⑰「失神」と言う言葉を使っているが、歌詞の中での意味は、死ぬことの婉曲表現だろう。ラッパー Nas の有名なセリフにあるように、「俺決して眠らない、なぜなら睡眠は死のいとこだから 言い換えれば、俺たちはいずれ死ぬのだから、立ち止まって悲惨な状況に陥る意味はあるか？お前は停止することはできない！」
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⑱内なる個人的なエネルギーを育むというメインテーマだが、面白いところもある。
タイトルと最後の行で「この人生は単なる読書ではありません.」と言っている。
自分の人生に言及したり、Defunkt (「Defunkt, the pistol that you pay for」) や Julia Butterfly Hill のインスピレーションを引用したりして、詩をリスナーと自分に向けて送っている。
だが、この哲学を一時的に忘れていたと仄めかして、新しいガールフレンドに立ち直るための助けを求めている。なんとも恋多き男Anthonyらしいではないか。
⑲プレアデスは、聞き慣れないとおもう人の方が多いだろう。これはプレアデス散開星団のことで、おうし座にあり、地球に最も近い星団の 1 つだ。
星団の中で最も目立つ7つの星があるため、一般に「Seven Sisters セブンシスターズ」と呼ばれている。
肉眼では、夜空で最も鮮明な星団であり、北半球では冬によく見られる。この高い視認性のために、プレアデス星団は、古代および現代の複数の文化の暦や民間伝承に登場する。
実際にはプレアデス星団は、過去または現在の地球上のすべての文化によって注目され、命名された唯一の星座である。
ゲイリー・ラックマンによる意識の秘密の歴史 では、いくつかのアメリカ先住民の文化は、プレアデス星団が豊かさと生命の起源に関連付けられていることを重要視しており、先にAnthony Kiedisが、アメリカ先住民の祖先に言及したことと関連しているのだ。
⑳Anthony Kiedis の自伝である 『Scar Tissue』を読んだ人にとっては、彼が過去にかなりワイルドなフロントマンだったことがわかっている筈だ。
だが、彼はまた、彼の歌詞、声、ステージでの存在感が、聴く者たちを彼のバンドの音楽に夢中にさせ、感情的に結びつけるパワーを持っていることも分かっていると思う。その言葉で魅了してくるのだ。
㉑ラストのThis life is more than just a read-throughは、「読了」の意味があるが、演劇や映画の最初のリハーサルで、制作チームと俳優が集まって台本からセリフを暗唱し、必要に応じて部分を編集または改良できるかを練習するあの場が想像できる。
Anthony Kiedis は、この類推を使用しながら、「人生は練習ラウンドではない」と強調している。
彼はリスナーに、その瞬間にいて、人生を最大限に生きるようにアドバイスしているのだ。
人生はリハーサルではないのだから。
Lyraも生きると言うことは、常に本番だと思って生きて来た。やりたいならば恐れることなく、正直に真面目に生きて力を出すべきだと思う。
それに盲目的に生きて満たされないままでいるよりも、より深い傷を負ってでも悔いのない生き方をすべきだ。
John Frusciante が「人々が音楽を通じて感情を伝える方法をまとめている。 重要な伝達は、あなたが内部で感じていることを聴衆に伝えることでだ。あなたが感じていることが十分に強く、彼らが感じていることが十分に強ければ、聴衆は反応しますよ。… [音楽とは] 人間の思考、または人間の知性によって組織化された音だ。… ライブ ミュージックの最も美しい点の 1 つは、その場所にいる間は、すべての人が音楽を愛しているという理由でそこに来たと仮定すると、彼らは一般的に同じことを感じているということだよ。彼らは同時に気分が良く、日常生活についてのすべての考えを頭から追い出し、すべての心配事は頭から離れていくんだ。音楽の力は、彼らの意識をひとつにまとめた。… 誰もが起こっていることとつながっており、日常生活では経験できない方法で人々を結びつけるんだ」
日常では経験できない方法でライブが人々を結びつける。それはこのRed Hot Chili Peppersそのもの。
あの空間で起こった音の化学反応で私たちは繋がり、彼らと共に幸せな感情を共有したのだ。
この【Can’t Stop】で日本ツアーが始まったのはピッタリな選曲だ。何故なら、この曲は、愛について書いている曲でもあるからだ。
「お前が探していると思っている愛は、お前が期待しているのとは反対の場所にあるのかもしれない」という意味。
それは、あなたはその瞬間に生き、愛があなたにやってくるのを受け入れる必要があると言うこと。チャンスを逃すな、と言う意味なのだ。
そしてAnthonyは続ける…
「模倣の人生を選ぶな」と。そう、この曲を聴いている者に語りかけている。
彼らのアドバイスは、毎回何かに触れてLyraがブログで書いて来たことと見事にリンクする…
「オリジナルで、生きろ！」
愛を求め、手に取り、共有する。そして自分自身の足であゆみ、ともに進む。
自分らしく。
誰の物真似でもない自分自身と、この手に入れた愛を大切に。
真剣に生きていく。
２度とないこの人生を、皆で楽しんで生きていこう！
Red Hot Chili Peppers Forever!!
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RHCP Japan Tour 2025 Setlist
☆19th Feb. (Sun) Tokyo Dome☆
- Intro Jam
- Can’t Stop
- The Zephyr Song
- Here Ever After
- Snow (Hey Oh)
- Eddie
- Suck My Kiss
- Reach Out
- Soul To Squeeze
- Nobody Weird Like Me
- These Are The Ways
- Tippa My Tongue
- Californication
- Carry Me Home
- Black Summer
- By The Way
アンコール - Under The Bridge
- Give It Away
☆21st Feb. (Tue) Osakajo Hall☆
- Intro Jam
- Can’t Stop
- The Zephyr Song
- Here Ever After
- Suck My Kiss
- Eddie
- Reach Out
- Soul To Squeeze
- Nobody Weird Like Me
- These Are The Ways
- Tippa My Tongue
- Californication
- Carry Me Home
- Black Summer
- By The Way
アンコール - Under The Bridge
- Give It Away
Anthony’s father John Kiedis was a Hollywood actor. Anthony originally moved to LA to pursue a career as an actor, before making music. “Choose not a life of imitation” is an imperative that’s likely speaking to a fan listening to the song. They’re giving advice: Be yourself; be original.
Released as a the third single from By The Way, “Can’t Stop” is known for its simple but catchy guitar riff, pulsating bass and thoroughly cryptic lyrics.
Throughout the track, Anthony Kiedis highlights the predominant theme of nurturing an inner, personal energy. He addresses the verses to the listener in an instructional tone, whilst referencing inspirational figures such as Julia Butterfly Hill, Charlie Parker, and Defunkt.
A 2002 Interview with Spin Magazine revealed that the song is one that uses the band’s technique of writing lyrics to establish a rhythm, rather than making a rhythm to establish lyrics.
The track was accompanied by a surreal music video inspired by the “One-Minute Sculptures” of American artist Erwin Wurm, in which the four band members perform random abstract actions worthy of display in an art gallery.
The song is instrumentally composed in 4/4 standard time and in the key of E minor. The verse plays twice before the bridge, as well as the chorus. During the bridge, Frusciante plays sparsely in a reggae style, only strumming on the up-beat. Following the bridge, Frusciante utilizes a fuzz (Big Muff Pi by Electro Harmonix) in his solo. He also makes extensive use of a tone-bend.
Lyrically, “Can’t Stop” is a prime example of the band’s occasional use of writing lyrics to an established rhythm, rather than rhythms to established lyrics. Kiedis writes in his typical circumlocutory style. Nonetheless, the predominant theme of cultivating an inner, personal energy (evidenced in the title and the final line: “This life is more than just a read-through.”) can be understood in almost every line. The verses are addressed to the listener (or perhaps to himself), in an instructional tone, with references to Kiedis’s own life, as well as citing the inspiration of Defunkt (“Defunkt, the pistol that you pay for”) and Julia Butterfly Hill (“J. Butterfly is in the treetops”). The bridge marks a slight departure, as Kiedis suggests he had temporarily forgotten this philosophy, and looks to a new girlfriend to help himself back on his feet.
The Mark Romanek-directed music video for the single, released on January 24, 2003, features all four of the band members doing seemingly random and excessively abstract actions such as holding many water bottles or attempting to balance buckets on their heads. It begins with the camera swooping through a yellow tube to Anthony Kiedis, wearing glasses, and is subsequently followed by the foursome running through a hall with light fixtures attached to their backs. The band engages in various activities, such as wearing a giant purple hippopotamus mask, playing with rubber balls, jumping, abstract scenes with boxes, buckets, water bottles, trash cans, flying through the air, pink foam peanuts, plants, playing guitar in a room full of empty blue chairs/room with lamps turning on and off.
