![]() ![]() Their fifth album, 1991’s Rick Rubin-produced Blood Sugar Sex Magik, was the point where the world finally caught up with what the Chili Peppers were doing. That lifestyle caught up with them in 1988, when founding guitarist Hillel Slovak died of a heroin overdose, curtailing their excesses (temporarily, at least) and bringing the curtain down on Act I of their career.Īct II would be bigger than anyone could ever imagine. Their crazed-puppy mash-up of funk, rock, punk, hip hop and anything else that wasn’t nailed down was fuelled by class-A narcotics and raging libidos. ![]() Formed in 1983 by ex-Fairfax High School buddies Anthony Kiedis and Michael ‘Flea’ Balzary, the Chilis were ‘alternative’ long before ‘alternative’ became a thing.
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