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Me and My Friends #12 - Consequence and change
December 13, 2019
What is the least consequential Chili Peppers song? I don’t mean the worst, or the one with that charted the lowest, or the one that the band have dismissed,...
Me and My Friends #11 - New things, old things, and torn down things.
November 14, 2019
Hello friends, both old and new. This issue is more of a collection of links and thoughts as opposed to something themed on a specific thing. This is just an...
Me and My Friends #10 - Fleamail & Teatro Memories
October 22, 2019
Hello all, To celebrate the release of Flea’s book, Acid For The Children, I thought I’d put together a sequel of sorts. Here is a link to an epub ebook made...
Me and My Friends #9 - ST IRL
October 1, 2019
Hi folks. Scar Tissue is an amazing book. I love it. It's like a limb. It's the kind of thing I dip into constantly, so in a way, really, I'm always reading...
Me and My Friends #8 - Like, Totally Random
September 2, 2019
Hi everyone, I really have zero time for setlist complainers. We’re lucky enough that the Chili Peppers are not only still together, but that they tour...
Me and My Friends #7 - a followup on last time, and some thoughts on Stadium Arcadium
August 14, 2019
Hi gang. Not a whole lot to talk about this time, but hey - let’s see where we end up. Up front, here’s a few extra things about the band in Japan in May...
Me and My Friends #6 - Falling apart in 1992
June 25, 2019
Hello, everyone. A mea culpa to begin with. In the first ever edition of this newsletter, I “deduced” that the first ever RHCP gig was February 3, 1983. I’ve...
Me and My Friends #5 - a real Greatest Hits
May 28, 2019
Hi gang. The RHCP have two retail "greatest hits" collections.1 The first, What Hits!? is mostly a joke, and only contains five or six songs that could...
Me and My Friends #4 - Rising again in 1998, part 2
April 28, 2019
Hi friends, I suggested in the last edition of this newsletter that Dave Navarro was fired from the Red Hot Chili Peppers earlier than the band would like us...
Me and My Friends #3 - Rising again in 1998, part 1
March 28, 2019
Hi folks, First up - apologies if the banner that used to accompany this letter was too wide, and made it hard to read the text. It's gone now - and if you...
Me and My Friends #2 - live in Sydney
February 26, 2019
Hey gang, I'm writing this next entry a little earlier than I intended, but I guess if there's any reason for me breaking my once-a-month-rule it would be...
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