Flea

I loved it.

I loved playing in an orchestra.

I loved playing.

I played in the L.A.

Junior Philharmonic for a little while until one day I got real stoned and went there and made a mistake.

And the guy put me out of the first chair into the junior chair and I was embarrassed and never went back.

No, our school didn't have it.

Like all the other schools had the big epaulets and the big fur hats and all that stuff.

And we didn't.

We just had t-shirts that said Fairfax Band on them.

Yeah, and we were terrible marchers.

We just kind of walked out into a clump in the middle of the field.

But we were good, though.

We were good.

We used to play Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder.

Which was Stevie Wonder's tribute to Duke Ellington.

And yeah, we were pretty funky.

I remember feeling excited about the music.

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.