The Red Hot Chili Peppers have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012! They will join Guns N’ Roses and The Beastie Boys for the induction ceremony which takes place at the historic Public Hall in downtown Cleveland, Ohio on April 14th, 2012.

Artists become eligible for induction 25 years after the release of their first record. Criteria include the influence and significance of the artists’ contributions to the development and perpetuation of rock and roll.


Anthony Kiedis on RHCP’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction

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How is the tour going? It’s going really good. It’s really fun. My only challenge these days is that I have a broken toe and a torn calf muscle. I have to kind of tape up and strap up. In the big picture, it’s nothing to complain about. You’re like a basketball player. Exactly. I have my Kobe sleeve over the calf, and my Ron Harper toe wrap. It’s actually pretty amazing to go out onstage with Josh Klinghoffer, our new guitar player, and just listen. He gets better every time we play, and he was good to begin with. Tell me your first reaction to hearing that you made it into the Hall of Fame. I called my dad. I told him that he couldn’t say anything because it hadn’t been publicly announced yet. I know my dad is a big Internet freak, and he’s been known to be a Wikileaker. I was like, “Dad, you and I are blood. I’m going to tell you something, but you can’t tell anybody.” I guess it’s just something that you want to share with the people that you’re closest to, like family and longtime friends. My dad cried. Did you get emotional? The most emotional part for me was thinking about Hillel Slovak. That was where it got me. I felt very good about it, but I felt very much like our work has only just begun. Now that we’ve got Josh in the band, we have a chance to make some great records over the next few years. But there was something about going back and thinking about something that we started in a living room with Hillel Slovak. Because he’s no longer with us, it seemed emotional and beautiful. It’s really kind of his induction that I’m most excited about. He’s a beautiful person that picked up a guitar in the 1970s and didn’t make it out of the 1980s, and he is getting honored for his beauty. Do you feel weird about getting in while the band is still so active? Some bands say they worry it conveys they impression that they are done. I don’t feel weird about it. I know what the next few years look like for our band, and I’m incredibly excited to be playing with these guys. I feel like our creative well is running over. I don’t think it’s going to stigmatize us. Nothing has the power to diminish the love we have for what we’re doing right now. It’s just an interesting interlude to be accepted into the Hall of Fame while we’re still vibrantly going about our business. One of the cool things about it is that all of the past inductees vote. So, I don’t know, Paul McCartney had the chance to vote for you. I have an absolute smile on my face while you say that. And you’ll be on the wall in Cleveland near Elvis Presley. As a kid, I was anti-Elvis. I just didn’t get it. OnceI stopped being so judgmental I found the great wonder of Elvis and all that he did. I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody. I remember going to Graceland as a kid and talking shit while I was there. Now if I went there, I’d think about all the great things he did and what a great musician he was. Do you think that John Frusciante will come to the induction? Ummm . . . Wow. It would be a guess on my behalf on whether or not he’ll come. I can’t imagine that he would, but it’s a “you never know” kind of thing. I haven’t talked to him in quite a while. I don’t know where he’s at these days. He’ll obviously be more than welcome, and embraced if he does. If he doesn’t, that’s cool too. I’m guessing they’ll bring your former drummer Cliff Martinez in too, but I really don’t know. I would imagine that he would want to come. Both he and Jack Irons would want to come. Any final thoughts on the whole thing? It really fills my heart with the reality of how much we love doing what we do, and how much Flea and I love each other. We have stuck together through thick and thin and we want to keep on trucking and continue to do what it is we do. I feel an immense sense of brotherhood because we actually did it together. Like I said, I’m happy for Hillel. I feel a great sense of accomplishment with Chad and Flea, and so even more excited about the nightly experience of playing live with Josh.

Chad Smith on Twitter

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“Those Crazy bastards at the hall of fame are putting us in this year?!! Howabout them apples! Seriously..I’m very humbled and grateful.Wow”

Hocu Dzona, Dejva i sve ostale peperse tamo!

Evo i Flea sta kaze

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We are getting inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.I am not usually one to get to excited about awards or accolades, but about this one I am very excited indeed. Our band is really riding a high right now. We are out on the road, playing some of best shows we have ever done. We are establishing a new language with Josh and there is a feeling of hope and potential in what we are doing that is really inspiring to us. Each time we step out on the stage it feels so creative and vibrant, we are really having a blast playing the shows and it fills my days with meaning. I feel an infinite energy from what we are doing and looking forward to taking this togetherness we are forging out on tour, and getting in the studio and making new music. Feels like we are growing like a new born baby, and that is best feeling that I can have ever have in our band. So hearing this news about the hall of fame now really seems like it has extra significance for me. To be recognized this way seems especially full and profound. It makes me think about Hillel Slovak, without whom we would have never existed, and who created with us the foundation of our sound. He directly influences everything we have ever done. What he did with us in our early years is the blueprint of what we are. This would have meant a lot to him, and I love him so much. And of course, the mighty Jack Irons, our other founding member, who fortunately, is here to enjoy this moment with us. It also makes me think of something I think of everyday anyways. Of John Frusciante, the virtuoso musician and songwriter who gave so much to our band. Without him, we would not be going to the hall of fame. He wrote countless great things with us, played an infinite amount of stunning things, and taught us how to be a great band. He helped lift us to a much higher level, he is the greatest. We connected deeply for many years, and he left our band with many gifts. I am truly grateful for this honor. To our fans, who have supported us for all these years, given us purpose, and wildly energized us night after night, thank you.

Bilo je i vreme, ovo smo cekali prosle godine, ne znam kako im je izmaklo. Sada su stvari na svome mestu. Da bilo bi divno da se i ostali clanovi nadju tamo. Ali ipak, jasno je da se to nece desiti. Svakako ovo je ogromna stvar!

ALELUJA :leptir: :give it away:

To te ja pitam!

Jako lep blog napisao Flea, lepo je sto se setio svih koji su doprineli ovom priznanju(tj. nije se setio Dejva...).

` It also makes me think of something I think of everyday anyways. Of John Frusciante, the virtuoso musician and songwriter who gave so much to our band. Without him, we would not be going to the hall of fame. He wrote countless great things with us, played an infinite amount of stunning things, and taught us how to be a great band. He helped lift us to a much higher level, he is the greatest. We connected deeply for many years, and he left our band with many gifts.`


zamalo mi suze krenule:(

Za ovo sam saznala danas, na koncertu, Flea nam se osobno pohvalio
Bas se veselim i sretna sam zbog njih! Wow i RHCP i GnR u isto vrijeme u RnR Hall of Fame, koliko sam shvatila Predobro! To MORAM gledati!