Red Hot Chili Peppers “Fight Like a Brave”

sfilzen — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 18:19:34 +0000

Red Hot Chili Peppers “Fight Like a Brave” 1987. Today, April 13th, would have been original RHCP guitarist Hillel Slovak’s 60th birthday (b. 1962, d. 1988). “Fight Like a Brave” was the only single from RHCP’s 1987 LP The Uplift Mofo Party Plan and is about Anthony Kiedis’ heroin addiction and struggles to get clean. Like most Red Hot tracks, it is funky as hell with a ton of killer metal guitar swagger and riffs. The track wasn’t a hit but the album did squeak onto the charts, making it to #148. The Uplift Mofo Party Plan was Slovak’s last record; he died shortly after the album tour after trying and failing to kick his own addiction heroin. According to wiki, Slovak said about the LP, “This is the most beautiful thing we’ve ever done…I’m so extremely proud of everybody’s work—it is at times genius.”

Our copy of “Fight Like a Brave” is the 12″ single promo version so it has the same track on both sides. The commercial 12″ has a few remixes including “Not Our Mix,” “Boner Beats Mix” and “Mofo Mix” as well as a cover of Jimi Hendrix’s “Fire.” Here’s a pretty hilarious video of them sort-of lip-synching “Fight Like a Brave” on Belgian TV: they don’t even bother to pretend to play, they just cause chaos and trash the stage.

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The Red Hot Chili Peppers “The Uplift Mofo Party Plan”

sfilzen — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 18:27:58 +0000

The Red Hot Chili Peppers “The Uplift Mofo Party Plan” released on this date, September 29th, 1987. RHCP’s third album went to #148 on the US chart and is the only record upon which all four original band members play on all the record’s tracks (and the last: guitarist Hillel Slovak died of a heroin overdose nine months later). It’s funky, of course, with a lot of metal guitar and swagger. They released “Fight Like a Brave” as a single (also on Sept. 29th ‘87; it did not chart) and then a few years later, in ‘92, released the mellow rocking, sitar-tinged (played by Slovak) “Behind the Sun” to help promote the What Hits!? comp; that single went to #7 on the US Modern Rock chart. My favorite track on The Uplift Mofo Party Plan is “Skinny Sweaty Man” – I’m pretty sure someone put this on a mixtape for me at some point back in the late 80′s (I didn’t have this LP in our collection until recently) – because it’s funny as hell. The singles are good, and I also like “Me and My Friends” and “Walkin’ On Down the Road” is OK, too. I’m not a fan of their cover of Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues” – it’s pretty much unrecognizable from the original (that’s one of the few Dylan songs I actually like) nor do I care for “Party on Your Pussy” (for obvious reasons that track is listed on the album cover as “Special Secret Song Inside”).

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