“He was reminiscing about one of his legendary acid trips, and told us that he had been playing a sold-out show to the planets and moons, and his number-one hit was, well, that title.
“We found it so funny that we told him for as long as the album was under the radar, that that would be our nickname for it.”
RHCP once played one of the lousiest concerts I’ve ever seen at MSG and followed it with the entirely crappy ‘Stadium Arcadium’. Of course, just before that they released the masterful By The Way and Californication.
If there is a better bass riff than “This Is The Place”, I don’t know what it is. Both those albums plus Blood Sugar Sex Magik. Lets forgive em for Arcadium and move on!
So now they are naming their eagerly (by me among millions) anticipated newbie named after a bad acid trip -how L.A. right?.
Makes sense because christ are they the definition of a bad acid trip. Except “This Is The Place”? One of the best songs ever wri
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