Flea Articles
Atoms For Peace tour dates announced, with Thom Yorke and Flea
Radiohead’s Thom Yorke has announced the name of his new supergroup, which includes Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and tour dates for the band. The group, Atoms for Peace, also includes Joey Waronker of R.E.M., Mauro Refosco of Forro in the Dark, and Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich. They have announced a 9-date tour, [...]
Flea joins Nathaniel Ayers on new recording
Nathaniel Ayers, the musician who inspired the movie “The Soloist”, has recorded his first album. Ayers plays cello, piano, bass and trumpet on the release and is also joined by Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist, Flea, and two Los Angeles Philharmonic musicians, keyboardist Joanne Pearce Martin and violinist Robert Gupta.
The CD, Putting on Ayers, will [...]
Coachella Festival line up announced
The massive line up for the three day Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has been announced, boasting over 120 performing artists. The headlining artists for each night are scheduled to be Jay-Z, Muse, and Gorillaz.
Bass players will be happy to hear from the likes of Les Claypool, Them Crooked Vultures, Sly and the Family [...]
Gear Watch: The Fleabass
Flea announced his own line of affordable basses at last year’s NAMM show, dubbed the Fleabass. The basses, designed by Flea, come in junior and full-scale configurations with colorful, high gloss finishes.
The basses are a part of a broader goal for Flea. As we covered in November, Flea has his own non-profit music [...]
Flea plays National Anthem before BCS game
Flea performed the national anthem with Josh Groban at the Rose Bowl BCS National Championship football game a couple of days ago:
Personally, we like the performance he did before the Lakers game better:
David Pastorius: It’s not what you think
When your last name is Pastorius and you play the bass, it only stands to reason that people will draw some immediate conclusions.
In the case of David Pastorius, they’d probably be wrong.
David, the nephew of the late, great bassist Jaco Pastorius, may share the same last name and instrument of choice as his uncle, but [...]
Professor Flea
Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist, Flea (Michael Balzary) recently spoke with CNN about The Silverlake Conservatory of Music, a school he developed in 2001 with his childhood friend, Tree (Keith Barry).
The non-profit school, located at Sunset Junction in Los Angeles, offers after-school lessons and focuses on the fundamentals of playing an instrument, rather than [...]
Flea joining Thom Yorke for live performances
Flea will be teaming up with Thom Yorke on October 4th and 5th at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles.
“In the past couple of weeks I’ve been getting a band together for fun to play the Eraser stuff live and the new songs etc… to see if it could work!” Yorke said, via Radiohead’s [...]
Chris Chaney and Flea confirmed for Slash solo album
Bassists Chris Chaney of Jane’s Addiction and Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers are confirmed players on the highly anticipated solo album being worked on by Slash during Velvet Revolver’s singer search.
Other confirmed artists to appear on the album include: Ozzy Osbourne, Avenged Sevenfold’s M.Shadows, Blink 182’s Travis Barker, Black Eyed Peas vocalist Fergie, former [...]
Flea to induct Metallica at Rock HOF 2009 event
Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea will join Eminem, Jimmy Page, and Ronnie Wood to induct the 2009 class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Flea will induct Metallica, Eminem will induct Run-D.M.C., Jimmy Page will induct ex-Yardbird bandmate Jeff Beck, and Ronnie Wood of the The Rolling Stones will induct Bobby Womack.
The event [...]
