flea's bass line on this track is amazing - most people hear him play the same phrase over and over - but he plays it just a little different each time. the more important part is to listen to when he holds, or just drops out altogether. unlike some of the earlier RHCP albums, he isn't going full tilt the whole time ... the negative space he leaves makes the bass stand out that much more when it kicks back in.
Well put. I learned bass and basically just learned a ton of RHCP material back in the day, Flea is a monster with the subtle varieties of his little fills he puts in all over the place, even if they're not always obvious. Rick Rubin did a fantastic job of helping Flea keep things more simple in certain songs, this definitely being one of them. I'm re-learning how to play If You Have To Ask right now, (from same record) and his timing, his fills, his use of muted notes etc are fucking masterful and so so so much fun. You can really tell with a band when the bass player really loves the instrument and knows it well and can be creative with it, as opposed to the "We can't have two/three guitarists, you play bass", those kinds of bass players just playing root notes and repeating exactly the same riff over and over hurts my heart.
I have Blood Sugar Sex Magik on vinyl and it's been my go-to cleaning the house/getting pumped up album. So many great tracks. And I STILL get goosebumps from this song!
One of the coolest bands on the planet. I really haven’t given them the respect they deserve. They have so many albums that I’ve never listened to. I only really know the major hits.
They are my favourite and they have 3 fantastic albums back to back. Californication, By the way and Stadium Arcadium. You should definitely check them out.
Transported back to the club and steamy summers with friends. Man now I feel old lol. I'm happy all of a sudden. That music just kicks it. Thank you. :D
You should do a react to John Frusciante (perhaps the song Central). He's RHCP's guitar player, has a very prolific solo career and a special place in many people's musical life
Hey man, I recommend you to react to John Frusciante-Going Inside, he is the guitarist form Red Hot Chili Peppers, and his solo career is just out of this world, he’s music for me is really lige changing.
Sept 24, 1991 was a big day in rock history. RHCP released “Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik” on the same day as Nirvana “Nevermind” and Soundgarden “Badmotorfinger”
The first song I ever fully learned on the bass..!!!! This album was gifted to me about a month after I picked up a bass guitar for the first time and my life changed..!!!!
Wet sand and Venice queen are another two of their songs that you absolutely gonna love! Such beautiful pieces of music... I'd also recommend a Slane Castle 2003 live version of Don't forget me - JF is just out of this world! Love your channel, thanks for a great work!
I am so glad you mentioned the mouth harp!!! Ever since this song came out and years later I would argue with my friends... "you don't hear that rubber band?" I never knew what that was but I could always hear it.
Still my favorite of all there songs, I remember seeing the vid was when I was a kid and knew then I wanted to be a rockstar when I grew up.. well, life happened and I'm not a rockstar lol but it still makes me want to be 🤘😄🎸
@@ayatan9119 I know, I have also the Suicidal Tendencies albums :) I mentionend Infectious Grooves as they were a "funk metal" band. Violent and Funky is "Give It Away on steroids". When I bought the cd I tried to play all the bass and guitar parts for months.
I'm still here. I was about 6 years old, I liked this as a kid and still do, but Under the Bridge is the one that really caught my attention, and is still my favourite. That chorus really stands out and sticks in my head
One of my favorite parts about this song is how it stands out sonically to me. Anthony and Flea are right down the middle pretty much throughout. You have John on the guitar and he's about 75% right, but Chad is about 75% left with his drums. Guitar and drums panned opposite just makes for a fun sound.
I’m still here. I remember listening to this CD the day it dropped and WOW! RHCP a major part of the soundtrack of my life as well. I appreciate your take (decomposition) of songs, thanks brother keep it up.
This was my second concert ever at the old Arco Arena back when I was like 17. 😂🤣 Was working at Carl's Jr. at the time and hated it........never thought I would ever become a cook, but that's what I've been doing for the past 16 years 🤔 Man how time flies 🤯🤷♂️
Yo, Geebz! I love the Chilis and was wondering if you've heard "Dreams of a Samurai" off of their latest record. It is far more progressive than their usual; very uncharacteristic of them, but still very cool. Love ya, cheers!
