Talk Is Jericho Baby Talk Is Jericho Alright, welcome to Talk Is Jericho, it's the pod of Thunder and Rock n' Roll and guess what? The Remedy for boredom has arrived and it's Friday and guess what? The biggest podcast ever is happening right here on Talk Is Jericho March 15th, 2017 Jericho vs. Foley, that's right, McFoly makes his long awaited much requested talk is Jericho debut on March 15th, 2017, Foley and Jericho, it's going to be the biggest podcast ever.
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the Red Hot Chili Peppers is here, good friend of mine, I gotta tell you, I really loved doing this interview, it's one of my favorite interviews I've ever done and it's one of the reasons why I love doing Talk Is Jericho because it gives me a chance to sit down and
have a chat with my friends and I've known Chad since 2002 we met at Madison Square Garden at a celebrity hockey game we were playing, if you've read my books, you've read the story and you're going to hear it anyways upcoming on this show.
But I've never really had a chance, I've been to talk to Chad, seen him many times over the years, but to sit down and talk to him for an hour, an hour and 20 minutes, whatever this podcast is, it was just a great experience, getting a chance to sit down with your buds
and actually have in-depth conversations, really really cool and Chad is great, what a tremendous guest, so much fun, amazing drummer for the Red Hot Chili Peppers who's new record, the getaway is out today and I was talking to Wise because in Chad yesterday, I don't think
the Chili Peppers have ever put out a bad album, they might have a couple songs here and there that didn't work, but basically since Chad joined the band in 1988 with Mother's Milk all the way up to today, the body of work speaks for itself, probably 90% great
tunes, so I'm really excited to hear the getaway I've heard, the title track of her dark necessities, both of them very, very, very cool tracks, the classic Chili Peppers modern day, lazy, retrospective California sound, so Chad has been their drummer for years and you know,
he's been so solid, rock solid, working in so many other bands via producer Rick Rubin, the getaway is not produced by Rick Rubin by the way, they teamed up with Danger Mouse for the album and you hear how and why that happened and we're going to talk about Chad's
doppelganger, that's right, Will Ferrell, ever seen Chad and never said he looks like Will Ferrell, well if you haven't seen the big drum off, Ferrell versus Chad Smith on the tonight show with Jimmy Fallon, it's one of the most entertaining things you'll see, they
look exactly the same, it's very ridiculous, Chad has been telling us all that story, what happened, how it led up to it, he's been telling us what it was like meeting and recording with Johnny Cash, Rick Rubin produced record that Chad played drums on and we're going
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so many stories, Chad is a funny guy, he's very excitable, he's very charismatic, he's the greatest drummer I think in rock and roll today, from the Red Hot Chili Peppers Chad Smith and his crazy stories about being mistaken for Will Ferrell, coming up one of my favorite
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ddp yoga.com slash Jericho. So Chad set the tone for the last time I saw you, you and I, Barclay center, Rockin' on the Hall of Fame, we're hanging out, I don't know how I got the front table at the Hall of Fame, right, you were right in the front, I was right in the front
and our managers, Q-Pri manage, manage Metallica and Lars was introducing a ddp and Black keys, who introduced Steve Miller, so I think that was probably why, but little did I know that I'm standing, I'm sitting on the edge of the table where the aisle is and three feet away is where
every inductee is gonna walk up to say their acceptance speech, stand on the side, there's Chicago and they're like, I was like the greeter, I was like, and there's like 12 guys in Chicago, half of them are going, hey nice to meet you Will, they have a cover-dose at the Glen got so many, I can't believe he said that, cover-dose at your will Farrell, was he joking,
he really thought your will Farrell? It's okay, it's okay, right, you've owned it now, I just go, yep, yep, for sure, at this point, nice to meet you, go ahead, absolutely, I'm not gonna argue with you on the way up to your exactly, yeah, exactly, Mr. Cover-Dose.
So you're sitting there, so we're sitting there, and I'm there too, and we always, my cousin Chad and I were just discussing, you're the only other Chad that I know besides you, we always get to go, because we know some people, so we always go every year and we have tickets to go on the floor, but we don't have tickets to sit at a table, so we're standing in the back, and you and I are texting each other, you hear, yeah, because we're both huge, yeah, cheap
trick fans, so you're there, and we're texting each other. And the end of the show, and cheap tricks playing, and you roll up, and I'm like, oh, there he is, all right, it's cool, and we are singing and rocking out to each other. It was awesome, who were, to me, by far, the best thing of the night? By far, because that was kind of, I don't want everyone to use the word boring, because these guys are all legends, but it was kind of a non-energetic night of performances,
shall we say. Everybody on stage was Chicago, Steve Purple, and I love those guys, but it wasn't, yeah, no, it was, there was not a lot of fire, you know, and but cheap trick
brought it, and they were great, and it was great to see Bunny playing. Yes, so good, yeah, and he played great, and speaking of Bunny, so we're sitting there, and if show's over, and we're like having a great time, and his wife is leaving the table, and I'd spoken to her briefly, because I know Bunny, and I say, hey, Bunny, man, hey, don't, and so she looked at me, and how are
you nice to see her? So on the way out, she's walking out, and you and I are standing in, and I said, oh, congratulations, and she walks on, she turns, and she looks at me, and she goes, I'm not pregnant. I didn't really think that she was, she's probably how old 62 me. That's the nice, and it was, you kind of had to be there, but she looked right at us and said, I'm not pregnant, I'm dead serious. Completely out of context, and I'm now trying to piece together the story,
it's now become our catchphrase. Yeah, exactly. Just text you so I'm not pregnant, because it was super funny. And I'm trying to piece together, I hope she was just being funny. Did somebody say to her, that maybe someone thought she was pregnant, but then again, like you said, she's in her 60s, so I don't know what the backstory was. I hope that it's just her dry sense of humor. Maybe, yeah, yeah, and she was just like, you know, when anyone says congratulations to me, that's my response.
I'm not pregnant. I'm glad to hear that. I'm glad to hear that. I mean, we laughed for, we did, we did. And that's part of the thing, we can talk about, you guys going in the Rock and Roll of Fame a few years ago, like, did you have to pay to sit at that table on the cheap trick night? Somebody did. Okay, somebody pay, because you're paying like big bucks to get those tables. Yeah, the tables, and I think that was one of the things Steve Miller was talking about.
Right. He was like, you know, I can't bring my band because, you know, Roll of Fame is a 10-granted seat or something like that. He was not happy. No, he was not, and then he went in the press room and really, really went for it. So I heard. Right. Yeah. His speech, he'd get the Andy kind of, you know, wish they'd be more transparent in the Hall of Fame, should you listen to that. And, you know,
I was like, okay, that's cool. And when women, it kind of's great, you know, and then I think he just went off because there's some people that are on the side of the coin of like the Hall of Fame is cool to be in and others will go, oh, we don't care. Yeah. But the only people that never showed up was the Sex Pistols and Axles. So obviously you care. Right. If you're alive, I think you show. Well, no, in the Van Halen guys did that. That's right. Just Sam and Mike. That's right. Yeah.
