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Watch Red Hot Chili Peppers Reunite With Original Drummer Jack Irons To Honor Late Guitarist Hillel Slovak

MINNEAPOLIS, MN – JANUARY: Rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers (L-R) Flea, Hillel Slovak, Anthony Kiedis, Jack Irons pose for a portrait backstage at First Ave Nightclub in Minneapolis, Minnesota after their show in January 1987. (Photo by: Jim Steinfeldt/Michael Ochs Archives/GettyImages)

|Jim Steinfeldt/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

Will Ferrell lookalike Chad Smith has been drumming for Red Hot Chili Peppers so long that you might not realize he wasn't the band's founding drummer. That'd be Jack Irons, who rejoined RHCP onstage in Grand Rapids last week to cover Jimi Hendrix's "Fire." As Consequence Of Sound points out, the performance honored another founding Chili Peppers member, guitarist Hillel Slovak, on the 29th anniversary of his death. Watch below.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=kMWpe5i1mRg

In other Chili Peppers news, they accidentally wrote a song about New Hampshire, reports The Onion.

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