太长了，分三篇。 杂志扫图： http://ppt.cc/6hmV http://ppt.cc/OOip http://ppt.cc/EJY2 http://ppt.cc/F;ae 博客来有得买 http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/magazine/mag_retail.php?item=F030044982 GET THE FUNK OUT Guitar World Magazine – October 2011 FIVE YEARS AFTER THEIR LAST ALBUM, THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS RETURN WITH A NEW FRET-BURNING GUITARIST AND THEIR SIZZLING 10TH DISC, I’M WITH YOU. ANTHONY KIEDIS AND JOSH KLINGHOFFER FIRE OFF ABOUT THE FUNKY MONKS’ LATEST MUSICAL ADVENTURES. 距离上张专辑的五年之後，呛辣红椒带着新吉他手，以及第十张专辑"I’M WITH YOU"回 来了。 FOR DECADES, VENICE BEACH, CALIFORNIA, has been the refuge of hipsters, free spirits and outsiders of every description. So it’s no surprise to find Red Hot Chili Peppers singer Anthony Kiedis here on a blustery early summer day. He’s turned up for a photo shoot in a studio just off the famed Venice boardwalk, where one can get one’s palm read or face painted, or buy incense, essential oils or Rastafarian T-shirts from an array of vendors. 几十年来，加州的威尼斯海滩一直是嬉皮、自由主义者与边缘人的避难锁。因此，AK出现 在这并不意外。他将在威尼斯的海滨长廊附近的工作室拍摄宣传照。 Anthony Kiedis himself is quite a sight, tricked out in a manner that suggests the early years of the 20th century—waistcoat, shirt collar buttoned all the way up, an abbreviated mustache and hair combed over one eye. making him look, oddly enough, like Adolf Hitler. He’s accompanied by the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ newest guitar player, Josh Klinghoffer. The two men are a study in contrasts. Compact and talkative, Anthony Kiedis has obviously dressed up for the day’s photo shoot. Josh Klinghoffer—tall, slouchy, unshaven and so painfully quiet it can be physically exhausting to draw a few sentences from him—is dressed down in formless trousers, a T-shirt and windbreaker. Anthony Kiedis and Josh Klinghoffer share a quick laugh over their contrasting sartorial choices, then fall to quietly examining the curious selection of funky old guitars that Josh Klinghoffer has brought down for the shoot: a yellow Harmony Stratotone Newport from 1952, an equally archaic Silvertone, and an Airline with a broken jack. AK的造型亮眼，宛如20世纪早期的打扮─背心、多扣衬衫，一小撮胡子以及侧分的头发， 让他看起来有那麽点神似阿道夫希特勒。他与红椒的新任吉他手Josh一同参与拍摄。两人 形成一种对比。简洁与健谈，AK显然为了拍摄特地做了造型。而Josh，高挑、懒散、满脸 胡渣，以及极度安静内向，从他的外型可以归纳出几点，穿着变形的长裤、简单的 T-shirt以及防风外套。两人互相挖苦了彼此的穿着後，随即开始挑选拍照要用的吉他。 Josh带来一把1952年，黄色的Harmony Stratotone Newport。 Josh Klinghoffer had a key role in making the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ new album, I’m With You, a standout disc that marks an intriguing new chapter in the band’s long creative history. It’s the first RHCP album in 12 years without the band’s longstanding guitarist John Frusciante, who left in 2009 to pursue new musical interests. Some wondered how the group would fare without John Frusciante’s wild imagination and well-honed song craft. But Red Hot Chili Peppers new and old have acquitted themselves beautifully. Josh在红椒的新专辑"I'm With You"中担任举足轻重的角色，这张杰出的专辑，为历史悠 久的呛辣红椒写下新的一章。这是红椒12年来，第一张John未曾参与制作的专辑，John於 2009年离开乐团，追寻自己的兴趣。有人会怀疑红椒们没了John的狂放想像力以及极佳的 技巧後，要怎麽继续下去。然而，新旧红椒们仍旧表现出色。 “I am the pathetic optimist in the band,” Anthony Kiedis says. “I just naturally think that things are going to go swimmingly well. That’s my department. Even when we were strung out and going down the drain faster than the blink of an eye, I felt like it’s all gonna be okay. It’s gonna work out.” AK： 「我是乐团中那个乐观到病态的人。