Was brought up with their music and my first gig i went to was on my 12th birthday and was rhcp at Wembley arena in 1999, I've still got the t-shirt I brought and because of flea, I've played bass since I was 10 and he is the man!
Me too, meet him in new Haven during the positive mental octopus tour, I was fifteen. And have been playing bass since, I’m 47 now. My mom met him too. When I said I wanted to play bass she started playing me Ohio players, brothers Johnson, funkadelic and meters albums. She’s a white Irish woman and my dad is black. She played Curtis mayfield and my dad played zeppelin and Hendrix, Black Sabbath and dp, I was a skate punk listening to beastie boys and jfa, bauhaus, husker du, black flag, descendants and suicidal, so flea brought it home, then I found fishbone and saw the truth and soul tour, 24-7 spyz, follow for now and primus. I was raised by the best, there are so many more I would ramble on
i was gonna call BS on the 20 beers, but then i remembered the one time i went to a redskins game with my dad and drank about ten in the parking lot tailgating then proceeded to drink 7 or 8 more in the stadium and finished off the, expected, loss with a few tequila shots at the bar LOL
First time I picked up the bass after playing the guitar for years I realised how hard it is. To organise all your fingers to pluck, slap and pop strings on the bass is crazy. Then flea makes it look effortless and flies up and down the neck
I found it a lot easier than guitar. You have to be a bit heavier handed because of the string gauge but with a good set of pickups you can counter that. What you can't counter is the techniques that apply to guitar over bass. Where guitar requires fine-tuned harmonics, and with some guitars an exact location between frets, the bass can get away with low end frequency distortion hiding some of the misses. If you listen to this solo carefully, you will notice it's actually really bad. He may have had bad monitors or something but his runs were inprecise and merely a quick-step noodle to the next note, which wasn't always the right one in the mode.
loved this playing since the beginning, controlling so many Technics and still hanging kept his place in the whole synchronicity of the band...awesome player and truely one of my heroes. Even love the compassion which is often misunderstood by anger or temper. a driven sou lwith a golden heart ❤
Saw them live in Cologne back in 2016. Flea played a similar solo as the intro Jam for Around the World. The whole Arena was shaking! miss this night...
Always a crazy outfit, always a great bass sound. Flea is so adorable and magical. Such a nice guy and best friend of his band members. I like RHCP since beginning and forever. 🙏❤️👏❤️👌❤️🤗❤️
The spirit of Hillel Slovak lives on in the Peppers music. Back in the day he took Flea under his wing and taught him how to play bass guitar. Decades later, Flea would still get emotional when talking about the experience. Flea knew that being in a band was a huge deal to Slovak, and the fact that he chose him, a guy that had had never played bass before, to fill that role in his band made Flea feel wanted and loved, a sentiment he did not find in other areas of his life.
This is a lovely story, but it's wrong in its entirety. Well before Flea ever met Hillel, Anthony, Jack Irons, etc he was an accomplished trumpet player and was well into playing bass by then too.
Actually, FLEA influenced me a long time ago on bass also. I went on to singing and writing, but the best thing by far about the RHCP is this man's bass chops. He could probably have a solo career just going around doing crazy instrumental shit, and I kind of wish he would.
i owe everting to this man and this band, with what I became as a musician. still to this day i have no shame in admitting that my whole style image and ability on stage originated, stemmed and grew from this man playing bass. 2002 i had never picked up a instrument in my life......current music at the time to me was a unknown, i was born and bred on the 70s, Zeppelin, purple, who, sabbath, Floyd and the rest . But for the awful fear of been left out of social groups in high school with a number of new bands starting to form, everyday, i came out with the words to my friends...I'll learn the bass!!!.. I then went through life changing problems and struggled with life in general from some time then a song called Brendan's Death Song came on and it change everything . until from then on I went on a absolute unbelievable Journey teaching my self everything about bass and taking lessons from amazing tutors' (Ben, if you are reading this its Deane Peacock and i mean you!!!) on bass to a point where no teacher local to me could get me any further. only then did i realise just how fantastic a bassist cloud be, i learned everything from all the best. but still only one man sat deep inside me with how i wanted to play. i then counited my journey to write records with a home based bands that sold well on the likes of iTunes, Spotify, and TH-cam while continuing to play with the energy, passion and raw funk that flea had implanted on me. unfortunately the band split. but still to this day nearly 7 years since i last played live, ill pick up that bass up and give it everything i have. every inch of skill. just like flea always has ,110% passion, heart, emotion and love for music untill the day i can no longer hold a bass in my hands. Flea (Michael Balzary) i thank you to the bottom of my heart for the bass.
