Watch Red Hot Chili Peppers Reunite With Original Drummer Jack Irons To Honor Late Guitarist Hillel Slovak
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.
In other Chili Peppers news, they accidentally wrote a song about New Hampshire, reports The Onion.