我就是认为船到桥头自然直。这是我的专长。即使当 我们一团糟时，我还是觉得一切都会没事的，一定会搞定。」 And indeed it has. In many ways, Josh Klinghoffer is an ideal replacement for John Frusciante. For one thing, the two men are close friends; for another, Klinghoffer has collaborated with Frusciante on several solo projects. He’s also toured and/or recorded with PJ Harvey, Beck, Tricky and Thelonius Monster, among others, and leads his own group, Dot Hacker. 事实证明如此。从各方面来说，Josh是接替John的理想人选。一来，两人是好朋友，二来 ，Josh协助John数张个人专辑的制作。他同时也曾与PJ Harvey, Beck, Tricky 以及 Thelonius Monster共同巡回或是录制过专辑，除了这些，他同时也建立自己的乐团， Dot Hacker。 After years of supporting other artists musically, he was looking forward to doing his own thing but says he couldn’t turn down an offer to play with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. “I said to myself, God, you can’t say no to that,” he says, with a laugh. “Just being in the same room with these guys is an honor, let alone making sounds with them. They have such a history and connection with one another. I couldn’t have asked for a more welcoming group of people or situation. These are three people who deserve to be making music and to be making it with other people who care as much about it as they do.” 协助他人多年，他一直很想成就自己的事业，但他说他没法拒绝能跟红椒们一合作的机会 。他笑着说： 「我告诉我自己，天啊，你怎麽能拒绝呢！能跟这些人待在同一个房间就是一种荣幸，遑 论跟他们一起创作。他们之间的有着如此丰富的过往与连结。我不能要求更多了。他们三 人天生要做音乐的，而他们要与同样重视音乐的人一起工作。」 Josh Klinghoffer even provided the title for the new Red Hot Chili Peppers album. “I’m with you” is a phrase the guitarist saw scrawled on a wall en route to a Red Hot Chili Peppers rehearsal one day, but it also sums up his and the band’s current situation. He is indeed with them—for better or for worse, one might add, given the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ troubled legacy when it comes to guitarists. Josh甚至提供了新专辑的名称"I’m with you"，那是他们要前去排练的路上，一面墙上 涂鸦的句子，同时这句话也总结了他与乐团间的情形。他确实与他们同在，不论好坏，尤 其是呛辣红椒以吉他手问题而驰名。 “This is the first time I think since Mother’s Milk that someone besides myself titled a RHCP record,” Anthony Kiedis says. “And I was so happy to hear Josh come in with that idea, because it felt so right.” AK说： 「自从"Mother's Milk"以来，这是第一次，由我以外的人来决定专辑名称。我很高兴听 到Josh的这个想法，因为实在很符合。」 I’m With You is a strong disc and a worthy successor to the Frusciante-heavy trilogy—Californication, By the Way and Stadium Arcadium—that brought the Red Hot Chili Peppers to new heights of success in the first decade of the 21st century. Klinghoffer shares Frusciante’s experimental edge and offbeat tonal adventurousness. Just listen to the new guy attack the outro to “ Goodbye Hooray,” one of many standout tracks on I’m With You, tearing off angular, frenetic lead lines worthy of Steve Howe on “Gates of Delirium.” With an arsenal of archaic thrift shop guitars and more-upscale vintage gear, Klinghoffer is ready to follow the Chili Peppers’ restless muse wherever the trail may lead. "I’m With You"是一张强烈的专辑，绝对足以继承John的三部曲─Californication, By the Way 与 Stadium Arcadium─这三张专辑在21世纪的前十年，将呛辣红椒推向高峰 与成功。Josh同样具有如同John一般的实验风格与另类曲调的冒险精神。从新专辑中的杰 作之一的"Goodbye Hooray"便可听出，这个新人的狂放风格(tearing off angular, frenetic lead lines)。带着他的古董吉他以及年代更久远的器具，Josh已经准备好与红 椒走向未来。 