Flea's stage performance always leave you wanting more. His sense of humor and his songwriting reflect what a great man he is.
"It's the same band that we had before with John, but obviously we've grown as people and musicians, and especially when we write music the way we do, which is an unstructured thing that relies on emotion and intuition and spirit. ... With John, that's what we're doing, is trying to channel the energy that's all around us. The energy that's around us now is different from the energy that was around us seven years ago." - Flea "There are more interesting things happening musically outside of rock. When I listen to rock bands, I think most of them suck." - Flea "The majority of young men I know are led around by their penises. I was." - Flea, December 95
On October 16th 1962, a boy named Michael Peter Balzary was born.His parents divorced and his mother remarried in 1967 to a jazz musician named Walter Urban Jnr. In the same year he moved with his mom, stepdad and sister Karen to New York. His stepdad was a big influence on him,and he often visited the weekly jam sessions with that his stepfather held. In 1972 they moved to L.A. Flea's taste in music was different from many other teens his age. He was into Dizzy Gillesibie, Miles Davis and Ornette Coleman. Flea had begun to play the trumpet. He often played along with his idol Dizzy Gillespie and at one occasion he met his idol. Flea's mum took him backstage after a concert and Flea talked with Dizzy for 15 minutes about how much he liked his music and how he copied his trumpetting style. This would not be the style of music that Flea would play later on. When he heard his first funk album he was blown away. He then began listening to funk veterans like the Parliament, Funkadelic, P-funk, Defunkt, The Meters, Sly and the Family Stone and James Brown. Jimi Hendrix became his new idol. And the beginning of the Red Hot Chili Peppers began...
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