Flea: Acid For the Children
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Pushkin Industries
4.5 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2019
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Flea sat with Malcolm Gladwell to discuss his newly released memoir, "Acid For the Children," for the very first live taping of Broken Record! The book is a journey through Flea's childhood: from Australia to the seedy streets of 1970's and 80's Los Angeles to the earliest incarnation of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Flea brings his book to life in this intensely intimate conversation about his friendships with bandmates Anthony Kiedis and Hillel Slovak, the LA of his childhood and picks up the bass to walk through the evolution of his bass playing.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin |
| 0:23.0 | Few bands represent the eclectic nature of Los Angeles as well as the Red Hot Chili Peppers. |
| 0:28.0 | They're blend of punk, funk, and rap that they perfected on 1991's Blood Shook of Sex Magic |
| 0:32.0 | felt like it could have only come from Southern California. |
| 0:35.0 | That album by the way is produced by Broken Record host Rick Rubin, one of his first projects after moving from New York to LA. |
| 0:41.0 | The secret to the Red Hot Chili Peppers funky sound was their dextrous bass player fleet. |
| 0:45.0 | A prodigious bassist with massive stage presence whose charm landed him roles in movies like The Big Lebowski and Queen and Slim. |
| 0:53.0 | His talent was incubated in a Los Angeles that doesn't exist anymore. |
| 0:58.0 | He writes about it vividly in his book, and memoirs of his adolescence called Acid for the Children. |
| 1:03.0 | Fleet discussed the book recently with Malcolm Gladwell in front of an audience at the Palace Theatre in Los Angeles. |
| 1:08.0 | They also talk about Fleet's upbringing and how he developed his distinctive style of bass playing. |
| 1:13.0 | Those are our very first live taping at the podcast and we partnered with Kacer W in my opinion the best music station in LA to get it done. |
| 1:20.0 | So here's Malcolm Gladwell and Fleet live in conversation. |
| 1:23.0 | I noticed no one's cheering for me. |
| 1:31.0 | I was just a little bit nervous. |
| 1:35.0 | I was just a little nervous. |
| 1:39.0 | I was just a little nervous. |
| 1:43.0 | I was just a little nervous. |
| 1:47.0 | I noticed no one's chanting, yeah Malcolm, it's pretty much... |
| 1:58.0 | You guys know we're here to talk about books, right? |
| 2:02.0 | I was trying to think, you know, this is a great thrill, first of all, for me to be here. |
| 2:07.0 | I think here, I was trying to figure this out backstage. |
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