Chad Smith is playing a 5x14 steel snare. So its not so deep, but the depth and tuning makes it sounds snappy, fast and tight. For funky music its the perfect choice. You can even go smaller in depth, using a piccolo snare 14x3.5 in depth and in steel or brass material.
Im still here. I feel like "Why this melts your face" has evolved into TBT and I think it should be your thing. But if you want to do both, I'm down with that too.
Awesome throwback. Already recommended it on FB, but I'll throw it out to you again. Would love to hear your thoughts on Mr. Bungle-Goodbye Sober Day. One of the most incredible bands ever I think you'd love them. They had a feud with RHCP so it's very relevant :)
I am still here. While not the first band that comes to mind when asked about my favorites (which feels criminal as I type it), I love this bands music. Id be interested in seeing you do The garden of earthly delights by apocalypse orchestra.
HOWDY FROM NEW ENGLAND....THIS IS THE FIRST PEPPERS SONG I LEARNED ON DRUMS AND I STILL LOVE PLAYING IT....GOOD STUFF...BTW GOJIRA HAS A NEW SONG OUT CALLED BORN FOR ONE THING...PERHAPS DO A VID FOR THAT...? THX FOR BRINGING SUCH A POSITIVE VIBE TO THE CHANNEL...PEACE FROM THE NORTHEAST
Aloha! Been watching some of your videos since a week ago or two ("I'm still here?"), I really like it, keep em coming! My favourite band!! Love this song (they dont do the mouth harp live no hehe), and that's their usual closing live song (for the last tours). Rest of the album is so amazing too, I point out Breaking the Girl (has percussion solo by all of the band in the end), If You Have to Ask (funky bass, awesome guitar solo), etc if dont know them (those are some I remembered that have particular interesting features, but all of them are great and Im sure I missed other interesting things).
If you wanna dive into some lesser known Chili Peppers cuts, check out Funky Monks from this album. Some of the riffs they whip out in that song are so god damn funky and good, particularly Flea's bass line during the outro. You'd TOTALLY dig it if you've somehow never heard it
About the drums, you said about the organic room sound and its in fact in a organic room on a Hollywood mansion where the album was recorded, you can actually see the room and setup on the documentary 'Funky Monks', pretty interesting for a reaction too
GEEBZ, killer video as always! Please if you can get back around to The Mars Volta and I'd really love for you to check out Fair to Midland. Either "Dance of the Manatee" or "Musical Chairs" would be a great start. Thanks for sharing your time with us !
Super excited to hear you are getting to Vulkan. I assume you are going to listen to "This Visual Hex" first but honestly their first album is more cohesive and genuine to me, though their later stuff sounds just fine.
Flea is definitely not a graduate from Berkeley. He’s self taught from listening to records growing up, the streets and the punk scene. Just a natural. Jazz sparked his interest in music at a very young age, the bass came to him almost by accident from Hillel Slovak, the original RHCP guitarist. His book Acid For The Children is a GREAT read and an awesome insight to his upbringing and musical influences.
I would love to see you react to some Swans sometime, either pre-hiatus or post-hiatus, they're such an important band with a crazy history you could take any album of theirs and find a good song to react to.
They play the tape backwards and John Frusciante played to that, then you flip the tape back over so the solo is backwards. Pioneered by the Beatles and Hendrix
I'll be keeping that video in mind for later. In the mean time, I once again ask you to... No but seriously I'd love to hear your opinion on "Project 100" or "Heavyweight" by Infected Mushroom.
As requested, I'm still here. =-) Unless I'm really just not feeling a song for whatever reason, I watch your videos to the end. I figure they're of a certain length for a reason. Relating more to the video, I can't say I've been much of a Red Hot Chili Peppers fan, not sure that'll change, but at the very least I have more respect for them thanks to your decomposition. I must say, that bassline is delicious. Nothing quite like some great bass playing, at times it sadly seems like an underappreciated skillset.
