Friday 3 January 2020

The First Time With... Series 13 - 3. Flea

THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 13 - 3. FLEA (320kbs-m4a/134mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 2nd March 2018

Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers shares his musical milestones with Matt Everitt in a programme first broadcast in 2016.

He remembers growing up surrounded by jazz musicians and his love for Louis Armstrong. He also recalls developing a love for the bass guitar, his early rock bands and how important British bands Gang Of Four and Echo & The Bunnymen were to him. He tells Matt about the Chili Peppers' first record and their huge success, and talks about collaborations with the likes of Damon Albarn and Thom Yorke.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away [Warner Bros]
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Clifford Brown & Max Roache Quintet - Cherokee
The Beatles - Dear Prudence [Parlophone]
Louis Armstrong - All That Meat And No Potatoes
Jaco Pastorius - Portrait Of Tracy
Gang Of Four - Not Great Men
Fear - We Destroy The Family
The Germs - Richie Dagger's Crime
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Universally Speaking [Warner Bros]
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Message
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Out In L.A. (Demo Version)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge [Columbia]
Thom Yorke - Harrowdown Hill [XL]
Fela Kuti & Africa 70 - Water No Get Enemy
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Goodbye Angels

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