by Bugs » Tue Feb 25, 2003 9:20 am
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:You don't happen to have any idea what I am talking about, do you?
Ick, of course I know what you're talking about. They don't call me a damn frigging genius for nothing.
You're thinking of "Can't Stop," track seven on the new album. A good example of the Peppers attempting to sound funky even though they're all old and off smack now (supposedly)(at least Frusciante is, because all he does now is yoga and yogurt).
I mean, I was a bit miffed when I first heard this new album. Making the first single track #1 sent up a little red flag, but then when the second track sounded like Guster, and it was clear that Chad Smith farmed out his drum parts to somebody with no hands for a good portion of the album, my miffitude was replete.
I was about the only person in my known universe who Hadn't Given Up on the Peppers yet, still hoping that their best work was ahead of them and not behind them. But alas, they have lost their fastball. John Frusciante is no longer the mad-scientist child prodigy (20 years old) he was when BSSM was recorded. He went and got hooked on junk, scarred and burned the hell out of his arms, lost his teeth, got dentures (seriously), somehow survived, became all world-weary & shit, started doing yoga and became the driving force behind writing Chili Peppers tunes, and it shows (as opposed to their earlier method of songwriting: jamming). Check out his last solo record, and you can almost hear this album in the making, albeit on a four-track recorder in his living room.
So, the Peppers are destined to go the way of Aerosmith, I fear; They have sobered up and started to suck.
[quote="Ice Cream Jonsey"]You don't happen to have any idea what I am talking about, do you?[/quote]
Ick, of course I know what you're talking about. They don't call me a damn frigging genius for nothing.
You're thinking of "Can't Stop," track seven on the new album. A good example of the Peppers attempting to sound funky even though they're all old and off smack now (supposedly)(at least Frusciante is, because all he does now is yoga and yogurt).
I mean, I was a bit miffed when I first heard this new album. Making the first single track #1 sent up a little red flag, but then when the second track sounded like Guster, and it was clear that Chad Smith farmed out his drum parts to somebody with no hands for a good portion of the album, my miffitude was replete.
I was about the only person in my known universe who Hadn't Given Up on the Peppers yet, still hoping that their best work was ahead of them and not behind them. But alas, they have lost their fastball. John Frusciante is no longer the mad-scientist child prodigy (20 years old) he was when BSSM was recorded. He went and got hooked on junk, scarred and burned the hell out of his arms, lost his teeth, got dentures (seriously), somehow survived, became all world-weary & shit, started doing yoga and became the driving force behind writing Chili Peppers tunes, and it shows (as opposed to their earlier method of songwriting: jamming). Check out his last solo record, and you can almost hear this album in the making, albeit on a four-track recorder in his living room.
So, the Peppers are destined to go the way of Aerosmith, I fear; They have sobered up and started to suck.