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The Independent
13-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Nick Cave addresses ‘obnoxious' comment he made 25 years ago
Nick Cave has explained the story behind what he dubbed an 'offhand and somewhat uncharitable' remark about Red Hot Chili Peppers. The Australian musician's comments about the LA funk-rock band have haunted him for approximately 25 years. While the exact details of when and where the remark was made are uncertain, the Bad Seeds frontman is believed to have said: 'I'm forever near a stereo saying, 'What the f*** is this garbage?' And the answer is always, ' The Red Hot Chili Peppers'.' Chilis bassist Flea, who also hails from the Australian state of Victoria, responded to the remark in 2006, acknowledging that it hurt his feelings at first because he is a huge fan of Cave. 'I don't care if Nick Cave hates my band because his music means everything to me,' Flea said. 'He is one of my favourite songwriters and singers and musicians of all time. I love all the incarnations of the Bad Seeds. 'But it only hurt my feelings for a second because my love for his music is bigger than all that s***, and if he thinks my band is lame then that's OK.' Posting to his Red Hand Files website, Cave, 67, responded to a fan who asked about the origins of his comment. 'There was no malice intended. It was just the sort of obnoxious thing I would say back then to piss people off,' he wrote. 'I was a troublemaker, a s***-stirrer, feeling most at ease in the role of a societal irritant. Perhaps it's an Australian trait among people of my generation, I don't know, but that comment has followed me around for the last quarter-century.' Cave said the 'most interesting' thing about the situation was not his comment, but 'rather the response from Flea'. 'On Facebook, [he] expressed how hurt he felt by my remark, but went on to say, in great detail, that he loved my music regardless.' The musician said he recalled being 'genuinely moved' by Flea's words and thinking 'what a classy guy Flea was'. Over the years, he said, they ran into one another at festivals where their bands were performing and saw each other backstage at shows in Los Angeles. 'Although we didn't become close friends, my encounters with him were always pleasant – there was a presence to Flea that felt genuine and oddly affecting,' he wrote, recalling how they once worked together to assemble a children's choir to accompany the Bad Seeds at Coachella Festival. He and his bandmate, Warren Ellis, also invited Flea to join them during their Carnage tour for a performance of 'We No Who U R', remarking: 'Watching Warren and Flea perform together with such heart and mutual regard was a glorious sight'. More recently, Cave said, Flea asked him to add vocals to a song for a new 'trumpet record' he's making, with 'arguably the greatest lyric ever written, a song of such esteem that I would never have dared to sing it had Flea not asked me to'. 'The track emerged as a beautiful conversation between Flea's trumpet and my voice, filled with yearning and love, the song transcending its individual parts and becoming a slowly evolving cosmic dance, in the form of a reconciliation and an apology,' he said.
Yahoo
12-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Flea Is Making a 'Trumpet Record' with Help from Nick Cave
The post Flea Is Making a 'Trumpet Record' with Help from Nick Cave appeared first on Consequence. Nick Cave has revealed that he has contributed to a 'trumpet record' being made by Flea, describing the collaboration as a 'reconciliation and an apology' for his past comments about Red Hot Chili Peppers. 'Last week, Flea sent me a song and asked if I'd like to add some vocals,' Cave wrote in the latest Q&A on his Red Hands Files website. 'It was for a 'trumpet record' that he is making. It is not for me to divulge what the song was, only that it is a song I cherish more than most, with arguably the greatest lyric ever written, a song of such esteem that I would never have dared to sing it had Flea not asked me to.' Get Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Tickets Here He added, 'I went into the studio on Wednesday and recorded my vocals. The track emerged as a beautiful conversation between Flea's trumpet and my voice, filled with yearning and love, the song transcending its individual parts and becoming a slowly evolving cosmic dance, in the form of a reconciliation and an apology.' As a refresher, a quote attributed to Cave has been passed around for the past few decades, in which he purportedly said, 'I'm forever near a stereo saying, 'What the fuck is this garbage?' And the answer is always 'The Red Hot Chili Peppers.'' In the newsletter, Cave copped to making an 'offhand and somewhat uncharitable remark' about the band 'about twenty-five years ago,' though 'there was no malice intended.' Cave then recalled Flea posting a 'profoundly generous and open-hearted love letter' making it clear he was still a fan. This prompted Cave to realize the bassist was a 'human being of an entirely different calibre.' Eventually, Cave tested the waters by asking Flea to put together a children's choir from his Silverlake Conservatory of Music to accompany the Bad Seeds at Coachella 2013. Roughly one decade later, Flea joined Cave and Warren Ellis onstage in Los Angeles to play 'We No Who U R.' Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds will head out on a North American tour beginning in April, which will once again see Radiohead's Colin Greenwood filling in for bassist Martyn Casey. Get your tickets here. Flea Is Making a 'Trumpet Record' with Help from Nick Cave Eddie Fu Popular Posts Tool Apparently Booed for Disappointing Set at Their Own Festival Dead Kennedys Legend Jello Biafra Joins Cavalera Onstage for "Nazi Trumps F**k Off": Watch Lady Gaga on Meeting Trent Reznor: "I Black Out Every Time I'm in His Presence" Gene Hackman and Wife's Causes of Death Revealed Monty Python and the Holy Grail Returning to Theaters for 50th Anniversary Gene Simmons Charging $12,500 To Be His Personal Assistant and Roadie for One Day Subscribe to Consequence's email digest and get the latest breaking news in music, film, and television, tour updates, access to exclusive giveaways, and more straight to your inbox.
