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Despite young lefties having a sook that the Red Hot Chilli Peppers (who are playing the Russ Hinze Bowl tonight in the French Quarter) have only been playing their new stuff and extremely old stuff, a Sydney grandfather last night got his crump on after one of the deep cuts brought candid memories back to the surface.
“Track!” yelled Desmond Lee, a 90-year-old self described funktapus at the Chilli’s show in Sydney last night.
As Desmond bobbed up and down with the back beat, the youngsters around him wondered what the hell the song was the band was playing.
The track was ‘Sir Psycho Sexy‘, the sixteenth track on their 1991 breakthrough album Blood Sugar Sugar Sex Magik, is a song about a fictional character named Sir Psycho Sexy, though many see it as an exaggerated version of Anthony Kiedis, the band’s lead singer. Sir Psycho Sexy is telling a series of stories of bizarre sexual encounters from over the years.
The song is loaded with many sexual innuendoes, but also has its share of less-clever direct phrases (including Kiedis directly saying “Suck My D–k”). The straightforward dirty lyrics are much like the band’s 1987 song “Party On Your Pussy”, which they also played last night. Running at 8:17, this is the longest song the Chili Peppers have released on an original album.
Witnesses say Desmond knew all the words and he was spitting them along with Kiedis, who was grinding bassist Flea for most of the song.
However, it didn’t amuse the larger cohort of spoilt young people there.
“I went there to sing along to Dani California,” remarked one concert goer.
“We didn’t even get Californication or Under the Bridge. We got Snow ‘Hey Yo’ and Give It Away Give It Away Now. We got weird songs from the 80s and even weirder songs from the 2020’s. I haven’t been this disappointed since I went to Bob Dylan and he turned Mr Tamborine Man into a sea shanty that he just grovelled along to,”
“Why can’t they just play the songs we know and do it for $20?”
More to come.
