Uploaded January 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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Anthony Kiedis and Flea at the New Music Seminar anticipating Red Hot Chili Peppers' debut album some days before it's release. August 6, 1984.

The song at the beginning is called 'What It Is' and you can hear it here: spoti.fi/37ZVf0G

Some trivia: Apparently this was the day the band met George Clinton for the first time. Here's an excerpt from his book 'Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard on You?' where he talks about this event.

"Tommy Silverman, who founded Tommy Boy Records, started doing a music conference he called the New Music Seminar, and in 1984 he invited me to speak. (...) After the event, this kid came up to me and introduced himself. He had read an interview with me where I said that I thought some of the new wave acts, including Thomas Dolby, were at the vanguard of funk. In the interview, I had said that if history was any indication, some white group from Europe would end up being the Led Zeppelin of funk. This kid objected to my analysis. He told me that it didn't have to be that way, not if I would produce his band's record. His name was Anthony, he said, and his group was called the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I shook his hand and told him that when he and his guys were ready, they should come out to my farm. About two months later, there was a knock on the door."