Under the Bridge
Today, I'd like to add to the Song HoF... "Under the Bridge" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Give it Away" was added recently, and now this one from the same album, Blood Sugar Sex Magik... produced by Rick Rubin.
A sad song... with lyrics written by vocalist Anthony Kiedis who initially didn't feel that it would fit into the band's repertoire, and was reluctant to show it to his bandmates until producer Rick Rubin implored him to do so.
"Under the Bridge" helped the Red Hot Chili Peppers enter the mainstream.
From Wikipedia:
Kiedis thought of his heroin and cocaine addiction during his relationship with former girlfriend Ione Skye: "the loneliness that I was feeling triggered memories of my time with Ione and how I'd had this beautiful angel of a girl who was willing to give me all of her love, and instead of embracing that, I was downtown with f***ing gangsters shooting speedballs under a bridge."
Kiedis' feelings of alienation from his bandmates led him to feel that the city of Los Angeles was his only companion: "I felt an unspoken bond between me and my city. I'd spent so much time wandering through the streets of L.A. and hiking through the Hollywood Hills that I sensed there was a nonhuman entity, maybe the spirit of the hills and the city, who had me in her sights and was looking after me."
"Give it Away" was added recently, and now this one from the same album, Blood Sugar Sex Magik... produced by Rick Rubin.
A sad song... with lyrics written by vocalist Anthony Kiedis who initially didn't feel that it would fit into the band's repertoire, and was reluctant to show it to his bandmates until producer Rick Rubin implored him to do so.
"Under the Bridge" helped the Red Hot Chili Peppers enter the mainstream.
From Wikipedia:
Kiedis thought of his heroin and cocaine addiction during his relationship with former girlfriend Ione Skye: "the loneliness that I was feeling triggered memories of my time with Ione and how I'd had this beautiful angel of a girl who was willing to give me all of her love, and instead of embracing that, I was downtown with f***ing gangsters shooting speedballs under a bridge."
Kiedis' feelings of alienation from his bandmates led him to feel that the city of Los Angeles was his only companion: "I felt an unspoken bond between me and my city. I'd spent so much time wandering through the streets of L.A. and hiking through the Hollywood Hills that I sensed there was a nonhuman entity, maybe the spirit of the hills and the city, who had me in her sights and was looking after me."