Mother's Milk

So I'll use this for like Higher Ground.

I'll use it for just Mother's Milk stuff in general.

Uh, this one goes without saying, DS-2.

If you wanna sound like Frusciante, you need a DS-2.

If I go up and bend too far up, then now it's gonna go out of tune.

But if you bend down only, it always comes back to the same spot I've found.

And then I go back and I'm listening to, to solos and stuff, and it turns out that he's not really going up anyways except for, like, maybe Mother's Milk era when he had, you know, the little red stripe-

He's got, he's got-

Mm.

Uh, I think Pink Pop, John played it in, in the Mother's Milk era, and he didn't play that intro and outro from Jack, that wonderful clean guitar part.

Mm.

He played a classic Frusciante distorted note-

Keith the Tree Barry.

Yeah, Tree, as he's become known.

Sucks on, sucks on mother's milk.

Yeah, yeah.

There's, there's, there r- there's the self-titled Freaky Styley, and then The Uplift Mofo Party Plan.

And Mother's Milk is after that, which I think is when they kind of blew up a little bit.

That's-

When, when did Mother's Milk come out?

'89, right?

Uh, dude, dude, dude.

Yeah.

Um, but Blood Sugar and Mother's Milk and One Hot Minute, those albums are pretty amazing.

But then when they got into Californication, they lost me.

And see, that's where they kinda gained me, because that's what I grew up listening to.

Yeah, I would say Chili Peppers.

I mean, Blood Sugar, Sex Magic, Mother's Milk.

As a bass player, that's what I cut my teeth on.

And it actually was difficult to play with other bands because all I wanted to do was play Lake Flea.

How can I trust whatever they say in their television reviews again? Seriously.

From Mother's Milk.

I always

think of that Nick Cave line, which he claims he never said, but it's something like, I'm forever standing near a radio wondering what is this rubbish? And it always turns out to be the red hot chilli peppers.

An obvious reason for their rebirth is the reappearance of... guitarist John Frusciante replacing Dave Navarro who left the Peppers in 1992 and disappeared into a haze of hard drugs before cleaning up and returning to the fold in 98.

Frusciante was a main reason for such past band classics as 89's Mother's Milk and 91's Blood Sugar Sex Magic, and proves once and for all to be the quintessential Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist.

Anthony Kiedis' vocals have improved dramatically as well, while the rhythm section of Bassist Flea and drummer Chad Smith remain as well.

one of rock's best.

Like it's a little bit slower than Jimi Hendrix's version of this song, which I found unique, especially because of how everybody knows the Red Hot Chili Peppers for their craziness and they're you know fast playing and all that fun stuff so that's kind of how i landed on this one

that's great and this one was recorded after the live version on mother's milk this one was recorded in the studio for blood sugar sex magic and when i think of that album I think of the old days of MTV and live performances.

You think of Nirvana, Unplugged.

That was famous back in the early 90s.

Yeah, I love that album.

I love all of their albums, but there is something special about that one.

I think that their first couple albums are a little less highly regarded, but I think Mother's Milk, they started to get their sound, and then Blood Sugar Sex Magic is when they became ultra huge, I think.

They did indeed.

Um, it's not even my second favorite chili peppers album.

That would be mother's milk.

Uh, but, um, I did enjoy, enjoy the, the listen this week.

So

That was kind of illuminating for me.

Then we have John Frusciante and Chad Smith both joining in 1988, solidifying what is traditionally looked at as the classic lineup.

So Mother's Milk was released in 1989, and that was the first album to make the Chili Peppers a substantial mainstream rock act.

This album included their covers of Stevie Wonder's Higher Ground...

roomIn this context, but they're number three for me.

It's the Red Hot Chili Peppers with Mother's Milk.

[rock music] That is-

Hmm.