What Is This - Squeezed (Alain Johannes, Hillel Slovak ,Flea ,Jack Irons)

[popuppoop08]

Flea with long hair FTW???

[717rch]

flea's arms hang down to his knees. awesome

[mcbiggahiseenheld]

second pic, jack irons smiles like mike the situation

[lukat93]

lol the wide-eyed guy

[doobycoo]

fleas tweet brought me hear

[afiler34]

I think I still have this EP in my basement. Excellent stuff.

[kajompa]

This is awesome! Mega-bendy guitar work or what? It's a shame Hillel had to depart this plane. Fascinating how Frusciante studied his style so much before joining the Chili Peppers, and THEN bonkers considering how mundane and middle-of-the-road they became in the years of Californication onwards after Frusciante cleaned up + rejoined. Don't wanna say the drugs're good, but, hey, just sayin'. I guess l like excitement, passion and souls in my music! Not the characterless dirge RHCP became!

[GRRJayyy]

@kajompa my favourite album is Blood Sugar but how can you call Californiacation and By the way or even Stadium Arcadium Characterless dirge ???? Frusciante's guitar playing is far from Mundane or middle-of-the-road! He changed from the funky twangy playing to a much more melodic rock/funk/blues style. Considering they were all pretty sober while writing and recording Blood Sugar drugs aren't really relevant either. At least be a bit more precise if you're going to be so judgemental

[kajompa]

@GRRJayyy As it happens, I wasn't in the recording studios when RHCP recorded any albums so cannot comment on their sobriety or otherwise, I just hoped that cessation of drugs might have been an easy reason for why they became so dismally dull when Frusciante returned, after the sonically thrilling One Hot Minute, which let's face it was basically a supergroup effort.

[kajompa]

@GRRJayyy What I can say, however, is that RHCP perfected their weirdly minimal one-note drone on the trio of albums that I regard as the Californicadium boreathon. Kiedis's uninspired monotonal voice or Frusciante's single note twang. They became really oddly amelodic. The new album is a step back into more interesting territory but they're not back to greatness yet.

[GRRJayyy]

@kajompa Well i simply think you're wrong and i dont see how anyone can criticize any group so badly since music is art and whether you like it or not, what you interpret it as others with interpret it differently. Considering they weren't using during Blood Sugar and they were most recently using during Californiacation clearly the drug theory can be put to rest. Dave Navarro was actually going to join the band before John but didn't, when john left he wanted to.. so not a supergroup effort

[kajompa]

@GRRJayyy art is ALL about the criticism.

[kajompa]

@GRRJayyy to quote Jonathan Jones: "So, I'm sorry, but this is the deal. I don't believe my views on film or TV or music are worth anything special. But I do believe – actually I know – that my instinct for what is valuable in art is unusually sure. When I say Hirst is a great artist and that Ron Mueck, Marc Quinn and Banksy are cheap, I do think my opinion is true – and that anyone who thinks otherwise is lacking in acuity."

[GRRJayyy]

@kajompa yep, basically you're very arrogant 

[GRRJayyy]

@kajompa seriously, if you're going to make such judgments you need to get your facts right. Have you even read Scar tissue? John almost had his arms amputated after taking all those drugs after quitting so he had to learn to play again. There was a hell of a lot of inspiration for Californiacation and By The Way (thought i find by the way a bit poppy for me). If john had lost all that amazing talent now he wouldn't be able to play the old songs like he does still perfectly does.

[kajompa]

@GRRJayyy I felt and feel great sympathy for John and I think a trio of overrated and overplayed albums are well worth his recovery. Much better he be alive making unexciting music than being dead making none. I'm glad they're happy, alive and making lots of money. Good for them. It's not for me.

[GRRJayyy]

@kajompa How long have you been playing guitar/bass? You seem so pretentious to talk about a band thats guitarist is known as one of the best of all time, the bassist was rated 2nd best of all time by rolling stone, and the singer and drummer are both renown, as if they're just okay, as if you could do better. I think you need a lot more respect for artists becuase you're simply dismissing them.

[kajompa]

@GRRJayyy Since you ask, I've been playing bass for 17 years. I have a band you may have heard of but this is a deliberately private YouTube account, separate from my art. I also occasionally work as a freelance journalist. I've not been disrespectful: I've acknowledged RHCP's unquestionable success. I've not been dismissive: I've bothered to engage with you over the course of several friendly messages discussing an interesting band. Oh and I'm not arrogant; I'm right.

