Flea rocked these awesome stuffed animal pants in 1989 for The Red Hot Chili Peppers video for “Higher Ground” and in Young MC’s video for “Bust A Move“.
When Flea was asked about the pants in 2008, he said that the pants were stolen…
“Someone stole them. It’s so funny because for years I always lived in crappy little apartments but right when we got the money from signing with Warner Brothers I got to buy a house. I bought a nice house in Los Feliz that I was real excited about. I drove home and the first night at that house, someone broke into my car and stole my bass, my leather jacket and those stuffed animal pants out of my trunk. And I had lived in crappy neighborhoods for so long and never got robbed. As soon as I stepped up, someone took my stuff. I commissioned the girl who made them to make me another pair and I never saw the money or the pants again.”
Here’s the pants in the Young MC “Bust A Move” video…
Here’s the pants in The Red Hot Chili Peppers “Higher Ground” video…
R.I.P. Flea Stuffed Animal Pants…We Mis You!!!
