Under the Bridge

Actually, there's two.

I believe Under the Bridge is on there, too.

Under

the Bridge is also on there.

It had the songs The Power of Equality, If You Have to Ask, Breaking the Girl, Funky Monks, Suck My Kiss, I Could Have Lied, Mellow Ship, Slinky and B Major, The Righteous and the Wicked, Give It Away, Give It Away, Y'all.

Blood Sugar Sex Magic, Under the Bridge, Naked in the Rain, Apache Rose Peacock, The Greeting Song, My Lovely Man, Sir Psycho Sexy, and they're red hot.

As far as how it did on the awards front, it won the Best Hard Rock Performance with Vocal Grammy back in 1993 for Give It Away at the MTV Video Music Awards in 1992.

Under the Bridge won the Viewer's Choice Award and also Breakthrough Video.

Give It Away won Best Art Direction.

And the United States Library of Congress put it into the National Recording Registry as well.

Uh-

Under the Bridge?

Under the Bridge, not it.

Biggest Chili Peppers song was Scar Tissue, and it's not Scar Tissue.

Yeah.

Da- dad had the same policy

I think Under the Bridge is a reset.

[laughs]

Dad had the same policy, and I am grateful that he forced me, 'cause otherwise I wouldn't have found, like, Deep Purple or Led Zeppelin or-

He actually claimed that this song is a callback to his time when he was living homeless under a bridge.

And I'm not talking about Red Hot Chili Peppers and Anthony Kiedis' Under the Bridge here.

It's actually Something in the Way by Nirvana.

Underneath the bridge.

However, this origin story was later debunked as a romanticized myth by close childhood friends, actually bandmate Chris Novoselic and Nirvana biographer Charles R.

Cross.

They explained that Aberdeen's severe river tides and mudflats made living under the bridge physically impossible.

Essentially, Cobain had used a local legend to construct a dramatic narrative for the song.

Ooh.

Which was a B side to Under the Bridge.

And I, I mean, Un- Under the Bridge you can't, like, I'm never gonna say that Soldier Squeeze is better, but Soldier Squeeze is one of my favorite, um, Red Hot Chili Peppers songs.

Like, it's really chilled out, but I feel like it's all of them working in the best way that they can, um, including the noodly basslines, including the little, uh, there's like this really good bit, um, and Chad does this cymbal splash, and like [imitates cymbal] and then Flea comes in and he's like [singing].

It's so good.

Okay,

let's put that under the bridge.

Whoa, look out.

This is like when you pretend to do spontaneous jokes on stage.

And they say, I work in a bank.

And you say...

Well, let me just put that one under the bridge.

I was talking to David Trent about the chilli peppers.