Purple Scorching Chill Peppers bassist Flea recalled how his first Grammy award grew to become a backyard shovel by the hands of his younger daughter.
The band received Finest Arduous Rock Efficiency for “Give It Away” in 1993, and the members acquired their gold-plated trophies accordingly. Someday later, Flea’s hand-built gong went lacking.
“Grammys are superior,” he advised KROQ in a latest interview. “However after we received our first Grammy, like three years later, my mother mentioned, ‘Michael, the place’s your Grammy?’ And I used to be like, ‘I don’t know, Mother – I put it someplace.’” He didn’t notice that Clara, who was 5 on the time, had acquired her arms on it.
“Months after that, my gardener got here out of the yard, within the backyard, and you know the way the Grammy appears to be like like an outdated report participant with the horn on it? My daughter had unscrewed it and was utilizing it as a shovel for the backyard. It had been on the market within the grime for the entire winter!”
Whereas Flea mentioned he was “grateful to win” the accolade, he added that he was “simply probably not an awards man.” Requested how he celebrated a win, he joked: “I normally drop about six or seven hits of acid, get bare, paint my entire physique in lipstick and run down the road screaming like mad. It’s probably not a celebration – I really try this day-after-day.”
The Chili Peppers – who’ve received six Grammys so far – simply launched a brand new album, Limitless Love, their first to function guitarist John Frusciante since 2006’s Stadium Arcadium. They’ll begin a world tour in July.
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