Almost forty years of rock deserve all the passion that the concert in Florence, the Italian date that sees the return of Red Hot Chili Pepper in our country, can determine. Fifty thousand beating hearts in search of nostalgic memory and novelty, of the riffs of John Frusciante, back in the group, of the bass of Flea, of the pounding drummer Chad, of the voice, not always crystalline live of that chameleon front, according to Anthony Kiedis. They must be seen, they must be savored, they must also be judged. But you have to be there. And indeed we will be there.
Unable to find a room in Florence at reasonable prices for the weekend of June 18th, the title could be Rooms Hot Chili Peppers. Because Red Hot is a rock heritage. Those who loved them 35 years ago, maybe turn up their noses listening to the latest works, Geteway and the very recent Unlimited Love. But he hopes it makes it to the Californication concert lineup or – better, everyone stands with shivers – Under the Bridge: Sometimes I feel like I don’t have a partner, a manifesto of a group that is a miracle, survived like hard drugs, in the dark and lonely Los Angeles that excites and grinds you, until you become powdered. But inside Black Summerthe latest hit of these unleashed sixty-year-olds, there is still the flicker, the genius, the magic touch that has built masterpieces such as Stadium Arcadiuminserting them up there, in the Gotha of those who make music.
Then of course, you may like the past more because the years pass and nostalgia bites the soul. But the kids are still curious in front of these rock monuments that are not afraid to change their skin, to escape from the recognizable score at the first chord. You know, dare a gamble, you can like it, you can disappoint. But the Red Hot who swoop in Florence with their highly patinated glamor of eight decades of international successes, are not afraid. To sing shirtless, to end up drenched in sweat both on the most extreme interpretations of Give It Away o Can’t Stopand maybe suddenly surprise you with very sweet ballads like Road Trippin’ or the very latest Tangelo which evokes the atmosphere of a California dreamed of who knows how many times by us, who are on the other side of the moon. Because the contamination of genres, in the sign of rock, has been their trademark. Artists who have found, lost and found themselves through the changes in society and music from 1984 to today. For this it is worth being there. Also because this time John Frusciante is there and can be heard. And the thing to please the Pepperiani of the first hour, a people who for years has enjoyed the beauty of an album that is always more beautiful than the previous one. The 90s, the first stirrings of the third millennium. The hits ended up everywhere, especially in the soul of millions of fans. Mind you, for those who – like me – were in Bologna in October 6 years ago, Josh Klinghoffer deserved all possible respect and esteem. The version of Five Years, David Bowie’s absolute masterpiece that evening left everyone speechless. And it certainly can’t be scarce one who, after coming out of Red Hot, has found a place in Pearl Jam as a guitarist, keyboardist and even drummer, just think. But Frusciante in the heart of the Pepperiani and being able to taste it again, when Kiedis’ voice will need time to recover, an absolute pleasure, one of the reasons why, in addition to listening to the new work live Unlimited Loveit will be worth being there.
My advice is addressed above all to those, and maybe there will be many, who have never seen or heard of them live here. If you love music, if you love rock, this is a great, unmissable opportunity. And the love of Pepperians, old and new, will be reciprocated with generosity on stage. But not only. In Bologna, six years ago, before the concert in the super hotel in the center where they were staying, a crowd of enthusiasts stationed for a photo, a selfie: a boy with a guitar attacked Under the Bridge a stone’s throw from Piazza Maggiore: everyone singing it and Kiedis and Flea who, looking out the window, gave a Jam Session lasting a few minutes, but unforgettable for those who were there. In short, you understand: forty years of rock deserve this passion.
13 June 2022 | 13:25
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