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Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist goes back to school
nme.com - 10/1/2008
Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist goes back to school
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Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea has enrolled in the University of Southern California (USC) music programme.

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Prefix:  Red Hot Chili Peppers: Flea goes back to school to learn about music. He just got an ‘F’ for Stadium Arcadium.

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News Ticker: Nine Inch Nails, Nils Lofgren, Flea and D’Angelo
Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily — ... With the Red Hot Chili Peppers in a hiatus, bassist Flea has enrolled in the University of Southern California’s music program. Flea hopes to better understand the “math and academics” of music structure. ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Flea goes back to school to learn about music. He just got an ‘F’ for Stadium Arcadium.
Prefix — ... in the composition. The Chili Peppers did that in our song structures but all based on emotion and intuition as opposed to knowing the math and academics of it. Knowing the structure is really fun."Flea s professors are teaching him musical composition, and he s teaching them the importance of good socks during performances. (I just got a call from 1998 demanding its joke back.) Flea also revealed that the Red Hot Chili Peppers are taking a two-year break from music. [ NME ]

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