The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Austin City Limits Festival, Zilker Park, Austin, TX, 10-9-2022

A video of this concert that took place just two weeks ago popped up for me on YouTube yesterday. It was professionally filmed and recorded, I guess in connection with the "Austin City Limits" TV show. I found a higher quality version elsewhere, then concerted that to individual mp3 files.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are having a late career renaissance. With lead guitarist John Frusciante back in the band for the third time, they've put out two albums of 75 minutes of music apiece in 2022! Admittedly, both albums are too bloated (a common problem with the band). But if you cut them down to normal album length of about 45 minutes each, you'd have two very solid albums. Furthermore, if you watch the YouTube video of this concert, it's hard to believe a couple of the band members are 60 years old already. They bounce around with the energy even most 20 year olds don't possess. May they keep going forever.

This is an excellent concert, with great sound quality. There are no problems to fix. The one surprise for me is that they played so few new songs, considering they have dozens of new songs. There are three songs from the "Unlimited Love" album released in early 2022 ("Aquatic Mouth Dance," "The Heavy Wing," and "Black Summer") and just one, "Eddie," from the "Return of the Dream Canteen" album, which came out a few days after this concert. There's also a cover of the Ramones song "I Remember You."

This concert is an hour and 22 minutes long. I trimmed some dead air moments between songs, especially before the encore, where I cut out about two minutes of cheering.

01 Intro Jam [Instrumental] (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
02 Can't Stop (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
03 Drum Solo [Instrumental] (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
04 Dani California (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
05 talk (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
06 Scar Tissue (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
07 talk (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
08 Aquatic Mouth Dance (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
09 talk (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
10 I Remember You (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
11 Snow [Hey Oh] (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
12 Pea (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
13 talk (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
14 Eddie (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
15 talk (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
16 London Calling - Right on Time (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
17 Soul to Squeeze (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
18 talk (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
19 The Heavy Wing (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
20 Black Summer (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
21 John and Flea Jam [Instrumental] (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
22 Californication (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
23 Give It Away (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
24 talk (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
25 By the Way (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
26 talk (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16088828/TREDHCHILP2022b_AustinCtyLimitsFestivlAustnTX__10-9-2022_atse.zip.html

The cover photo is taken from this exact concert, I'm happy to say.