In “The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel,” there’s a thrilling moment where we hear the band perform together for the first time. It’s Dec. 16, 1982, and three of the band’s members — the guitarist Hillel Slovak, the drummer Jack Irons, and the bass player Flea — have been playing in a group called What is This? It was Gary Allen, a musician, fashion maven, and gay Warholian scenester, who suggested that for a lark the three perform a short gig with Anthony Kiedis, their buddy from Fairfax High School, as lead singer.
Kiedis, a good-looking club kid who liked to do drugs and write rap poetry (he was in his homeless couch-surfing phase when Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s “The Message” spun his head around), had never thought of himself as a musician. That’s why he’d always stayed on the sidelines.
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