“I could easily give the argument ‘This won’t make the album any worse. By mid-February, the band was still mixing and agonizing over which outtakes could be squeezed back onto the album.
In the end, Stadium Arcadium, coming out May 9th on Warner Bros., will be an album of more common sense and size: a double CD of twenty-five tracks. The Chili Peppers were so fired up they wanted to put out the whole racket as a trilogy - three separate discs, issued in instalments. Kiedis, bassist Flea, guitarist John Frusciante and drummer Chad Smith actually wrote thirty-eight new songs and recorded them all with producer Rick Rubin in the same house, in the Hollywood Hills, where they cut 1991’s Blood Sugar Sex Magik. “We set out to write thirteen songs, make them good and record them - to have a small, digestible piece of art where people could go, ‘Yeah, that’s a nice, rocking jam.” Kiedis pauses. WHEN THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS convened in September 2004 to begin work on their new album, Stadium Arcardium, the idea was “to make an old-fashioned Meet the Beatles-like record,” says singer Anthony Kiedis.
Inside the making of the new Stadium Arcadium – a twenty-five-track double disc bassist Flea calls “the best thing we’ve ever done” BY DAVID FRICKE
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