Eddie, they were bombed. They were like, you know, I wish, you know, the best thing I got. Yeah, Eddie. I'll never showed up. Rothen show up. Yeah. So, but when you guys went in, it seemed like everyone was pretty happy to be there. We were ecstatic. Yeah. I mean, you know, the Hall of Fame, I think it's really cool. I think that it can be, I understand why some people look at it. Oh, it's this political thing.
And it's this New York, you know, these, these, these New York music guys who kind of run it. And it's who, who they want. And, and, you know, bands like, yes. And they don't, I don't think they go for Prague that sort of thing too much. There's certain types of music, I think, that they tend to lean toward that they feel as important and influential and deserve it of the Hall of Fame. But, you know, yeah, it's a bit, it's a bit of a New York boys club a little bit, but, but I think it's,
I think it's great. Pretty cool, right? It's totally cool. I want it. There's a third floor of the Hall of Fame and, and Cleveland. And you walk up and it's where all the names are on little plaques. And that's kind of all that's up there. And it's just kind of dimly lit. And I should be some, whoo, music in the background. And you walk down to them walking down to them, I think I'm looking at all, I don't know how many people in 700 or maybe 800 by now, but this few years back. And I'm,
I'm walking down and I'm looking at it. And it's alphabetical. I'm looking at all the names. I'm like, wow, I mean, I'm both did me and Chuck Berry. And I'm going to the thing and we get down to the R's. And there's my name next to the Rolling Stones and the Ramones. Right, right, right. The R's, the R, like Ramones. Yeah. Yeah. I just like, the little guy from Detroit is in the King Hall of Fame. It's this unbelievable. Yeah. It really like that really like hit me. I was like,
oh, this is cool. And you know, it's kind of like a fancy hard rock a little bit with all the costumes. Yeah, it's cool. Some interactive stuff. It's pretty, it's pretty cool. But, you know, being in it for obviously the longevity of your career, you know, we've been doing it a long time. And it's, I think it's 25 years from your first recording or something. That's the thing. And, you know, just, yeah, it's, it's, it's pretty amazing. And, and, you know, I'm just, yeah, super
honored. Even just to think about the peppers being in there when, when you guys first started, and I know you weren't the baddest beginning, but the peppers were always very weird and eclectic. And it was a mix of hard rock and funk and blues and jazz and pop music. You know, peppers didn't fit in anywhere. No. Late 80s, you know, at that point in time. And now the peppers are this whole world of themselves that everyone's like a psychonic band. You know, I would have never
thought I joined a band in the end of 1988. And the band been together since 1983. And they made three records. And I didn't really know, I mean, I knew who the red chili peppers were. Like, I was with the socks and the dicks. Yeah. But I wasn't like a big fan of their music. And at that time, they had three records. And they were kind of a underground sort of college radio band, you know, exactly. Frapp Boy Rock and a lot of them. Yeah. You know, doing this
funk and punk and rock. And and then and then I joined and John Fashante had just joined right before me. The guitar player was 18 years old. His first band he'd ever been. And it was his favorite band. Wow. Yeah. And he's like, I mean, the chili peppers today. Remember, little John Fashante with his red mohawk? And I was just like, cool. It was a band. They have a record deal. I'll travel for this band. Yeah. Sure. And I'd move from Detroit literally six months earlier
where I grew up. And did you see an ad in a paper? No, it was a friend of a friend kind of thing where this girl was dating a guy that I knew from Detroit. They were dated John. And and they knew they were looking for a drummer and my friend told this girl that I ate drums for breakfast. I got your guys in Detroit. I mean, great. So I bring my drums to the to the holy golly rehearsal place and audition and I'm walking in with my drums and flea licks of A.
And I was like, your breakfast. I'm like, what the fuck? He's got this green mohawk. And at the time, I was like, rocker, dude. Yeah. You were those the metal guys long hair band. They had a probably Metallica shirt. Oh, get this guy out of here. Like and this was a sunset strip, 88 guns and roses. Sure. Which was great, but not what the chili peppers were about. They were about, you know, the punk and you know, kind of funny haircut
you had and tattoos and all that. So they're looking at me like, I get this guy out of here. And we just started to play and they all went out the window. Just the magic in the chemistry right off the bat. They were. I remember Anthony just laughing hysterically. Like it was poor plain. We're just like this kind of what we do today. Although back then, it was all really hard and fast. And I was like, yeah, come on. Love the f***er. And and I remember Anthony's just cracking
up and I don't know if that's good, but whatever. He didn't say or anything, but the other, we just jamped cracking up at the chemistry that was. I can't. Whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Like he later, he was like, it was like Roman candles were going off. He was like, it was like crazy. He goes, I just never seen anything like it. He was like, you were like pushing fully and nobody had done that or what. But I was just like, I'm just playing. It's fun. He's guys are good. This sounds good to me.
So yeah, that was it. And then I, you know, we made a record right away in Mother's Mill in 89 and, you know, it was, it was really, I would have never thought they'd run hot chili peppers would be in the rock. Rock and roll the tape or still playing making relevant music in 2016. And people still come in to see us and having young fans and it's amazing. It's a really come like a mold has been become a multi generational band like the stones or kiss of our era.
And now the peppers are the same where you have young kids coming. I do. It's just as cool as the people have been there since 88. You know, it's, it's, yeah. And we've never tried it, you know, I want to sound like this or we want to be like that or never have we ever tried to repeat ourselves or any kind of trend in music or anything like that. We just, we just do what we do
and try to keep changing as people and as musicians and as band and write better songs. And I think any great artist that's, that's, I'm not saying we're great, but any, any, any artist, I think they need to do that, you know, and key, collect tape, right? Yeah. And just looking for new things to make you grow. And all the influences that you do everywhere you go and people see and art and everything all goes into that and go goes into the person that you are and and that's
going to come out of your personality of of your instrument. Sure. And in the four of us, you know, the chemistry is there. Like a team, whatever it is, it's really a team, you know, being in a band, the chemistry is so important, especially in our group where we don't have like one guy that writes the songs or it's a real democratic. Everybody has their creative input and is, and is, everyone is encouraged to come in and, and, you know, this is what I think
in the way we write music. You know, we improvise and jam a lot and songs come out of that or someone's got an idea whether it's a bass line or guitar part, a piano thing and somebody will come in but it's never finished songs. So say I got this idea. And then we all jump in and do our thing. And I think that's why we have a more identifiable sound if we do. And also, as soon as Anthony opens his mouth, it's going to sound like a chili pepper. So we can keep doing anything.