This Album was not recorded in a recording studio. They recorded this at a mansion in Los Angeles. There is a documentary called Funky Monks that follow them through recording this album. It looks to me like the drums were set up in a fairly big room with a lot of windows. Hearing the sounds picked up by the camera there was a crazy amount of echoing going on.
Get well Geebz, you're only like a couple days away from that 100k video and we wouldn't want you to feel under the weather when you reach such an accomplishment!
Anybody who digs this song or any RHCP for that matter should check out the short doc "Funky Monks," which follows the band while they record 'Blood Sugar Sex Magik" in an LA mansion with Rick Rubin.
Dude, I love your breakdowns. I also happen to love RHCP. You have to check out “Encore” off of the album The Getaway. In my opinion it’s one of the most beautiful songs ever written but I have no idea why, I just feel it. Would love to have you break it down. Aloha!
SOOOO happy they got John back! Their next album is gonna be fire. I still believe Stadium Arcadium is the best work they eve released. To make a 2 disc album and have IMO every single song hit to the max is a feat that not many can match.
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Are we not gonna talk about that reversed guitar solo?? Frusciante is a beast
This!
31 YEARS?!?!?!?!? I bought this when it came out. Man...just man
casette or cd?
@@Verifraudreports cd, then recorded it to cassette for the car lol
Right we are old...
Actually it came out in 1991, 30 years ago
I have some Chili cassettes from before BSSM. BSSM is on CD. We are old! 🤣🤣❤️
flea's bass line on this track is amazing - most people hear him play the same phrase over and over - but he plays it just a little different each time.
the more important part is to listen to when he holds, or just drops out altogether. unlike some of the earlier RHCP albums, he isn't going full tilt the whole time ... the negative space he leaves makes the bass stand out that much more when it kicks back in.
Well put. I learned bass and basically just learned a ton of RHCP material back in the day, Flea is a monster with the subtle varieties of his little fills he puts in all over the place, even if they're not always obvious. Rick Rubin did a fantastic job of helping Flea keep things more simple in certain songs, this definitely being one of them.
I'm re-learning how to play If You Have To Ask right now, (from same record) and his timing, his fills, his use of muted notes etc are fucking masterful and so so so much fun.
You can really tell with a band when the bass player really loves the instrument and knows it well and can be creative with it, as opposed to the "We can't have two/three guitarists, you play bass", those kinds of bass players just playing root notes and repeating exactly the same riff over and over hurts my heart.
@@BobsYerUncle_GT you mean you're not supposed to play a bass just like a guitar? Blasphemy! Lol
All these years later I still know the words. This got so much airplay & it's like are you listening to it? Lol
I love their version of Higher Ground
Being a PepperHead I must suggest their cover of Brandy by Looking Glass.
I have Blood Sugar Sex Magik on vinyl and it's been my go-to cleaning the house/getting pumped up album. So many great tracks. And I STILL get goosebumps from this song!
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what an amazing album it was....please do "sir psycho sexy"!!
🤯 30 years! And yet I haven't aged a bit! 😂
You need to do more Chili Peppers reactions, they have so many underrated tunes. Try Venice Queen and Wet Sand, absolutely mind bending
Wet sand for sure
Live versions of this song are incredible, all the little extras each member throw in throughout.
Love the production on the drums as well, that snare hits so hard.
One of the coolest bands on the planet. I really haven’t given them the respect they deserve. They have so many albums that I’ve never listened to. I only really know the major hits.
They are my favourite and they have 3 fantastic albums back to back. Californication, By the way and Stadium Arcadium. You should definitely check them out.
Love this album. My favourite from them, amazing from start to finish. Love the subtle use of the Public Enemy sample. Seeing it live was amazing.
🤯 31 years love this band RHCP massive respect and love.
