Nick Cave reflects on past “uncharitable remark” about Red Hot Chili Peppers: “I was a troublemaker, a shit-stirrer”

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Nick Cave has reflected on his previous “uncharitable remark” about the Red Hot Chili Peppers, admitting he was a “troublemaker, a shit-stirrer”.Allegedly, around some time in 2004, Cave was quoted saying: “I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.”Now, after being asked to expand on the truthfulness of that quote on his blog, Red Hand Files, Cave has addressed the comment and reflected on his words. “About twenty-five years ago, I made an offhand and somewhat uncharitable remark about the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

There was no malice intended, it was just the sort of obnoxious thing I would say back then to piss people off,” Cave wrote.A post shared by ARTE Concert (@arteconcertfr)He continued: “I was a troublemaker, a shit-stirrer, feeling most at ease in the role of a societal irritant.

Perhaps it’s an Australian trait among people of my generation, I don’t know, but that comment has followed me around for the last quarter-century.

But the most interesting aspect of all this is not what I said about the Chili Peppers, but rather the response from Flea, their bass player.”As a response to Cave’s comments about the band, Flea took to RHCP’s official website in 2006 and explained: “For a second that hurt my feelings because I love Nick Cave.