And we're really fortunate to be able to do that as long as it's good, like anything. But that's the thing. There's only one like, you know, like ACDC or Slayer that can do a very similar style of music the whole career. But if you go to like, you look at the Beatles or you too or Zeppelin or Guns n' Roses, there's a lot of different styles of music, Pink Floyd and the
peppers are like that as well. And if you've been around, you got to keep going. You know, you don't want to keep doing the same thing even though people say, I wish you know, you do more songs like Blood Sugar Six Magic. I'm going to go to California and I'm like, well, we did those. Yeah. And I'm not 20. We're not 25 anymore. You know, this is what we do now. Well, you know, you got a Germany and the Germans are so straightforward. I've done not as good as Blood Sugar
Six Magic. I know right. And then tell it right to your face. Oh, right to go. I had the two of it the last time. Yes, you're sitting bones is a much better record than do you want to start to war. And I'm like, okay, how do I answer that? Sorry. We'll try better next time. Yeah. It's okay. So that's good. Is it, you know, we should make more songs like Give It Away. So, you know, we play those songs that we love them. But this is who we are. I want we do not own. Yeah. And so,
you know, you got to, you got to go out in the water a little bit and you see your toes. You aren't, you can't, you know, you can't feel the bottom and take risks. And that's the kind of music. That's what I like. Those are the artists and that I just, I like that. I don't like this sort of formula and thing that sounds so. Will you always that way? Like when you came out from Detroit in 88, were you looking to play in a metal band or were you just, were you always kind of an eclectic
player? Because when I, we talk, you love kids, you love cheap trick. I mean, we've been to concerts together. Yeah. Yeah. I don't, I love that. I mean, over the band, I'm definitely the rock guy, for sure. Not to say that they don't like rock music like Flea loves Led Zeppelin and ACDC. But you know, Hendrix, sell of Hendrix. Yeah. But growing up for me, and I have to thank my brother who I was with at the Hall of Fame. Okay. Yeah. That was him. And he was like, because it was,
you know, they showed on TV. Yeah. They were showing like full, you know, like screenshots of me and him. And then he's like, man, I have more people calling me up. I'm like, yeah, well, we were kind of there. Yeah. It was one great shot that I took of you and I had a show that I could keep track during cheap track. We're both rocking. But Brad was a huge influence on me. Two years older me, he played a guitar and I started playing really young. And he just loved
all those late 60s, early 70s, like hard rock blues bands from England. So the Sabbath, the Zeppelin's, you know, Humble Pie, Deep Purple, Queen, you know, Bowie Hendrix. Oh, you know, the classic. Yeah. Like the classic rock, he loved all that stuff. And early on, like he would have Queen 2, you know, and it wasn't until they got super popular. And so I listened to all his records, you know, and wanted to play that kind of music early on. Obviously, those are all great bands.
And for drumming, drumming is, you know, starting out drumming. So I'm listening to Ian Pays, John Bonham, Keith Moon, you know, Mitch Mitchell, like the best drummers. And I just loved that music. I will love it forever. I mean, there's, I never get tired of it. But then, you know, you move on and you start to listen to other stuff. And probably around early 80s, I started to get into more into like funk music. I was in a band in Detroit called Farrow. Yeah. Look for that Farrow album.
Yeah. Good luck. Up on YouTube now, probably. And I play with a, there was a percussionist in the band. I was Larry for Tangelo. And he was, he came from Parliament, Funkadel. He was in Detroit, and he played in Peefum. And he taught me a lot about we rehearsed and wrote songs for about almost a year. And he just kind of used older than me to kind of took me under his wing. I was, like, I could play, but I was, I was 20, 20 years old. And he just like, I don't know, he saw
that I was kind of a, you know, even a diamond, I don't know what in the rough. But we just hung out and we, he turned me on to so much cool music, like, like tower power. And we would, we would ride in his car, smoke joints and go on, on the way to, to rehearsal. And he would just always play me all this, Izley Brothers, James Brown, like, you know, meters, just like stuff that I didn't really know. He hadn't heard before. Not really heard. Maybe, maybe he heard some James Brown, but like,
but to really listen to it. And, and, and pick it apart. Listen to the second verse, hear how the drummer breaks it down. And then he lays out and doesn't come in on a two. And like, the band has to get quiet because they can't hear the drums. It's like, that's playing with dynamics. That's being musical. I mean, normally I just bash away. So we, he really helped me go from being a drummer to a musician. And I, credit Larry, that year was like going to like college
music, music school. And he was fantastic. And, and so from then on, and then my mind and my ears kind of opened up to being thinking more like a more well-rounded musician. So how to play with dynamics, how to build a song sort of arrangement one-on-one stuff. Oh, you do a, you don't have to do a fill every time, you know, make it mean something and that kind of stuff. Which before that, I was just liking it. Yeah, look at this latest blick from Russia. I got, I'm gonna stick it in the
song. It doesn't matter. Right. Like, no, doesn't work. And the song is king. That song you got to play for the song. So, and, and, you know, I always grew up listening to like Motown. And it was always on the radio. And, and that's just some of the funky stuff. So like, it's in there. It's all, it's all, it was all in there. But I'd never been able to really sort of tap into that. And, you know, so the, you know, slide, and this is just so much great music that I just sort of went back
and sort of did my homework. And, and I really wanted to get better. And then, just say, I think it's normal to, when you're a young kid, you want to play bunch of stuff and fast. And like a lot of kids these days, they just want to play super fast. That's great. But I don't know how many songs you hear. And I wanted to be a song on the radio. You know, I was like, you don't hear, you know, Blaspites. Yeah, you know, it's, it's, it's great. And I admire it. But it's not what I want to do.
You know, that, and so I just wanted to make songs feel good. And, you know, I just wanted to play real powerfully. It's kind of the way I've always played. And yeah, just, you know, I about, you know, you're talking about, you know, your tailor made to play with the peppers from a musician standpoint. But another thing about the peppers right from the start was always this crazy image that they had in the gimmicks that they had was watching something the other day,
just stumbled upon it. Maybe it was Woodstock or something where fleas just naked. He's playing completely naked. And he was literally like, he used to do that. And you could get away with it a bit more like back in the late 80s. No one had early or yeah, or cops or, yeah, I remember high talent and, and green Bay one time running from the cops because you're showing pubic hair on stage. That's, it's against the law. We must arrest you. So you can, when we weren't this sort of
more popular week. So I get away with a lot of we used to do crazy. Like what other kind of stuff? I mean, like the light bulbs that was the light bulbs. It was that, but we used to, we used to, we, we did, I remember in Texas, fall places, we were on tour and others milk time. And we did, um, or derbs. And we, we just put our cocks through to paper plates. And for the opening band,
we came out or derbs. And, and then, and then we thought we'd be fun to just do cock percussion, where you just come on, you just beat your dick on a, on a mic, you know, like, on a microphone. Like, we were kids. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is our idea of like funnier fun. We can't get away with anything. It should run like, depending on the night in jail for a while. So yeah, I think it, we felt Woodstock was so big. And he, well, yeah, it's typical with us. Nothing too planned out.
He's just standing. We're getting ready to go on. And he's like, check on naked. I'm like, fuck yeah. Really? I'm like, yeah, he's like, okay. And I said, he may have had like this tidy white design. Anyway, all right, right. But he, no, he just, like they're not going to fuck the poor soft stage. Cause then I just don't acknowledge it. And you watch his ass the whole show. Yeah. It's awesome. That's amazing. It is something where you sit down together. Like, for example, the
light bulb thing. Cause it's okay. We're going to do, is there any other ideas? Or did you say Chad put this on? Or do you say put this on? I thought bad because it was actually Dave Navarro's first real gig with us. Yeah. When Dave joined our band, we maybe did a warm up here in town.
