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When did Flea play bass for Fear?
Was it really early on? Reunion time?
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I think it was around 1984-85.
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sounds right, it was around when he was in the movie Suburbia, which was 84
record collectors are pretentious assholes
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was that before he was in the Chili Peppers?
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From wikipedia
"1980–1984: Formation of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
Flea was also close friends with Hillel Slovak, the guitarist of a local band called Anthym. The band's original bassist was deemed unsatisfactory, so
Slovak began teaching Flea to play bass.[9] Following several months of commitment to the instrument, Flea developed proficiency and joined the group
as a full fledged member. Shortly thereafter, Anthym entered a local Battle of the Bands contest and won second place.[9] During his tenure with the
group, Flea began to develop a style of slap bass that would become prominent in future Red Hot Chili Peppers songs. Anthym started to play at local
nightclubs, despite the fact that the members were all underage. Flea, Slovak, and Kiedis became best friends and often used LSD, heroin, cocaine, and
speed recreationally.[9]
The threesome became fans of the growing punk rock movement that was occurring in Los Angeles at the time. Flea went from despising the genre to
listening to it exclusively: "The beautiful thing about punk rock was the intensity, the energy. And punk deflated the whole bloated rock-star thing.
I think that musicians who don't pay attention to punk have a gap in their knowledge that makes it difficult to communicate in this day and age."[9]
Anthym changed their name to What Is This?, and rapidly became a local club favorite—frequently attracting more than thirty people per show. The band
was faltering internally however, and Flea left the group to play bass for a well-established L.A. punk rock group called Fear.[10] Although Fear was
a thriving act, Flea was discontented in the band and left shortly after joining.[10] He then successfully auditioned for the role of bassist in the
British post-punk group Public Image Ltd., but rejected the offer; he later admitted that the only reason he auditioned was to jam with Johnny
Rotten.[10]
Slovak, Kiedis, and Flea began to create their own music after finding inspiration in a punk-funk fusion band called Defunkt.[11] Flea, Slovak, Kiedis
and former Anthym-drummer Jack Irons formed a band called Tony Flow and the Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem. The band had only one song,
entitled "Out in L.A.", and was formed for the purpose of playing the song once.[12] Following the group's first show at The Rhythm Lounge, the owner
of the bar asked them to return, but with two songs instead of one. After several more shows, and the addition of several songs to their repertoire,
the band's name was changed to Red Hot Chili Peppers."
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frequently attracting more than thirty people per show. IMPRESSIVE
I'm a jerk. All night,I'm seeing Sentrand and thinking "Where do I know that guy from?".
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as it happens, i'm halfway through reading Scar Tissue at the moment (Anthony Kiedis' autobiography) and he said as the Chili Peppers started to gain
momentum and make a name for themselves, Fleas was getting busier and busier so Lee Ving told Flea he had to choose between the two and he chose RCHP.
Great book by the way.
I haven't really cared much for the band since I was about 14 or something but I had no idea just how fucked up they all were back then.
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