what happened? red chili peppers? They’re dominating the stage, doubling their capacity as they did this Tuesday, without releasing the most exciting album in their history lately. olympic stadiumReplaces the usual Palau Sant Jordi at the Barcelona stop on the tour ‘unlimited love’. An insatiable and cross-generational appetite to see this Californian giant, the creator of a fibrous sound label at the expense of blending hard rock and funk, and the owner of ‘hits’ spanning thirty long years.
power demonstrationeven without selling the entire newspaper, it summoned 49,000 attendees (according to broadcaster Live Nation) in the middle of the week of ‘spring’ hegemony after filling La Cartuja in Seville on Thursday. Stadium concert returned with themthree years after the last one that venue lived in full format, before covid-19 Ed Sheeran in June 2019. Large-format rock preceded a performance by strong rapper New Yorker Nas, set the stage with a powerful ‘set’ backed by a ‘dj’ and a thumping drummer, pulling numbers like ‘Made you look’ and ‘One mic’. ‘.
Improvisation in the stadium
Red Hot Chili Peppers manages to continue to convey an emotion. having fun group and this is apt for improvisation, an exercise not so common in a stadium where everything is estimated in millimeters. Sing to open the session, relax the muscles and lubricate the parts. image on screens john fruscianteguitarist and prodigal son (and they’ve already gone twice) was widely applauded even though we already knew four workers were working here, and the bassist to escapepointed the field from the first minute with his jokes and ‘slaps’. From there to ‘Can’t stop’ and the welcome band ‘Dani California’ and ‘Around the world’ are songs from albums from the turn of the century that once added new fans.
Anthony Kiedis, bare-chested Iggy Pop is a singer with a miraculous sensitivity despite the strong nature of her ‘pepper’ voice and knows how to sound strong without having to shout. This has been appreciated in new songs that are richer in nuances and modulations, such as ‘Black Summer’, which has lyrical covid connotations. In another of these tracks, the one who took the lead on ‘Heavy wing’ was Frusciante, an otherwise overwhelming guitarist in his raids on the pole.
The perfect groove
While everything the band played obviously made the concert their own, the latest work has reserved some spaces for more serenity in the middle of the concert. They floating gutterWith a built-in alchemy between the four members, ‘Californication’, with quotations from Cobain and Bowie, is a warning cry of Western decadence, conveying tension into a repertoire that progresses in the final chapters. And other popular cards from Estadi: ‘nevermind’‘Under the Bridge’ halftime break, which praises financial generosity and reminds of the old days, the days of loss and drugs, is now happily overcoming.