Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea has revealed that he is using his band's previously reported hiatus to get ejikated. He told MTV News that he has enrolled at the University Of Southern California to study music theory, music composition and jazz trumpet.
He said: "Being in a band has been an education, and being on tour has been an education, so this is just me furthering my education in a different way. When I was a kid and it was time to go to college, I thought, 'College is for people who don't have the street smarts to make it on their own - get in a band, get in a van and get rockin'. That was a good philosophy for me at the time, [but] there were a lot of things I wanted to learn, and I want to learn them now".
He added that, after an uncertain start, he and his classmates are getting used to the situation. He continued: "At first there were a few looks, but everyone's so busy trying to learn. There's the occasional autograph or whatever, but it's just so not about that. It's about learning and studying music. I'm just another student trying to learn. I was running across campus with my backpack, and I didn't want to be tardy. I was thinking, 'What the fuck am I doing? I'm a 45-year-old rock star and I'm worried about being tardy?'"