(relevant?) RHCP album stream, iTunes ticket promo screwup, & Irving Plaza pics/reviews

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RHCP STREET TEAMERS? (via)
Red Hot Chili Peppers

"Apple iTunes customers are voicing their displeasure with the company on Tuesday as codes promised to them to purchase tickets to the Red Hot Chili Peppers failed to go out. In a promotion launched last month, fans that pre-ordered the band's new album on iTunes were told they would also receive an email with a code that they could use at Ticketmaster.com starting May 9 to purchase concert tickets before they go on sale to the general public on May 13." [Macworld]

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AOL Music is streaming Stadium Arcadium.

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The Red Hot Chili Peppers played Irving Plaza last night (May 8, 2006). Productshop was there. My friend Nick was there too. He's the same Nick who saw Pearl Jam at Irving Plaza a few nights earlier. To get in to Pearl Jam he waited 24 hours on line. To get in to RHCP he asked the first guy he saw outside the venue for an extra. Not only did the guy have an extra, he gave it to him for free. Nick's pictures below...

Red Hot Chili Peppers @ Irving Plaza

Here's another photo I found on this Livejournal:

Red Hot Chili Peppers @ Irving Plaza

"How amazing to see a band like them, at this point in their career, playing an intimate venue. And I had a blast. The only problem is, the show was loud. Painfully loud. To the point where I had to leave my prime spot about 25 feet from the stage to stand in the back near the bar. My ears are still ringing. It's embarrassing to say, but maybe I'm getting too old for a show like this. Is 26 old?" [Last Stop: This Town]

Previously
Pearl Jam played Irving Plaza | pics & reviews
Album Leak breaks Flea's Heart, RHCP Tour Dates, PRESALE & another chance for an Irving Plaza show ticket

posted at 5:27 PM on May 9, 2006 in music | pictures | Comments (15)

Comments (15)

HA! That is my fist in the 2nd to last pic! What an awesome show. Once and lifetime and I got tix for free from those ppl that did not pick up their tix in time at Virgin. Thanks!! If anyone has any pics can you send me them?

Posted by Daniel | May 9, 2006 6:35 PM

oh man. i cant believe all i had to do was show up and ask if anyone had extra tickets. so jealous.

Posted by daniel | May 9, 2006 7:53 PM

I'd say they are worth it just to see flea rip it up

Posted by casey | May 9, 2006 9:49 PM

here's an unofficial track list. We didn't know the new songs:

Jam
Can't stop (different lyrics @ end)
Mic check
New song "charlie's..."?
Brief jam
Scar Tissue (heavier, better guitar solo)
Quick verbal ditty, anecdote
New song (sounds like faster "can't stop")
"Not new but new to this stage" song "how deep is your love"
Throw Away Your Television
Flea solo (Neil Young song) For Anthony
New song (melodic... "Hey lo")
Me & My Friends
New Single
New Song
By the Way track 4
Right on Time
Flea & John
Californication
Full jam
By the Way

Soul 2 Squeeze (Jack Johnson cameo?)
Give it Away
"Let your mind float away" (dude from Mars Volta, super jammy-jam)

Posted by dude | May 10, 2006 1:19 AM

here's an unofficial track list. We didn't know the new songs:

Soul 2 Squeeze (Jack Johnson cameo?)
Give it Away
"Let your mind float away" (dude from Mars Volta, super jammy-jam)

Posted by dude | May 10, 2006 1:21 AM

flea irritates me. a dim little man trying way too hard to be interesting.

Posted by jonathan | May 10, 2006 10:49 AM

Nerd alert! If I had to choose which is more interesting and which is more irritating, I'd have to say that the bad ass bass player was more interesting and the irritable cool kid is more irritating.

Posted by Anonymous | May 10, 2006 1:10 PM

I was there. I saw the guy who plays the main character in the sitcom "Teachers." He's very short in person.

Posted by JB | May 10, 2006 2:29 PM

I was there. I saw the guy who plays the main character in the sitcom "Teachers." He's very short in person.

Posted by JB | May 10, 2006 2:36 PM

"Teachers" is still on?

Posted by Kitty Laverne | May 11, 2006 8:47 PM

Mars Volta are opening for their upcoming US tour.

http://batteringroom.blogspot.com/2006/05/mars-volta-opening-for-rhcp.html

Posted by Chris | May 11, 2006 9:31 PM

So, I'm not really a fan (at all), but just saw this article, and yeah, I guess they're still relevant:

Chili Peppers Post 'Stadium' At No. 1

For the first time in their 22-year career, Red Hot Chili
Peppers score a No. 1 album on The Billboard 200. The two-
disc "Stadium Arcadium" (Warner Bros.) sold 442,000 copies
in the United States in its debut week, according to Nielsen
SoundScan. The total is the band's career best sales week,
beating the opening week of 2002's "By The Way," which bowed
at No. 2 with 282,000.

Posted by Matt | May 17, 2006 2:55 PM

i rekon chilis albums are gettin beta every year. Stadium arcadium's got funk, punk rock n sum ova stuf. n evry track's diffrnt. I fink its one of ther best albms, n i cant wait to c em in july.

Posted by fairy | June 5, 2006 2:40 PM

Whoever said Flea isn't cool is an IDIOT.

Posted by Rone | July 29, 2006 10:17 PM

not too bad

Posted by WOW GOLD | December 2, 2008 10:24 PM