[GRRJayyy]

@kajompa their success isn't in their making money or being popular, every day they make music together they're being successful as the same as every band. Who is your band? Be more open-minded. Its just your opinion, everyone has different opinions, which is why no one opinion is right, and no one opinion is wrong. Now you say your do a bit of journalism i can see that, you write like you're writing a review. As a musician i'd expect you to be less opinionated on other bands though

[kajompa]

@GRRJayyy I've had a look at your YT channel and I realise there's a bit of an age/experience gap between us, but similarities as well: you cite Pearl Jam and RHCP as influences on your band - in the late '90s I used to describe my first band as the fusion of those two bands! A pleasant coincidence. But everyone starts with and moves beyond funk rock. Look at Elbow for example, who famously describe themself as starting off playing bad funk rock in pubs in Manchester as "Mr Soft".

[GRRJayyy]

@kajompa haha, yeah i think though its important to start somewhere like funk, because if you simply start as metal or rock or pop, there isn't much evolvement because there's not really that many places to go. Nevertheless despite our differences its nice to have a debate with someone on youtube who isn't a 12 year old who screams swear words they dont understand if you dont agree with them. Yeah, i'm only 16, but i have been in a band 5 years and been playing around 11 years how old are you ?

[kajompa]

@GRRJayyy Funk is an excellent and accessible way to learn your way around your instrument, but I'm not a fan of proponents who are over-technical with it. I like a bit of pizazz in artists, so I prefer, say, Bootsie Collins to Flea but both are world class. I normally avoid discussions on YouTube for the pointless flame wars that ensue, but you challenged my position so thought I'd explain myself. My age is not a matter of public account.

[GRRJayyy]

@kajompa yeah i think funk is so broad that the more you get into it you find your own preference and you find your own style. No funk sounds the same its all just random and strange and different so its the perfect place to start and move on from because it can put you in any direction. So long as someone knows the worth of music it doesn't really matter what they like i think, if your making music just to make money you can go get fucked. If you're doing it cos you love it you're worth a damn

[kajompa]

@GRRJayyy Oh and as for differences, you defended a band you clearly love. Nowt wrong with that! Gotta show a bit of passion, otherwise how does anybody know you give a damn?

[kajompa]

@GRRJayyy As for opinions, well... art and its critics must coexist in a nexus of creation and interpretation; a ceasless hermeneutic cycle. Art must be robust enough to handle staunch criticism. To criticise well one must have read (or in this case listened) widely, and I have. Look at Daily Mail readers who hate Tracey Emin or Damien Hirst... Hasn't done their careers any harm!

[GRRJayyy]

@kajompa i think people should be less critical as to have a good effect on the art itself. I believe it to be of the person themselves who is critiszing that will better from being less critical. Makes your life change and look more into things and puts you on a level where you aren't held to any sort of stigma created by your opinions because they're fair but strong and less important and it makes you more creative

[GRRJayyy]

@kajompa Also, what did you actually expect the Chilis to do after Blood Sugar ? You can hear the music evolve over the first 4 albums with hillel then john picked up a very similar sound and they carried on to blood sugar. All that sounding pretty similar yet all unique. Then one hot minute had a darker heavier sound with some great songs, then where should they have gone? Back to Anthony rapping out of tune and john going over the same jams? If things aren't moving forward they're moving back

[kajompa]

@GRRJayyy Meh. I just learned there is a LOT of other music out there (too much!!), amongst which RHCP are but minnows in a huge acquatic ecosystem of audio. My argument is that RHCP get far more attention than they deserve in that context, expecially considering there lacklustre (but highly equitable!!) output of the noughties. Go read some professional reviews e.g. Pitchfork or the Guardian. I'm not alone in thinking they're actually a but unexciting these days.

[ChilichickxX]

Oh my god they're hair! xD

Music is pretty awesome though.. :)

[fenderjackson73]

this is awesome. do they have any actual CD's that you can buy?

[nikagandofacho]

mundoeleven.blogspot.Cgoogle sucks

[nikagandofacho]

where da fuck can i found this?... Any links you guys?

[CyrLiam]

God I LOVE Hillel he was amazing on the guitar and inspired me to play guitar

[BnHwrd]

WIT and Hillels guitar riffs are very ahead of its time... they couldve been an amazin.

[satanalingus]

Love Hillel Slovak....

[TheRealBadquez]

Thanks man for all this WIT videos, for me is like rare stuff, and really sounds very nowadays music...!!!