Woodstock '94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, 8-12-1994 to 8-14-1994 - Day 3, Part 16: Red Hot Chili Peppers

The 16th album from Day Three of the Woodstock '94 Festival is a set by the band Red Hot Chili Peppers.

First off, I have to say check out the album cover for this one. I love the giant light bulb head costumes. It so happens I found a Yahoo News article that extensively talked about the costumes, so I'll post some key quotes from that.

Dave Navarro, who had just joined the band as lead guitarist, later recalled, "I think it's no surprise that it was very uncomfortable in that. See, we were at a rehearsal, and [the band's lead singer] Anthony [Kiedis] had this concept: 'What if we had light bulbs on our heads?' 'Yeah, that’s cool. Like, we used to do the flame hats. This is much simpler. There’s no flames!' And, it was totally Spinal Tap. Like, he drew it on a napkin or on a piece of paper, and we handed it to these guys, and none of us saw the actual prop until we were ten minutes away from going onstage, in front of a festival audience, cameras, satellite productions. And, we put these things on, and they each were about 60 pounds. And they didn’t stay on your head straight, you know? And then, in addition to that, I had to walk out and debut with these guys. I’d been in the band for about five minutes."

The band's drummer Chad Smith later recalled, "Dude, that wasn’t well thought out, was it? It was so Spinal Tap. We're standing in the dark, and we're each trying to get our [light bulbs] on, like, 'How’s yours look?' And, 'Mine won’t light up!' And, you know, we had these jumpsuits — we looked like baked potatoes with these big light bulbs. It wasn’t bad for me, because I sat there. I’m not moving around, you know? I'm just sitting. It wasn’t that bad. But, you guys... I'm just laughing the whole time. It was a moment. It was a real moment."

Navarro further recalled, "I look back on that moment as a highlight, just in the sense that it was so outrageous and so funny. And they do look pretty cool in the pictures. I’m sure it was a neat thing. But like, in terms of just total ability to perform in those things, it was very difficult, and I think that there’s a reason why we only did one song in those. ... What I will tell you, an added layer of weirdness for me personally that day was that my previous [Jane’s Addiction] bandmate Perry Farrell, they took the stage as Porno for Pyros right before us; I parted ways with Jane’s Addiction and they went on to do Porno for Pyros. And we were playing, I think we were closing the stage we were at and they went on before us, and I hadn’t seen [Jane’s drummer] Stephen [Perkins] or Perry for years prior to that... It was just like an added element of, you know, crazy slices of life bouncing around in my brain, while I'm about to do probably the biggest show I've ever done, with a lot of eyes on me, waiting for me to either f*ck it up or pull it off. I think I landed somewhere in the middle, but it was great, overall, in terms of experiences as one of the better ones of my life, for sure."

As mentioned in the quotes, the band only had the costumes on for the first song. However, later in their set, they changed clothes again. All of them dressed up in clothes similar to what Jimi Hendrix wore in the 1969 Woodstock Festival.

The band broke into the mainstream with their 1991 album "Blood Sugar Sex Magik," which sold eight million copies in the U.S. alone, and 13 million worldwide. However, they had trouble following it up. They wouldn't release their next album, "One Hot Minute," until late 1995. At the time of this festival, they were going in and out of the studio recording that album. They played three songs from it: "Aeroplane," "Pea," and "Warped."

This album is an hour and 12 minutes long.

01 talk (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
02 Grand Puppy Du Plenty [Instrumental] (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
03 Give It Away (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
04 talk (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
05 Suck My Kiss (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
06 talk (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
07 Warped (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
08 Stone Cold Bush (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
09 talk (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
10 If You Have to Ask (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
11 Organic Anti-Beat Box Band (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
12 talk (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
13 Aeroplane (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
14 Blood Sugar Sex Magic (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
15 Pea (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
16 My Lovely Man (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
17 Higher Ground (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
18 talk (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
19 Under the Bridge (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
20 Me and My Friends (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
21 talk (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
22 Power of Equality (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16770759/VA-WODSTCK94_8-14-1994_16RdHtChliPpprs_atse.zip.html

Alternate link:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/J6vMdkVG

The cover photo is my favorite photo from the festival: three of the four members of this band dressed up as human light bulbs. Anyway, yes, this photo is from this exact concert.