Does flea play trumpet?

Trumpet is actually his first instrument.

 

True dat. Apparantly he was supposed to be an excellent jazz trumpeter (?), but gave it up when he fell in love with bass.

 

He played trumpet on Idiots Rule by Jane's Addiction.

 

Because he's a big 'ol show-off?

 

they say flea's bassplaying can't hold a candle to his trumpet work.

 

All I have ever heard was that he is pretty good at trumpet, but nothing too special....

 

His father is/was a jazz musician, and that's what he wanted for Flea. Flea also wanted to follow in his dad's footsteps, however......
* Vincent Price voice*
neither of them fully understood the intoxicating allure of the bass! HAHAHAHAHAHA!

 

no way, man! Flea is one of the best trumpet players ever! He was practically a jazz trumpet legend even before he picked up the bass

 

Posted by lo-end

um....legend, you say?!

 

You havent seen their Behind the Music have you? They said that he was the best trumpet player they had heard since this jazz legend went to school there (forgot his name) like 20 years earlier or something, he had to have been amazing if they said that.

 

actually...it was his step-dad...


...carry on...

 

It was Herp Albert, I beleive.

...and I really don't think I need to say anything otehr then that.

 

Flea is/was actually a very good trumpet player. Listen to his tone on "pretty little dity". He could have been a great jazz trumpet player but fell in love with the bass.

Trumpet was my first instrument as well, I played for about 15 years before giving it up and focusing completely on bass.

 

Flea was a really good trumpet player. When he was in high school we was involved with some pretty prominent student orchestras.

He doesn't play very much anymore, so his embouchure is now much weaker. He was asked to play trumpet for some album recently, but he declined because his lips weren't strong enough since he hadn't been tooting much.

 

separate tracks, of course!

 

The Bass and trumpet on "Pretty Little Ditty" were played at different times. That's painfully obvious by listening to what each instrument is doing.

Unless you're hammering on every note you are playing with the bass, it's totally impossible to play a trumpet and a bass at the same time. Did someone actually see him play the trumpet and bass at the same time? I mean, "smells like teen spirit" would be a very easy song to play on bass using just your left hand (which would free up his right hand to play trumpet, the hand you need to have free to work the valves). If it's just on a live recording, they very easily could have overdubbed the trumpet in the studio. Over dubbing and sometimes replacing/adding entire parts in the studio to a "live" cd is completely and utterly common in the popular music genre.

 

You should ask Mike Watt about this.

I've got his wrestling record, and flea plays the trompet quite nice on one of these pseudo-jazz tracks.