Flea

And I knew that he was using all that pain and anger and fear and anxiety to

that had made him act like he did, using it in a really healthy way and turning it into something beautiful, transmuting all this pain and anger into something beautiful, this metamorphosis, this alchemy, which is music's greatest gift for him and for all of us who have enjoyed so much music that is made by people expressing their pain and fear and hope in sound.

When we recorded the track, when I played the trumpet for the track Willow Weep for me, I remember feeling a great deal of sadness.

And when I played that song, I remember feeling that, like, let me please, you know, let me let go of this and express it into something beautiful.

But I don't, you know, it's always a thing with me.

Like, I mean, for the Chili Peppers shows for the last 45 years, it's like,

I can't tell you how many zillions of time I get in and I'm like attacking my instrument and letting the rhythm throw me around like a rag doll on the stage that I'm hoping for healing and hoping for letting go of pain and anger and fear.

Jimmy Webb.

Because Nick is so good at a narrative.

Do you think it's because of that?

That's Deontay Parks, and he's a brilliant one-of-a-kind drummer.

Well, my reason for recording Wichita Lineman is because I've always loved that song since the first moment I heard it.

The version that I know, strangely enough, is not the Glen Campbell version, but the Meters version.

And I'm a big fan of the Meters.

And I...

I remember the first ever Chili Pepper tour, which was in 1980, like first real tour in 1984.

And, you know, we're sleeping in a van, driving in a van, playing, you know, clubs, every place that will have us all over the country.

And, you know, you bring your cassettes.

I had, you know, you make all your cassettes at home.

And I had one, my meters cassette.