![]() ![]() The encore opened with Flea walking on stage on his hands, his black skirt upside down to reveal a tight pair of purple-and-gold Lakers basketball shorts. 1 on the modern rock charts, closed out the main set with one more rush of energy. “Give It Away,” the 1991 single that gave the band its first No. “Californication,” one of the band’s loveliest melodies, opened with an extended bass-and-guitar duet from Flea and Frusciante before Smith and Kiedis – and a backing chorus of pretty much the whole stadium – joined in. Highlights later in the show included “Otherside,” with its slow guitar and bass lines that open it before Kiedis’s crooning vocal drops in, and “Black Summer,” a new song that feels like a classic rock track. ![]() ![]() Sunday’s less-often played numbers included “Throw Away Your Television” and “Charlie.” Each show looks to include a core of eight new songs and older hits with another nine or 10 songs swapped in and out from city to city. The band’s also been mixing up its sets significantly from night to night on tour this year. The eminent arrival in October of a second 2022 album, “Return of the Dream Canteen,” recorded at the “Unlimited Sessions,” also suggests a kind of rebirth for the band. This was the first big local Chili Pepper show to feature Frusciante since he returned to the band in 2019, and it felt clear that his past experience playing on the band’s biggest records and the chemistry he brings is working well with Flea, Kiedis, and Smith, whom we should note here is a true beast of a drummer.Īll four seemed not just locked into the music but to be having fun. “Unlimited Love” did provide four songs to the set, the same as the band’s “Californication” and “Stadium Arcadium” albums, and those songs, which arrived first with “Here Ever After” and also included “These Are The Ways” and “Black Summer,” fit nicely alongside the more familiar tunes. ![]()
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