Nick Cave Clarifies Stance On Red Hot Chili Peppers, Discusses Forthcoming Flea Collaboration

There’s a famous Nick Cave quote that gets passed around whenever anyone wants to dismiss the music of a certain long-running Los Angeles funk-metal act: “I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.” I can’t find the exact origin of that quote, but Cave apparently said it sometime around 2004, when he’d already achieved full elder-statesman legend status. That line is obviously fire. In all my years as ...

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