“It’s not real. I won’t have a real human head in the house.” Read our 1996 ChiliPeppers cover story:
“My friends are so depressed,” a line from “My Friends,” could be the subtitle of, an album that charts the band’s passage through a melancholic landscape nearly devoid of the sox-on-cox punk-funk that once characterized the Peppers. Deep purples and blood reds now dominate the foursome’s musical palette, the result of both a newfound sobriety and a newfound guitarist: Dave Navarro, formerly of.
I presume the rest of the band must have raided Navarro’s wardrobe for their last two videos. The S&M-themed “Warped” featured a “controversial” same-sex make-out session between Navarro and Kiedis , and the genuinely weird video for “My Friends” finds our boys in formal ball gowns while trapped in a rowboat on a surrealist sea. “This one guy at Warner Bros. told us to stop making pretentious, faggy videos,” laughs Flea when later quizzed. “I thought I looked really suave and handsome.
“In the same vignette,” Navarro tells me, grinning from ear to ear, “I purchase a baby off the black market.” Although Flea and Kiedis asked to be interviewed separately, their ruminations on life, love, and Los Angeles are almost identical—not unlike the telepathic connection many twins boast of when they’re separated. Both feel increasingly alienated by Los Angeles—Flea: “I feel like I’m constantly under attack in this city”; Kiedis: “It’s a stifling land of smog, violence, and hate.
“As long as there are people on this planet, there’ll be people doing heroin, or something just lie it,” ruminates Flea, as I silently study the dichotomy of his washboard abs and his chipped glitter nail polish. “Drug addiction is such a baffling, powerful thing. It’s so difficult to understand how people can reach such a level of insanity and hurt themselves so bad. And especially kind, sensitive, smart, creative people. I’ve seen it so many times.
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