Flea
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Well, I think, you know, from the jump, all of us... Literally jump.
Yeah, we wanted to be, from that point, from the first time we stepped on stage, we were intent on being the wildest band that ever existed on this planet.
And we wanted to express that in the way we dressed, the way we moved, the way we spoke.
We wanted to be shocking.
We wanted to cut a hole in the smoggy skies of Hollywood.
We wanted to be a beam of cosmic light that came out of Ornette Coleman's saxophone.
We wanted to – we just wanted to be wild.
Whatever – I was always a very physical person.
I always played sports.
I loved to dance.
I loved to move.
I found extreme freedom in movement and like that thing I talked about earlier about that state of enlightenment of getting beyond thought.
I often had that from physical movement and so that was just a big part of the whole operation.
And for all of us, you know, for all of us.
And we love movement.
We love dance.
We invented our own funny dances just to feel free, to feel alive, to be excited and to, you know, we're entertainers.
We wanted to do the thing.