This was at reading and Leeds 2016 I remember watching this with my parents a week before I started year 5 ( 4th grade) and I think it was before around the world and I think it was the first time I saw them performing it with Josh.
i was backstage at RHCP. Every person was cool as hell. Anthony wouldnt even acknowledge me. Like imagine standing right next to someone saying Hi...hello...reaching ur hand out and they just denied your existence.
Somebody told me that bass is boring without the guitar forgot his name but he commented on the video when John Frusciante breaks his string in the 1999 brazil performance which was uploaded by this channel well it was an amazing solo from I'm huge flea fan it's been years they've realeased a new album I know how much it takes to realese an album I think because of covid everything is getting delayed and they announced They'r working on an album let's wait for the mean time
Reading the comments on here gives me the impression that some people just hate Flea because he's popular. Nobody cares that your favorite jazz snob bassist can play a superhypermetamegaultraepic locrian passage in a 420/69 time signature in their sleep. I still don't think that bass is a solo instrument, but if one MUST do it, throwing on some dirt and playing with attitude will get the average listeners attention. Which (fun fact!) makes up the majority of most audiences. Flea gets people moving, either with the band or solo, and has stage presence. Music is not a meritocracy, and it never should be. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
I was watching a video of Nikki Sixx performing a bass solo. Most comments praising his bass playing skills. Then this video shows up on my recommendations. Well I’m not much of a RHCP fan, but this Flea guy sure can play!
It was actually Mani from the stone roses who taughtbFlea how to play the bass when he went on holiday to Los Angeles in 1979. Their families were staying at the same hotel, and Mani who had just learned the bass guitar self taught showed Flea how to play and how to groove. Mani also wrote all the songs for Pearl Jam which he gave to the band at a karaoke night in a bar in sacraments in the 80s. Mani never takes credit for this as he is a famously humble and shy individual.
I tried learning Subway to Venus yesterday and now all my fingers hurt and I pulled a muscle in my left forearm. \m/ fuck yeah. I'm stuck on the outro though, and I'm not fast enough yet to play the first barr.
Michael Peter Balzary (Melbourne, Victoria, 16 de octubre de 1962), conocido como Flea, es un músico, bajista y actor australiano-estadounidense. Es uno de los fundadores de la banda de funk rock Red Hot Chili Peppers. 61 AÑOS. (62) 🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝
Thank you flea, you and les claypool made me want to take up the bass when everyone else wanted to play the guitar. Now guitar players are a dime a dozen and bass players can cherry pick any band to be in. The best band to be a part of is the one that has your friends in it.
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My hero and inspiration for picking up a basss
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Was brought up with their music and my first gig i went to was on my 12th birthday and was rhcp at Wembley arena in 1999, I've still got the t-shirt I brought and because of flea, I've played bass since I was 10 and he is the man!
Me too, meet him in new Haven during the positive mental octopus tour, I was fifteen. And have been playing bass since, I’m 47 now. My mom met him too. When I said I wanted to play bass she started playing me Ohio players, brothers Johnson, funkadelic and meters albums. She’s a white Irish woman and my dad is black. She played Curtis mayfield and my dad played zeppelin and Hendrix, Black Sabbath and dp, I was a skate punk listening to beastie boys and jfa, bauhaus, husker du, black flag, descendants and suicidal, so flea brought it home, then I found fishbone and saw the truth and soul tour, 24-7 spyz, follow for now and primus. I was raised by the best, there are so many more I would ramble on
He’s my inspiration for putting down the bass.
I was somewhere among that crowd. About 20 beers down and in tears of awe.
