First Time Hearing the Red Hot Chili Peppers 🎵 Under the Bridge Reaction

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[@domdadomdom_2733]

It’s about Anthony Kiedis’ real life heroin addiction and living in LA, how he used to get high under the bridge downtown His autobiography Scar Tissue is amazing, even if you aren’t generally a reader, it’s fascinating

[@redhotchilifan98]

I'm not much of a reader but Scar Tissue I read twice

[@JerseyShoreOutDoors]

What he said

[@jeanninejones8350]

I am a reader and have recommended it to my friends. My daughter has mine now and I plan to read it again as soon as she brings it back.

[@opertinicy]

bingo. as you said, his autobio scar tissue is a really good read

[@MrSquare]

it is, apart from the bit where he admits to sleeping with a 14 year old unknowingly, and then sleeping with her again after he found out.

[@Black.Casper]

RHCP is a whole vibe & a half. You’ll get lost in their playlist without realizing you’ve been listening to them for hours.

[@sr.maggot3144]

I cant do that because songs like People=shit or Eyeless appear and my head needs to bang

[@OXHAMMERSTONE_NYC]

Rhcp are basically a funk band at their core

[@millardfilmore1403]

@@OXHAMMERSTONE_NYC i got into rhcp by first getting into flea playing bass. once that happens, you can just use his bass line as the foundation for the song and it all makes so much sense. and then you REALLY get into rhcp etc etc. but honing in on that bass line is what really brings the funk

[@KIRA-EL]

This is a spot-on description thank you you found the words I've been looking for forever to describe this band

[@sidviscous5959]

word

[@tskwerl]

Don't let this song fool you, the Chilis are wild boys.

[@dawgpound9624]

Lol yup. This is about as tame as you’ll see them

[@daninervo5717]

weird song to introduce someone to them lol Around The World or By The Way such a better representation of their sound

[@flapdrol75]

@@daninervo5717 Still one of their better songs on their best album imo.

[@alondor8157]

@@daninervo5717 Still personally one of, if not my fav RHCP song. It's just so beautiful.

[@lisavranesevic5754]

Lol socks come to mind 🤣

[@wittenhenderson875]

This song is about being a junkie in LA. The isolation and loneliness of having lost/pushed away all your friends and family and only having the city itself as a companion. Picture Anthony Keadus writing this under a bridge in LA while strung out on heroin and you'll get the vibe.

[@LumberjackJR]

Spot on perfect interpretation 👍🏼👍🏼

[@kyleboswell1381]

Deep, son, deep. 👏🏼👏🏼

[@oztron6335]

yee apparently keadus started singing on the way home from a gig and this song came out it’s when he felt so lonely after all those people screaming for him

[@ExpTube1969]

Besides, is a Beautiful piece of music.

[@nzmarco]

@@oztron6335 It was meant to be a poem he wrote. Rick Rubin convinced him to make it into a song.

[@RahimRahmat]

You know when you said the song was talking about drugs? You were not wrong, but you later thought you were. You know when you said the song was about the city of L.A. ? You were not wrong either. That is how this song became such a classic.

[@MarcosElMalo2]

I’m born and raised there, but I’ve been living down in Mexico for 11 years now. I don’t tell people I’m from the U.S., I tell them I’m from Los Angeles. It’s true that there are a lot of superficial people in L.A., but if that is all that one finds, then they’ve only taken a very superficial look. They didn’t get out of their cars. They stayed in their gated communities and only went to malls. There’s a lot more if you are willing to explore it and feel it.

[@tex10krunner]

This song is about heroine addiction. Listen to the chorus. Is where I drew some blood (Under the bridge downtown) I could not get enough (Under the bridge downtown) Forgot about my love (Under the bridge downtown) I gave my life away Yeah, yeah. Drew some blood is referring to sticking a needle in the arm. Users will pull a little blood out to mix with the drug.

[@chadphelps5809]

The chorus is I don’t ever wanna feel like I did that day.

[@tex10krunner]

@@chadphelps5809 sorry, English is my second language and I don’t know the layout of songs well

[@jameshannagan7830]

Its to make sure you hit a vein and not just skin popping so your high is way more intense you get blood both ways but you can apparently tell when you are mainlining I did plenty of dope mostly snorted though shooting is an entirely different high there was one girl I knew very pretty but a junkie but we were friendly and i let her shoot me up about 6 or 7 times and each time it was amazing you feel it in your legs first then bam boy was it hard not to do it all the time.

