RHCP - Higher Ground Live Letterman Studios

[Colin7702]

haha 2:09 look john

[kteaguezot]

when they made "Mother's Milk" Anthony had already gone through rehab, no lie he's just a badass. i'm gonna miss john tho :'( dammit

[0wn3d17]

their best performance..

[sfmarko]

flea cracks me up man.... hahaha! love that freak.

[AvensiSxD]

F L E A ! ! !

[JamoOfAmerica]

Just thought I'd say: RHCP was better on drugs

[alexandersgruppe]

haha that totally gay handshake - ish thing john and chad does ! haha

[MsHallucinagenic]

Flea is the most bad ass bass player to ever live!

[rockypc24]

13: roddy?

[ericcarr21]

nice pants flea XD

[Calvin324]

@ericcarr21 ya sorry I realized shortly after posting -_- thanks for input though, would have been informative if I had not known

[AndreeaOasis]

omg.. frusciante, just saying.

[snardzy]

is that mark knopfler?

[alexandersgruppe]

flea is so fucking amazing

[MrBassnVocals]

Stingrey is the best bass out there

[slashmaup]

How old is Frusciante here ?

[szorin13]

@slashmaup 20

[Calvin324]

everybody keeps saying that it's John, but it's Hillel is it not?

[szorin13]

@Calvin324 haha no its john he looks way different back then hillel died in '88

[ericcarr21]

@Calvin324 hillel died before mother's milk was released

[Jake623314]

One of the only times you will see Chad doing backing vocals

[RifeOran]

I didn't know Steve Buscemi played guitar for the Chili Peppers.

[DanielWinterAt]

jesus john looks quite f***ed up in here xD

[ComptGeorges]

When they used to be a good band.

[illfortune921]

@ComptGeorges

how are they bad now?

[GClocalBOOGA]

ive never seen anyone play drums standing up

[slashmaup]

@GClocalBOOGA

Stray cats

[falconserek]

0:11 John's position is just epic!

[Volrog90]

i love their

[MrRambo4]

11 person is a motherfuckers and 357 people who is cool!

[snakemanl]

why can't Antwan still rock this hard god damn it! probably because he's pushing 50...but still, imagine!

[jakearoo92]

Flea <3

[cooktree]

Thanks for this great memory that I got to share with my wife today, twenty years from the day I first saw it :D :D

[grenadeserenade]

10 people are deaf.

[CuteHotChiliPeppers]

Frusciante's hot.

[jayathjayath]

@CuteHotChiliPeppers yeah i love all the holes in his arm

[CuteHotChiliPeppers]

@jayathjayath Sarcasim? Idk I think he's hot from '89-'92

[LeperAffinity]

@jayathjayath HAHAHA

[SeitiTCA]

3:45 hahah

[Cupnoodlesz]

chad reminds me of george of the jungle here haha!

[hey134]

yay mothers milk era there breakthrough :)

[ERGSEG]

DAMN, they KILLED it!

[RogerRabbit94]

frusciante at his best

[95527215]

LOL

this is a John Frusciante ? XD

[onlyonetigger]

john is so f-en sexy.

[spectaclebass]

i wonder what stevie thought of this haha. i love stevie but i like this so much better than the original

[michaellovegrove]

beautiful performance

[tomleech92]

SICK!

[DrivenBlack]

there is A LOT of testosterone in that room

[oneill8390]

greatest video in the world

[RedHotChiliZephyrs]

how do you know yo

[stigbeve]

I think Flea wears the same pants in Young MC's "Bust a Move" video. Flea did not get royalties for that song

[ShOwStOpp3rr]

wow! what a step back in time,this is old school chili peppers on drugs!! i love it,just love it!!

[RedHotChiliZephyrs]

anthony was completely sober in 1990

[ShOwStOpp3rr]

no way john is sober,he is definitely on something

[rockerhogg]

I love them. You have to read Anthony Kedis's book. Called Scar Tishu. It's about him and how the band got together. Also A bio about the band. Anthony wrote the book. It is excellently written.

[AnthonyKiedisAK]

@rockerhogg Its scar tissue

[brumosecaf]

john was very crazy..."drugs"

[Boia54]

Chad is awesome!!!!

Who's the guy doing background vocals?

[livingplanetsonfire]

the guy in the back is will lee, the bassist for the tonight show band.

[philritter21]

Id love to hear the resulting recorded version.

[Garsound]

AWESOME. And Chad's standing up playing timbales!

[misssophie119]

yo, did anthony grab john crotch? oh well, love these guys!!