Edit: thanks alot brother I'm going deep on the peppers
I’m still here! Rock on and blue skies 🤙
Transported back to the club and steamy summers with friends. Man now I feel old lol. I'm happy all of a sudden. That music just kicks it. Thank you. :D
You should do a react to John Frusciante (perhaps the song Central). He's RHCP's guitar player, has a very prolific solo career and a special place in many people's musical life
Oh yeah, that's my favourite from him. Moody, ethereal, divine, beautiful composition.
Hey man, I recommend you to react to John Frusciante-Going Inside, he is the guitarist form Red Hot Chili Peppers, and his solo career is just out of this world, he’s music for me is really lige changing.
Sept 24, 1991 was a big day in rock history. RHCP released “Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik” on the same day as Nirvana “Nevermind” and Soundgarden “Badmotorfinger”
The first song I ever fully learned on the bass..!!!! This album was gifted to me about a month after I picked up a bass guitar for the first time and my life changed..!!!!
Wet sand and Venice queen are another two of their songs that you absolutely gonna love! Such beautiful pieces of music... I'd also recommend a Slane Castle 2003 live version of Don't forget me - JF is just out of this world! Love your channel, thanks for a great work!
I am so glad you mentioned the mouth harp!!! Ever since this song came out and years later I would argue with my friends... "you don't hear that rubber band?" I never knew what that was but I could always hear it.
The Love for the peppers make me red and hot! Excelent video and reacts
Still my favorite of all there songs, I remember seeing the vid was when I was a kid and knew then I wanted to be a rockstar when I grew up.. well, life happened and I'm not a rockstar lol but it still makes me want to be 🤘😄🎸
A good pairing for this song could be “Violent and Funky” by Infectious Grooves (the bass player now is a member of Metallica).
He originally started off in suicidal tendencies.
@@ayatan9119 I know, I have also the Suicidal Tendencies albums :) I mentionend Infectious Grooves as they were a "funk metal" band. Violent and Funky is "Give It Away on steroids". When I bought the cd I tried to play all the bass and guitar parts for months.
@@luigimeloni74 for sure! Violent and Funky is one of my favorite bass lines ever! Heaven as hell!
I'm still here. I was about 6 years old, I liked this as a kid and still do, but Under the Bridge is the one that really caught my attention, and is still my favourite. That chorus really stands out and sticks in my head
Still here. Love this whole album.
One of my favorite parts about this song is how it stands out sonically to me. Anthony and Flea are right down the middle pretty much throughout. You have John on the guitar and he's about 75% right, but Chad is about 75% left with his drums. Guitar and drums panned opposite just makes for a fun sound.
I’m still here. I remember listening to this CD the day it dropped and WOW! RHCP a major part of the soundtrack of my life as well.
I appreciate your take (decomposition) of songs, thanks brother keep it up.
This is one of the first songs that got me into rock music
John played his solos just to reverse them and it fitted so well
Still here Geebz!! love the work always worth the watch
This was my second concert ever at the old Arco Arena back when I was like 17.
😂🤣
Was working at Carl's Jr. at the time and hated it........never thought I would ever become a cook, but that's what I've been doing for the past 16 years 🤔
Man how time flies 🤯🤷♂️
Still here. I wonder how you would break down Weird Al's version. Even as a joke Weird Al has real musical talent.
If Weird Al is a joke, he's a fucking good joke that keeps you laughing for decades.
Yo, Geebz! I love the Chilis and was wondering if you've heard "Dreams of a Samurai" off of their latest record. It is far more progressive than their usual; very uncharacteristic of them, but still very cool.
Love ya, cheers!
Chad Smith is playing a 5x14 steel snare. So its not so deep, but the depth and tuning makes it sounds snappy, fast and tight. For funky music its the perfect choice. You can even go smaller in depth, using a piccolo snare 14x3.5 in depth and in steel or brass material.
Im still here. I feel like "Why this melts your face" has evolved into TBT and I think it should be your thing. But if you want to do both, I'm down with that too.