[@amberhoward7807]

wtf? I learn something new everyday I guess.... Not something I wanted to learn, but ok, ok... ahaha! Why do them mix it? I'm so confused...

[@basseon]

@@amberhoward7807 So you insert the needle in a vein, and you just pull the plunger a little bit (jacking) to make sure you're gonna inject in the vein (you see blood being pumped in the syringe if you're in the vein). So there's no mixing, it's just to make sure you didn't insert the needle through the vein, or not deep enough. If it's not in a vein, there's nothing happening when you pull on the plunger. You can see it in Pulp Fiction when Travolta does it, here at 0.50 : kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3zXdaSQnbafmrc You want to inject in the bloodstream, otherwise it's a waste, you don't get the hit, you loose almost everything.

[@TonyHavenMusic]

Fun fact, the choir singing at the end is actually just the guitarists mother singing the harmonies and layering them

[@fenderfox5080]

John Frucante is one of the great guitarists of my generation. This song is one of those ones we guitarists try to learn and isn't necessarily an easy one. They have great guitar and bass parts in all there songs that just go so well together, these guys are a legit group, no posers, they've put in the work and deserve to be heard, please check out some more from them. You'll dig it

[@keithferris9574]

He is so vastly underrated. The closest thing to Hendrix.

[@Lurch685]

He’s also a better singer then Kiedis

[@scratchpenny]

@@Lurch685 Agreed, but I always got the impression he couldn't handle being the lead in a band like RHCP. Anthony is a great front man, despite not being a great singer. You can't argue with this kind of success.

[@ZacCostilla]

John’s mom’s church choir sings backup in the chorus “Under the bridge downtown” towards the end.

*their songs

[@omegashinra7672]

God I love this band so much. There has never been anyone else like them and there never will be. So relaxed, so groovy, so funky, just the best.

[@nicholaswraywessel]

Been alot of bands like them they just get a spotlight (a rare thing happened for RHCP when they got noticed but then again they were crazy af and on drugs bad when they turned heads)

[@verbone]

This is about the singers' battle with depression and his past drug addictions.

[@martinpalomo5823]

Yea the lyrics are pretty straight forward lol

[@joshuarapp22]

@@martinpalomo5823 I mean only rlly at the end tho lol

[@Zyptic]

Song is about their band member dying from an overdose. "Where I drew some blood"

[@joshuarapp22]

@@Zyptic Anthony kiedis actually said it was about his own addiction and finally realizing he needed to turn his life around while under a bridge in la

[@verbone]

@@joshuarapp22 Exactly. He also said the song ws about him becoming sober and feeling very left out and isolated as everyone around him continued to party.

[@sarahzentexas]

RIP Hillel Slovak, a founding member who died of an overdose just after they made it big.

[@davidward9737]

FREAKY Stylie in 1984

[@NopeIDontthinkso]

He says, “Well I never worry, now that is a lie.”

[@El_Borrego_Negro]

It's about addiction, and the whole can of warms that comes with it

[@sumonjamal1653]

RHCP's vocalist Anthony Kiedis said he wrote this song as a somber poem reflecting on his heroin addiction while he was clean - this was after his friend Hillel Slovak, the band's early guitarist, died in 1988 from a heroin OD... Ironically, the current guitarist John Frusciante got hooked on heroin after he had quit the band after this record came out in 1991.

[@TheOneAndOnlyFloridaMan]

"Can't Stop" is another great one from rhcp. Also, if you're not sure if it's a solo, it's not a solo lol.

[@victorcoburn2791]

They're cover of "Higher Ground"-Stevie Wonder is F'n AWESOME!

[@carmengrisham1748]

Yes yes yes

[@voidwraithprime8521]

This album is one of the greatest of all time. Check out "Suck my Kiss", "Righteous and the Wicked", and "Give it Away" from the same Chili Peppers album.

[@chrisrichardson5641]

Mothers Milk puts this album to shame.

[@voidwraithprime8521]

@@chrisrichardson5641 That's easily the hottest take I've heard since someone said "St. Anger wasn't THAT bad." Kudos.

[@chrisrichardson5641]

@@voidwraithprime8521 RHCP was my favorite band until this song/album. Like Metallica fans and the Black album, thought they sold out. Little did I know, this album changed their progression in to something amazing.

[@jameshannagan7830]

I like Stadium Arcadium as far as their best all-around album.

[@Daniel.Miranda]

Suck my kiss does nothing for me.. love rhcp though Californication is my fave album by them I never skip a song

[@CW_9]

I highly recommend "Wet Sand" and "Slow Cheetah" by RHCP. John Frusciante is one of the greatest guitarists of all time. This band is worthy of a deep dive into their discography.

