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New Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist not a magician
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 15 November 2011
Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea has said that it took some time to ‘click’ with the band’s new guitarist Josh Kilnghoffer when he replaced John Frusciante in 2009. He told Bass Player magazine that the unspoken “magic” connection he had with Frusciante when jamming new songs didn’t immediately appear with his new axe-wielding colleague.
Says Flea: “John and I had established such a language together – if I started playing bass with John, he’d make awesome grooves that we didn’t need to talk about or think about. With Josh, we’d start playing something and I’d be like: ‘Okay, when is he going to do that magic thing where we create the cosmic perfect groove?’ and he just wouldn’t do it. But then I realised that I was sitting there waiting for something because it’s what I was used to, and that I need to let Josh be Josh”.
