Hey everyone, this is number 3 in our 4 episode run with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, celebrating

their new album Unlimited Love.

Today you'll hear a very special conversation between Rick Rubin and Flea.

Flea is one of the most iconic bass players of all time, and along with singer Anthony

Ketus, one of the all-time great musical ambassadors of Los Angeles.

He talks with Rick on today's episode about how he rock-started his way into USC to study

music theory, remembers tearfully telling John Fruciante how much he must play together,

and tells Rick why he reverts back to his 15 year old self anytime he argues with Ketus.

This is Broken Record, liner notes for the digital age, I'm Justin Richmond.

This is Rick Rubin, with Flea.

I'm not alone sitting in a room, you know, how can I contribute and following these feelings

of something that makes us feel a certain way?

Like I know for myself and for John and for Anthony, I mean we all have a different

way that we do it, but like they're just sitting in the room with the piano and start

hitting the thing.

Until at one point I'm hitting it in a way that hypnotizes me.

It makes me feel like, ah, like, you know, and then it's beautiful and the same thing

with the bass, like, this playing and like I played 10 Zillion bass lines in my life.

And when I start playing, I'm like, oh this is different than when I played before and

I'm drooling right now.

It's drool coming down to my fucking belly because I'm gone and it takes me away.

Like it opens me up to a place that is beyond thought, beyond action that just me and touch

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