ELEVENTH ALBUM DEMOS [2]

RECORDING INFO:

Dates: 2014
Players: Flea, Josh Klinghoffer, Chad Smith, Anthony Kiedis
Recorded at: An unknown house in Malibu, CA; The Boat, 3655 Tracy Street, Los Angeles, CA.; Anthony's vocals recorded at an LA hotel.
Produced by: Self-produced
Engineered by: ?
Mixed by: ?
Released on: Unreleased

SONGS RECORDED:

  • The Longest Wave

  • Goodbye Angels

  • Go Robot

  • Detroit

  • This Ticonderoga

  • Encore

  • Outer Space

  • Drastic

  • Nowhere I Am

  • (possibly) Dreams of a Samurai
    plus many more

NOTES:

The band recorded what they referred to as "fancy demos" in late 2014 at a rented house in Malibu, and at The Boat studio in Silverlake, which Flea owned at the time. After (or perhaps during) these sessions, Flea broke his arm snowboarding, and in the ensuing six month downtime, the band decided to change up their recording method, moving across town to the Sound Factory and recording several new songs completely in-studio with Brian "Danger Mouse" Burton.

These initial 2014 recordings have not been released, and have only been heard in small snippets from Flea's Instagram account, including an earlier version of Detroit. Anthony was also seen listening to that version of Detroit in this paparazzi video.

According to Josh, Anthony recorded vocals for about 18 of the songs they recorded. The songs listed above were provided by Josh with the exception of Dreams of a Samurai. However, seeing as Flea teased its bass line back in 2012, there's a good chance that a demo of it (if only an early version) was recorded as well. Drastic was mentioned by Anthony in a 2018 interview, with its name provided again by Josh.

Nowhere I Am was later re-recorded by Josh for his Pluralone project after it was discarded by the RHCP.

Some of these songs made the transition to The Getaway, with Danger Mouse producing. Those recordings were completely re-done, and so this is a completely different batch of songs, likely with small arrangement differences.

Chad has stated that they wrote "25 to 30" songs, Josh implied there were around 30; how many were actually recorded is unknown as of yet. Many remain instrumental and unfinished.