The Chili Peppers' Monday performance in Philadelphia, near the middle of a gargantuan, 140-date world tour that also visits New York Wednesday and Friday, explored cohesion amid chaos.Members were clearly playing for each other above all else, finding the sweetest groove within Flea's frenetic bass slaps and Josh Klinghoffer's squealing guitar scrapes, and holding there for as long as they needed before warping someplace else.After a year of writing, the band had come up with a batch of new songs that it was proud of. Big pieces of bone were shorn off." Flea managed to snowboard down the mountain, where he was met by an ambulance.Guitarist Josh Klinghoffer, who joined the Chili Peppers in 2010, was taking on a bigger role in the songwriting and had developed an easy chemistry with his bandmates. He underwent major surgery to repair nerve damage, followed by six months of rehabilitation.Smith's drumming, a cool blend of heavy metal pounding and underground jazz taps, played the guide, and frontman Kiedis did his vocal duty, bouncing around in track pants and baseball cap, doing little else good or bad.The band made few comments to the Wells Fargo Center crowd during this night's nearly two-hour set, other than Flea, 54 like Kiedis, mentioning the day's date marked 34 years since the group's first-ever jam session. Though the dynamic in 2017 isn't quite what it once was; the wildly talented, RHCP classic-lineup shredder John Frusciante left in 2009 and once-touring guitarist Klinghoffer has been the official replacement ever since.

In five years, we may be writing how organic recording is again And when that day comes, the Counts of Californication will be there to scream they told us so.They were looking for a radical change after 2011's a commercial disappointment."We were starting to do the same things we've always done," says Flea of the sessions for that album.More calculated, digitally focused "alternative" acts -- the Twenty One Pilots and 1975s of the world -- have swiped the "cool radio crossover band" card and cashed in on mega tours of their own, while the groups who naturally rip P-Funk bass lines and romp recklessly like The Stooges rarely advance beyond college radio.That's not to say left-of-center's new headliners aren't talented, it's just the swing of the pendulum in 2017: in-studio computer polish is winning more fans than simple microphones placed over a drum kit.But each fact comes together to help form the picture that is the Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman.Kiedis dated Ione Skye, aka the object of John Cusack‘s affections in ‘Say Anything.’ She had a predilection for musicians, marrying Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz and Aussie indie rocker Ben Lee, but Kiedis dated her first.