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The Red Hot Chili Peppers - 1983 - Club Lingerie, Los Angeles, CA.

Hillel SlovakThe BandRed Hot Chili PeppersFleaJack IronsY&T
1980s1983Home RecordingRareLiveyoutube

Recorded on July 18, 1983 · Club Lingerie, Los Angeles, CA. The Red Hot Chili Peppers were going to be a one-time act for a friend’s album release party. Forty years later the funk rock band is one of the best known and the longest running in the United States. Everything that happened in 1983 set the course for the rest of the band’s career. The scrappy band quickly rose to scene-wide fame, playing all over Los Angeles and gaining fans and media attention wherever they performed. Before the year was out, they had played approximately thirty shows, put together an early, beloved repertoire, recorded a blistering demo that secured them a recording contract with EMI/Enigma, and lost two of their founding members to a rival band. The Red Hot Chili Peppers: Anthony Kiedis - vocals; Michael "Flea" Balzary - vocals, bass; Hillel Slovak - guitar, backing vocals; Jack Irons - drums The Setlist : 00:00 Green Heaven (Intro missing) 03:30 Nevermind (Intro snippet) 03:41 Baby Appeal (the earliest known recording, maybe live debut) 08:02 You Always Sing The Same 09:05 Get Up And Jump 12:24 Scat 13:37 Nevermind 16:05 Fire (Intro missing)

About Hillel Slovak

Hillel Slovak (Hebrew: הלל סלובק; April 13, 1962 – June 25, 1988) was an Israeli-American musician, best known as the founding guitarist of the Los Angeles rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, with whom he recorded two albums. His guitar work was rooted in funk and hard rock, and he often experimented with other genres, including reggae and speed metal. He is considered to have been a major influence on Red Hot Chili Peppers' early sound. Born in Israel, he later moved to the United States. Slovak ...

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Added 3 May 2026



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