But that was our first gig. And he came from James addiction. They were real arty and they're great great man and poor guy probably the last thing he wanted to do was put on a thing you look like a fake potato and a silver thing a giant light bulb head and
he's like oh I'm in the wacky chili peppers now yeah we used to be more conscious of trying to you know just do weird shit and it's kind of yeah shake things up always very you know free about sexuality and everything else and you know because America's pretty uptight
when it comes to all that stuff in Europe in Europe huh especially 20 years ago even more yeah yeah in Europe what though in Europe they were like they loved it yeah we used to do that shit all the time you know great you mentioned you mentioned playing with Dave and now Josh
charges of the guitar player it's such an important part of the chili peppers legacy is John Frischante and when he left 95 came back afterwards was it hard when you did the last record the first without without John and yeah well you know John Frischante is an amazing musician maybe one
of if not the most incredible musicians I've ever had the pleasure of playing with this is amazing and I obviously know him since he was 18 he was in the band early and we we got it was right when we were kind of went from the band went from this sort of kind of like we were talking about
kind of a punky underground and mothers milk came out higher ground was on MTV and we got a little bit more poppy we had a gold album watch wow but we're still playing you know theaters and um we weren't playing arenas or anything and then my blood sugar came out and music sort of shifted
and that was a great record that we did and he was really a big part of that as we all were but he had felt like he was fully part of the band he was writing great songs I think he felt we all did felt more comfortable the chemistry was where there was a really exciting time for us
and you know him having him being in the band he was amazing he's amazing guitarist amazing arranger song great harmonies on his vocals credible and a student of music you know just like if he was into you know the girl groups from the 60s he would go deep and find the
why you know the great like whatever he was into drugs that what he was going all in he's all in yeah and then done and then now I'm into this now I'm into American history now I'm into you know he that's his personality yeah but musically he was so passionate about all kinds of
electronic music all kinds of stuff but it was a big part of of our band and I love John and I'm so thankful to be able to have that time with him and when he getting and I think it was tough for him being so young and the band kind of blew up and you know you go from two years ago I've
never been in a band before I'm 18 years old too you're playing big arenas and your records all over MTV and it's you know he was just he couldn't handle it so he left a group and then he came back and we had him for another 10 years and made some amazing music again he's incredible so
yeah John is we love John and only wish him the best and you know he's happy doing his thing just him to want to do it anymore he didn't want to do what it takes to be in a band just not just write songs and record it's a lot of the thing being on the road being away from home all that's
what it's all everything it takes up your whole life there for so having Josh come in the group we knew him and he'd actually played guitar on our last tour he put we brought him into play second guitar okay and we could do some other songs that we needed a backing stuff he played keyboard
the Josh plays everything keys based drums guitar sing he's amazing and he was just like the he was the obvious choice for us we knew him so he didn't have to like go through the dating process yeah that's hard too yeah right you know yeah it's not just great but like
you're weirdo it's not just the time on stage it's the time on the bus and everything else and flying and everything you know yeah what kind of guys right so we knew him so that was good but yeah coming into our group and and such an established thing and and and you know it's like okay
you're in okay let's write songs now yeah yeah boom let's go and we wrote a bunch of song records good I like I like I'm with you record but again it's it's now he's toured with us we've hung out musically personally he feels more comfortable so this record feels a lot to me like when we did John
and I did Mother's Mill we were new guys and then integrated into the band made bud sugar it's this similar feeling it makes sense that that he would just be more comfortable and he's a great songwriter great musician we're lucky to have him so when you guys start playing like you the
the the new record for example to get away and you mentioned before you just get you just show up in a in a rehearsal studio and say what do you got what do you got yeah hope it's good or not well flea has a little a little place in in down so relic and we go in there and we just
we just jam we just literally just just I'll start a beat or he'll play a bass line or somebody will have a riff or not sometimes it's cool sometimes it's like nah shit yeah yeah right yeah miss but and sometimes song ideas come from that and then other times somebody will have
something from home you know that they wrote or came up with a one part or two parts never never a fully finished song so those are the two ways that we sort of write our songs and then so we did that for about eight months for the getaway yes for this record exactly it's coming out June 7
yeah it might even be today depending on yeah we're in time travel here and uh yeah I'm in Europe right now yeah and uh so we were like cool yeah we got a bunch of great songs everyone's feeling good about it and then the producer thing comes comes out like who who we should be
using we've always used Rick Rubin did you use them on with you as well yeah okay wow so this is like yeah that's like ten it's six albums and twenty twenty two years whatever it is straight yeah 91 yeah yeah 91 that's blood sugar yeah and we love Rick and Rick is amazing
he's an incredible producer but in the past though we've always like and maybe we should try you know this guy we've met with you know Daniel and Juan different producers and and then we've always come out of ricks of ones gonna make these songs the best you know we've always worked with him
and we tried great success with him but we just felt you know this time maybe maybe we should actually get somebody else and we knew Brian Burton aka Danger Mouse we knew we knew him actually when he was in Norles Barkley they opened for us in a on a stadium Arcadia tour that's we knew him
personally and knew what he's done he produced a lot of bands had a lot of great music so we met with him and we played him our songs that we had and he's like and he's a god god I like that one maybe that one not so much I really like that one typical to producer stuff we had a bunch of
songs they're always right like wait two men but they're not always good so that's why he's way twenty five and you end up with twelve or whatever but he's like cool man I really like those and you know that's great and let's do it and I cool so about three weeks away from recording
and flea decides to go snowboarding with Lars yeah two very competitive men yeah and the last run of the day you know they're probably with their kids I think they're with their kids you know and the kids went in and okay let's go and so he's snowboarding of course he breaks his arm pretty
bad really bad actually and so everything stops for six months took six months with bad break and he was freaking out it was like was scary for a player right yeah and it was like fingers were numb and and he was like he was a really hard time for him he was emotionally spiritually really
drained I felt so bad for him and and he finally came out of it and he's he's totally fine but it took a long time it's like two months I'm doctor said two months I'll be back like three months four months maybe two months if you're a normal guy but two months to try to play those bass lines
and I think he's not he's not going do do yeah yeah he's got an office answering phones no right exactly you need need all yeah the pinky couldn't move you know the whole thing so if it was a leg it would be fine yeah we did actually with butchery I think he had a broken foot
or something that's the new thing now girl did it axle did it it's like the hip thing now just sticking the chair getting the chair the throw the rope the rope the rope the rope was going to be using it now yeah right that'll be in the hall of fact so he so during that six months
we met with Brian Burton and and he's like you know I think your songs the songs are cool but if you really want to use my talent and what I'm good at my forte we should go in my studio and start from scratch is like right song from wow and we're like well what what do you mean right
from scratch you just start out with a drum beat and then we'll come up with a cool beat that we don't we like and then just layer stuff almost in a hip hop kind of way and Brian comes from his back right yeah and we're like all right hmm I don't know now is some interpretation and some you know
