While fans are waiting for Red Hot Chili Peppers to release a new album, the American rock band is now celebrating the 31st anniversary of their self-titled debut record.
Andy Gill, who produced the debut album remembered the band's first album as he revealed how his band, Gang of Four became an inspiration for Anthony Kiedis and Flea to start the Red Hot Chili Peppers band.
"When I first met (the Red Hot Chili Peppers), they were big fans," Gill said in an intervie with Loud Wire. "There's a Gang of Four song called 'Not Great Men,' and they said that was the reason they started their band. That song just got them. They were very... they loved that sort of guitar music, funky guitar music I guess you could say."
Adding, "They, at that point in time, were doing their own kind of funky semi-rapped stuff and they also had these very fast, short, punk rock songs. At that time there were a lot of bands doing that super fast music, all over in two minutes. I thought that was not interesting - it was just sort of another take on punk rock. But the other stuff I thought was real interesting and cool. Probably my biggest contribution to them was to kind of get them to not concentrate too much on those punk rock songs and getting them to do the funkier thing."
Their upcoming new album is expected to be a great hit, just like their self-titled debut album, and in an interview with Rolling Stone, drummer Chad Smith revealed that the band is actually working on a new music that they will introduce in the new album.
"And we wrote a bunch of songs that way," Smith said. "And we're now going to try another method that will be really challenging for us and will bring new, exciting results for the band."
"We've written and recorded in a way that we've never done before, so the record is going great. We all have high hopes that it's going to take off and we're going to do something very different and unique for the Red Hot Chili Peppers."
Following their 2011 hit album "I'm With You," Smith said that they are challenging themselves to find new ways to introduce new music to their fans.
"The new album is shaping up good, man," Smith revealed.
And while Chad Smith and the rest of the Red Hot Chili Peppers members are busy working on their new album, Smith surprised music fans in an appearance in Foo Fighters' New York show.
According to Loud Wire, Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins took the mic and sang as they covers Red Hot Chili Peppers' hit "Stay With Me."
"So we went on a tour back in 1999 when we were kids and we were asked to open up for the Chili Peppers and we were like 'Yeah, we'll f-king do that.' And that's where we learned to be a band." Grohl said of the band's relationship with Smith and the rest of Red Hot Chili Peppers band members. "It's sure as hell where we learned to party."