But while he shares a certain core aesthetic with John Frusciante, he is very much his own man. Where Frusciante is epic in scope, piling on the guitar, keyboard and vocal orchestrations, Klinghoffer is more inclined to make a telling statement with a single plaintive guitar line or artfully chosen chord sequence. He possesses a unique chordal sensibility, one that’s harmonically evolved but never flashy in an over-cooked jazz way. 虽然他与John有着类似的观点，但他仍有自己的风格。John拥有高超的吉他天份，同时擅 长键盘与歌唱的编排。Josh则是更为倾向利用一段忧伤的吉他曲调或是巧妙搭配和弦以阐 述歌曲情境。他具有独特的和弦敏感度，一种和声式地长成，在过度的爵士风中也不显得 俗媚。 Josh Klinghoffer’s style is ideally suited to I’m With You. It’s one of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ most reflective albums, the work of a group that has been through many heavy changes but has still come out on top. There’s been no shortage of ups and downs in the years since the Chili Peppers’ 1984 emergence as a new breed of punk funk pranksters, up from the smoggy streets of L.A. Josh的风格十分适合新专辑。这绝对是最能反映呛辣红椒的专辑之一，这个团体曾经历过 数次剧变，但仍然重反高峰。於1984年自洛杉矶街头成军的红椒们，这些年来不乏高潮起 伏。 Not long thereafter, in 1988, their first guitarist, Hillel Slovak, died of a drug overdose. Thus began a decades-longchain reaction of flip-outs, rehabs, and guitarists coming and going almost faster than anyone could keep track. “ There are some we hired for, like, a week,” bassist Flea says with a laugh during a phone call a few weeks after the Venice photo shoot. Newfound sobriety fueled Californication and its two successors. The trilogy is like a triumphant sprint out of the dark forest. But on I’m With You, the band gives itself space to pause for a pensive glance over the shoulder. There are ruminations on death, aging and getting your life together for a glorious second act. But for all its wistful gravitas, I’m With You also contains some of the most joyous and youthfully life-affirming songs in the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ canon. And young Josh Klinghoffer has a guitar tone, riff or color for all these moods. 成军後不久，1988年，他们的第一位吉他手Hillel Slovak便死於药物过量。接着便展开 了数十年的变动、勒戒以及吉他手的来来去去。贝斯手Flea接受电话采访时笑说：「当时 有些人我们大概只用了一星期吧。全新开始的Californication与之後的两张专辑。这三 部曲就宛如是极度低潮後的胜利。而在"I’m With You"中，乐团给自己一些空间，停下 来思考。专辑中说着死亡、年老以及重振生活准备迎接第二段开始。除了这些严肃的议题 ，新专辑同时也包含了红椒擅长的，最欢乐与具朝气的人生定义的歌曲。Josh为这些歌曲 的意境献上了他的riff与色彩。 “Josh is a subtle, sublime and poetic musician,” Flea says. “He’s not this guitar virtuoso/guitar hero guy. He’s a real all-around musician. He plays drums and piano as well as guitar, so he gets a real big picture of the music and has a real intuitive sense of when something is serving the song or not. He puts chords together in a beautiful, unique, Josh kind of way. At the same time he’s very rooted in traditional songwriting and the traditional way chords move. He really has his own take on it and pumps up the system. And he has a very warm, beautiful sound on the guitar.” Flea说： 「Josh是一个细心、出众且具诗意的音乐人。他不是那种吉他大师级的人。但他是全能音 乐人。他的鼓和钢琴都弹得像吉他一样好，所以他可以从宏观的角度看音乐，并且对歌曲 适性与否有极佳的直觉。他将和弦以美好且独特的方式组合起来，一种Josh式的方式。但 同时他又是一个很传统的创作者，用很传统的方式编写。他真的有他的一套运用系统的方 式。而他的吉他有着相当温暖美丽的声调。」 But Flea wasn’t always so gung-ho for the new guy. If Anthony Kiedis is the band’s self-pro-claimed “pathetic optimist,” Flea tends to skew the other way. At first he didn’t want to continue the band without John Frusciante. 但是Flea必不是一开始就这麽适应这位新人。如果AK自称自己是乐观到病态，那麽Flea就 是他的相反。最初，他甚至不愿继续没有了John的乐团。 “Oh. I’ve considered pulling the plug a million times,” he confides. “That ’s nothing new for me. Things get to be a bummer and I start going, ‘Mmm, this is kind of a drag.’ And I just couldn’t imagine doing it without John. When he did up and leave, though, some time went by and I just started feeling this deep love for the band and wanted to continue it. Plus, I missed Anthony. So we got Josh.” The newest Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist is appreciably younger than the other Chili Peppers. But that doesn’t seem to be an issue for anyone. “I’ve always been the youngest one in most performing situations,” Klinghoffer says. “The funny thing is, I’m probably in the worst shape, physically, of all the guys in the Red Hot Chili Peppers. But being in this band doesn’t feel too dissimilar to anything I’ ve ever done before. I’m just making music with people I love, which I have a habit of doing. I’ve never done anything other than what I love.” Flea坦承说： 「我确实想过好多次不干了。觉得之後一定会超无聊，觉得有点讨厌了。而我也无法想像 没了John後要怎麽做下去。当他真的决定离开时，经过一段时间後，我才开始感受到我多 爱这个乐团，我想继续下去。加上，我很想念AK。所以我们找到了Josh。」 这位新红椒显然比其他人年轻许多。但这似乎不成问题。 Josh说： 「我在做演出时，往往都是最年轻的那一个。有趣的是，我却也是红椒里最体型最糟糕的 一个。但是在这个团里并不会跟其他我从事过的有太多的不同。我只是跟我喜欢的人一起 创作，而我一直都在创作。我绝不会去做其他我不喜欢的事。」 Klinghoffer isn’t bluffing about that. He decided to devote his life to music at age 15, promptly quitting high school, and forsaking the L.A. suburb of Northridge to pursue his craft. Before long, circa 1997, he fell in with L.A. underground music stalwart Bob Forrest of Thelonius Monster fame, joining Forrest’s new band at the time, the Bicycle Thief. Which is how Flea and Kiedis first became aware of Josh Klinghoffer. Josh并没有夸大。他在15岁就决定将人生奉献在音乐上，从高中辍学後，离开洛杉矶的市 郊以追寻他的事业。约在1997年，他遇见了地下音乐的中坚份子Thelonius Monster的 Bob Forrest，并且加入了他的新乐团the Bicycle Thief。这也是Flea与AK注意到Josh的 开始。 Anthony Kiedis recalls, “Bob Forrest is a good friend of mine, and I remember he was over the moon at having found what he thought was the next musical messiah from the San Fernando Valley. Bob brought me over to his house to play me early recordings of the Bicycle Thief. That’s where I first heard Josh. I think a little bit of destiny was planted at the moment. Bob has a way of matchmaking. I guess you could say. I think he knew Josh would be good for our band years before I even considered it.” AK回想说： 「Bob Forrest是我的好朋友，他那时说着他在San Fernando Valley找到他觉得会是音乐 未来的东西。Bob带我到他家，放Bicycle Thief的初版录音给我听。那是我第一次听到 Josh。我想这有一点天注定的感觉，在那个时候就种下了。Bob在牵线这方面挺有一套的 。我猜你可以说，我想他在我还没察觉之前，就知道Josh会很适合我们这个乐团。」 It would take some 14 years for that destiny to be fulfilled. From a distance, it looks as if Frusciante’s departure from the Peppers and Klinghoffer’s arrival in the band was a neatly managed transition, almost as if Frusciante chose and installed his close friend as his successor. Klinghoffer first performed with the Peppers in 2007, as an auxiliary guitarist/keyboardist/backing vocalist for the final leg of the Stadium Arcadium tour, when Frusciante was still in the band. Then, in May 2009, Klinghoffer, Kiedis, Flea and Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith performed with Ron Wood and Ivan Neville at a MusicCares benefit in L.A., billing themselves as the Insects. Frusciante was not present that evening. The next thing anyone knew, Frusciante was out and Klinghoffer was in. But Kiedis laughs at the suggestion that the transfer of the RHCP guitar role was a premeditated hand-off. “The invisible powers that be, maybe they had a neat transition in mind.” he says. “But to us mere mortals on earth, the whole thing was a little less obvious.” 