Dang, that was a stable when it came out! Still enjoy it more than anything they did.
Brother, thank you so much for all you do! Love the content! 🙏
iconic! classic! epic!
Love that song!
Awesome throwback. Already recommended it on FB, but I'll throw it out to you again. Would love to hear your thoughts on Mr. Bungle-Goodbye Sober Day. One of the most incredible bands ever I think you'd love them. They had a feud with RHCP so it's very relevant :)
A favorite for funk
many thanks to you! soon you reach 100,000! :-) Wish you all the best & keep up the good work (greeting from Germany)
Last guitar riff is from Sweet Leaf by Black Sabbath
Yes
I am still here.
While not the first band that comes to mind when asked about my favorites (which feels criminal as I type it), I love this bands music.
Id be interested in seeing you do
The garden of earthly delights by apocalypse orchestra.
I have this album, these guys are just top musicians
So glad the jaw harp got mentioned, always made me think of Snoopy.
I'm still here!
HOWDY FROM NEW ENGLAND....THIS IS THE FIRST PEPPERS SONG I LEARNED ON DRUMS AND I STILL LOVE PLAYING IT....GOOD STUFF...BTW GOJIRA HAS A NEW SONG OUT CALLED BORN FOR ONE THING...PERHAPS DO A VID FOR THAT...? THX FOR BRINGING SUCH A POSITIVE VIBE TO THE CHANNEL...PEACE FROM THE NORTHEAST
BADASS GeebZ GIVE IT AWAY
I think I first heard this on MTV, haha me old as well!
Still here !!
Mouth harp plays from the beginning
Aloha! Been watching some of your videos since a week ago or two ("I'm still here?"), I really like it, keep em coming!
My favourite band!! Love this song (they dont do the mouth harp live no hehe), and that's their usual closing live song (for the last tours). Rest of the album is so amazing too, I point out Breaking the Girl (has percussion solo by all of the band in the end), If You Have to Ask (funky bass, awesome guitar solo), etc if dont know them (those are some I remembered that have particular interesting features, but all of them are great and Im sure I missed other interesting things).
They recorded this in a haunted mansion in LA, that's probably gives the drums that sound you hear
It’s documented in their movie “funky monks”
Ive been there, good ride. i like it best when they decorate for Halloween
If you wanna dive into some lesser known Chili Peppers cuts, check out Funky Monks from this album. Some of the riffs they whip out in that song are so god damn funky and good, particularly Flea's bass line during the outro. You'd TOTALLY dig it if you've somehow never heard it
About the drums, you said about the organic room sound and its in fact in a organic room on a Hollywood mansion where the album was recorded, you can actually see the room and setup on the documentary 'Funky Monks', pretty interesting for a reaction too
GEEBZ, killer video as always! Please if you can get back around to The Mars Volta and I'd really love for you to check out Fair to Midland. Either "Dance of the Manatee" or "Musical Chairs" would be a great start. Thanks for sharing your time with us !
I'm still here...😁
I'm still here dude!
Super excited to hear you are getting to Vulkan. I assume you are going to listen to "This Visual Hex" first but honestly their first album is more cohesive and genuine to me, though their later stuff sounds just fine.
We're still here.
Flea is definitely not a graduate from Berkeley. He’s self taught from listening to records growing up, the streets and the punk scene. Just a natural. Jazz sparked his interest in music at a very young age, the bass came to him almost by accident from Hillel Slovak, the original RHCP guitarist. His book Acid For The Children is a GREAT read and an awesome insight to his upbringing and musical influences.
Tune!!!
Still here 🤙
I would love to see you react to some Swans sometime, either pre-hiatus or post-hiatus, they're such an important band with a crazy history you could take any album of theirs and find a good song to react to.
I was hoping you would expand on how they do the “backward” sound after the mouth harp.
