{"id":974057,"date":"2019-12-15T14:26:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T21:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=927387"},"modified":"2019-12-15T14:26:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T21:26:01","slug":"john-frusciante-rejoins-red-hot-chili-peppers-josh-klinghoffer-exits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/john-frusciante-rejoins-red-hot-chili-peppers-josh-klinghoffer-exits\/","title":{"rendered":"John Frusciante Rejoins Red Hot Chili Peppers; Josh Klinghoffer Exits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/GettyImages-71713575.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/red-hot-chili-peppers\/\" id=\"auto-tag_red-hot-chili-peppers\" data-tag=\"red-hot-chili-peppers\">Red Hot Chili Peppers<\/a> announced Sunday that the band have parted ways with guitarist Josh Klinghoffer after 10 years and have reunited with the musician that Klinghoffer replaced, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/john-frusciante\/\" id=\"auto-tag_john-frusciante\" data-tag=\"john-frusciante\">John Frusciante<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cJosh is a beautiful musician who we respect and love,\u201d Red Hot Chili Peppers wrote on Instagram. \u201cWe are deeply grateful for our time with him, and the countless gifts he shared with us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The band added, \u201cWe also announce, with great excitement and full hearts, that John Frusciante is rejoining our group.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B6G0L3OHVe8\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" readability=\"-5.8053097345133\"><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The reunion marks Frusciante\u2019s third stint with Red Hot Chili Peppers: After joining the band in 1988 following the death of guitarist Hillel Slovak, Frusciante featured on the band\u2019s 1989 LP <em>Mother\u2019s Milk<\/em> and 1991 masterpiece <em>Blood Sugar Sex Magik<\/em>; the enormous success of the latter resulted in Frusciante leaving the group mid-tour in support of the album.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Frusciante rejoined Chili Peppers six years later, playing on the band\u2019s 1999 album <em>Californication<\/em>, 2002\u2019s By the Way and 2006\u2019s Stadium Arcadium. Frusciante quit the band again in September 2009 during their extended hiatus and was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/josh-klinghoffer-confirms-hes-red-hot-chili-peppers-new-guitarist-251185\/\">replaced on a full-time basis<\/a> by Klinghoffer, who was the band\u2019s backup touring guitarist. Klinghoffer remained a member of Red Hot Chili Peppers for their two most recent studio albums, 2011\u2019s<em> I\u2019m With You<\/em> and 2016\u2019s <em>The Getaway<\/em>. <\/span>In 2016, Frusciante briefly reunited with Anthony Kiedis and Flea at a benefit concert.<\/p>\n<p>Red Hot Chili Peppers have so far booked a pair of 2020 U.S. shows, May 15th at Gulf Shores, Alabama\u2019s Hangout Festival and May 24th at the Boston Calling fest.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/john-frusciante-rejoins-red-hot-chili-peppers-josh-klinghoffer-927387\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Hot Chili Peppers announced Sunday that the band have parted ways with guitarist Josh Klinghoffer after 10 years and have reunited with the musician that Klinghoffer replaced, John Frusciante. \u201cJosh is a beautiful musician who we respect and love,\u201d Red Hot Chili Peppers wrote on Instagram. \u201cWe are deeply grateful for our time with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 19:05:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}