everyone's like I don't know about that yeah and I'm glad we did because probably six of the song probably maybe almost half of the ones that are on the record are ones that we did that way the new ones yeah after like dark necessities our first thing was a song that we wrote like that
Brian's very musical like Rick doesn't play any instruments or anything Brian plays a little bit everything and he's a studio rat he just he's in there he just loves to be in the studio and that was that was good for us and and it challenged us to come up with a different
way to the creative process and challenge this and you know and he wouldn't he wouldn't settle for you know that's pretty good or I like that you know it's like the verse is really good but the course it could be better man which should be I wanted to be classic and he would come up with beats
and he's like you got to come up with a beat that like when that comes on I know what song that is I'm like really that's so easy sure yeah right right I mean what's gonna walk this way in a rock and roll come on man so we we you know we worked hard we we did the whole record in 14
weeks but it's it was it was it was great it was really fun once we got over the initial like once we were getting like really cool things great music and sending them actually to Anthony wasn't even there when we were writing him then he was just going oh man love this is great
we're great so everyone was on board and once we got that flow going we were like okay we're doing the right thing that's something to like you know I'm sure it was like when Metallica stop working with Bob Rock you work with Rubin for so many years it's probably you know exactly how it's
gonna work doesn't really push you as much as it might if you have a new guy on the team yeah you know yeah let's talk about talking blood sugar sex magic took peppers from like you mentioned a theater band to legit arena huge one of the biggest bands in the world at the time yeah how did
you look up with Rubin in the first place we were trying to get out of our deal we were on EMI records at the time and we just we had mother's milk out and we didn't it came and did good but we just felt the people at EMI didn't have a clue to what to do with us they had like a rock sad
and Richard Marx and it you know we just he didn't fit into their box yeah you know I mean they just they we had one person there it was really great but and it was what we ran record number five and I think that was the last one of the contract and in the contract it was it was like this many
records in this many years and if so we just waited it out okay we did that and they you know really wanted us because we were doing really good but we just didn't want to be on EMI so we went to all the record we did the round this is back when like big contracts yeah ladies they were
throwing money out we were like fine New York and getting wine and dine to do it it was fun and and uh we went to Warner Brothers and met with Warner Brothers and Warner Brothers you know it's it's local it's here in Burbank we're a real LA band and we and we were we had decided to sign
with Epic because Epic came up with a monetarily giant offer and at the time well yes we'll sign with them how much yes we will sell out yes of course greatest label at what do you have Michael Jackson yes we love them but Warner's had Jimmy Hendrix neo-young prince like
Mo Austin the president started a label of Frank Sinatra reprise back in 60s early 60s something like that we met with them and they offered us a made an offer but you know it was it was fine but it wasn't what the epic one and and and our we had you know young dollar signs and we had to be
in a big label on you know blah blah blah and then they were having trouble getting us out of our EMI deal they there was there was a bar they had to like give them a song or buy it and bring in like a trading for a player right right I'm gonna give you two draft choices and some cash kind of thing
and it wasn't happening and we're waiting waiting which actually good because you're still writing song and during that time we met with Rick and Rick had American records still does maybe it was deaf American probably what American is deaf American from deaf American I went to the when they had a funeral for deaf American I wanted the cemetery where they buried it and Rick's like you know I love you guys I think you guys are great even if you don't decide to go with my label I will love
them producer guys and we're like you know slayer and all these kind of really like heart you were like no no man you know they like slayer but like nothing like us right and he had to you know he'd done the black crows with a really popular at the time but we knew his history with hip hop and
obviously you know we've come from New York and deaf jam and public enemy and our enemies people easy as you boys yeah so we had a lot of similar tastes and deaf American at that was a smaller label so we ended up signing with Warner because I tell you what happened
we couldn't you know I was we couldn't get out of the deal sorry when epic wasn't really coming to the table with getting us out of the deal and it was going like you there in New York and and when we decided to sign with them Mo Austin the president of Warner Brothers called each of us
at our house wow come in the drummer hey Chad it's Mo I'm old listen man I know he went with epic but you know good luck and and you know we just we loved you guys and we we think the the world of you and and we you know really just you know we really appreciate you coming down
and thinking of us considering us and I remember picking up the phone I go feed I got the weirdest phone call I go from Mo I go yeah he goes me too I'm like you did he goes and Anthony I go he's so cool he goes I know man I think we're making a bad move going with epic you know
that right here doesn't so we ended up signing with Warner's for less money but this is a great and they were like never ever like what are you guys doing or how much money or you know you should have this song out by then they just told artists it left you alone left the solo yeah and when we
made bud sugar with Rick and at this house no up in Hollywood yeah just haunted house that's always it wasn't yeah well people think it was Houdini's mansion but Houdini's house was across this Laurel Kenan it was and there was actually a tunnel that went under Laurel Kenan wow
which is kind of creepy yeah but no it was a old yeah just a crazy old I think a bunch of I mean so much history up to a little Kenan like you know Hendrix has been there and a monkey's lived there yeah a bunch of people back in the 60s and took a lot of acid and stuff yeah did you ever
see anything weird at the house I didn't but we had security guys there because we had all of our equipment and everything there and we went through like three security guys who like sure they heard the piano upstairs wow I saw some lady in a white dress out and yeah they I don't know if
they were like up too long yeah we had a couple guys you know yeah I'm out I quit what no no no no there's a lady to wait just what is right up there I don't see anything all right dude okay back to 7-11 yeah exactly no you know a lot of history up there who knows but it was a great
vibe it was it was there was nothing creepy or weird and we love plant we love you know it being in a house normal recording studios you know you know there can be a little very sterile narrow yeah a little dentist office and other people coming in and out and I think it was Rick's
ideas I guess this is let's find a house man let's just go and we plucked out and and it was it was a blast you know how to fun up there yeah I'm sure it should add against happen we met our record we met it fast and went well and we're writing great songs and and yeah I have a very
fun memory of that time especially when talking about like under the bridge it was your big breakthrough tune I mean give it away to an extent but that was more of the old-fashioned peppers college rock funk rock but then under the bridge comes out which nobody expected no a ballad yes what what you
can do that no and that's kind of the way it was too because Anthony had this had written it as a poem I think and I think Rick was at his house one day and saw and his notebook his lyric book and like well what's this you know I take a love letter to you know L.A. and well well you you
know it's make a song no it's not for the band and and and you say I think he sang a little bit of it like well kind of yeah you know and as he would say like all of how to tune and and and Rick was like this is great man you got to put do that for John and jam-john come up some
course and that's what happened and and it's one of the only song with the lyric and melody came before the music very few it's always the music it inspires Anthony to to come up with with melodies and and words make a California case and you had some words as well and he was all shy about it
you know he's like uh because we we'd never done anything you know yeah exposed slow or yeah real stripped down and and I remember I remember playing the eyes cool you know yeah it wasn't like oh yeah this is the one people said did you know it when he wrote that
so I'm like no we're like you almost didn't make the record really he had sold the squeeze as well which is another slower slower yeah song and we like both of them and we were like I don't which one should we put on a record I'm not and I maybe I can't remember who sorry Dickless