不过这个天注定花了14年才成形。事情看起来是John自红椒离团後，Josh便很恰巧的加入 完成了交接，然而更像是John早就决定希望由这位好朋友来接替他。Josh於2007年第一次 与红椒一起演出，担任辅助的吉他手、键盘手与合音，当时John还在团里。接着，2009年 5月，Josh、AK、Flea与Chad便一起出席MusicCares的慈善演出。当时John并未现身。接 下来大家都知道了，John退出，Josh加入。但AK对这个吉他手经过计画式的交接的说法一 笑置之，他说： 「或许他们会觉得有股隐形的力量推动了这个巧妙的接替，但对微小的我们而言，整件事 并不特别。」 Flea adds, “I thought about different guitar players and stuff, but it really came down to the fact that Josh is family.” Flea补充： 「关於吉他手这些事，我想真正的事实是，Josh是我们的一份子。」 The new Red Hot Chili Peppers lineup officially got down to business on October 12,2009, convening at a North Hollywood rehearsal hall to begin songwriting for the album that wouldbecome I’m With You. En route to the rehearsal, they got the news that their old friend Brendan Mullen had passed away. A key mover and shaker on the L.A. punk/underground arts scene, Brendan Mullen had started the legendary punk venue the Masque. As a teenager, Anthony Kiedis would stay up late to hear his father, the actor and scenester Blackie Dammett, recount tales of decadent nights out at the Masque. Later on, Mullen gave the Red Hot Chili Peppers one of their first big career breaks, opening for the Bad Brains at another seminal L.A. rock venue. Club Lingerie. And as the newly reconfigured RHCP began jamming in North Hollywood, the music that emerged became a tribute to their departed comrade, “Brendan’s Death Song.” In many ways, it became a keynote song for the album then taking shape. “It’s amazing how that song came about,” Flea marvels. “Brendan died on his birthday. And it was our new band’s birthday. ” 全新的呛辣红椒於2009年10月12日正式成军，於西好莱坞的排练厅中创作新专辑中的歌曲 。在此时，他们的老朋友Brendan Mullen却过世了。一位洛杉矶庞克/地下艺术的主要推 手，他於Masque创立了传奇的庞克殿堂。青少年时期的AK，便时常彻夜听着自己的父亲 Blackie Dammett讲述着在Masque的那些荒唐故事。不久之後，Brendan Mullen便给了呛 辣红椒们事业上的第一个突破，让他们位Bad Brains的演出做暖场。因此当这个新组成的 呛辣红椒在西好莱坞开始jamming时，音乐则变成对这位逝去的夥伴的致敬，"Brendan’ s Death Song"。从各个面向来看，这首歌成了新专辑的基调。 Flea惊讶地说到： 「这首歌的诞生很奇妙。Brendan在他生日那天过世，而那天也是我们重生的日子。」 “We just plugged in and that’s what came out,” Kiedis says. “You get in a room and you start playing music,” Flea adds. “We start playing, and all of a sudden I forget that I’m playing. You get into this ecstatic state where it ’s kind of a hypnotic thing that just starts flowing and it’s beautiful. You feel complete.” Not that the process was entirely easy at first. “It’s been really exciting, because Josh is such a different player than John.” Flea says. “His approach is completely different. But that was also a little challenging in the beginning. John and I had developed such an extensive musical language together that we both knew really well. With Josh, that wasn’t instantly there. What I needed to learn was to let go and let Josh do what Josh does. And as soon as I would let go and just let Josh be Josh, something really beautiful would happen and we’d have a great song or a great piece of music.” AK说：「我们一如往常的开始，而歌曲就这样诞生了。」Flea补充说：「你走进一个房间 ，然後开始弹奏音乐。我们就是开始弹，然而突然间我竟然忘记我正在弹奏。当你入神到 这个程度时，就有点像是被催眠了，音乐很自然的流动着，真的很美妙。你觉得一切都完 整了。」然而这一切并非一开始就很顺利。Flea说： 「这很刺激，因为Josh跟John完全不一样，他的做法完全不同。一开始确实有点挑战。因 为我和John已经建立了许多我们之间的音乐语言。和Josh一起并没有办法立即上手。因此 我必须学着放手，让Josh去做他要做的。当我放手，让Josh做他自己时，好事就这样发生 了，我们就有了很棒的歌，或是很棒的节奏。」 --

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