FIRST ALBUM DEMOS [1]

RECORDING INFO:

Dates: May 1983
Players: Flea, Hillel Slovak, Jack Irons, Anthony Kiedis
Recorded at: Studio 9 Sound Labs, 5504 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA.
Produced by: Tim "Spit Stix" Leitch
Engineered by: Tim "Spit Stix" Leitch
Mixed by: Tim “Spit Stix” Leitch

SONGS RECORDED:

• Out in LA

• Green Heaven

• Get Up and Jump

• Police Helicopter

• You Always Sing The Same
  released on "Out in LA" in 1994 and on "The Red Hot Chili Peppers" reissue in 2003

• Nevermind

• Sex Rap
  released on "Out in LA" in 1994 and on the "Freaky Styley" reissue in 2003

• Stranded

• Flea Fly
  released on "Out in LA" in 1994

• Oom Chucka Willie
  unreleased, but has surfaced online. See below.

NOTES:

In May of 1983, the band, only a few months old, recorded their first demo tape with Tim Leitch (also known as Spit Stix) of FEAR producing. This recording wound up getting the band a record deal with Enigma/EMI, and many consider it to contain better far performances than what was recorded on their debut album a year later. The date for this session comes from Anthony’s fathers autobiography, though another source would be appreciated.

In his 2003 book Fornication, Jeff Apter states (perhaps with information gleamed from the 1994 Dave Thompson book True Men Don't Kill Coyotes) that a demo of Baby Appeal was recorded at these sessions.  This is not the case; Anthony has stated in his book, Scar Tissue, that the song only came about once they started shopping their first demo around, and found that kids on the street seemed to respond more to the music than anyone else. This story is even repeated a few pages later in Fornication. A demo of Baby Appeal would have been recorded at sessions early the next year, with Jack Sherman and Cliff Martinez playing instead of Hillel and Jack. It’s most likely that the biographies have conflated the two demo sessions.