At certain segments of the video, one can see guitarist John Frusciante playing an orange Toronado and a silver Fender Stratocaster, which is unlike his style due to the fact that he only plays vintage guitars (both guitars being under five years of age). Frusciante later explained he was instructed to play the guitars by director Mark Romanek since they blended well with the color scheme used in the video; he also noted that he was never actually playing the guitars.
Inspiration for the video was attributed to Austrian artist Erwin Wurm, as indicated by the sign at the end of the video. The lighting was positioned in order to provide a clean-cut, contemporary atmosphere which would integrate with the video’s concept. Orange was chosen to be the backsplash color by Romanek. His creative hand attempted to mirror Wurm’s abstract “One Minute Sculptures”, by having the band perform random scenes, which seem to fit no purpose. However, in retrospect, they were not intended to be anything more than an homage.
Anthony is no stranger to fame and doesn’t shy away from indulging in the rockstar lifestyle if it means he can continue doing the things he loves, i.e. making music for fans. “The shindig” could either be his career as an entertainer or the drugs he can’t quit due to said career.
Anthony’s father John Kiedis was a Hollywood actor. Anthony originally moved to LA to pursue a career as an actor, before making music.
“Choose not a life of imitation” is an imperative that’s likely speaking to a fan listening to the song. They’re giving advice: Be yourself; be original.
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Within the United States, Indian reservations are parcels of land recognised as”domestic dependent nations”. During early treaties, Native American tribes were made to surrender large areas of land to the U.S. These tribes were able to retain some of these reservations, maintaining the authority to govern themselves and manage their own land.
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In his 2004 autobiography Scar Tissue, Anthony Kiedis outlined his family heritage and distant Native American ancestry. Writing about his grandfather, John Alden Kiedis, Anthony said:
He met a beautiful woman named Molly Vandenveen, whose heritage was a pastiche of English, Irish, French, and Dutch (and, as we’ve recently discovered, some Mohican blood, which explains my interest in Native American culture and my identification with Mother Earth).
Several of Anthony’s tattoos are Native American-inspired – a large “Halda Thunderbird” notably spans across his upper back. Additionally, RHCP have previously referenced Native American themes in the songs “American Ghost Dance” and “Johnny Kick a Hole in the Sky”.
Defunkt is a 70s-80s funk/rock/jazz band. The song’s music is similar to Defunkt. Furthermore, it’s a play on words that sounds like this funk. Either way, Defunkt, this style of music, is the pistol, the weapon, that you, the fan, pays for. We who enjoy RHCP, pay for their Defunkt/style of music because it’s our weapon against the machine, or whatever else we face in life.
You have to make your mark on the world in some lasting way, so go shine so bright that you get a star on Hollywood BLVD.
However, even if you make your mark you have to keep on working. “Burning so bright I wonder what the wave meant” is a reference to the fact that RHCP has endured the rise and fall of numerous popular musical styles in their 30 year history, due to their continued creativity and talent.go.
Make an empowered entrance back into life if you stumble, for example by becoming addicted to heroin, and manage to make it back alive.
the world I love〜 The chorus is his way of saying how much he loves making music and the hard work he puts into it.
He doesn’t know when it’ll be time to walk away from music, but until then he will continue to give us everything he’s got.
In his 2004 autobiography, Scar Tissue, Anthony Kiedis referenced receiving ozone therapy as treatment for Hepatitis C. A holistic nurse named Sat Hari accompanied the band during the By The Way tour, and administered ozone intravenously to both Flea and Anthony:
One of my main soul mates is Sat Hari. Flea brought her on tour to administer intravenous ozone therapy to him. Sat Hari is a nurse, an American Sikh, a sweet, incredibly sheltered, turban-wearing young lady… She’s maternal and she’s warm and she’s loving and she’s unassuming, a complete breath of fresh air and female energy… For me she’s like a sister and mother and caretaker and nurse all in one. Sat Hari endeared herself to everybody in the band and the crew, and she became the den mother to the entire organization
As a form of alternative medicine, ozone therapy claims to increase the amount of oxygen in the body by administering ozone (chemical symbol, O3) directly into the patient. The controversial therapy aims to activate the immune system, and stimulate oxygen metabolism to increase the amount of oxygen released to body tissues. Although there’s a lack of credible evidence supporting its usage, ozone therapy is believed to assist in the treatment of conditions such as hepatitis, cancer, and AIDS.
Personnel
- Anthony Kiedis – lead vocals
- John Frusciante – guitar, handclaps, backing vocals
- Flea – bass, backing vocals in live performances
- Chad Smith – drums, handclaps
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