The Californian Funk Rock group gave the first of its two concerts on Friday evening in the arena of Saint-Denis.
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The space of forty-eight hours, doubt had settled for the French public on the presence or not of the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the Stade de France, in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), the Friday 8 and Saturday 9 July. Last week, their concert at the Bellahouston Park in Glasgow (Scotland), scheduled for 1 er July, had been canceled the day before “due to a disease”, without more explanations emanating from the press release Official.
The concern turned out to be ephemeral, since the Red Hot Chili Peppers resumed their tour of the European stadiums two days later, with a passage by the Werchter festival in Belgium, then by Cologne (Germany) on July 5.
The two Parisian concerts – that of Friday was played at closed counters – in the largest French stadium are a first for Californian rock stars, rather used to the rooms of the dimension of the Accor Arena de Bercy.
This sudden increase in popularity is largely due to the return of guitarist John FRUSCIANCE, who reinstated his position in December 2019. This prodigy of the Six Cordes is forever associated with the best albums of the quartet, Blood Sugar Sex ( 1991) and Californication (1999). Only black point, his recurrent instability and drug addiction, which led him twice to leave the group. 2>
Anderson .Paak in the first part
It must be said that the training co -founded almost thirty years ago by the bass player Flea and singer Anthony Kiedis has used no fewer guitarists since his beginnings, including the original member Hillel Slovak, tragically died in 1988, and Dave Navarro (1994-1997), defector of the Jane’s Addiction group and the only recruit to have made the minds as much as frusto. Because to be completely honest, the two albums dated from the Josh Klinghoffer era, I’m You (2011) and The Getaway (2016), have never really convinced. They are also masterfully ignored by the group at the Stade de France.
Flashy apple green suit, oversized white hat and glitter square glasses, the first part, Anderson .Paak is undoubtedly visible from the most distant stands of the Saint-Denis arena. Accompanied by his survivinated troop The Free Nationals, the dynamic singer, rapper and American drummer – he also plays on stage – ensures a colorful performance, very soulful traditional funk, less formatted than on his modern R’n’B oriented discs. We remember in particular a cover of the Synth-Funk Nasty Girl tube, by Vanity 6 (composed by Prince in 1982), interpreted by one of the choristers.
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