Ok
i was gonna call BS on the 20 beers, but then i remembered the one time i went to a redskins game with my dad and drank about ten in the parking lot tailgating then proceeded to drink 7 or 8 more in the stadium and finished off the, expected, loss with a few tequila shots at the bar LOL
among?!? Us!?
I know exactly what you felt bro.
@@phylazen5649 stfu
First time I picked up the bass after playing the guitar for years I realised how hard it is. To organise all your fingers to pluck, slap and pop strings on the bass is crazy. Then flea makes it look effortless and flies up and down the neck
I found it a lot easier than guitar. You have to be a bit heavier handed because of the string gauge but with a good set of pickups you can counter that. What you can't counter is the techniques that apply to guitar over bass. Where guitar requires fine-tuned harmonics, and with some guitars an exact location between frets, the bass can get away with low end frequency distortion hiding some of the misses. If you listen to this solo carefully, you will notice it's actually really bad. He may have had bad monitors or something but his runs were inprecise and merely a quick-step noodle to the next note, which wasn't always the right one in the mode.
Once you learn the technique it's not all that difficult.
@@tehf00n “say you don’t respect bass players without saying you don’t respect bass players”
@tehf00n I agree this solo is not very good, but I also get a sense that you don't really know that much about modes
@@tehf00n HAHAHA
This bass player has a promising future ahead of him.
Yo where have you been the last 20 years?
@@annanhildebrand9667 j….j….joke undetected
@@lesbomonky2528 joke? What joke?
Douglas J. Needles agree with that
@@purifiedwater4217 Irony
Oh it's that guy from back to the future!
No. This guy from "The Big Lebowski"
back to the future 2 and 3
No no no ur think of baby driver
What's the matter? Chicken?!
Son in law.
We want new album. We're dying for this 😭
Dude, John is back and they are working on it as we speak! 👍🏻👍🏻
@@matthewflynn2164 that's why I'm dying lol
@Lillian spears don't you like red hot chili peppers?
@Lillian spears got it, what kind of music do you like?
@Lillian spears where you from?
That extra sound that comes from hitting the strings super hard with your pick hand is something only a bass player will understand.
Flea is the heart and soul of funky 90s rock.
loved this playing since the beginning, controlling so many Technics and still hanging kept his place in the whole synchronicity of the band...awesome player and truely one of my heroes.
Even love the compassion which is often misunderstood by anger or temper.
a driven sou lwith a golden heart ❤
I was there! Remember listening to around the world from this set on BBC iPlayer a few times over the following days as it blew me away
I absolutely love flea as a musician and an amazing human being!
Go flea! Your my favourite bass player and when I play my bass I really imagine me being just like you when I grow up
✳️ *Around the world incoming*
I could literally tell that was the next song to play just by the bass tone! LOL And I’ve never seen this live show.
That last chorus tho lol
Everything about him is beyond this world, legend
He still has it
He will never lose it
Rock Forever
Subscribe to the channel! ❤
#Flea #IncredibleBassSolo #RedHotChiliPeppers
Thank You Very Much!!! 😁
Flea is a stud ! Great solo ! ❤
Saw them live in Cologne back in 2016. Flea played a similar solo as the intro Jam for Around the World. The whole Arena was shaking! miss this night...
Always a crazy outfit, always a great bass sound. Flea is so adorable and magical. Such a nice guy and best friend of his band members. I like RHCP since beginning and forever. 🙏❤️👏❤️👌❤️🤗❤️
Why Needles and Marty McFly never recorded together is one of music's big mysteries.
"He's an asshole"!
"What's the matter? Chicken??"
A solo by a bass player is quite rare. This pushes the woofers to their limits.
The spirit of Hillel Slovak lives on in the Peppers music. Back in the day he took Flea under his wing and taught him how to play bass guitar. Decades later, Flea would still get emotional when talking about the experience. Flea knew that being in a band was a huge deal to Slovak, and the fact that he chose him, a guy that had had never played bass before, to fill that role in his band made Flea feel wanted and loved, a sentiment he did not find in other areas of his life.
This is a lovely story, but it's wrong in its entirety. Well before Flea ever met Hillel, Anthony, Jack Irons, etc he was an accomplished trumpet player and was well into playing bass by then too.
