Red Hot Chili Peppers performed “Aeroplane” for the first time in nearly 20 years at a Super Bowl pre-show party last night in San Francisco. The last time the Chili Peppers performed the One Hot Minute track was on July 26, 1997 at the Fuji Rock Festival, the band’s final performance with guitarist Dave Navarro. Watch video below, followed by the full setlist!
In the late 1990’s, the Red Hot Chili Peppers were on their last leg with Jane’s Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro. After touring the world for One Hot Minute, the band tried writing and recording new material with Navarro. Until now, nothing from those sessions have ever been leaked. In rare interviews and fan communities, a title, “Circle of the Noose” would surface up. Today, it was leaked to the world by rhcptv5 on Twitter, and posted on YouTube. Commenting on the song’s character, a tribute to qawwali devotional singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Navarro recalled in an AllStar 1997 interview that:
“One of the songs we’ve done is the greatest pop song I’ve ever been a part of…It’s pop in the sense of verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, hook. I really love it and we use a loop of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. It’s really nice. The best way I can describe it is it’s like pepped- up ’60s folk with ’90s ideals, but I would hate to label it as folk because it’s not, it moves.”
https://twitter.com/DaveNavarro/status/694955125484294144
The song is available below, in the rough mix which has circulated in rare collector’s circles for some time. Artwork credited to Leandro Cabo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFtyQfoDoxA&feature=youtu.be
This news of course, occurs right as the Chili Peppers are at “home stretch” with finishing their new album:
Anthony Kiedis discussed Red Hot Chili Peppers’ new album last week on Jonesy’s Jukebox.
He added, “We’re going to back and listen to the songs, and see if we can beat them.”
“We had written two dozen songs before we got with him. [Producer Danger Mouse] is like, ‘Let’s keep a few of those, but let’s go write all new songs in the studio. We’re looking at each other like, ‘Dude, we kind of already wrote the songs, bro.’ He’s like, ‘No, I like to write new ones in the studio.’ So, in honor of accommodating this new process, we wrote all new songs, and it’s a good thing we did.
Below is my interpretation of what the lyrics of “Circle of the Noose” could be:
Inspiration
Mess me up, makes me cry
Come and see me please
Dragonfly, so I don’t die
In a circle
Break my heart
So I can start
All I need
Is for fun and for free
All I need
All I need
I don’t need it!
Don’t need it!
I don’t need it!
Locomotive
Shoot me up
Shoot me down
Devasation boy
Deal me out, steal my joy
Good for nothing
That’s the one
My mother’s son
All I need
Is for fun and for free
All I need
All I need
I don’t need it!
Don’t need it!
I don’t need it!
In the sun
And the sea
I’m for fun
and for free
Dog’s a-laughing
Laughing now
That I’m no-how
Human uniform
I’m so warm, inside this stone
All I need
Is for fun and for free
All I need
All I need
I don’t need it!
Don’t need it!
I don’t need it!
Human uniform