MUSICIAN
This here is a picture featuring the Red Hot Chili Peppers. You could call them a funk/rock/punk/alternative band. They were one of the first bands to start combining these completely different music styles, Punk and Funk for instance. Flea, the bass player (second from the right), was associated with multiple bands when RHCP had got its start including Fear, which was a very heavy punk band that was popular in the LA music scene. Yet he and others from the band were also heavily influenced by Funk and soul bands such as Sly on The Family Stone. The sound mixture and style really got the attention of the public and was what really got them noticed in the music world. In my opinion if you introduce something that sounds new and revolutionary, it will receive attention and in this case that was true. Now the Chili Peppers play huge shows around the world and have many loyal fans, but were this sound mixture is most prevalent is in their earlier years and albums. From the right: John Frusciante, Flea, Anthony Kiedis, and Chad Smith.
PEER
These dudes up here are the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Their funky-ass starburst energy and music blows my ear hole! You probably wonder why they are naked and what I say to that is, WHY NOT?! These guys used to perform their music on stage with a tube socks covering their nuts and shlongs! No joke man, its for real and its bomb! Although to my slight disappointment they don't really do a bunch of crazy shit anymore but the music is still amazing. A lot of my favorite tunes lie in the older eras of the Chili Peppers, but I must throw out there that Kiedis (guy 3rd from the right) really improved his actual singing voice over time. Back then he kind of did raps in a way as well as some scatting along with some awesome voice variation. It screamed style man, screamed it. O and the bass lines that Flea (who's the guy second from the right) busts out freakin rule. The slapping and popping is funky as hell and the band would not be near the same without it!
2 comments:
Haha. This was extremely entertaining. I thought it was great how you showed a passion for the music for both audiences, but you did it in different ways. Kudos. As for constructive criticism, when you were writing it for musicians it was very formal sounding and had a lot of information that you assume people in the music industry may already know. In my mind, other musicians wouldn't want to know or hear all the formal facts. Making it sound intelligent but fun is the way I'd go. But I loved the one to the peers. It was great.
I really liked your second blog better than the first one. Too me, you seemed more like your self in the second one. When I first saw the picture I was like WOW! Wasn't expecting that but then I was like "hey it's the RHCP." I agree with you on that the RHCP are an awesome group. I liked how you were into the picture because you had so many facts about the RHCP. A negative thing that I have to say is (to me) in the first one you didn't sound that interested in writing to the musicians. There was information about the guys but it was in like a borning interview that I was being told.
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