that you couldn't put them both on because you can't have two ballots on one no no it's yes you're a rock band we can't put him one on us oh that's really pushing it so um yeah and my you know we played that song how many years now 26 years we probably play it nightly but it's a great song
it's a great song I don't care it's just loud soft fast hard good songs good song I still love playing and people love it I can't tell you how many times I've had kid in the street and walking on this damn bowl somewhere like I got to tell you how much it's just the the under the bridge
beats to me but I was having a hard time you know you know you know they come up here yeah and you're like wow this little song we kind of made up in our garage in Hollywood you know it's like transcended it's amazing how music affects people god you know it's incredible because sometimes
you kind of feel like being a musician is like you know an entertainer and you're kind it's you know like a doctor or a lawyer or a teacher those are like a real important job like being a musician you know sometimes I feel like yeah you know it's a goof and it's just like what I've
done and you know lucky to be in a band but when something like that happens and when you can go play somewhere and people are connecting with it and it's and it's they're going they're loving it and they're singing and they're smiling and it makes them happy and they forget about whatever
the phone is going on or day and night they come see you for two hours sometimes I'm like you know this is pretty that's pretty good what we do this is pretty this is this is really sometimes it's funny because you say that and then earlier in this conversation we're talking about
cheap trick playing and you and I singing every word to surrender and dream police and that's the same feeling that people have when you do under the bridge is when we had that night and it's it it's a time machine it takes you back to a good time the feeling that you get when you're
14 yeah me yeah and and hearing those songs I can remember where I was and and the feeling in my gut and and it's and and it's it's it's fantastic you know it's fantastic yeah it has that it has that effect and and you know not all this time was put but when you can connect with something you
get lucky and all the planets align man and you get a one one song that works and people connect with it it's it's magical thing yeah it's magic I was going to ask you about with with Rick I mean um and in my opinion I'm not just saying you're one of the best drummers in the world if not one of the best absolutely right because you are you are the best rock drummer in the world Chris you are a man of fine taste I knew you were handsome and powerful but also smart as well but you became almost
Rick's house drummer Rick's boy yeah I mean what did you what have you played on I played I've been fortunate yes Rick you know my relationship with him for a long time um I've got to play it was on the greatest music I've got to play with Johnny Cash wow I played on a with Johnny Cash
amazing he was doing those those those American recording records I want to say 94 93 94 and um Rick at Rick had done I think he'd done it all just him or sorry Johnny John John like it very raw yeah just him with his guitar and singing no band and then Rick was like let's see
what these songs would sound like with the band and I know he got the heartbreakers on some of the stuff which was great and some other people that he'd been working with but he he was like let's try it with flea and Chad and Mike Campbell from Tom Petty's band I think that was it
and so typical Rick I'm sitting at home one night and he calls me about six o'clock and hey what's going on it's Rick oh hey right what are you doing Chad I'm having dinner I come down to uh I think it was called east east west but it's oceanway at the time which is a studio down Hollywood
which is very close to my house yeah I'll come down yeah it's just yeah I wonder when I play with Johnny Cash I can't see me I'm running yeah right the phone is dangling I'm like so I'm the first one there and I walk in and and the studio is a very famous studio beach boys everyone to snotch
or everyone to bend there it's old Hollywood and we had done some records there we've done lots of them now but back then we but I'd worked there before anyway so I can walk in and you walk past the control room and there's nobody in the control room okay I keep walking I go into
there's a big the big tracking room I'm gonna check my drums see if they're there make sure everything's okay for Johnny Cash and in a little vocal booth which is like a size of a closet where people sing because so they're isolated from the band so it doesn't bleed into the microphones
I see Johnny Cash standing there smaller than this and he's got a music stand and his glasses are down on his nose he's got his guitar and he's looking through some music and I'm like walk up like a game and I mean in my house when I was going out my dad Johnny Cash Frank Sinatra and Elvis
pretty much that's what we heard some mother like my dad was kind of a hillbilly all right but those are staples those those are just staples and like I'm like this is old people's music falling poor by Sabbath this this is a shit but luckily it was great music and and so I walk up
and I'm like nervous like nobody's business and I'm like I'm Mr. Cash I'm Chad I'm the drummer he goes and he turns to me and he goes hey I'm Johnny Cash like in that voice I'm just like I can't do it but I was like I know and he immediately he's like you know I got this song from
Dolly Partners that she wants me to do it's called Bird on the Wire goes like this starts playing starts singing this I'm as close to you starts singing a song in that voice and I'm like what do you think of that I go oh that's great yeah we should do that that would be great
I had to tell him from this this kid does Danzig boy that that Rick knows it's called 13 what do you think of this he plays I'm getting a private Johnny Cash concert concert I just met the guy and I'm like yep that's great we should do that one too he sounded so great and he was the coolest
I mean immediately we were peers like like you know he just you know he if if if Rick is bringing you in then he knows you're the real deal so let's get down to business right well I hope you know I mean I appreciate that and and and yeah he was but the whole session you know we came in we
played he's always asking you know what do you think should we do that or maybe we should go to the chorus earlier and what do you think Chad and I'm like um yeah it sounds good like that or no or whatever but it was refreshing that that he was just you know open to anything and and
was really embracing having Rick who was so great with him I think if Rick didn't do anything else the stuff he did with Johnny Cash was oh important only at that time in his career and what a important person an iconic person the Johnny Cash is and was but yeah to be able to do that you
know anyway we did a bunch of stuff and it like five songs it was it was amazing it was it was a highlight my dad was alive he would have he would have he would have finally made it he would have been like yeah okay he played with Johnny Cash that's pretty good all right but you know Dixie
Chicks records I got to play with them I'd done everything from Wu Tang clan to kid rock you did kid rock with him I did you know avid brothers easy top not like Jennifer so let me ask you this why why would he bring you in for a zizi top record because right because they have Frank Beard
yeah who's great because sometimes guys aren't nailing the part or something like that maybe or I think it was just two songs he had me play on and for whatever reason they wasn't getting a what you're looking for and I've done that a few times where he just kind of calls me and not
to do the whole record but just like oh there's a song and not try this do this and it's probably because he wasn't happy with what was played but yeah he's you know he lives out in Malibu and he's got it's just old Shangri-La studio that the band used to have Bob Dylan's mobile when
a bag goes in the back and it's beautiful it's about the ocean in most studios you know you're like out in the parking lot in the valley somewhere yeah yeah this is like Shangri-La it's fantastic so yeah I you know it's five minutes from my house so did you ever that's part of it he's like oh
yeah he's he'll be here lazy easy yeah easy but I think you know did you ever did you ever have any talks about doing the Sabbath record I was surprised at you did 13 and that was the thing I called him on that and I heard I was like dude isn't there like one song he made all the
bands you have it but I can't do Sabbath he's like no bread sounds great nope I was like were you like were you not available when they started or was he wanted that question you know no I he he made me Brad did a great show yeah yeah Brad did great show and and it's not it's it's
I'm just yeah selfishly I would be like oh my god can I get a little or anything please yeah I said I want my name thanks to geezers whose name is Terry yes I did not know that you didn't know that no very unrock and roll name yeah I just want to do so much because I was I
