Here’s part 1 of the many bands and musicians that have been featured on The Simpsons.
Red Hot Chili Peppers & Smashing Pumpkins
The Rolling Stones & U2
The Ramones & R.E.M.
Coldplay
More to follow….
Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Rolling Stones, The Smashing Pumpkins, U2
Flea’s super rare vintage “Shell Pink” ‘61 Fender Jazz Bass” sports a sticker of D. Boon, former lead singer of the Minutemen. Flea used this bass to record the Red Hot Chili Peppers album “Stadium Arcadium” and even toured with it for a short while. The bass is extremely valuable because it is one of very few original “Shell Pink” jazz bases ever produced by Fender.
Flea caused a bit of an uproar on a few Bass player message boards for defacing a estimated $35,000 bass with the sticker. It’s obviously does not matter to Flea as he even added another one later. Here’s the D. Boon sticker.
D. Boon was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. Active between 1978, when he joined The Reactionaries, and 1985, when he was killed in a van accident, Boon was best known as the guitarist and vocalist of the Californian punk rock trio Minutemen. He is number 89 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.
Here’s a ad form Japan that shows a close up of the bass.
Elvis, Kurt Cobain, Eddie Vedder, Paul McCartney, Noel Gallagher, Thom Yorke….Check out our new Stickers On Instruments category…
John Frusciante must love Radiohead. Here’s a couple Radiohead songs ala Frusciante…
“You And Whose Army?”
“Lucky”
The Red Hot Chili Peppers kill it with their intro using Public Enemy’s ‘You’re Gonna Get Yours” for the intro to “Give It Away“. John Frusciante in on fire on this whole performance. Check it…..
America’s pastime has had it’s share of Rock Star ceremonial first pitch thrown before games…Here’s a few of our favorites…
Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) & Nathan Followill (Kings Of Leon)
Jeff Tweedy (Wilco)
Anthony Kiedis (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Tom Morello - (Rage Against The Machine & Audioslave)
Old school picture of Geddy Lee (Rush) taking batting practice with the then California Angels.
And just cause we love Oasis - Liam Gallagher & Noel Gallagher with boxer Ricky Hatton.
John Frusciante notoriously left the Red Hot Chili Peppers after concert at Tokyo’s Club Quattro on May 7, 1992. However, since the release of Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic, Frusciante began to develop a dislike for the band’s popularity and began to resent the song “Under The Bridge” popularity so he would play convoluted intros, purposefully throwing Anthony Kiedis off. This is the most notable incident of John sabotaging “Under The Bridge” during a televised performance Saturday Night Live on February 22, 1992.
Kiedis said it “felt like I was getting stabbed in the back and hung out to dry in front of all of America while Frusciante was off in a corner in the shadow, playing some dissonant out-of-tune experiment.” The guitarist used a distortion pedal for the ending verse and screamed incomprehensibly into the microphone when providing backup vocals, neither of which were originally planned or typical of live performances.
Tom Morello, Kurt Cobain, Eddie Vedder
Billy Corgan, Anthony Kiedis, Prince
Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Rage Against The Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Smashing Pumpkins
In 1991 the Red Hot Chili Peppers wanted to record their next album in an unconventional setting, believing it would enhance their creative output. Rick Rubin suggested this mansion at 2451 Laurel Canyon Blvd. Los Angeles, California that magician Harry Houdini once lived in (Rubin later bought the mansion). A crew was hired to set up a recording studio and other equipment required for production in the house. The band decided that they would remain inside the mansion for the duration of recording, though Chad Smith, convinced the location was haunted, refused to stay. He would, instead, come each day by motorcycle. John Frusciante agreed with Smith, and said “There are definitely ghosts in the house,” but unlike Smith, Frusciante felt they were “very friendly. We have nothing but warm vibes and happiness everywhere we go in this house.”
The Blood Sugar Sex Magic album art also features a photograph of a strange orb or face captured during a group photograph, which the band suggests might have been a spirit at the mansion.
Hillel Slovak was an Israeli-American musician best known as the original guitarist and founding member of the Los Angeles rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. Slovak’s work was one of the major contributing factors to the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ early sound. He was also a huge influence on a young John Frusciante, who would later replace him as guitarist in the band.
Slovak and Anthony Kiedis became addicted to heroin early in their careers. Deciding to give sobriety a chance, both Kiedis and Hillel stopped using prior to their European tour in support of The Uplift Mofo Party Plan. During the tour both experienced intense heroin withdrawal - Hillel seemingly much more unstable than Kiedis - and upon returning home they both resumed their addictions. Little is known about his life the weeks following the tour, aside from a phone call to his brother. Slovak was found dead here in his apartment on the corner of Afton Place and El Centro in Hollywood due to a Speedball (drug) overdose on June 25, 1988.
His address at Afton Arms (aka Castle) was 6141 Afton apt. #114, Hollywood, CA 90028.
His last recording, a cover version of the Jimi Hendrix song “Fire”, would later appear in the Abbey Road EP and album Mothers Milk. Frusciante based a lot of his playing style on Slovak’s work. The songs “Knock Me Down” (from Mother’s Milk) and “My Lovely Man” (from Blood Sugar Sex Magik) were written as tributes to Hillel.
