Tuesday, June 15, 2004

Red Hot Chili Peppers at Murrayfield.




This was my first bona fide stadium gig, and although they were fantastic, the sound where we were sitting was pretty lousy - we were MILES away, out of the line of hearing of the delay speakers - sound and vision completely out of synch. We moved nearer at the end and it was much much better.

The main set was exclusively from the last 2 albums, just great song after great song, played with total musical brilliance and telepathy, veering off on and coming back from tangents. I was hoping they'd play all the songs I listened to when I was a 16-year-old angry middle class teenager in Surrey, but I accept is nothing more than classic old git gig behaviour.

To atone, they played 'under the bridge' (cig lighters everywhere) and 'suck my kiss' as encores - both total high points, with Flea the bassist at his legs akimbo 'rawk' bassism best, eliciting many hand-signs of the devil from all the sk8ter boys around us. (My god, I really am an old git!) John Frusciante was staggeringly good all night, which I find incredible seeing as 10 years ago he could barely play anymore.

We walked there and back - what a great city!

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