Red Hot Chili Peppers

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AK surfing and teaching May 20, 2009

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Anthony enjoys a cup of iced coffee(July 10,

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AK at Cafe Bottega (May 6, 2009)

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Anthony Kiedis walking on the beach in Malibu with his baby Everly Bear & friends on March 28, 2009

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Good news for all those experiencing Anthony Kiedis withdrawal: The Red Hot Chili Peppers' two-year hiatus has finally come to an end, and the Los Angeles funk rockers will begin recording in October.

"That's the plan," drummer and Chickenfoot member Chad Smith told Billboard.com. "Everybody was like, 'Y'know, I really like having this time off, not being a Chili Pepper and doing other things...' It'll be two years in September, so now we're ready. You can't force people to play when they don't want to play or aren't ready to play or whatever – not in our band, anyway.”

RHCP last album was 2005's Stadium Arcadium. The band planned to take a one-year break after touring in support of the album, but have been on hiatus ever since.

Since then, guitarist John Frusciante released a solo album to which bassist Flea contributed, Smith put out an album with Chickenfoot and is working on another with Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats and Kiedis began working on an HBO television series based on his childhood.

Smith expects Flea and Frusciante may come through with a few song ideas, but says the band will "do a lot of improvising and jamming and songs will come out of that, too. That's what we usually do. I don't know why it would be different."

There are no plans yet for an album release date. Smith says he and his fellow Chili Peppers "haven't talked about" possible producers, but says that Rick Rubin "always ends up being the guy... But we haven't discussed it."

Smith's Chickenfoot bandmates — ex-Van Halen members Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony and guitarist Joe Satriani — have agreed to work around the drummer's schedule. The four-piece begin their next tour in Halifax on Aug. 2, and may release a live DVD featuring footage from a number of the band's performances.

Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats are an extension of the work Smith, guitarist Jeff Kolman and keyboardist Ed Roth did with Glenn Hughes. The band performed for the first time in 2007.

"It's all very loose," Smith told Billboard.com of his side-side-project. "It's instrumental music – power, funk, rock music. It's a niche. We're not going for the Mariah Carey crowd or anything. It's just really fun and they're great guys and we just have fun hanging out and playing."

The Meatbats' debut album drops Sept. 15. The group have already recorded an additional set of songs which Smith speculates will be ready for release in early 2010. The Meatbats also plan to release a live album at the same time.

"We have three albums in the can and none of them are out yet," Smith told the website. "But we won't wait very long. It's not like we're putting out singles and we have to have some kind of strategy. This is stuff we can put out whenever it feels right."

While on his current tour with Chickenfoot, Smith aggravated an old injury and the band were forced to cancel four dates. You can see the all-star band at these concerts:

Aug. 2 Halifax, NS @ Citadel Hill (Canadian Forces Halifax Festival)
Aug. 5 Toronto, ON @ Sound Academy
Aug. 7 Chicago, IL @ Chicago Theatre
Aug. 8 Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore Detroit
Aug. 10 St. Paul, MN @ Myth
Aug. 11 Kansas City, MO @ Uptown Theatre
Aug. 13 Cornstock Park, MI @ Fifth-Third Ballpark (Festival)
Aug. 15 Cleveland, OH @ Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame (free)
Aug. 17 New York, NY @ Beacon Theatre
Aug. 18 Baltimore, MD @ Lyric Opera House
Aug. 20 Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun Arena
Aug. 22 Atlantic City, NJ @ House Of Blues
Aug. 23 Hampton Beach, NH @ Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom
Aug. 24 Boston, MA @ Bank Of America Pavilion
Aug. 26 Portsmouth, VA @ Ntelos Pavilion
Aug. 27 Charlotte, NC @ The Uptown Amphitheatre at The Music Factory
Aug. 29 North Myrtle Beach, SC @ House Of Blues
Aug. 30 Atlanta, GA @ The Tabernacle
Sept. 5 Lake Tahoe, NV @ Harveys Resort Hotel And Casino
Sept. 11 Denver, CO @ The Fillmore
Sept. 12 Grand Junction, CO @ Rock Jam Festival
Sept. 14 Tulsa, OK @ Brady Theater
Sept. 16 Houston, TX @ Verizon Wireless Theater
Sept. 17 Corpus Christi, TX @ Concrete Street Pavilion
Sept. 20 San Antonio, TX @ Sunset Station
Sept. 21 Grand Prairie, TX @ Nokia Theatre
Sept. 23 Phoenix, AZ @ Dodge Theatre
Sept. 25 Berkeley, CA @ Greek Theatre
Sept. 26 Valley Center, CA @ Harrah's Rincon Open Sky Theater
Sept. 27 Universal City, CA @ Gibson Amphitheater

The Meatbats will play these shows:
Oct. 19 Fukushima, Japan @ Hip Shot Japan
Oct. 20 Miyagi, Japan @ Junk Box
Oct. 21 Aichi, Japan @ The Bottom Line
Oct. 22 Osaka, Japan @ Bigcat
Oct. 23 Hiroshima, Japan @ Club Quattro
Oct. 24 Fukuoka, Japan @ Gate’s 7
Oct. 26 Tokyo, Japan @ O-East

 

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More news

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdai...rs-feel-major-enthusiasm-heading-into-studio/

Red Hot Chili Peppers Feel “Major Enthusiasm” Heading Into Studio
8/21/09, 2:23 pm EST

Photo: Phillips/WireImage
While the Red Hot Chili Peppers slumbered, the band’s members have been keeping busy these last couple of years, what with drummer Chad Smith joining all-star group Chickenfoot, frontman Anthony Kiedis developing a series for HBO and bassist Flea enrolling at USC to study music theory. But things are about to change in Pepperland. Smith recently told Billboard the band would reconvene in the studio this fall, and Keidis and Flea confirm to Rolling Stone they are indeed ready to rock again.

“We’ve decided to write some songs,” Kiedis told us at a benefit for the Silverlake Conservatory of Music, the Los Angeles school Flea founded. “We imposed a two-year hiatus, which we felt we needed, then we went back to the roundtable and the decision was, ‘Let’s do this.’ “

There’s no timetable yet on a new album, their first since 2006’s double-platinum Stadium Arcadium, but Flea, for one, is anxious to get going. “After being kind of burnt at the end of our last tour, I feel major enthusiasm and vigor,” he said. “Not like a restlessness, but a really healthy excitement. I’m just into it and ready to go forward.” Offers Kiedis: “The seeds are being planted.”

Smith told Billboard that he and his bandmates “haven’t talked about” a potential producer, but joked that Rick Rubin, the guiding force behind the Chili’s last five albums, “always ends up being the guy.” Sure enough, Rubin made his presence known as a benefactor of the Conservatory and a guest at the August 15th fundraiser by wearing his trademark white T-shirt and jeans to the formal affair.

 

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Chad has a twitter http://twitter.com/RHCPchad

 

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Anthony at Lakers game. October 26, 2009

 

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Anthony Kiedis dresses up with his son Everly as Eddie Munster as the two trick or treated in Los Angeles on October 31, 2009