Actually, FLEA influenced me a long time ago on bass also. I went on to singing and writing, but the best thing by far about the RHCP is this man's bass chops. He could probably have a solo career just going around doing crazy instrumental shit, and I kind of wish he would.
😮Le da para mucho más. Lo que hace la vida no? Groso!!! Gracias por tanto!!!
Feels like they’re about to go into Around the World!! 🤘🤘
i owe everting to this man and this band, with what I became as a musician. still to this day i have no shame in admitting that my whole style image and ability on stage originated, stemmed and grew from this man playing bass. 2002 i had never picked up a instrument in my life......current music at the time to me was a unknown, i was born and bred on the 70s, Zeppelin, purple, who, sabbath, Floyd and the rest . But for the awful fear of been left out of social groups in high school with a number of new bands starting to form, everyday, i came out with the words to my friends...I'll learn the bass!!!.. I then went through life changing problems and struggled with life in general from some time then a song called Brendan's Death Song came on and it change everything . until from then on I went on a absolute unbelievable Journey teaching my self everything about bass and taking lessons from amazing tutors' (Ben, if you are reading this its Deane Peacock and i mean you!!!) on bass to a point where no teacher local to me could get me any further. only then did i realise just how fantastic a bassist cloud be, i learned everything from all the best. but still only one man sat deep inside me with how i wanted to play. i then counited my journey to write records with a home based bands that sold well on the likes of iTunes, Spotify, and TH-cam while continuing to play with the energy, passion and raw funk that flea had implanted on me. unfortunately the band split. but still to this day nearly 7 years since i last played live, ill pick up that bass up and give it everything i have. every inch of skill. just like flea always has ,110% passion, heart, emotion and love for music untill the day i can no longer hold a bass in my hands. Flea (Michael Balzary) i thank you to the bottom of my heart for the bass.
Thanks Flea.😀🦘💜
This was at reading and Leeds 2016 I remember watching this with my parents a week before I started year 5 ( 4th grade) and I think it was before around the world and I think it was the first time I saw them performing it with Josh.
I was there. You r correct
Thought it was and I was there.
i was backstage at RHCP. Every person was cool as hell. Anthony wouldnt even acknowledge me. Like imagine standing right next to someone saying Hi...hello...reaching ur hand out and they just denied your existence.
Legendary Bass player
Flea ❤
Just got done with Acid for the Children, didn’t think I could love him anymore
Anybody who cares, watch the old interview with flea and River Phoenix. It is truly epic. Flea is brilliant.
Flee is one of the best bass players in the world!!!!!😊
You wouldn't think so listening to this.
Love the Peppers. Flea rocks the bass like no other.😎
Flea has always been great, Flea is great now, Flea will always be great
Somebody told me that bass is boring without the guitar forgot his name but he commented on the video when John Frusciante breaks his string in the 1999 brazil performance which was uploaded by this channel well it was an amazing solo from I'm huge flea fan it's been years they've realeased a new album I know how much it takes to realese an album I think because of covid everything is getting delayed and they announced They'r working on an album let's wait for the mean time
Wow, I have the same pants!
I only wear them at funerals and court appearances.
Flea is a great guy. We met him in Grand Rapids after a concert
Rhcp are the best one of the best to ever do it
Awesome! Chili peppers I think are one of the most talented bands out there.
Reading the comments on here gives me the impression that some people just hate Flea because he's popular.
Nobody cares that your favorite jazz snob bassist can play a superhypermetamegaultraepic locrian passage in a 420/69 time signature in their sleep.
I still don't think that bass is a solo instrument, but if one MUST do it, throwing on some dirt and playing with attitude will get the average listeners attention. Which (fun fact!) makes up the majority of most audiences.
Flea gets people moving, either with the band or solo, and has stage presence.
Music is not a meritocracy, and it never should be.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Aww. No replies? Here
loved his playing since he beginning ,wide spectrum of Technics and a keen ear stating in line with the sinq of the band.. fucking straight A
I could listen to RHCP all day long.
