Red Hot Chili Peppers (originally Tony Flow and the miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem) was founded in 1983 by Fairfax High School alumni Michael "Flea" Balzary (bass), Anthony Kiedis (vocals), Jack Irons (drums), and Hillel Slovak (guitar ) initially only for 1 time gig. After becoming famous in Los Angeles, they signed a recording contract with EMI. Irons and Slovak considered the band as a side project, and leave the RHCP before their first album to pursue their original band What Is This?. Album Red Hot Chili Peppers released in 1984 and recorded with Jack Sherman on guitar and Cliff Martinez on drums and producer Andy Gill of Gang of Four, but did not succeed in sales. Because the arguments in the tour, Sherman resigned and Slovak re-entry.
George Clinton of Parliament-Funkadelic-produced their second album Freaky Styley in 1985. Martinez was fired after this album came out and Jack Irons joined back in 1986. At the moment they started using drugs.
Their next album, which entered the Billboard Top 200, is The Uplift Mofo Party Plan in 1988 with producer Michael Beinhorn. This is the only album with all four original members. In the tour, Slovak increasingly addicted to drugs and he finally heroin overdose on June 25, 1988 on a tour in Europe. Jack Irons pull back and join Pearl Jam and Eleven.
After a stopgap Dead Kennedys drummer DH Peligro and former P-Funk guitarist DeWayne "Blackbyrd" McKnight, they finally found Chad Smith and John Frusciante to record the next album, Mother's Milk, which was published in August 1989. This album reached # 52 in the U.S., the highest for them at that time.
In 1990 they moved to Warner Brothers Records. Rick Rubin produced their fifth album Blood Sugar Sex Magik, which produces a lot of hits and sold 7 million copies in the U.S.. The single "Give it Away" won a Grammy award in 1992 for "Best Hard Rock Performance With Vocal", and the other singles are "Breaking the Girl", "Suck My Kiss", and "Under the Bridge". Blood Sugar Sex Magik into the number 310 in Rolling Stone magazine list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and in 1992 reached # 3 in the U.S..
Drug problems facing them and re-Frusciante left the band in May 1992. After replacing it with Arik Marshall and Jesse Tobias of the Mother Tongue, former Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro digaet to record the album One Hot Minute. It sold 5 million copies and stayed on the album charts for 55 weeks.
After Navarro was fired in 1997, John Frusciante returned, and they record Californication. This album is more successful than BSSM and sold 15 million copies. Hit songs from the album is "Scar Tissue", "Otherside", and "Californication". In 2001 they published the By the Way on July 9, 2002. The album sold 700,000 copies in the first week and produced hit songs "By the Way", "The Zephyr Song", "Can not Stop", "Dosed", and "Universally Speaking".
They recorded two new songs "Fortune Faded" and "Save the Population" for the album Greatest Hits and on their 2004 live album first, Live in Hyde Park. In 2006 they released Stadium Arcadium is a double album.
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