If Flea wasn’t already your favorite Pepper, after you watch the new Red Hot Chili Peppers Netflix documentary, The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother Hillel—which began streaming today—he definitely will be. Especially after you watch him break down in tears as he remembers the day that original RHCP guitarist, Hillel Slovak, invited Flea to join his band.
“I couldn’t even believe it,” Flea, who’s government name is Michael Peter Balzar, said in a talking head interview for the film. “I was just like, ‘Wow, you want me?’ No one wanted me. I was a weirdo. I wasn’t cool.”
It’s here where Flea’s voice catches, as he remembers this moment that changed his life, thanks to Slovak, who died of a drug overdose in 1988.
“And I don’t think that the other guys even wanted me,” Flea admits, choking back tears. “But he… he believed
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