Gary Shaffer, owner of Back-Lite, a company that puts glowing transparencies on the back of jackets (classy!), is being sued for $11 million after wantonly accepting a request to put a Red Hot Chili Peppers logo on one of his jackets. More »
From the “WTF?” file, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who had previously said they were on a somewhat permanent hiatus, are thinking of having French electro duo Justice produce their next album. More »
Chickenfoot is go! The supergroup, led by Sammy Hagar, will also bring together fellow former Van Haleneer Michael Anthony, wank wizard Joe Satriani, and Red Hot Chili Pepper Chad Smith for an album, and Hagar could not be more pumped. “When people hear the music, it’s Led Zeppelin. It’s as good as that. I know that’s a mighty bold statement…We could rival Zep.” Dude, I love Led Zeppelin! This is great news! I was totally telling someone the other day that we needed a new Led Zeppelin, and here comes Sammy Hagar with a bottle of tequila, saying that he’s got one. I haven’t been this stoked since Walking To Clarksdale.
The funky fresh guys rocking the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Aeroplane” are the Baumboys, an a capella group made of Microsoft employees. This clip of them winning first place at the Northwestern Regional Harmony Sweepstakes also includes their rendition of Dobie Gray’s “Drift Away” and a comedy number about getting sexed up by a video game addict. “We kind of got the idea that we could, if we dedicated ourselves, compete with this,” says “group president” Dave McEwen. “So we wrote down our goals, in typical Microsoft fashion, and used it as a cyclical iteration to make ourselves better.” Glaven.
In honor of Madonna’s “highly sexed up” cover for Hard Candy, Gigwise put up a list of 50 album covers they consider the “dirtiest and sexiest” ever. Unsurprisingly, naked women outnumber naked men by a rather large margin. But with rare exception, the appearance of a naked man is used as comedy. What, no shirtless Jim Morrison? No I’m In You? Check out what passes for beefcake with these guys (NSFW!!).
Robert Plant on Radiohead: “What is this rhyming crap?” Robert Plant on the Red Hot Chili Peppers: “[like a] nursery rhyme.” More »
Even given the bizarre identification angle–the protagonist is an alcoholic blogger (!)–Showtime’s David Duchovny vehicle Californication was a pretty godawful show, unless you were so hard up for softcore that you needed to suffer through 20 minute jags of undercooked family drama. But we assumed, like the rest of Americans moderately familiar with turn of the millennium alt-rock, that the show had either cleared the punny name with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who slapped it on one of their weakest singles in 1999, or that Californication was a commonly used West Coast reference. Apparently neither, because Anthony Keidis’ TiVo (and attorneys) finally caught up with Showtime this week.
From LiveDaily: The Red Hot Chili Peppers will entertain visitors to California’s Disneyland Resort during the first few months of 2007 by helping to transform two of the resort’s most popular rides with their music. … More »
Apparently that Stadium Arcadium money has not yet trickled down to the lower echelons of the Chili Peppers’ staff, as two of the group’s roadies are auctioning off the privilege of placing a custom-made advertisement on the backs of their T-shirts: Here is the deal if you win… More »
