involving and 'The Roots' last week was definitely more entertaining. I'd probably rate this concert on the same level as Foo Fighters. I'm no concert guru or anything so I'm just basing this on performances I've seen.
Braggin Writes (Song of the Week)
Gonna break out of the usual hip-hop song and put in a link to a Red Hot Chili Peppers (what better time) performance of the ultra funky 'Get On Top' in Japan. Check it out (I'm loving the look on Flea's bass).
Watch it here.
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