If You Have To Ask [unsequenced / unmastered]

This website was created to help catalogue and archive each of the many recording sessions undertaken by LA band the Red Hot Chili Peppers in their many forms from 1983 to today.

This is an effort undertaken to help clear up confusion, spread the word about lost, little known or newly unearthed recordings, and generally celebrate a brilliant band.

Songs from the edge of somewhere. A place that doesn’t announce itself. You step in and can’t tell if you’ve walked into a protest, a party, or the end of something.

Conil’s music comes from the blues and from the life that followed it. A voice marked by the places it’s been.

People heard it early.
Danny Thompson said, “You don’t sound like anyone else.”
Tchad Blake still plays Strange Part of the Country.
Peter Green walked into the studio one afternoon and cut a track.

The record didn’t arrive with noise. It surfaced—four stars in Q Magazine, a Blues Matters cover, a single reaching number three on the U.S. Alternative Radio Chart.

The early years were England. Then came New Orleans, New York, Berlin, the Himalayas, Kilimanjaro.

The second album is close now. Marc Ribot on guitar. Danny Thompson’s final sessions. Tchad Blake in Wales.

Some things reveal themselves only at the end.

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If You Have To Ask [unsequenced / unmastered]

RHCP Session Archives