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RHCP Early Videos in Chronological Order

Death, drugs, breakups, breakdowns and lost members fill their history. Their story is amazing and can be seen in the 40 minute
'Behind the Music' video documentary seen below along with videos of their first performances from 1984, their nearly naked German
show (tube socks and all) along with rare interviews covering their fantastic ups and downs. View these videos and then read Anthony's
book 'Scar Tissue' to get a fuller perspective on this band's influence on music history and their impact on millions of fans around the world.

RHCP VIDEOS LIST

2007: Charlie

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RHCP RECORD ALBUM RELEASES AND SALES LIST

2006: Stadium Arcadium (7,500,000 so far)

The RHCP has gone thru many phases in their 24 year history. The success of their first phase, with Hillel Slovak, was phenomenal,
but as often happens in the stress-filled world of intense stage performing, drugs crept into the picture and had a big impact on
the band member's lives.

Like hundreds of other performers before them (from Elvis, Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis....Joplin, Morrison and Hendrix...up to Axle
Rose and Kurt Cobain) the simultaneous fast and slow pace of being 'a star' and having to do stage performing and the need to
'get up to speed' or to 'come back down to earth' often times requires a bit of self-medication....since the human body can't always
rise to the occasion of performing before thousands and then, somehow gettings one's self to bed and back on the road again without
some type of supplemental 'something' to ease the strain....whether through uppers, downers, bennies or Jack Daniels - the need
for self-medication has always been a part of rock 'n' roll. As Memphis Minnie would say..."some do and some don't".

Being a stage performer isn't easy. It requires an amplification of social skills that most people don't usually possess and a
super-human ability to accept amplified adoration and abuse. The amplification that is built into rock 'n' roll often causes
something to blow-up....be it a 16 inch speaker or the performer's own nervous system.

RHCPs' guitarist Hillel Slovak died from a heroin overdose in 1988. Their drummer, Jack Irons then quit the band. The drummer for the
Dead Kennedys took his place and brought in guitarist John Frusciante. Not long after, Chad Smith became the full-time drummer.
This became phase two of the RHCP.

RHCPs' 1991 album, 'Blood Sugar Sex Magik', was a huge sucess selling over 12,000,000 copies. By 1992, guitarist John Frusciante had
developed major problems with the band's fame and his personal self-medication and heroin use. He was out of the band soon after.
Thus began RHCPs phase three.

They hired Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro and released their 1995 album 'One Hot Minute' which sold about 6,000,000 copies.
Soon after Dave Navarro was fired. RHCP phase four was about to begin.

John Frusciante had been out of the band for almost 6 years and had big problems with his heroin addiction through most of that time.
In 1998 he was able to break his habit. Flea went to see him to ask him to rejoin the band. In 1999 they completed their 'Californication'
album which was a tremendous success, selling over 15,000,000 albums. RHCP was back on top. In 2002 they released 'By the Way'.

Phase five of RHCP came in 2006 with RHCPs' Stadium Arcadium double album. On February 12, 2007 - at the 49th Grammy
Awards the Red Hot Chili Peppers walked off with the Grammy for 'Best Rock Album' for Stadium Arcadium, the award for
'Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal' for Dani California and the Grammy for 'Best Rock Song' for Dani California.

The year 2008 marks their 25th anniversary in the world of rock 'n' roll.