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Flea Don't Sound Like Flea No More...

#85
The Lemon said:
I feel a lot of the people in this thread would change their tune if they were expected to continuously play the exact same thing for 25 years. Has anyone considered that maybe nostalgia is making them have unrealistic expectations from a group of musicians?
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+100 to this^. Look, we all have bands we like, love, even worship, and alot of times those bands come along at a time in our lives when we are either impressionable, vulnerable, or whatever, and it makes an indelible mark. Great, more power to them for being powerful in your life. If they move on in a direction you don't care for, don't buy their product. But don't disparage them for trying to grow and change as artists.

Do you guys know much about Flea outside of his RHCP work? Do you know that he gave several hundred thousand $$$ of his own money, and continues to help raise money, for a music school that 25% of the student body are on scholarship? And the ones who aren't scholarship pay only $25 per hour lesson? Did you know that he's also gone to college in the last 3 years to pursue a music education? My point in this is that, whether you like his (or any artists) current musical direction, you should be inspired by their desire to continue to grow as artists and musicians.

To me whats really worthy of criticism is these faded 80's rockers still rehashing the same old tired crap, and still trying to look like they have long hair and 30" waists.
 
#88
JDJen said:
IMO... Flea's sound has changed.

I've been a fan since their first album, and yes his sound has evolved over the years just as his playing style, but then again the Peppers have evolved their music as well. They're keeping up with the styles and times that has given them the popularity they now have.

There's nothing wrong with that because if they recorded their first album (as raw and edgy as it was) again today and put it out as a new release, it'd most likely only be appreciated by true fans and bassists, not the masses because there is absolutely nothing on there that is suitable for air play.

True Men Don't Kill Coyotes!
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+1. Then again, IMHO everything starting with Californication has been just a little too calculated to get on the radio. Plus, the last few albums all blend together, kind of like the last few U2 ones.
 
#91
robass said:
Do you guys know much about Flea outside of his RHCP work? Do you know that he gave several hundred thousand $$$ of his own money, and continues to help raise money, for a music school that 25% of the student body are on scholarship? And the ones who aren't scholarship pay only $25 per hour lesson? Did you know that he's also gone to college in the last 3 years to pursue a music education? My point in this is that, whether you like his (or any artists) current musical direction, you should be inspired by their desire to continue to grow as artists and musicians.
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Cool. Which music school?
 
#93
I dig the whole evolution of Flea's( and RHCP's as a whole) sound. If the Beatles stayed with , "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and never got to "Daytripper" or "Eleanor Rigby" or Abbey Road, then they would of been a huge bubble gum Brit teen pop icon, not one the most influential musical forces this side of Mozart. Don't get me wrong, RHCP is not nor ever will be the Beatles, I know, but you know what I'm saying here. We all grow as musicians and as we grow, our tastes, flare, tone, bass rig,..... everything changes with it. Flea is still the same person he has always been, albeit a little more wiser, more learned, a lot older, and more refined( yes refined ), than the young punk that graced the stage in 1984.

Flea is Flea, not Peter Pan. We all have to grow up some time.
All this being said, I dig the new album and really dig his Acoustic 360 tone. Really shows the versatility of that rig. I guess Jaco and John Paul Jones can be too wrong, right?
 

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