The Red Hot Chili Peppers won an award in the 'American Music awards 2000' for favourite alternative rock artist.
Anthony Kiedis once auditioned to be the new James Bond.
Anthony Kiedis contracted a dangerous tropical disease, Dengue fever, while hiking in the Borneo rainforest at the end of 1992.
Anthony Kiedis appeared in Johnny Cash's music video "God's Gonna Cut You Down".
Anthony Kiedis once jumped off a five-story building, intending to land in a pool, but miscalculated and broke his back.
Red Hot Chili Peppers have the record for most number one singles on the Billboard Modern Rock Chart with ten.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers song 'Sir Psycho Sexy' is their longest track ever to appear on one of their original studio albums, it is 8 and a quater minutes long.
In the Song 'Under The Bridge' by the RHCP's John Fruscinate;s mother, Gail Fruscinate, appears with her friends performing backing vocals.
After the band formed, it took less than a year to secure a deal with EMI records.
Flea received his nickname from friends Keith Barry and Johnny Karson while on a trip to Thunder Railroad Mountain.
Anthony Kiedis has three stage/nick names. He is known as Cole Dammett, Antoine the Swan, and Tony Flow.
Lead singer Anthony Kiedis was originally a teenage actor, who performed in F.I.S.T. under the stage name Cole Dammet.
Bassist Flea, has dyed his hair many different colors, such as green, pink, purple, blue, etc.
The song 'This Is The Place' by the Red Hot Chili Peppers is about Anthony Kiedis's drug addiction, throughout the song Anthony Kiedis mentions the streets where he used to get the drugs which he does in other songs from the album 'By The Way' such as 'I Could Die For You' and 'Dosed'.
According to Anthony Kiedis, the lead singer of the band the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the song 'Fight Like A brave' is about overcoming drug addiction. It was written on a plane ride by Anthony Kiedis, after Flea let him come back into the band.
According to the Red Hot Chili Peppers lead singer, 'Anthony Kiedis', Their album 'Stadium Arcadium' was originally scheduled to be a trilogy of albums each released six months apart.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers performed live at Hyde Park, 2004 London, which set a world-wide record for the highest grossing concert at a single venue in history. It's estimated that 245,000 people watched the concert over the course of three nights, thus calculating at 80,000 people per night.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers hold the record for the most number one singles on the Billboard Modern Rock Chart with ten.
The song 'Aeroplane' which is in the album 'One Hot Minute' features Flea's daughter Clara, and the rest of her third grade class singing in the songs intro, they were also dressed in the video as aeroplanes too.
Anthony Kiedis, Michael "Flea" Balzary, Hillel Slovak and Jack Irons the original members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers met at Fairfax High School in Los Angeles California.
Bass Guitarist Flea replaced Eric Avery Weiss as Bassist for Jane's Addiction for a reunion tour and four tracks of a subsequent compilation album in 1997.
The late actor River Phoenix a good friend of the Chili Peppers recorded two songs with John Frusciante Height Down (originally titled Soul Removal) and Well I've Been (originally titled Bought Her Soul. On his solo album Smile from the Streets You Hold.
Lead guitarist John Frusciante has released ten solo albums.
Anthony Kiedis, Hillel Slovak, Jack Irons and Flea formed a band called Tony Flow and the Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem later to become the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers recorded their new album Stadium Arcadium at longtime producer Rick Rubin's mansion in Laurel Canyon, California the same place where the Chili Peppers recorded 1991's Blood Sugar Sex Magik the album that catapulted them into Rock and Roll's limelight.
Former guitarist Dave Navarro was also the guitarist for Jane's Addiction.
Anthony Kiedis and Flea are the only two original band members Anthony is the lead singer. Flea plays bass.
Chad Smith, John Frusciante joined the band in 1989. Chad auditioned with over 30 other drummers for the part.
John Frusciante left the band in 1992 due to drug and lifestyle problems but later returned 1999. John Frusciante on leaving the band "Just tell them I went crazy."
Lead singer Anthony Kiedis is a vegequarian.
Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Hillel Slovak, Jack Irons were the original four band members. All four original members were born in 1962.
Bass Guitarist Michael "Flea" Balzary voices the Donnie Thornberry character on the Animation TV show The Wild Thornberrys.
The band have covered Elton John's song Tiny Dancer.
The band's song Magic Johnson was a tribute to their favorite basketball team the Los Angeles Lakers.
The group has been featured on Pretty Woman, Coneheads, Beavis and Butt-head Do America and Wayne's World movies soundtracks.
Lead guitarist John Frusciante is # 18 on the Rolling Stone's List of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers have so far sold over 60 million albums worldwide.
Drummer Chad Smith was born on October 25, 1961.
Bass Guitarist Michael "Flea" Balzary was born on October 16, 1962.
Rick Rubin has produced the last five Red Hot Chili Peppers albums Blood Sugar Sex Magik, One Hot Minute, Californication, By the Way and Stadium Arcadium.
They have covered the songs Castles Made of Sand, Crosstown Traffic and Fire by Jimi Hendrix.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers new album is called Stadium Arcadium
Member Hillel Slovak died on June 25, 1988
Formed: 1983
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