{"id":490465,"date":"2019-09-24T10:28:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T16:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=889571"},"modified":"2019-09-24T10:28:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T16:28:37","slug":"watch-red-hot-chili-peppers-pay-tribute-to-ric-ocasek-with-just-what-i-needed-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/watch-red-hot-chili-peppers-pay-tribute-to-ric-ocasek-with-just-what-i-needed-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Red Hot Chili Peppers Pay Tribute to Ric Ocasek With \u2018Just What I Needed\u2019 Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Red Hot Chili Peppers<\/a> performed a sizzling rendition of the Cars<\/a>\u2019 \u201cJust What I Needed\u201d during a concert in Singapore Sunday. The cover pays tribute to frontman Ric Ocasek<\/a>, who died unexpectedly<\/a> September 15th at the age of 75.<\/p>\n

In the video, a shirtless Anthony Kiedis<\/a> and Flea<\/a> take the reigns on the iconic New Wave track, with Flea thumping on bass as Kiedis takes his swelling vocals to new heights. \u201cI loved Ric Ocasek,\u201d Flea wrote on his Instagram after the musician\u2019s death. \u201cWhat an interesting, smart, kind, funny man who made incredible records. I loved those Cars albums when I was a teenager. Perfect pop songs with those wicked Elliot Easton guitar solos. Absolute candy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Chili Peppers are just one of many bands who have paid tribute to Ocasek in the week since his death. Blink-182\u2019s Mark Hoppus also covered \u201cJust What I Needed,\u201d<\/a> while Weezer<\/a>, the Killers\u2019 Brandon Flowers<\/a> and Smashing Pumpkins\u2019 Billy Corgan<\/a> all wrote heartfelt tributes.<\/p>\n

The Chili Peppers are slated to play Ohana Festival in Dana Point, California September 29th. Progress on their 12th studio album \u2014 a follow-up to 2016\u2019s The Getaway<\/em> \u2014 was halted when the California wildfires burned down their writing house<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Red Hot Chili Peppers performed a sizzling rendition of the Cars\u2019 \u201cJust What I Needed\u201d during a concert in Singapore Sunday. The cover pays tribute to frontman Ric Ocasek, who died unexpectedly September 15th at the age of 75. In the video, a shirtless Anthony Kiedis and Flea take the reigns on the iconic New Wave […]<\/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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-21 13:59:56","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":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}