Red Hot Chili Peppers‘ Flea has looked back on his friendship with Andy Gill, saying that he “shaped my aesthetic and approach to music profoundly”.The bassist teamed up with his RHCP bandmate John Frusciante on ‘The Problem Of Leisure’, a forthcoming tribute album to the late Gang Of Four musician (out May 14).
Together the pair recorded a joint rendition of ‘Not Great Men’.Speaking in a new interview with The Guardian, Flea recalled how Gang Of Four’s debut album ‘Entertainment’ (1979) – on which the aforementioned track features – had “opened my mind to everything”.Gill, who died last year aged 64, went on to produce the Chili’s self-titled debut album (1984) – a process that was fraught with disagreements.
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