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“Blood Sugar Sex Magik,” featuring “Under the Bridge,” “Breaking the Girl” and “Give It Away,” was released on Sept. There, isolated for two months starting in April 1991, the band, crew, and a series of invited and uninvited guests helped create one of the quintessential L.A.

Instead of a typical recording studio, Rubin and the band opted to rent a house in Laurel Canyon. The Chili Peppers also committed to working with producer Rick Rubin, who was well on his way to becoming the Zen-like king of rock and rap through work with Run-D.M.C., Slayer and the Beastie Boys. Warner’s legendary chairman, Mo Ostin, eventually won the bidding war. As MTV added the band’s cover of Stevie Wonder’s “ Higher Ground” into rotation, executives from Geffen, Epic and Warner Bros. “Mother’s Milk,” the first album to feature Frusciante and Smith, would be the band’s swan song for EMI Records. Red Hot Chili Peppers perform at Lollapalooza in Waterloo, N.J., Aug. Flea and Kiedis forged ahead, ultimately hiring drummer Chad Smith and a young Red Hot Chili Peppers super fan, guitarist John Frusciante, to fill those roles. Crushed by the loss of his friend, Irons quit not long after.

Their shirtless dude demeanor was typified in the artwork for 1988’s “The Abbey Road EP,” which saw the group riffing on the Beatles album cover - crossing a street, naked but for socks covering their privates.Ī half-decade of nonstop touring and libertine excess had already taken its toll: Slovak fatally overdosed on heroin in 1988. While 1989’s “Mothers Milk” had been a modest success, the band’s music - punk-indebted Muscle Beach funk-rock - lagged behind their well-cultivated image. The Red Hot Chili Peppers, formed in 1983 by Fairfax High School classmates Anthony Kiedis, Flea (born Michael Balzary), Hillel Slovak and Jack Irons, had already released four albums by then. Twelve miles away at Sound City Studios, Nirvana, newly signed to Geffen Records, was tracking “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and the rest of the songs that became “Nevermind.” Soundgarden, recently inked to A&M, was holed up in Hollywood and elsewhere recording “Badmotorfinger.” In Seattle, Pearl Jam was working on its debut album, “Ten.” singing trio Wilson Phillips’ breakthrough album. Progressive metal band Queensrÿche was competing in the top 10 with the soundtrack for “New Jack City,” R.E.M.'s “Out of Time” and L.A. When the Red Hot Chili Peppers moved into a haunted Hollywood mansion in the spring of 1991 to make the album that would become known as “Blood Sugar Sex Magik,” the band, and pop music, was at a crossroads.Ī young singer named Mariah Carey was ruling the album charts with her self-titled debut.