THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS

Introduction:

Also sometimes shorted to "The Chili Peppers" or abbreviated "RHCP". They are an american funk rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1983.
The group musical style primarily consists of rock with an emphasis of punk, as well as elements from other genres such as punk rock and psychedelic rock. Currently, the band consists of founding members Anthony Kiedis(vocals) and Flea(bass), longtime dummer Chat Smith; and guitarist Josh Klinghoffer, who joined in late in 2009, replacing John Frusciante.
They are one of the best-selling bands of all time with over 80 million records sold world wide, they have been nominate for sixteen Grammy Awards, of which, they have won six and they are the most succesful band in alternative rock radio.
The band's original line-up, originally named "Tony Flow and the Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem" before changing to " Red Hot Chili Peppers".

Biografy:

• Anthony Kiedis, born in November 1, 1962, is an co-founder of the "Red Hot Chili Peppers". He was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. When he was 20 years old, he moved to Hollywood to live with his father full-time. His father was a struggling actor who sold drugs wich had a significant impact on kiedis.

• Flea - Michael Peter Balzary born in October 12, 1962 better known by his stage name Flea. he is an Australian-American musician best known as and subsequently, a co-founding member and one of the composers of the rock band "Red Hot Chili Peppers". Flea briefly appeared as the bassist for such hands an "What is This?", "Flear and Jane´s Addiction".

• Chadwick Faylord "Chad" Smith born in October 25, 1961 is an American musician and current dumber of the "Red Hot Chili Peppers", which he joined in 1988 and was in ducted of "Rock and Roll Hall of Famein" 2012.

• John Anthony Frusciante born in March 5, 1970 is an American guitarrist, singer, producer and composer. He is best know asformed guitarrist of the rock and "Red Hot Chili Peppers"

Curiosities:

• In the video "Californication" on the number plate you can see GERMS on it, wich is refering the Anthony´s favorite band.
• Anthony participated in Nirvana´s video "Smells like teen spirit" (he was in the crouwd).
• Anthony and Flea loved jumping from buildings in to the swimmingpool. One day, Anthony jumped off and fractured his spine.
• Did you know that Klitschko ( the best boxer in the world) enters in the ring with the song "Can´t Stop"?
• John Frusciante had his arms full with tattoes which were deformed in a fire.
• One of the fans who shouted in the end of the song "Under tge bridge" was the brother of Frusciante.
• Flea´s mercedes has the colours of rainbow.

• Flea appeared in the film "Back to the future"  like the boss of Michael J. Fox.

Interview:

• Dimitri Ehrlich: The title of the new album is "I´m with You", whois with who?

• Flea: Well, everybody who knows that they´re with everybody is with everybody.

• Ehrlich: Okay...
• Flea: Everyboy...And they´re lonely.
• Ehrlich: This is your first album with Josh Klinghoffer. How has that affected the chemistry for you?
• Flea: Well, having a completely different personality involved changes everything. The time with Josh was beautiful, but it ran its course for variety of reasons. So it´s been beautiful, too.
•  Ehrlich: You´re appearing in teh documentary The Other F Word, why did you decide to participate in the film?
• Flea: I did it because the filmakers seemed like nice people with their hearts in the right place. I didn´t want my younger daughter in it because she wasn´t old enough to make the decision about something like that, but my older daughter wanted to do it, so we did it.

Vocabulary:

• Funk is a music that originate in the mid-to layte 1960s when Afican American musicians, create a rhythomics danceable new form of music through mixture of souls music jazz and rhythm blues.
• Funf rock is a fusion genre that mixes elements of funk and rock.
• Punk rock is a rockmusic genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia.
• Phychedelic rock is a style of rock music that is inspirate or influenced by psychedelic culture and attemps to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs, most notably LSD.

That is a Red Hot Chili Peppers´s videoclip of the song "Californication".

Made by: María Blanco and Alba Balbuena.

TASK 1: DESCRIBE THE PICTURES

• PICTURE 1

  The fair-haired guy is wearing a pink shirt, brown jeans, a stripy tie and grey trainers.
  
  The brown- haired girl is wearing a brown blouse, a white belt,a short plain brown skirt and brown high heels.
  The blond girl is wearing a shirt yellow dress, gold bracelets and gold high heels.
  The last boy has a short curly black hair and he's wearing a white t-shirt, brown jacket, grey jeans and white shoes.
  
  By Solomiya and Angelina
               

• PICTURE 2

  In the picture we can see a family with elegant and expensive clothes in a garden of a mansion. We can see three women, the first on the left is wearing an elegant red dress with six folances until the knee and a string of pearls .The second woman is wearing an elegant brown cardigan and a skirt matching with sequins, and the woman on the rigth is wearing a long skirt, a champagne cardigan with short sleeves, and an umbrella,a white shirt and a long string of pearls. There are two men and a child too. One man is wearing an elegant grey suit with a waistcoat and a blue tie, He is holding a brown hat. We can see only a part of the other man because he is behind the people, but we can see that he is wearing a suit too. Finally the child, is wearing a sailon suit.

  By Alba and María