GRAND PAPPY DU PLENTY

Recorded during: The Red Hot Chili Peppers sessions.
Length: 4:15
Performers: Flea (bass), Jack Sherman (guitar), Cliff Martinez (drums)
Live performances.

An instrumental named in honour of Tomata du Plenty. This track was the one song recorded during the band’s first album sessions that everyone involved seemed to look back on with a degree of fondness; even the straight and health-conscious Jack Sherman imbibed in some marijuana before recording. It’s unclear if Anthony Kiedis had anything to do with it. It features a chord lifted from The Band’s "Whispering Pines” - a track loved by Andy Gill and Sherman.

The band played the song a number of times in August of 1994 — the tenth anniversary of the debut album’s release: