Red Hot Chili Peppers a clarifié la situation suite aux preuves qui démontraient que leurs instruments n’étaient pas branchés lors de leur performance au concert de la mi-temps du Super Bowl 2014.
Red Hot Chili Peppers répond aux critiques de leurs instruments débranchés lors du Super Bowl 2014
Dans un long message sur le site des Red Hot Chili Peppers, le bassiste du groupe, Flea, a expliqué que la NFL exigeait que la voix de Anthony Kiedis soit live, mais que le reste des instruments soient préenregistrés. Le stage du spectacle de la mi-temps du Super Bowl est monté en quelques minutes, ce qui augmente considérablement les risques que des pépins techniques arrivent.
Quand on sait que plus de 100 millions de personnes ont regardé le concert de la mi-temps du Super Bowl dimanche dernier, la NFL voulait s’assurer que le son était bon.
Red Hot Chili Peppers était totalement contre le fait d’utiliser ce genre de technique. Sauf qu’un concert à la mi-temps du Super Bowl, ça n’arrive pas souvent comme opportunité dans une carrière.
Flea assure qu’ils (Red Hot Chili Peppers) ont longtemps pesé le pour et le contraire avant d’accepter.
Comme ils savaient qu’ils ne jouaient pas réellement, ils n’ont pas cru bon de brancher leurs instruments.
C’est donc dire que les musiciens de Bruno Mars ne jouaient pas réellement eux aussi. Par contre, tout comme Anthony Kiedis, Mars chantait.
La lettre complète de Flea des Red Hot Chili Peppers :
Dear everybody,
When we were asked by the NFL and Bruno to play our song Give It Away at the Super Bowl, it was made clear to us that the vocals would be live, but the bass, drums, and guitar would be pre-recorded. I understand the NFL’s stance on this, given they only have a few minutes to set up the stage, there a zillion things that could go wrong and ruin the sound for the folks watching in the stadium and the t.v. viewers. There was not any room for argument on this, the NFL does not want to risk their show being botched by bad sound, period.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers stance on any sort of miming has been that we will absolutely not do it. The last time we did it (or tried to) was in the late 80’s, we were thrown off of ‘The Top Of the Pops’ television program in the U.K. during rehearsals because we refused to mime properly, I played bass with my shoe, John played guitar atop Anthony’s shoulders, and we basically had a wrestling match onstage, making a mockery of the idea that it was a real live performance.
We mimed on one or two weird MTV shows before that and it always was a drag. We take our music playing seriously, it is a sacred thing for us, and anyone who has ever seen us in concert (like the night before the Super Bowl at the Barclays Center), knows that we play from our heart, we improvise spontaneously, take musical risks, and sweat blood at every show. We have been on the road for 31 years doing it.
So, when this Super Bowl gig concept came up, there was a lot of confusion amongst us as whether or not we should do it, but we eventually decided, it was a surreal-like, once in a life time crazy thing to do and we would just have fun and do it. We had given this a lot of thought before agreeing to do it, and besides many a long conversation amongst ourselves, I spoke with many musician friends for whom I have the utmost respect, and they all said they would do it if asked, that it was a wild trippy thing to do, what the hell. Plus, we the RHCP all love football too and that played a big part in our decision. We decided that, with Anthony singing live, that we could still bring the spirit and freedom of what we do into the performance, and of course we played every note in the recording specially for the gig. I met and spoke with Bruno, who was a beautiful dude, a real talented musician, and we worked out something that seemed like it would be fun.
We recorded a track for the day, just banged one out from our hearts that was very like in spirit to the versions we have been playing live the last few years with our beloved Josh on guitar.
For the actual performance, Josh, Chad, and I were playing along with the pre recorded track so there was no need to plug in our guitars, so we did not. Could we have plugged them in and avoided bumming people out who have expressed disappointment that the instrumental track was pre recorded? Of course easily we could have and this would be a non-issue. We thought it better to not pretend. It seemed like the realest thing to do in the circumstance. It was like making a music video in front of a gazillion people, except with live vocals, and only one chance to rock it. Our only thought was to bring the spirit of who we are to the people.
I am grateful to the NFL for having us. And I am grateful to Bruno, who is a super talented young man for inviting us to be a part of his gig. I would do it all the same way again.
We, as a band, aspire to grow as musicians and songwriters, and to continue to play our guts out live onstage for anyone who wants to get their brains blown out.
Sincerely,
Flea
Bien que le geste peut être condamnable, les explications des Red Hot Chili Peppers sont très honnêtes et expliquent très bien ce qu’il s’est passé.
Voir aussi :
–Red Hot Chili Peppers n’avait pas branché leurs instruments lors du concert du Super Bowl 2014.
–Red Hot Chili Peppers annonce un nouvel album.
-La performance complète du concert du Super Bowl 2014 avec Bruno Mars et Red Hot Chili Peppers.