Under the Bridge and Back Again
Three years after the death of of Hillel, after appointing John Frusciante as their new guitarist and releasing their Mother's Milk LP, the band set about writing their fifth studio album, Blood Sugar Sex Magik. Anthony Kiedis was clean during this period of time, and began to feel isolated from his bandmates - especially Flea and Frusciante, who still smoked marijuana together. Driving home from rehearsals one night he began singing to himself about his feelings of loneliness, and reflected on how drugs had negatively affected his relationships with loved ones- including his former girlfriend Ione Sky.
As he documents in his Scar Tissue memoir, producer Rick Rubin used to call in him to check up on him and review his material. When looking through his writing he found a poem entitled Under The Bridge and - instantly touched by their lyrics - implored Kiedis to show them to the rest of his band. Kiedis was reluctant, thinking the song too gentle for the Chili Peppers, who then still had a very energetic, funk-based sound. But, after singing the lyrics to Frusciante and drummer Chad Smith, the frontman recalls that they simply: Speaking about his famous final verse which literally describes the bleak process of scoring and injecting heroin, Kiedis explains: He was a Mexican mafia ex-convict and he and I would stroll the streets of downtown L.
A looking for our next score. And one particular afternoon it was very hot in the middle of summer and I'd been up for days, and he and I had found what we were looking for and we went to this bridge that was downtown in the middle of Los Angeles in this ghetto. While at his lowest point, Kiedis does find some salvation in the chorus, pledging not to feel like he did that day.
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He concludes in the interview: Sadly, it wasn't to be the last time the group was marred by drug use. Kiedis was set to relapse, while John Frusciante's well-documented struggle with addiction would hit an all-time low when he left the band for the first time in I'm so glad you wore that shirt. Those pants are so great I'm so glad you wore those'". As Kiedis begins to sing, he appears on camera bathed in purple light with blue fluorescent stars as a backdrop, surrounded by clouds.
As the camera pans closer, an image of the skyline of Van Sant's home city, Portland , is superimposed from his chin downwards.
Under the Bridge Lyrics: Sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner / Sometimes I feel like my only friend / Is the city I Take Me To Space And Back by Renard. "Under the Bridge" is a song by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. It is the eleventh . After the next verse an E major seven chord again marks a break before the start of the chorus. . of L.A., wearing a white T-shirt with "To Hell And Back" printed on the front; as he walks, the camera focuses on various people.
Flea and Chad Smith are then placed into the image while playing their instruments. Van Sant wanted superimposing to be a notable component in the overall theme of the video; the idea came from a project he worked on with novelist William S. He can, at various points in the video, be seen standing in front of the Belmont Tunnel before its closure.
This, according to Kiedis, was vital; he felt that the studio portion alone would not convey enough emotion: It needed more; it needed to be combined with an outdoor, streets-of-Los-Angeles thing". The video ends with various superimposed images of the band, followed by Frusciante playing alone on a pedestal—this time with an inverted shot of the ocean as the sky.
MTV placed the "Under the Bridge" video on heavy rotation. The song's widespread success has made it indispensable to the band's live setlists [40] and has been performed over times since making it the band's second most performed song behind " Give it Away ". Unlike several of the Chili Peppers' other songs, "Under the Bridge" is not interpreted in a different manner than what is on the record—aside from being played acoustically, the track is performed the same as it appears on Blood Sugar Sex Magik.
Kiedis is, however, notorious for being incapable of achieving several high notes in live performances; [1] [40] [41] the vocalist has noted that he sometimes forgets or rearranges song lyrics in the verses. Kiedis said that it "felt like I was getting stabbed in the back and hung out to dry in front of all of America while [Frusciante] was off in a corner in the shadow, playing some dissonant out-of-tune experiment. At times Kiedis has also resented singing the song, especially during instances when he felt distanced from the song's lyrics.
Flea believed that it was vital to have the four members who wrote the track together.
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Attempts at distributing candles that were to be lit during the song backfired when the crowd, which was already disorderly, instead created a bonfire. Lighthearted foul-play escalated into violence when several women who had been crowd surfing and moshing were raped and nearby property was looted and destroyed. During the band's Stadium Arcadium World Tour , the band for the first time decided to drop the song from some of the setlists in favor of "I Could Have Lied" or " Soul to Squeeze ".
This continued on the band's —17 The Getaway World Tour. Chris Cornell had died after Soundgarden's concert the night before. It became their second number-one single on the UK Singles Chart.
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A total of , singles have been sold in the United Kingdom. In Europe, a single of only "Lady Marmalade" was also released. The proceeds from the single went to breast cancer charities. The All Saints version contains samples of the original recording, the most important one being the distinctive guitar playing in the beginning. The videos took four months of production before release.
The girls chose to perform their own stunts in the video, and at one point Natalie Appleton was knocked over by an explosion, although she remained unhurt. The videos are in a futuristic big city. In the "Lady Marmalade" video, there is a party which causes several floors of a tall building to cave in. The "Under the Bridge" video appears to be set immediately after, as there is already a hole in the floor of the room which appears to be a bottomless pit. In reality, there was a hole which was indeed one floor deep.
Both videos were shown together as "The Bridge" at cinemas before the showing of the Quentin Tarantino film Jackie Brown. Notable jazz musician Frank Bennett covered the song by fusing elements of big bands and bebop in his album Five O'Clock Shadow. He, however, changed the line "the city I live in, the City of Angels", which refers to Los Angeles, to "the city I live in is beautiful Brooklyn," to match his song's premise. Britain's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra has modified "Under the Bridge" at several concerts—they perform various rock pieces combined into a single orchestral ensemble, often including the Chili Peppers' hit.
Alternative hip hop band Gym Class Heroes performed "Under the Bridge" on the assemblage Punk Goes '90s , an album that compiled popular rock songs from the s being covered by contemporary artists. It's one of those songs you hear and are like 'Damn did this shit just come out? The cover removed the final verse of the song that discusses drug use.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sample of "Under the Bridge" that contrasts the sparse, minimalist guitar ideology employed by Frusciante in the intro with the grand final verse sung by Kiedis and a choir in the outro.
Select Platinum in the Certification field. Hands holding hands let us stay face to face While under this Bridge our arms make slow race Long looks in a tired wave at a wave's pace. Nederlandse Vereniging van Producenten en Importeurs van beeld- en geluidsdragers. The song's widespread success has made it indispensable to the band's live setlists [40] and has been performed over times since making it the band's second most performed song behind " Give it Away ". Love is flowing fast away, just as these flowing waters flow away slow as life itself flows by - how violent Hope becomes. The videos are in a futuristic big city.
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