Red Hot Chili Peppers Unveil New Album During Soggy Denver Tour Opener: Concert Review
variety.comKyle Eustice A rain-pelted Saturday evening in a Denver stadium may not be the ideal setting for the Red Hot Chili Peppers to announce their new album — “Return of the Dream Canteen,” the group’s second full-length of 2022 — but the show must go on, and it did.The rain started mere minutes before the long-running quartet was scheduled to take the stage at Empower Field at Mile High, home of the NFL’s Denver Broncos.
While venue officials watched for lightning — which would have brought the concert to a screeching halt — they temporarily delayed the band’s arrival.
With each passing second, the crowd grew exponentially rowdier until it sounded like a stampede of actual broncos were descending on the stadium.
But after a brief delay, Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Chad Smith and prodigal guitarist John Frusciante — now on his third tour of duty as a Pepper — kicked off the North American leg of the “Unlimited Love” tour (which is named after their earlier album of this year, released in April).
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