Red Hot Chili Peppers - Terrapin (Syd Barrett) - Buenos Aires 24 November 2023

[Paul]

John did a spot on job.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPsrJglec_I

[Edufloyd]

It gives the impression that many did not know the song.

[Alan Smithee]

I liked it.But I agree with Edufloyd.The crowd was silent. Not in a good way

[Paul]

There were a ton of lights going off at the same time, back in my day we used our lighters, but i was just impressed how well john played that, exactly how Syd would have played it, I imagine.

[Alanko]

Poor John Frusciante: the dark, complex art rock muso forever associated with a low-rent, venal party band. He almost got in with Zappa! He's made weird electronic bleeps and bloops with the Mars Volta blokes! He's a serious outsider artist! Like Roky Erickson or Daniel Johnston!

The reason this song didn't get much traction with the crowd is because they were there to listen to high tempo funk rock with singalong choruses. Not some sad, forlorn, shambolic song with sluggishly ambiguous tempo and time signature.

Wrong song to the wrong crowd, but John used to try and perform bits of Zappa's musically impenetrable Inca Roads between songs during RHCP gigs so he has form for forcing his tortured artiste thing onto paying audiences.

[gotta_be_crazy]

Poor John Frusciante: the dark, complex art rock muso forever associated with a low-rent, venal party band. He almost got in with Zappa! He's made weird electronic bleeps and bloops with the Mars Volta blokes! He's a serious outsider artist! Like Roky Erickson or Daniel Johnston!

The reason this song didn't get much traction with the crowd is because they were there to listen to high tempo funk rock with singalong choruses. Not some sad, forlorn, shambolic song with sluggishly ambiguous tempo and time signature.

Wrong song to the wrong crowd, but John used to try and perform bits of Zappa's musically impenetrable Inca Roads between songs during RHCP gigs so he has form for forcing his tortured artiste thing onto paying audiences.

Interesting analysis. I'm sure John Frusciante knows this and he does it the same because in a way, he is telling to the crowd, 'listen to this, one of my roots'. Something like that, He knows what he's doing and he doesn't care which makes him a bloody authentic artist.