A true bass legend
we miss you Cliff
Mostro fleaaaa ! 🎸🔥🤘🏼❤
Even his bass is sweating 😮
I play drums but Flea is starting to get me into Basses
Yeah same, I picked up bass a few weeks ago
Flea eres un genio en ke nivel estas idolo❤❤❤
The things he did on Mother's Milk still gives me chills 😳
i already play drums and guitar and this REALLY made me wanna play bass aswell
I was watching a video of Nikki Sixx performing a bass solo. Most comments praising his bass playing skills. Then this video shows up on my recommendations. Well I’m not much of a RHCP fan, but this Flea guy sure can play!
The Hendrix of bass
🤣
It's wild to think this is the man who voiced Donnie off of the wild thornberrys. Go Donnie, go!
Hitting it hard with his right hand finger atttack! With authority! my friend. :-)
I'm about to start crying 😭😭😭, he's sooo fricking good 😭
That bass looks just like you think it would. He whoops it’s ass on a daily basis! Wow!
This is really bloody awefull!
O melhor contra baixista do mundo! Henrique, de Campinas, estado de São Paulo, Brasil!
Second if not best bass player all time
🤣
Incredible solo.. wait a second..yes I am smoking something..
He's a one of the worlds best.what are you the worlds best at
We love You Flea - and we Love Federico Miller - Johhny Frushiante 4 ever Àmen
Greetings from Magyarország
It was actually Mani from the stone roses who taughtbFlea how to play the bass when he went on holiday to Los Angeles in 1979. Their families were staying at the same hotel, and Mani who had just learned the bass guitar self taught showed Flea how to play and how to groove. Mani also wrote all the songs for Pearl Jam which he gave to the band at a karaoke night in a bar in sacraments in the 80s. Mani never takes credit for this as he is a famously humble and shy individual.
I thought Hillel taught flea
Gotta Love Flea 👌🏿!!
Shavo Odadjian (System of a down) and Flea got me in to playing bass guitar :) They're my inspiration
I tried learning Subway to Venus yesterday and now all my fingers hurt and I pulled a muscle in my left forearm. \m/ fuck yeah.
I'm stuck on the outro though, and I'm not fast enough yet to play the first barr.
Woooow AMAZING FLEA!!!! THE BEST OF THE BEST!!! Thank you so much lovely friend. I LOVE YOU!!! ❤❤❤😘 Keep it up! 🎸❤🎸❤ Big Like for you
Esto es como droga 💊❤
The funny thing about this title is it applies to every Flea bass solo.
RIP Legend
He died?
@@AlphaStudios-lh1rz yeah
Fleas right hand is damn strong. The way he plays fingerstyle is so powerful!
Holy shit that speed is incredible!! 😳
Hooooy flea!!!! Sabaa ana oi!!!!
This guys is good bass of the world
Flea always looks like he just got done stealing your catalytic converter lol
Happy Birthday, Flea! :)
Daaaaaaaamn son!!!
Incredibly clear bass tone live he has built
incredible bass player!
Needles from Back to the Future 2 and 3 is pretty good on the bass guitar
Michael Peter Balzary (Melbourne, Victoria, 16 de octubre de 1962), conocido como Flea, es un músico, bajista y actor australiano-estadounidense. Es uno de los fundadores de la banda de funk rock Red Hot Chili Peppers.
61 AÑOS. (62)
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I've played that solo a couple of times. Mine always sounds better but then I wake up.
Love me some Flea
Mmmmmmmm i love this solo
"That's so adorable!"
-Billy Sheehan.
A Fender Jazz with a MM pickup? Never seen that before
love it!!
over the top playing
Him and mike dirnt are my favorite bassists
Flea knows how to make love to his guitar
he makes it bleed
INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In the world of modern darkglass, he still love his old ass ODB3 . What a loyal man
I still miss fleas modulus tone although this is similar that modulus just had a bit more of a bite to it
My second favorite bass player
"Well, a, good god damn," Bootsy Collins' reaction to Flea's dope ass bass solo.
flea is just godlike
This is "Jazz Odyssey", our bassist wrote it...
Goat
Visuals ij the back go hard
Thank you flea, you and les claypool made me want to take up the bass when everyone else wanted to play the guitar. Now guitar players are a dime a dozen and bass players can cherry pick any band to be in. The best band to be a part of is the one that has your friends in it.
R.I.P ❤