[ashyytrev]

gotta love the weird, funky guys from cali

[17yargnits]

cocaine is 1 hell uv a drug

[snakemanl]

@17yargnits pitty none of them were on it

[brandonsmit666]

@17yargnits HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[jorge23000]

1:12 shit i want those abs

[DaniZephyr]

whoa// wait.. is chad playing the timbales?? aahh!! awesome

[EpicShenanigansChuck]

chad wasnt high during bssm. he played way to awesome :P

[EngageTheKnot]

.................you answered your own conundrum

[phillip357]

3:15 NUTS HEADBANGING XD

[popomczowzow]

Backup guitarist?

[RICMIRI]

anyone know...

what is the pedal that John used to play this song? John is the best!!

[okamasphere]

hahaha, what a bunch of crazy kids.

[dreadbet]

3:45

hahaha

[yourawesomenesss]

There not high acually.

[makasoona34]

I dont about John or Flea but I know that Anthony is sober here cus according to his book 'Scar Tissue' he got clean after Hillel died. If I am wrong which I am pretty sure I'm not don't critisize just correct me.

[askedenseje]

I guess he was still high at Californication ..

And after that he got clean.. I dont really know - correct me too ! :)

[barker888]

@askedenseje hes sober here i think in 94 he got back into heroin and crack and he kicked it before californication

[Mr4scoreand20]

@barker888

yo dude, he was definitely doing drugs until after Californication. He said it himself in his book

[barker888]

@Mr4scoreand20 yes i read his book that's how i know hes not high here, this was post Hillel's death, anthony had straightened up his act, it was not until 92 he touched drugs again in one stint that when he wrote under the bridge he then stayed of it until about 94 95 96 he had stints he then got cleaned up for californication dabbled in heroin once or twice after that and that was it hes been clean since that well so he says in his book

[Mr4scoreand20]

@barker888 I never said he was high here. I only skimmed the book cause it happened to be around and I had nothing better to do. It's the same as every other rock star's biography really. I just remember reading about him getting high after Californication.

[Mr4scoreand20]

you're right, it's in his biography. That's why californication is the last good album they made.

[tomleech92]

@Mr4scoreand20 you didnt like By The Way?

[Mr4scoreand20]

@tomleech92

Nope, it sounds exactly like Californication all over. They were a great band but everyone gets past their prime.

[tomleech92]

@Mr4scoreand20 thats your opinion and i respect it mate. BTW is one of my fave albums but it was the first album i heard because i was about 10 at the time. Stadium arcadium on the other hand..... not their best effort

[Mr4scoreand20]

@tomleech92

yeah I've been digging them since they put out that cover of the Ohio Players' Love Roller Coaster. I was a young buck then, maybe like 6 or 7. By the time By the Way came out I had heard most of their stuff. (Besides the Uplift Mofo Party Plan which I just discovered recently and thoroughly enjoy)

[GalacticBoss]

haha john is here 18 or someting XD

[LukaaaasMusic]

no 20 :)

[brunocejas]

3:15

[herbie37]

no one rocks like they rocked that! drugs or no drugs that fucking rocked !

[xDogga]

Flea has fucking awesome pants

[Fleaismygod]

Totally. I'm going to go out and buy a pair of cheap jeans, a bunch of stuffed animals and make my own pair. His hair is freaking sweet.

[Mr4scoreand20]

@xDogga

I second this opinion. Where can I get some?

[SeitiTCA]

looking at the they teeths in amsterdan will left no doubts.

Anthony, Flea and John (more than the others)..

[timbobandtom]

their high as fuck

[dragonforcefan74]

fleas got style :D

[jake420high]

back in the day when they did drugs...

so much better

[quikdon]

they werent on drugs you fag. being a stoner is a social cop-out. anyone can smoke pot you loser.

[hogheart]

Well, John MAY have been on heroin... it's documented...Still.. amazing performance!!!

[hekkel]

They were doing heroin around the time this was recorded. It was only after "One Hot Minute" that they got sober.

[gogogadgettom]

this isn't there song although this is a great version, stevie wonder asked them to do a version ofn it.

[goatsheadsoup20]

no they werent anthony stayed sober throughout mothers milk and blood sugar sex magik i know john and flea were at least doing a bunch of pot throughout the b.s.s.m recordings and for chad i dont know

[hekkel]

I agree...their early stuff is waaaaaaaay better. Start shooting heroin again guys!

[eladio21martinez]

You are a fucking retard.

[Zeraak77]

this is shit, a complete rip off of stevie wonder's much more beautiful and well arranged song

[spud1357]

Zeraak, one does not have to undermine Stevie's beautiful song in saying that the Chili Peppers arranged a very classic rendition. This song kicks it, my man.

[timbobandtom]

fuck you faggot

why did you say beautiful,are you gay or something yeah

[Rusldalovemusl]

FUCK YEAH!!!!!!! WOOOOHOOOO!

[JCBiohazard]

ahahaha flea's pants are the best!!

[tconnor6]

There's just NO-one like him is theres??

AWESOME!!!

[embed000]

q presentacion rara no la conocia

chad toca de parado :P

pero quienes son los otros dos musicos??