went to this charity event recently and he was playing they were honoring Glenn and and Glenn Hughes and from Deep Purple and Robin Zander and they were doing Matt so I'm like the Orvato's thing or something like that it was no it was it was for a okay adopt adopt the arts
okay that Matt so arm does for kids for music and art which is great and Geese was on it and and Glenn who's known him forever all those you know Midland dudes on there each other and he's kept Terry you know I'm like Terry you never knew that all these years no
oh I'm that's hilarious man I was a magazine reader so I read every damn thing so I knew that okay yeah with Geezer so talking just a few more things you mentioned it earlier time what Coverdale call you Will Farrell yeah Coverdale looking like an old woman you're looking rough
he here I don't know what you know he said some stuff done and he had a lot of makeup on but he also had it the gloss and the hair that was the weird thing it's a great hair but not when you're like 65 or whatever it is it's just too much hair it was weird yeah weird but but how
the the famous thing I was like for years people go yeah Chad Smith looks like Will Farrell then then you finally I'm sure you're probably sick of hearing that for the years I think it's funer did you even see the resemblance a little bit yeah a little bit but not to where I mean people
would come up to me I mean I go to a Laker games right Laker games all the time and people come up to me and they're like you know you take a picture convinced like I'm like sure you know because some people are like oh you know I love your band or I think you're a good drummer oh thanks and
so they're like you know you are so funny I just you know Elf is my favorite one I mean and I used to be like no I know no but actually I'm I'm you know I play in a band and people they're yeah so now I just I was like it's easier just take the picture they go away except just
one kid so one kid I was playing in a charity hockey game like the ones that we were going to talk with that yeah yeah and it was in LA and I think we played before the gamer in half time in the middle of a period or something and we played and I'm standing there and a kid comes up
to me is a little Asian kid it comes up to me it's got one of those little little hockey sticks little you know things you can buy from the concession stand are you signing for me oh sure man oh I'm signing give it back comes back like two minutes later what to say no a fair
across the play way so yeah for years I've been getting it you know and as he he became more popular and I was a big movie star when we was on Saturday at live you know it was it was a little bit but once he get you know became what we know today see he's international superstar
mm-hmm I'm beginning a lot so fast forward to whatever I can tell you about the first time that we met oh that yes you know you know I don't know how to worry first time we met and he and I told him about this and he doesn't even remember did people ever tell him you look like
the drummer for the two of us okay but he got like stop the same no yeah like once in a while he's obviously much more famous yeah but we had mutual friends like Woody House and then and and he'd be like you know the guy in the pepper's like you know I guess so yeah I don't know so
anyway we're at he was in a movie remember the offshoot ladies man from Saturday yeah yeah the ladies quit the ladies man you made a movie out yeah every one of the many were the many great not so much yeah let's from that skit let's make a movie yeah anyway he's in it I'm at the
sort of screening or something I was dating the person at the time I worked a paramount and he went to like a screening wasn't the premiere was in like on the lot right so it's the cast and some people not a lot of people we watched a movie afterwards this is a buffet and you go
eating you have your drinks or whatever and there's a buffet and I see Will Ferrell over there and I'm like I'm not gonna go up to the guy or say anything to him you know whatever so I go over and I'm getting my chicken skewers and my shrimps or whatever and there's a guy next to
me and then Will walks over and she starts making a plate of food I guess and I'm with my food and as soon as I turn to walk away the guy between us walks away and Will and I literally turn to each other with our food right and he looks at me and he looks me up and down he goes you're very
handsome and walks away that's like it's funny he's money yeah yeah but he doesn't remember that at all so we never met fast forward we played at the Super Bowl a couple years ago yeah and a couple days after he was doing a Reddit AMA thing send one of the questions ones you know you you
look like the drummer from Rihanna Chili Peppers and he went into this thing and like no it's impossible there is no Will Ferrell only Chad Smith I'm so I hear about this I'm like well I don't think so let's see how good you can play the drums and we have our drum off so how did this come
about like did Fallon call you or no no he I sort of I think I don't know I can't remember exactly the new challenge I challenged him yeah I said okay you say you're me you're crazy you're delusional that I call them out I'm like I challenge you to a drum up and then he's he said if we
can raise X amount of money I can't remember what it was three or four hundred thousand dollars I will accept your challenge and I will accept your drum off challenge yeah exactly what it was something funny like yeah yeah and sure enough like a week later four hundred thousand dollars
for cancer for college which is his charity so then we're like okay so he calls me hey then thanks for doing this it's so great and you know really super nice I saw you one shopping at Barney but I didn't want to come up to you I'm like I saw you once at this thing but remember you
told me I was handsome no okay then he was super nice and so I first thought Saturday night life would be a good place to do it the cowbells right and he was like now you know I think you know they won't get it the bit you know the thing between me and you we should do it maybe on a
on a chat show maybe Conan or and Jimmy found it just kind of started his show and I said well you friends with family and he's like hey I said I think we should do an unfailing say well okay because Jimmy loves that perfect for it yeah and he's a club's music you love exactly
you know and then he asked me and he just think your guys would come out and play you know I said sure yeah the guys were like great finally put an end to this little fair for him right I'm like yeah that's gonna be great we're in the same place finally so they're like well we need you to send some clothes that you'll be wearing I'm like what do you mean like whatever you would wear I'm like I wear jeans and a t-shirt yes and you send that to the you know tonight show I'm like okay
then I know that they wanted him oh you know that I didn't know what I should have put two and two together so we go to the thing I get there I see him we're hanging out like yeah you know maybe the eyes a little bit you know yeah he's tall big guy and so we okay so we I walked by his
dress room like 15 minutes later and he's dressed like me exactly how to backwards shoes he was a kiss-shish shirt I'm like oh this is creepy he does look like me oh god this is gonna be weird so we we get ready to do the show and I don't go on chat shows and talking as the star yeah I'm the
drummer I said the bag I'm happy with that I'm kind of nervous we're literally standing right it before the show is about to start and he turns to me and he goes hey about when we go out there you be me and I'll be you I'm like what I'm like so it worked out great because I just had to
like be the straight guy yeah I didn't have to be the mad guy that you said you're me and he just went and did his thing and and then we jumped off and the band came on and played a Bill Blyster cult song and he got the couple yeah and people loved it it was brilliant and everyone
nuts so we were like wow who knew that like just because a couple guys sort of look like each other I know Will's a big star whatever but so let's do some good so three weeks ago we did a thing at the shrine and and we had he and he goes I'll bring some comedians you bring some music and some
drummers we have another drum off and we'll raise money and I was like yeah and and so I got Devo and Chili Peppers played a set and then and he brought some comedians Jim Gaff again some other guys and he kind of emcee and did some stuff and sold out in two days yeah great and then we had a
drum off and the drum off was we weren't gonna battle each other anymore we've done that boo but we have teams okay now my team I've got Taylor from the food fighters I got Tommy Lee rock legend in my last drummer Stewart Colgis I win yeah Catoley that win can't beat that he's got a 14 year old
kid from Brentwood Fred Armasson who's funny he'll complain but you know it's funny guys and then he brings out Mick Fleetwood okay who plays Tusk in the whole US marching band comes down they're freaking it all away at our stage I lose again he got you and I bet you the 14 year old
kid was a bad ass too he was pretty good there you go he wasn't bad but it was great and then with good spirit and we raised a bunch of money for our chair I was so happy for I was like for finally for the first time Chad is the most famous guy in the chili peppers that's it the other
