RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS/THE UPLIFT MOFO PA

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IN A PERFECT WORLD THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS BREAKTHROUGH ALBUM WOULDNT HAVE BEEN 1989S MOTHERS MILK BUT 1987S THE UPLIFT MOFO PARTY PLAN AND THE HISTORY OF THIS GROUNDBREAKING ROCK/ RAP BAND (AND LIKELY THE ENTIRE SUBGENRE IT CREATED) WOULDVE BEEN DRASTICALLY CHANGED. VETERANS ANTHONY KIEDIS (VOCALS) AND FLEA (BASS) HAD WELCOMED BACK ORIGINAL GUITARIST HILLEL SLOVAK FOR THE PRECEDING FREAKY STYLEY ALBUM DOING THE SAME AT THIS POINT FOR ORIGINAL DRUMMER JACK IRONS WHO REPLACED CLIFF MARTINEZ. THE ENERGY OF HAVING THESE FOUR FRIENDS FROM LOS ANGELES BACK TOGETHER JUMPS OUT OF THE OPENING ANTHEM FIGHT LIKE A BRAVE AND THE EXPERIMENTAL FUNKY CRIME TRACKS LIKE THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ME MY FRIENDS AND CLOSING ORGANIC ANTI-BEAT BOX BAND WOULD STAY IN THE GROUPS LIVE REPERTOIRE FOR THE NEXT DECADE OR MORE. KIEDIS BARKING RAP DELIVERY DRIVES THE COVER OF BOB DYLANS SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES AND FLEAS AHEAD-OF-THEIR-TIME SLAPPING BASSLINES STAND OUT IN BEHIND THE SUN AND WALKIN ON DOWN THE ROAD BUT SLOVAK AND IRONS BROUGHT THINGS TO THE CHILI PEPPERS THAT NO ONE ELSE EVER HAS. THE DRUMMERS POUNDING FUNK BACKBEATS LEFT A BLUEPRINT FOR HIS SUCCESSOR CHAD SMITH AND THE MANIC INTRO TO SKINNY SWEATY MAN SOUNDS LIKE BUDDY RICH PLAYING JAMES BROWN MATERIAL. SLOVAK IS AT THE HEIGHT OF HIS POWERS ON THE RAP-ROCK REGGAE LOVE TRILOGY AND FUNKY SPECIAL SECRET SONG INSIDE WHICH GAINED SOME NOTORIETY FOR ITS ANATOMICAL UNDERTONES. BUT SLOVAK WOULD DIE OF A HEROIN OVERDOSE THE FOLLOWING YEAR WITH IRONS QUITTING THE BAND AFTERWARD FROM THE DEPRESSION OF THE LOSS LEAVING KIEDIS AND FLEA TO WONDER WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.