Red Hot Chili Peppers

Kiedis / Flea / Frusciante funk-alt; Californication is the late-90s mass single.

Formed 1983. Mother’s Milk and Blood Sugar Sex Magik (Rick Rubin) are the hard-funk peak; Californication and By the Way add melodic ballad craft after lineup churn. Californication (1999) is the track listed here. The musical constants: Flea’s bass as lead instrument, Chad Smith’s pocket, Frusciante’s clean-to-crunch chord voicings.