Favorite songs.

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Frusciante was the man during Bloodsugarsexmagik and Californication, but I felt he actually held the band back during By The Way and the double album. His obsessive wants pretty much laid the ground work for that vanilla power pop that pushed me away as a fan. The Californication era show I saw still ranks as one of my favorites. So they still always bring it live.

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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06Dql7EiMWE"]Red Hot Chili Peppers - Right on time (Sox on cox) - YouTube[/ame]

Doesn't get much better than "Right on Time" played w/ the cock socks.

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The late 70's and early 80's were crazy times

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W25_jgiY51I"]Flying Lizzards - Money thats what I want 1979 - YouTube[/ame]

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And this classic gem

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbgv8PkO9eo"]Harry Nilsson - Coconut (1971) - YouTube[/ame]

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I like the power pop stuff, not enough bands do that anymore. I'm not sure he was holding the band back, they need the guitarist to set the direction musically. If the guitarist isn't a prolific writer, they just surf and do drugs and nothing gets accomplished(I'm looking at you Navarro). So I like By The Way a lot.. I will agree that by Stadium Arcadium it got a little stale, but I still like it, it just wasn't much more ground breaking

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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWnRMAVWVjk"]Come And Get Your Love Redbone 1974 - YouTube[/ame]

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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWWwM2wwMww"]The Vapors - Turning Japanese - YouTube[/ame]

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I have the rare CD:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztB_sJLC5Ew"]The Rolling Stones - Mick Jagger - Angie (Rare Symphony) - YouTube[/ame]

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I was in the crowd the night this Amnesty Intl "Conspiracy of Hope" concert went down at the Forum in L.A.

The entire event was amazing (too many greats to remember until I refreshed with the story below):

http://www.u2tours.com/displaymedia.src?ID=19860606&XID=126&Return=

But two songs still stick out from that day:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwfpAq1Czow"]Peter Gabriel - Biko Amnesty Concert LA '86 - YouTube[/ame]

and

Give Blood (Pete Townshend) played that evening (IIRC) by David Gilmour, Peter Gabriel and others.

It was surreal how the crowd seemed to be in a trance.

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As a big U2 fan, this song always brings a chill:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPU5IXTK7RA"]U2 Feat Luciano Pavarotti - Miss Sarajevo - YouTube[/ame]

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I don't mind the new guitarist. I think Morello would be a disaster like Navarro was. In that band the guitarist needs to be the primary guy writing the music but he needs to be able to mix with Flea.

Well, I think Morello has a little more funk in his playing than Navarro so I'd be interested to see what he could do.

Also, even though Navarro was a bit of a mismatch, I did like a couple of tunes off of One Hot Minute. It also might have been a different record had Anthony not fallen off the wagon.

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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLhHFwM2NQo"]RHCP - Deep Kick lyrics - YouTube[/ame]

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Let me try that again. Can't get out of this mess of a post.....

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Ah, that's better. I decided to check if Flea and Tom Morello had played together before and they have.


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxnpMQPBSkA"]Zack de la Rocha, Tom Morello, Flea & Stephen Perkins - Bulls on Parade (Sony Studios 1997) - YouTube[/ame]

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Another time they played together. Serj kind of fucks up the rhythm of the verses but it's interesting.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5GxsTs-L6U"]Get Up Stand Up - YouTube[/ame]