" True Men Don't Kill Coyotes" would be released as their first music video. "But we still did our best and wrote some good stuff with those two, especially ' Mommy, Where's Daddy.'" That song would feature a guest backing vocal by Gwen Dickey, who sang in the '70s disco group Rose Royce. He also stated that while Sherman and Martinez were part of the album, they probably should have stuck with Slovak and Irons. "Honestly, in retrospect, the smart thing to do would have been to try and keep Jack and Hillel there at least for the recording process to keep the original raw and rollicking rockin' feeling we had at the time and I think we would have made a more intense and to the point record, capturing deep hard groove," says Flea. Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Mommy, Where's Daddy?" Ah that was fun." In retrospect, Flea stated that while Andy and Gang of Four were an influence, he felt that Gill did not understand the album the band was trying to make. Andy responded in his dry holier than thou English way, 'Oh, how charming, bring it back for me will you?' So Anthony and I went into the bathroom down the hall and got a piece of cardboard and I rocked a big ol' duke on it and we brought it to the control room and set it down on the mixing board in front of him. As Flea would later reveal in the liner notes for the album, "At one point during recording, I said, 'I gotta go take a s-t'. That led to an incident between Gill and the band where they took out their frustrations by leaving a dump on the recording console for Gill. By the end of the sessions, Flea and I would literally stomp out of the studio into the control room, crawl over the console VU meters and scream, ‘F– you! We hate you!’” But I soon realized that Andy was going for a sound that wasn’t us.
Anthony Kiedis commented, "Andy's thing was having a hit at all costs, but it was such a mistake to have an agenda." He also wrote in his Scar Tissue book, “For the first couple of days in the studio, everything seemed fine. The group argued with Gill over the sound and has stated that they were not thrilled with the results of their debut disc. Probably my biggest contribution to them was to kind of get them to not concentrate too much on those punk rock songs and getting them to do the funkier thing."īut being a new band, there was a few growing pains. But the other stuff I thought was real interesting and cool. I thought that was not interesting - it was just sort of another take on punk rock.
At that time there were a lot of bands doing that super fast music, all over in two minutes. They, at that point in time, were doing their own kind of funky semi-rapped stuff and they also had these very fast, short, punk rock songs. They were very… they loved that sort of guitar music, funky guitar music I guess you could say. There’s a Gang of Four song called ‘Not Great Men,’ and they said that was the reason they started their band. He recalls, "When I first met (the Red Hot Chili Peppers), they were big fans. The band chose Gill to produce their album as he was a personal hero, having been a member of Gang of Four. Eventually, Slovak and Irons would return to the group, but Sherman and Martinez stand as the musicians of record on the self-titled debut.
But Jack actually turned them onto Funkadelic - they really didn't know about that, so he brought a bit of that to the band." The guitarist would not last the tour cycle with the band and eventually even sued the group over the emotional distress caused during his tenure. They were into their drugs at that point and there was a bit of a clash there. Producer Andy Gill told Diffuser, "Personality-wise, it was obvious he was not going to last. Sherman's time with the band was tumultuous, but also influential.
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