![]() Improvised jams and extended instrumental breakdowns got liberally tossed in. The Comerica Park set danced around the group’s catalog: requisite hits (“Under the Bridge,” “Dani California”), melodic material from the band's turn-of-the-2000s period (“Universally Speaking,” “Californication”), and frenetic numbers from the early years (“Nobody Weird Like Me” and “Give it Away,” which closed the regular set). More: Temptations musical 'Ain't Too Proud' makes its homecoming splash in festive Detroit nightįor the Grand Rapids-born Kiedis and Bloomfield Hills-raised Smith, a show like this is a homecoming event of sorts, if not always at this level - such as an ancient gig at Detroit’s Latin Quarter club, recounted Sunday by Kiedis.įlea had chimed in early: “Thank you, Michigan! Thank you for Chad and Anthony.” More: Songwriter-producer Lamont Dozier, force behind the scenes at Motown, dies at 81 It was also the summer show's fifth show at Comerica Park. The Chili Peppers were part of a busy concert night in metro Detroit that included Kendrick Lamar at nearby Little Caesars Arena, Jason Aldean at Pine Knob, the Beach Boys at Meadow Brook and O.A.R. The four guys in RHCP may be headed into their sexagenarian years (Smith hit the big 60 last fall), but Sunday’s audience was impressively multigenerational, a solid mix of aging Gen Xers and hyped-up twentysomethings. Sunday brought the spiky but polished Chili Peppers machine that’s been humming along since the '90s, though the band seems reinvigorated in its role as an elder rock statesman, even reinvested in the cause. Several years after those dense funk jams of ’85, the group found a sweet spot that mingled its punk irreverence and testosterone-pumped energy with radio-friendly charms. RHCP isn’t the only rock act with Funkadelic coursing through its veins, but it’s certainly the only one to have achieved this level of commercial success. Sunday night, nearly four decades later, the group played the biggest Motor City date of its career, taking over Comerica Park for the band's first-ever stadium concert in the city.Ībout 34,000 piled into the Tigers’ ballpark for the nearly two-hour show, which brought vocalist Anthony Kiedis, bassist Flea, drummer Chad Smith and guitarist John Frusciante to town for the band’s first stop here in five years. "Freaky Styley,” rehearsed in Ferndale and recorded with the iconic funk maestro at Detroit’s United Sound, became the group’s second album, largely overlooked at the time. ![]() band in spring 1985 when they encamped in Detroit for a couple of months, striving to plug into the spirit of George Clinton. ![]() The Red Hot Chili Peppers were a little-known L.A. It made its live debut on the Roskilde Festival at Festivalpladsen. Yeah, it's a real love letter to Detroit and it's fun to play live.View Gallery: Red Hot Chili Peppers take the stage at Comerica Park in Detroit Detroit is the ninth track from the bands eleventh studio album, The Getaway. And I'm very pleased because I love Michigan, I love Detroit, I grew up there, it's such an important part of my everything, you know, my school, and I played in bands for years out of high school and my mother lives in the house I grew up in, so I go back there and visit all the time and I support all of my Detroit sports teams, even the sad Lions. It's a love letter to Detroit such an important city and it's gone through some obviously rough times, everybody knows that. When we had that song, Josh (Klinghoffer, guitar) came in with that riff and one more of our rock-ish numbers and, when he started singing about Detroit, I'm like: 'What? J Dilla, Funkadelic, what, Stooges, Henry Ford?' I was like, what is he singing about? And chorus comes and I'm like: 'This is great!' ![]() Kiedis gives a nod here to two of Detroit's musical exports, The Stooges and J Dilla, as well as Henry Ford who was pre-eminent in establishing the city during the early 20th century as the world's automotive capital.Ĭhad Smith said in a track by track commentary: "I grew up in Detroit from Detroit, Michigan and couldn't be happier.
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