They play the tape backwards and John Frusciante played to that, then you flip the tape back over so the solo is backwards. Pioneered by the Beatles and Hendrix
I'll be keeping that video in mind for later. In the mean time, I once again ask you to... No but seriously I'd love to hear your opinion on "Project 100" or "Heavyweight" by Infected Mushroom.
I'm still here
You have to watch flea and John jam live, it’s so amazing
As requested, I'm still here. =-)
Unless I'm really just not feeling a song for whatever reason, I watch your videos to the end. I figure they're of a certain length for a reason.
Relating more to the video, I can't say I've been much of a Red Hot Chili Peppers fan, not sure that'll change, but at the very least I have more respect for them thanks to your decomposition.
I must say, that bassline is delicious. Nothing quite like some great bass playing, at times it sadly seems like an underappreciated skillset.
This Album was not recorded in a recording studio. They recorded this at a mansion in Los Angeles. There is a documentary called Funky Monks that follow them through recording this album. It looks to me like the drums were set up in a fairly big room with a lot of windows. Hearing the sounds picked up by the camera there was a crazy amount of echoing going on.
I'm still here! Sounds like you might have a touch of a cold - stay well!
Ah yes, good ear - been fighting some kind of "thing". Thanks for your care :)
Get well Geebz, you're only like a couple days away from that 100k video and we wouldn't want you to feel under the weather when you reach such an accomplishment!
Anybody who digs this song or any RHCP for that matter should check out the short doc "Funky Monks," which follows the band while they record 'Blood Sugar Sex Magik" in an LA mansion with Rick Rubin.
They did not make this album in a standard studio. They recorded it in a large room in a large house!
Dude, I love your breakdowns. I also happen to love RHCP. You have to check out “Encore” off of the album The Getaway. In my opinion it’s one of the most beautiful songs ever written but I have no idea why, I just feel it. Would love to have you break it down. Aloha!
If you like bass: "Green Machine" by Kyuss has an insane bass solo!
Primus!!!! Anything by Primus PLEASE!!!!!!!
Second this.
Primus SUCKS!!!
Almost 100k Geebz!!
Please do a Byzantine (Justinian Code/Verses of violence) and Wheel (Lacking) video please.
SOOOO happy they got John back! Their next album is gonna be fire. I still believe Stadium Arcadium is the best work they eve released. To make a 2 disc album and have IMO every single song hit to the max is a feat that not many can match.
Pretty sure Flea played trumpet in high school and it probably influenced his style. Great ear.
Aloha from the 808! Glad you did some RHCP, they're my favorite! I recommend Octavarium by Dream Theater next!
they recorded this in a mansion, so that's why you hear this open space
you should react to their 1990 live yertle the turtle medley. Some insane funk and they're ridiculously tight as a band.
I would love to hear youre view on dragonforce through the fire and the flames
check out "this velvet glove"... rubins and RHCP hit a peak of recording on californication but their live shows are ridiculous too
It's all about Frusciante surely? Chopping and dodging and nudging that beat. No mercy no mercy.
'I'm still here' Mr. Geebz and for all the prog stuff u've done and will do: 'Where's the one?'
I'd love to see your analysis of some current RHCP.
Yabba dabba yabba dabba dabba doo now, "i'm still here", now, ain't goin away now
2nd best name for a rock group ever, Jagger and the boys get #1
You guys can see how they recorded the album Blood Sugar Sex Magik in the documentary FUNKY MONKS Very cool to watch 🤙🏼
Please review Primus for bass. 'Damn Blue Collar Tweakers' or 'Jerry was a Racecar Driver'.
❤ this! You should do Applied Science by 311! Especially live since you love the drums too!
Check out the early albums...
You can watch the FUNKY MONKS documentary on RUclips and it shows them making the entire album.
Check out the documentary Funky Munks!❤️ It's the making of this whole album!
Keep it up!
I'd like to see you do a Primus react vid Geebz. I'm still here BTW.
Those guitars are buried deep in the mix during that savage verse bass line. They also have bass and guitar panned left and right but not 100%.
GOOD EAR!!!! Awwwright!