History Trivia / RedHotChiliPeppers

* ThrowItIn: Originally, the final chorus of "Around the World" was going to include an actual set of lyrics in the second and fourth lines, but when Anthony Kiedis was struggling to come up with lyrics, he started to fill those lines with scatting, and when Flea's daughter Clara heard it and liked what she heard, the scat was eventually incorporated into the official part of the song at her request.

** As heard in pre-release interviews "One Hot Minute" would have featured "One Big Mob" seguing into "Stretch". However, "Stretch" was cut from the album and released as a b-side, with "Mob" simply fading out. The iTunes release of the LP features "Stretch" as an extra track, restoring the last few seconds of the segue at the start to show how it would have sounded.

* {{Defictionalization}}: A fan turned the fictional game from "Californication" music video into reality in 2022.

** After Frusciante left for the first time, Zander Schloss of Circle Jerks was called in to be his replacement, but again, he lacked chemistry with the band, and so an entire leg of the tour was cancelled (however, some still consider his four days with the band an official tenure - For a long time, he was listed as a full member at Wiki/TheOtherWiki).

* OlderThanTheyThink: "Baby Appeal" was written whilst Hillel Slovak and Jack Irons were still in the group and played live on a few occasions. This is often overlooked as it did not appear on their demo tape (having been written afterwards), instead being recorded for their first LP with Jack Sherman and Cliff Martinez.

** The band also vowed to NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals again after seeing the chimpanzee for their "Soul To Squeeze" video get abused by its trainer during the video's production.

* CriticalResearchFailure: For how much they praise it, the band's first demo tape has been treated very carelessly by them and their label. They have often referred to it as having 6 tracks - but it actually included 10 tracks, complete with drum intros, and was recorded in a studio (high quality rips of which have leaked). In effect, this consisted of 7 songs that were remade on their first two albums, and 3 of the band's joke songs they would sing as filler and in interviews. All the tracks bar one ("Dum Chucka Willie") were included on "Out In LA" - but from a lower quality cassette source without the drum intros, and more egregiously "Flea Fly" cuts off partway through. The remastered [=CDs=] of the band's first two albums only included 6 of the 10 tracks from the tape (demos of tracks that had appeared across the two albums, excluding "You Always Sing The Same"), which are from an even worse tape source than that on the Out In LA compilation, with loud hum in the intro of Nevermind in particular (especially noticeable because they directly sampled that into on the Freaky Styley album version, thus could have spliced it in if that were such an issue). The remaining track on Out In LA, "Stranded", would have been in EMI's archives in better quality given it was used on the 12" of "Jungle Man" several years earlier.

* BlackSheepHit: "Under the Bridge" was such a different type of song than they usually recorded that Kiedis initially didn't want to put it on the album. Of course, he did and it was a runaway success and possibly their best-known song. Due to its success, they have since created many more songs of this type on subsequent albums, to the point they started alternating between their classic FunkRock sound and this type of sound, sometimes within the same song (this is best heard on "Around the World," "Can't Stop" and "Tell Me Baby").

* BlackSheepHit: "Under the Bridge" was such a different type of song than they usually recorded that Kiedis initially didn't want to put it on the album. Of course, he did and it was a runaway success and possibly their best-known song.

** ''By the Way'' was, according to John Frusciante, originally intended to be composed of melodic songs inspired by English alternative rock and post-punk (i.e. Music/SiouxsieAndTheBanshees, Music/{{XTC}}, Music/TheSmiths, Music/PublicImageLtd), and rawer songs inspired by early punk rock (i.e. Music/TheDamned, Music/TheRamones, Music/TheGerms), but producer Rick Rubin encouraged the band to focus on the melodic songs. One of the punk songs, "Body of Water", was recorded and became a b-side on the "Zephyr Song" CD single.

** Dave Navarro is currently hosting the reality show "Ink Masters".
** Anthony Kiedis has had a few acting jobs too, most notably a short appearance in the film "Point Break".
** Josh has performed as a touring musician for Gnarles Barkley and sings lead vocals for his band Dot Hacker.
** Josh has appeared alongside Christina Aguilera in a 2011 World Hunger Relief PSA, playing an acoustic version of Aguilera's song "beautiful".

** To go along with the MusicThemeNaming of Magus' henchmen, [[Music/OzzyOsbourne Ozzie]] and [[Music/GunsNRoses Slash]], from ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', the {{crossdress|er}}ing Flea gets their name from the Red Hot Chili Peppers' own Flea.

* ReferencedBy: From ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'', aspiring guitarist [[DiscOneFinalBoss Akira Otoishi]] has an [[ShockAndAwe electricity]]-based [[FightingSpirit Stand]] designed after a {{kappa}} with the name of Red Hot Chili Pepper.