[@Doc_Holiday86]

Under The Bridge is a song about both the isolation of addiction and recovery. “What that was referring to was a point in time about five years ago when I had nothing in my life, no friends or no places to live, no car or relationship with my family.” -Anthony Kiedis

[@danebillups1441]

Have to do "Soul To Squeeze" and/or "Breaking The Girl"

[@react2reactions246]

+1 for Breaking the Girl, love that track

[@joehynes5452]

Breaking The Girl is the best track on BSSM imo

[@danebillups1441]

Agreed.

[@natashajones545]

Yessss Soul to Squeeze!

[@andrewlegget1848]

‘It made me want to go down memory lane, but a dark memory lane I don’t want to go down’. It’s funny, but without really understanding the back story as it was their first time listening to RHCP, Brad nailed the meaning of the song. Great work guys.

[@coreyrees840]

Singing about LA if I’m not mistaken and drugs of course lol

[@raggmedia]

This song takes me back, great reaction

[@jahrolo]

it´s 30 years old, can you believe it?

[@raggmedia]

@@jahrolo don’t say that please

[@jahrolo]

@@raggmedia sorry bro :D

[@christopherlopez8541]

***Also, They were crazy AF when they came out in the early 80s. See, "True Men Don't Kill Coyotes". We had never seen or heard anything like it before. As teenagers we'd drive down to TJ,. Mexico to see them play at a place called, "Iguana's". They matured beautifully from their first album to their excellent, "Calfornication" cd. They're definitely an acquired taste (and like no other band in existence).

[@Jedi-Biggs]

One of the most beautiful rock n roll songs ever created in my opinion.

[@R.Nashoba]

The album Blood Sugar Sex Magic is epic! ❤

[@paulosergio-yi9jr]

This band is one of a kind, different of anything else...

[@Duane_Grabert]

One of my favorite songs from these guys is can't stop.

[@genied238]

This song hit's home because my brother lived this exact life style in the same exact city. Once he got clean 30 years later, he bought all Red Hot Chili Peppers CD's, now I know why. Relatable to him and also they are amazing.

[@frankgarcia1]

I really like the chemistry with the two of you honestly. I saw this band on this tour a long time ago (yes Im old). This shit was gooood though. Pearl Jam/Smashing Pumpkins/Red Hot Chili Peppers.

[@harrypothead42024]

This WHOLE ALBUM is greatness

[@ihadadogtwice27ordidi65]

I'll never forget coming back from basic this being the very first song I heard it is now my favorite

[@spiderman4x]

So many high school parties listening to this song on repeat and everyone singing the chorus.

[@JMulvy]

Brad: "This is a song that I would sing at the top of my lungs and would totally annoy you." Me: I do the same thing but I do it with the type of music Lex prefers.

[@ghostreviver4646]

love that "- you shouldent stop when its a guitar solo?" "- It hasn't started yet" :)

[@TexasPride62]

Just love to see Brad to smile so much.

[@chrischaman8345]

I love the RHCP, especially the Bassist Flea is one my all favorites Bassists, Check out Californication, it's great song that Lex might related, takes on Hollywood 👌

[@donnazasgoat2274]

I love Flea's bass playing. So funky. He was briefly in Jane's Addiction along with Dave Navarro. Jane says is a great song.

[@edminchau811]

Flea is also an excellent trumpet player, and has been compared to Dizzy Gillespie.

[@MrKrushgutz]

I think people just subscribe to this channel for Lex because she gets music.

[@OCRay1]

Memories of junior high. Awesome song!!!!! Awesome time!!!!

[@coynieuk]

All he Best and keep up the imaginative and highly articulate descriptions of these tracks you are right more then you are wrong Long Live Brad & Lex See Brad can smile hes a soft metal Ballads Boy and Lexi is a Rock Chick and head banger

[@imnotanalky]

This might be the only song that was played once every 10 minutes on the radio and I didn’t get tired of it. The guitar work doesn’t get much better. Need more ax players who live Hendrix in the world

[@chrislc35]

its about time you 2 did foo fighters "the pretender", that or Queens of the stone age " no one knows". classics. the foo fighters lead singer, was the nirvana drummer, and also drums on that queens of the stone age song. :) you would love em, particularly Lex :)

[@leongaletovic598]

They should do anything from qotsa

[@TheOneAndOnlyFloridaMan]

Both of those are great songs!