guys in the band too they were like wow that one week like actually I'm in this turnaround arts program that the president runs and and some artists your ambassadors to underperforming schools you want to put art and music in schools and so I went and I met Obama and Michelle Obama and my
son met him and hugged him and and that was like on Tuesday and on like Thursday I'm on the tonight show I'm like the guys are like geez Chad you wow you want to be on the cover the next record like Angus Young on every DC record but now it's like every other day it's like
yes all that thing at the night so that was really funny you're really funny I'm like oh I know I think it's one of those things on YouTube it has like 50 million hits or some like viral yeah no viral crazy so but yeah last last story the first time we ever met was at the Christopher
Reeve yes super super skate which was such a great thing and I was excited because I'm a big peppers fan from you mentioned 88 and beforehand and the Chad Smith will be there he's a goalie I'm like of course if you're a drama you're crazy if you're a goalie you're crazy if you're
a drama on a goalie you're that's me that's me so do you remember what we did though like oh yeah remember and I was really happy to meet you and I was like well you're like how big fans so we had a mutual thing it was great and you said I love music and I'm like wow
yes I'm playing goal sort of I'm not really playing goal I'm wearing the equipment standing there yeah I'm not moving too high but how close that we got to play hockey in the garden the garden yeah in now it's the score guard against some Rangers and some celebrities and who's a guy
into the great haired was on the Rangers Tim Rondo gay yeah great hair great hair still great just his hair yeah I love no I got to do a few of those things with great I got to play in Boston guard before the garden went down with with the with the Kenzie brother oh that's cool
awesome those things are fun but yeah so I'm playing goal and about halfway through I think we're gonna switch or bring on another goalie or I was gonna play for the other team or something like that and you and in the end of the first period you come over and you go hey listen this is what
we're gonna do I'm like what you're like I'm gonna come down I'm gonna like bump the net and then you're gonna get like really mad at me you're right I'm like this is like WWE it's a great yeah and then you like grab my sweater and you pull it over and then we're gonna kind of like
we had a whole thing I was like okay okay okay okay and then you know go on the ground you know and then I pull the sweater over and that'll be it oh my god okay great so Chris very nice that he took it easy on me come down we bump I get very angry and we're going at it a little bit
of course goalie in these charity games that the the normal players I don't even think they were you know where helmet no maybe but most people don't yeah it's not there's no it's not a lot of checking or any sort of slap shots no nothing to yeah or fast yeah it's all kind of a fun
so Chris is unprotected and I got my goalie mask on and we go do we go we get on to the ground and I got a little call up for a moment I I start just kind of swinging at him and I give you a bloody no and I really didn't know and he was like I had you take it to the school
but it was great you're like you're like okay pull the sweater okay now you know tell me a couple of left okay push me no no no no no it was calling the spot totally it was so fun because what I used to do every because it's a charity game so I'd always get in a fight with somebody every I got
in a fight with Dennis leery once and whoever the house was and then what I saw him so I'll he like right off the bat this guy's a good dude I bet you'll want to do this and so when we did the thing I said I'll swing at you you move back and attack me and I remember he just him I go
holy shit it's guy's name and I had the next day I had a blinners but also I had like a mouse above my eye I had to go to work it would happen so I got in a fight with a drummer for the chairpeppers that was such a great way man that's how friendship starts right now you were such a
good sport about the whole thing I didn't even know but I was you know man that's a square garden you know so much fun to be involved in that man yeah I mean obviously great charity but but you know you get to live out your your little childhood game you know that's one cool thing when you
get to get to a certain level as you mentioned to go play hockey in the garden with the Rangers it was like I don't think I've played much since then because I'm so spoiled now or it's like you can't top that what I do you know go play at the wreck hall with a bunch of you know the beer leagues
are exactly now it's pretty cool I got to do one and I have a picture of myself and Gordy Howe and Mario Lemieux oh man and I'm like because I grew up in Detroit so Gordy Howe and so I was like man this you know wow this doesn't get much better than that so no I've been fortunate to
be a part of few of those things it's been a while I think that I think probably lost my number I I'm I'm retired he's terrible but I just loved when I was a kid I played sports and I loved stuff with equipment I always wanted to be the catcher I wanted to be the golly I want you know
and and drumming I don't you know whatever I started really young but something attract me to whether it's stuff what also like you're the anchor you're kind of you're the heart you're the point you know order back you're the quarterback so speaking and that somehow in my whatever I
don't know it's part of my personality but I it's it's I'm singing about that the other day I was like hmm why don't I get attracted to you like click carrying gear around as long as you know I think I'm a singer yeah the show with the mic stand and a microphone five I leave how
many nights I'd be like hammered I mean looking into drums the last thing just sitting there everyone else took their amp and again took his mic and I've got this 12 piece want to be rush drum set that's got to go and back on my car and I took the symbols I wasn't ever the glory
I want to be the man behind the scenes yeah last question it's a two-prongant what's your favorite chili pepper song to play live uh-oh and what you're asking saving a tuple in to yeah and what's your favorite do you have a favorite obscure pepper song on one of the records or maybe on the new
records that you haven't really played much favorite to play live well the new ones are always going to be we haven't really done it yet and you know when you got a new record it's like so fun to play the new song we played dark necessities in Columbus the other day and I was like great yeah
was all excited people are like yeah the band is excited the band like what is this I never heard what is this yeah I'm excited to play new songs but but you know I don't yeah I don't know it kind of depends it really depends it changes hmm it's better in the vibe of the room yeah the place and
where we are in tour and and you know give it a way it's always fun to play um people love that and so it's usually our last song which is always the best no I'm not after this yeah we're I'm so fortunate to been grateful to play our music for people but um the obscure song there's a song
on maybe it's not that obscure because the record was kind of popular but on californication there's a song called porcelain hmm which is a really I actually I think it's the only song I ever played brushes on and it's a really kind of weird interesting yeah great choice yeah I really like that
song is really heavy and moving and and and powerful and like but it's really sparse and kind of sounds like a broken record a little I don't know something about it just like we captured that thing and yeah like that I mean and I don't think we play it live yeah yeah and play it live but it
is kind of weird when people are like what but but um yeah that's that's one that I do it's great talking to you man this has been great thank you so you need to get talk about you oh they don't have to talk we're gonna podcast you can talk about me huh I gotta get my own part again and
some other than a couple days I'll text you I'm not pregnant Mrs. Mrs. Carlos yes Mrs. Carlos if you listen to this Mrs. E. Carlos we love you all right the new red hot chili peppers record is called the getaway it's out today you know where you can get it on amazon and please use those
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conversation can't believe a fast it went funny guy man it's super uh just a cool vibe good guy to be around and I was really uh really honored and excited to get a chance to talk to my old friend Chad hopefully he'll get a chance to have him back very soon although it looks like he's
going to be on the road for a while because the chili peppers start their tour June 29th in Denmark at the Ross Kielde Festival they've been a bunch of summer rock festivals uh in Europe before doing a full European headlining tour this fall and then heading back into the states uh
either late this year early next year and you do not want to miss the redhut chili peppers live they are one of the best live bands you could ever see and ever we'll see redhutchilipeppers.com go check them out check out the getaway thank you to Chad Smith and thanks to you guys for listening
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