This book is a surreal trip into the parallel universe of the Germs, a story told by the people who were there and augmented by rarely seen photos. Enigmatic punk-messiah Darby Crash comes alive in these pages, as seen through a web of perversion, LSD, chaos, and suicide. "The Germs wrote and played the best punk rock songs of all time. -- Flea, Red Hot Chili Peppers
The hottest band in the world
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article361666.ece
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But there was a pall hanging over One Hot Minute that had little to do with the music. The succession of temporary guitarists had created an air of insecurity that Chad Smith would later compare to Spinal Tap - "except with us, it was the guitar player that kept exploding". Flea had been taken ill with chronic fatigue syndrome following the previous year's shows in Brazil, a condition exacerbated by his recent divorce. The death of River Phoenix, a close friend of the band, caused spirits to plummet further. He was memorialised in the track "Deep Kick", while another song, "My Friends", featured a downbeat account of distressed friends "standing on the brink of emptiness". A former heroin addict with a tendency to backslide, Kiedis opened the album with what was almost a rehab manifesto: "My tendency/ For dependency/ Is offending me".
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しかし「One Hot Minute」に暗い影を投げかけるものもあった。一時的なギタリストの連続が、バンドに空虚な不安感を与えていたと、Chad Smithは後のSpinal Tapと比べる。「俺らはともかく、ギタリストはぶっとんでたよ」Fleaは前年のブラジル公演以降、慢性的な疲労に苦しんでいた。また最近の離婚が体調をいっそう悪くしていた。バンドにとって親友であったリバー・フェニックス(River Phoenix)の死も、それ以上に精神を落とす原因になっていた。彼は「Deep Kick」や「My Friends」のなかで、苦しむ友人たちの憂鬱な状況を回顧している。「standing on the brink of emptiness(空虚さの崖っぷちに立っている)」ヘロイン中毒者へと逆戻りしたKiedisは、そのアルバムで復帰を宣言している「依存するのはもううんざりだ」
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Red Hot Chili Peppers : One Hot Minute
http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/redhotchilipeppers/albums/album/202361/review/5940344
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"Warped" mixes harrowing lyrics ("Night craving/Sends me crawling"; "I need repair/Take me please/To anywhere") with a multitoned, layered intro and a whirling dervish of noises and big-rock rhythms surfing through and over big, funky hooks. It's like, well, a drug rush. But "Transcending" is the real triumph: Flea takes a go-round with lyrics and, stealing a page from Natalie Merchant, pens a tribute to his dead friend River Phoenix.