Even after a bland album like 'I'm With You', tonight at Madrid has been shown that the Red Hot Chili Peppers are a risk to the test value, backed by the strength of their live music intact and a list of successes as 'Give It Away' or 'By The Way', capable of igniting the most fretful.
Along with the aforementioned last album of this quartet California, which sold tickets months ago for his concert tonight at the Sports Palace in the city, the other great novelty brought his new guitarist, Josh Klinghoffer , a young-looking often timid that, little by little, is taking his pulse to his fellow veterans.
Joe Frusciante's replacement, who left the band for the second time during this latest release, is growing every direct and already has its own moments of prominence (as in 'Meet me at the corner' or 'Can not Stop '), even dueling with the charismatic and hyperactive bassist Michael Balzary, aka' Flea '.
The complicity between the components of this group, with nearly thirty years of complicated race behind him , was in fact one of the tonics of the night, something very important, since the greatest threats to their survival in the past, apart of drugs came from internal dissensions and the continuing exodus of its members.
Klinghoffer, approved
Many feared that this happened again after the recent departure of Frusciante, one of the leaders with singer Anthony Kiedis of some of his best albums, see 'Blood Sugar Sex Magik "(1991) and' Californication '(1999). In this sense, the arrival of Klinghoffer seems to have brought stability back to California.
'I'm With You' does not reach the level of these two gems of rock music, but at least adds some another active again, as the catchy song 'Monarchy Of Roses', with which the show has opened this night, with Kiedis wearing a hat in which, paradoxically, could read the message "Off!" (Apágate, in English).
This boot is one of the few notes that have remained stable over the current tour, which began in late summer and, after passing on Thursday in Barcelona, shortly close the first leg of their journey .
The RCHP also maintained almost intact its tendency to nudity . No longer appear, as in the beginning, with a sock covering his genitals and all clothing, but Kiedis and "Flea" are still very keen to show their power abdominal, implying that its nearly 50 years kept the spirit in all senses.
Psychedelia
They also continue the provision of a major technical equipment and human, with all possible sound power available to its characteristic fusion of funk, punk and metal, a task that helps the percussionist Mauro Refosco, in addition to a giant puzzle of screens In this tour, make them psychedelic pictorial motifs.
To keep pace, Californians like to spread the rest of his greatest songs, like 'Scar Tissue', 'Can not Stop' 'Dani California' and especially 'Under The Bridge', always welcomed with a shout of stupor by the public.
The same thing happens with the issues that touch just before the encore, 'Californication' and 'By The Way' , preparing to jump respectable, top it off, with "Give It Away", a topic with more than twenty years that have is able to stir anyone.
"I'll see you again" , says Kiedis before retiring to the 18,000 attendees who have cheered, remembering perhaps that the July 7 Madrid will have a new opportunity to vibrate with his music to the Rock in Rio and a hearing could potentially quintuple tonight.