[juanpi56]

is frusciante using some kind of pedal

?

[3alli]

that was one hell of a performance

[xXgreenfairy89Xx]

I've nearly finished reading Anthony Kiedis' book, I'm a bit sad it's nearly come to an end lol

[classicrockmann]

Same Here! :D

[juliendesaulniers]

unreal

[xXxDeeturtlexXx]

i luv ds at greenfest!!!!!!!

[gusbustafunk]

so awesome. they look like they're having so much fun!

[LTdrumma]

this makes no sense

[saksalainenreika]

candy doesn't have to make sense..

wait what?

[StraigtGuy10]

chad's rockin out back there.

[Radz117]

AK's vocal on here is near perfection.

[hottyeyez]

i saw their 2006 live vid of this song and seeing tis one, is just amazin the transformation, he they were sooo cool back here

I heart John xD

[atz4]

ummmm jhon wasnt in the band then

[hottyeyez]

look closey cuz it is john there playin!!!!!

unless u meant he wasnt in the peppers from the beginining yes i know he joined them in 88

[golfcartonthefreeway]

yes he was he joined in 1988

[JETOZY]

he was friend whit anthony before I read in scar tissue, he and John where robbing the school cafe and buyed hash

[golfcartonthefreeway]

i have also read scar tissue, the john he mentions isnt john frusciante, but someone else he met at school, who happened to be called john.

[fokk]

haha flea's effing pants kill me.

[sahid31390]

One my favorite Chili's song...

[terotele]

chad is sooooooo coool xD

[greeneyedsomething]

LOL 3:44 (L)

[arrythmia374]

lol. i never noticed that before

[jeremygoldfinch]

you sir, are a cunt

[shenuk]

HAHAHAHA lol

[kirkhamster111]

fuck right off you little hitler...

you don't say that about ANYONE allright!

[Wacke666]

It's a cover - It's their version of the song. Covers that sounds exactly the same as the original is just boring.

[catholicschoolgirls]

I challenge you to do any better

[arrythmia374]

wow. you must be the cool kid in ur class right?

[tolosup]

Anecsey, I hope you will die i hate you, you're a focking asshole, and if I had a change to see you, I would focking kill you son of a bitch, BURN AND DIE BITCH

I hate you

(L)peppers

[CMXXXPUNK]

yeah focking kill him man..wait what does focking mean? is it a word

[tolosup]

oh sorry what did i say cause i can't see it anymore. :P Besides, i think i said something wrong whaha, because all of the bad signes...

[harshman121092]

I can play the bass part for this song but it doesn't sound near as good as flea

[dreadbet]

I just don't want to say how much cocaine they have on fuckin blood!

haha

[captianhaddock]

CARNAGE

[ledzep3550]

i need to find a way to get or make some pants like that, i would definitely walk around in the street with them on.

[noodle654]

John at 1:43...LOL!!

[hiphopshuvit]

damn 3:16 chad look like will ferrels mannersisms with the cowbell

[MozFan69]

LOL!!!

[wardy8511]

serious band, such a set of lunatics rocking together

[carnage101]

Anthony looks like he's coked up but his performance is still good lol

[greenglostic8478]

god i love everything about this. could they have any more energy? no i don't think so.

and flea's pants!

and john tongue! haha

this is so good it's ridiculous

[schnurr31]

john<3

[fredde9206]

what an energy !

[thequesadilla]

damn they look like they're having fun :} love them

[gonzgonzgonzgonz]

quien toca la guitarra?

[ledzep3550]

john frusciante

[alexjunior167]

En la guitarra es John Frusciante..tenia 19 o 20 años

[ScrewTheCopyright]

i love flea's pants :D

[imapotato3]

fav band, and they are always so into the music XD

[vegadomis32988]

chad is jessus...

look at him rock that sweet Cocktail Drum set

[CuseCardsFan33]

Chad looks like Jesus

[mamboo789]

at 2:35 John looks so damn cute!

[CuseCardsFan33]

I don't think thats Frusciante. It looks like Slovak to me

[dankangus]

how would it be slovak? he died in '88. this video says it was taken in 1990. besides, mother's milk was released in august of '89, with this song on it. so, unless he came back from the dead for one last show, which i highly doubt, its frusciante.

[CuseCardsFan33]

just makin sure cuz I couldn't remember what year it was that he passed away

[oneill8390]

take it johhny

[ihurtmyelbow123]

look around 2:08, frusciante spazzes out for a sec haha

[Quinnpie]

One of the best performances I've ever seen! So much energy and fun running through it. Plus, Frusciante it the dog's!

[damuttley]

that's flea with the dogs. John doesn't play bass lol.

[Quinnpie]

Sorry man, spelt that wrong. Meant to say Frusciante "is the dog's". Shortened British phrase, "the dog's bollocks", ie. the fucking man!