Rolling Stone magazine\u2019s initial \u2018comeback\u2019 proclamation<\/a> will inevitably be repeated, if only because the band seems dedicated to fueling the idea. But this isn\u2019t a comeback, it\u2019s just a band that had to replace their guitarist, deal with a lot of drug issues, and made a record that is less than good. Basically, it\u2019s what almost every successful rock band does. I\u2019m With You isn\u2019t a comeback album; it\u2019s just a new record.<\/p>\nSomehow, the Red Hot Chili Peppers\u2019 place in rock music history is underrated. Once their new single inevitably charts, they will have had hit singles in 4 separate decades, a remarkable achievement. In discussing the idea of making a new record, Kiedis said the band wouldn\u2019t make another epic double album, but a record that could be listened to over the course of a lunch hour, specifically citing the length of a record by The Beatles (or at least a Beatles record that doesn\u2019t have Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da on its track listing). Flea has mentioned that during the recording of I\u2019m With You, he spent a lot of time listening to The Rolling Stones\u2019 Exile on Main Street and Tattoo You. And while the founding Chili Peppers may cite extremely influential bands here, they may not be far from that type of rarified air themselves.<\/p>\n
During the 2000s, we have seen iconic acts like Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, and Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band take the stage at the Superbowl halftime show. These are acts that are well past their prime, yet their place in music is so secure that 30 years past their best days, we still want to have their music on in the background while we take some chicken fingers out of the oven. The Superbowl halftime show is going to be a weird place for a while if this trend of iconic acts, mixed in with a few Black Eyed Peas-esque choices (although even they brought Slash along), as the problem with this strategy is that there aren\u2019t a whole lot of iconic acts from the 1990s and 2000s that people will want to see a decade or so from now. Britney Spears might do a halftime show, but just as many people would enjoy making fun of her throughout as would actually enjoy it. Something about the New Kids on the Block, Backstreet Boys, O-Town and LFO doing some sort of \u2018Tribute to Boy Bands\u2019 doesn\u2019t seem like a good idea for the Superbowl. Despite being a commercial juggernaut, nobody seems to actually like Nickleback. There will possibly be a place for The White Stripes at some point, due to their style of music and the fact that it could now be sold as a re-uniting, and maybe a Green Day appearance is in the cards. But the only band whose place is secure on that stage is the Red Hot Chili Peppers. This is a band that may not on par with acts like The Rolling Stones, but will be positively remembered if only because they made so many good songs over such a long period of time. The Red Hot Chili Peppers aren\u2019t The Rolling Stones; they\u2019re just our<\/em> Rolling Stones. And when the Chili Peppers are performing their set upside down in mid-air while suspended from army stealth helicopters, or whatever a Superbowl show looks like in 2023, I\u2019ll be watching, probably loving every second. I\u2019ll hope that John Frusciante will be back by then, but it really won\u2019t matter. Frusciante coming back wouldn\u2019t really change anything by that point. The White Stripes, Alonzo Mournings and Mickey Rourkes can come back, but the Red Hot Chili Peppers can\u2019t. They\u2019re here, be it through a new release or hearing Under the Bridge on the radio again, and it\u2019s going to take a lot more than five years between albums for us to forget about them enough for them to need to comeback.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex looks at the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ upcoming, allegedly-a-comeback, record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[184],"tags":[228],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themacguffinmen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themacguffinmen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themacguffinmen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themacguffinmen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themacguffinmen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/themacguffinmen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2003,"href":"https:\/\/themacguffinmen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions\/2003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themacguffinmen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themacguffinmen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themacguffinmen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themacguffinmen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}