[@sarleywinkle]

Do it

[@jamellelangfordiii3586]

Dude!! Lex would LOVE QOTSA!

[@hw2508]

Mexicola from QOTSA or Song for the Deaf

[@iulia.bianca.b]

First time seeing Brad smiling in a reaction video, and I've watched sooo many of them 😄❤️ I'm on the same page, I love Red Hot Chili Peppers.

[@ARJ11569]

Love this whole album!!

[@martinw2235]

The live version of their song Don’t Forget Me that was played at Slane Castle is an amazing one to check out.

[@carmengrisham1748]

Sooo beautiful John's guitar makes me cry

[@PaulChapmanPcTech]

You 2 are fun to watch, when it comes to this song, I can tell ya this. I used to work overnights at a gas station where I would be lucky to get 3 customers in a 9 hour shift. It became boring real quick so I started to bring a boombox, and this CD, I would snag a 12 pack of Budweiser and bring my RC monster truck and run over packs of cheap smokes and play scratch tickets all night just to kill the time. But I played this CD over and over so many times I could sing you the lyrics backward. Check Out Sir Pysco Sexy on the same album

[@Kipperbob]

Learnt to play this song on guitar and sing it back when it was a chart topping hit, it's one of those tunes, always a hit on the beach around the campfire on a summers night. It's a good tune for acoustic guitar.

[@fjsolossa29]

Under the bridge, californication, scar tissue, otherside, snow, dark necessities are the chill songs. Give it away, sir psycho sexy, aeroplane, can't stop, hump de bump, and around the world, in other hand were the funky and wild one

[@RakuRoballos]

She's right, the intro is called a Riff, a Solo is another section of a song, but also a song can start with a solo, but never happens, or at least i didn't remember hear anyone. I love your RCHP reactions, excelent content ♥ Saludos de Argentina wachoo postscript: his song was written by Anthony (the vocalist) in a time when one of his best friends die cause of an heroin overdose and he was felling like he was appart of the reality and he didn't fit in anywhere, he felt alone in the world and due to the death of his best friend, after a while, he left the addiction that he also had and obviously the whole descent came to him, which made him feel that way and write that song.

[@flysi01]

My favourite band of all time. Incredible live act, John Frusciante is a God on the guitar. The album this is from, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, and Californication, By The Way & Stadium Arcadium are incredible, as are their other albums. Just fucking brilliant

[@MrScoop156]

I love you guys!

[@michaelrainerii3547]

Good review 👍🏾

[@BH-rx3ue]

Your next song's gotta be "sir psycho sexy". LOVE that song. XD

[@Cheesusrice69222]

Propping her up on the black nd white

[@ocat1979]

Like a ram ready to jam tha lamb 🤣

[@dustinclemons6989]

As a grown ass man🤔 what you described her,! is how I feel😅 I have all the softness and cuteness that I need but, when I hear music, I need it to be extreme🤘🤘 lol 😆🤣😂

[@Charsept]

You guys seem like really nice people and I mean that in the best way possible :)

[@shawnk7832]

You two nailed it!!! Los Angeles!!!

[@slopez6258]

After seeing your Sublime reaction and now RHCP I think you guys would love the Foo Fighters 😁 awesome band and love your channel btw

[@ShagGnarok]

I’m so happy you guys are getting into RHCP

[@JonnyQuest64]

First I seen your alive godsmack reaction and now the chili peppers! I used to have both on a CD I took to work roofing during some of the best times of my young adult life. Brings back some really good memories hearing this again but I certainly don't miss the job 😆

[@kennylaysh2776]

omg, I grew up hearing this band, lol. They have so many honestly good songs! My parents didn't let me listen to them, so I just listened to them all the time on headphones, lol.

[@dcwriter6780]

Everything from this album and around this time brings back so many memories for me haha, like a totally other life ago

[@Dog_will_hunt]

Damn, you just gave me chills. 100% relate. A TOTALLY OTHER LIFE AGO. 52 now.

[@chrishoopengarner2940]

Flea is an amazing bassist , he has his own unique way in mastering the slap bass technique

[@CourtneyJones1979bird]

This was one of my favorite songs when it came out, when I was in junior high school, and I would play it on repeat. Drove my sister crazy.😂

[@reymontcantil199]

Lex your hair is awesome for this video!!

[@sourgir-wh6xd]

RHCP are definitely worth getting to know better. There's a reason they're still around and still very relevant to this day ✌❤🔥

[@mattmarcotte5476]

"never interrupt a solo" is a great rule... If you legit haven't heard a song it's not always easy. The sing is about LA as per every RHCP song.

