According to The Pulse Of Radio, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS frontman Anthony Kiedis said that the band scrapped at least two albums worth of songs and wrote new ones when it began working with producer Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton on its upcoming new disc “The Getaway”. Speaking with Los Angeles radio station KROQ, Kiedis explained: “We had an unusually difficult experience making this record where we wrote 20 to 30 songs and it was all ready to go and we thought it was happening, and then Flea went snowboarding and broke his arm real bad.”
Kiedis continued: “So we rethought everything and then we didn’t have a producer and we were just sort of lost in space with all these songs… When all the dust settled, Brian Burton, a.k.a. Danger Mouse, emerged and said, ‘Let’s go make a record.’ We were, like, ‘Great! We have all these songs,’ and he was, like, ‘Leave those there. Let’s go write new songs in the studio.’ So the process began over again.”
Kiedis said that although Burton had listened to all the songs the band had already prepped, “He just wanted to see what would happen when we went into the studio and started something fresh.” The singer admitted that there was “pushback” at the first to the idea, but added, “The only way we saw this working was to have trust in him and get rid of our old ideas and our old way of doing things.”
“The Getaway” is due out June 17. The first single, “Dark Necessities”, premiered last week.
The band has a number of festival appearances coming up, including a radio festival in Irvine, California on May 14, Ohio’s Rock On The Range on May 22 and BottleRock in Napa, California on May 29. The group will then head to Europe for a while before returning to headline Lollapalooza in Chicago on July 30.
Source: Blabbermouth