[@brooklynbnutterflyarts4646]

I dont believe its the first time you guys hear all of these songs, but I go along with it because you guys are fun reactors

[@sharonunfiltered]

I remember buying this album in the 90s followed by their earlier ones. Wonderful band.

[@kdbadk]

He wrote this after walking around in LA for hours, remembering his friend who od'd. They used to score heroin under a bridge there.

[@ZacCostilla]

This is some of John Frusciante’s best playing. Lots of the runs the Hendrix used (inspired by Curtis Mayfield). But not enough people talking about Flea’s bass. It’s a counter melody during the verse, and goes to a more foundational p,aging during the chorus, but always more than the old root/fifth cliches.

[@stevenfehrenbach5343]

The chili peppers have so many great songs. I hope you react to more of their music. Their early music is straight up funk, then they slowly transitioned into rock.

[@marchamill8530]

This song means so many different things to different people. It was about drugs but is a very emotional song with great lyrics that can be interpreted in different ways. Classic. 🔥

[@chrisrichardson5641]

Old school Peppers were loud funk punk, newer Peppers are radio friendly . This song was the start of their transition.

[@db212006]

k now you HAVE to react to "TOOL - Ænema" another song about L.A. and just so happens to be one of their most famous songs. Pretty Please!?! I love hearing the perspectives you both have of hating L.A. and it just so happens to be the same perspective as Meynards.

[@zavieangithiomi1227]

This is tune !!!

[@christinewaide5249]

She would LOVE their other songs! 💕💕

[@brentrhodes3529]

We know Jinjer is where she's at🤘looks all sweet and innocent but watch out Lol.

[@brownbenplumm9027]

Listen to Power of Equality off the same album. Actually, listen to any song off that album, they’re all A+

[@angelalurtz3638]

First! 😂 I love this song, and a lot of RHCP actually

[@hw2508]

One of the greatest bands of now almost the last 40 years. I love Scartissue. And there are so many great songs.

[@vichi2059]

The acoustic version of this song on a boat is a must listen. By the way, Pantera - No Good (Attack The Radical)

[@bmarie8939]

The bridge he is singing about is an actual bridge in Los Angeles he would go under to score herion and shoot up. He refuses to say where the bridge is.

[@trblmakr7572]

You just nailed it dude

[@masonbauer1266]

This song has been my favorite since it came out, I now understood listening to Brad how I am truly a plain white boy from Nebraska. Lex has the wonderful soul of understanding life.

[@itswrongtokillanimalsifyou2837]

Breaking The Girl is another great one by RHCP.

[@Dios67]

"Under the bridge downtown is where I drew some blood" ...it's chill alright, get it?

[@soakedbearrd]

One of the songs that got me to like rock as a teenager when all I was listening at that time was hip hop. Now I’m straight metalhead, lol evolution. Also Lex it makes sense that you like classical music because most metal heads like classical as well. And Brad I’m glad you liked the song, it’s definitely a good song that’s a good gateway song into rock.

[@hectordelacruz5222]

I really enjoy your channel.. RCHP Fan since 89

[@UnifiedMinds11]

Songs definitely about doing heroine under a bridge, and almost dying, hence giving his life away.

[@thebluemarvel1111]

Such a great band. Been listening to them since the 80s

[@willpatterson4866]

So amazing.

[@DustyJones1997BGCL]

My first ever CD I got for radio was the Red Hot chili peppers and it was this album and I fell in love with the song under the bridge.

[@TROUSDALE1313]

One of my all time favorite songs!!

[@jksinorbit]

God I remember this coming out on the radio for the first time like it was yesterday… dang im getting old. Nostalgia is pretty intense when get to middle age….

[@reanimated]

We sang this SO MUCH in high school.

[@Sparadokos]

I love the way Brad loves and respects Lex

[@DavidJohnson-yy9rd]

What a beautiful song!

[@ivorydove28]

this song got me thought some really bad times growing up love this song

[@stevemontross9388]

Anthony lays it all out there. This is what went down and what he came back from. To boil that down and speak it in a song that rises to a place of triumph and honesty is one of hundreds of reasons rhcp are so deserving of the love they get back.

[@redhotchilifan98]

I saw them live for the first time in 2012 it was one of those concerts that's hard to describe when they played this song all 20,000 of us sang it together its a song that everyone can use to pinpoint their own life experiences one of my favorite bands ever

[@deeg8849]

All hail John. Welcome back brother