{"id":803729,"date":"2020-02-02T09:26:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T16:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=946663"},"modified":"2020-02-02T09:26:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T16:26:27","slug":"flea-pays-tribute-to-one-of-my-heroes-gang-of-fours-andy-gill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/flea-pays-tribute-to-one-of-my-heroes-gang-of-fours-andy-gill\/","title":{"rendered":"Flea Pays Tribute to \u2018One of My Heroes\u2019 Gang of Four\u2019s Andy Gill"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>\n

Flea<\/a> paid tribute to Gang of Four<\/a>\u2019s Andy Gill \u2014 the influential guitarist who also produced the Red Hot Chili Peppers\u2019 debut album \u2014 following news of the post-punk pioneer\u2019s death<\/a> Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAndy Gill, one of my favorite guitar players of all time has left us. Go listen to the Gang of Four album Entertainment!<\/em><\/a> right now. Turn that shit up loud and rock the fuck out. Dance. Think,\u201d Flea wrote on Instagram<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThats a record that changed my life forever, and was massively influential on my development as a musician, and showed me what a rock band could be. There is nothing else like it. It cut a fucking hole right the thick LA smog that I wanted to jump through.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Gill, who produced all of Gang of Four\u2019s records, was recruited by Red Hot Chili Peppers to produce the band\u2019s 1984 self-titled debut album, although the band was admittedly dissatisfied with the finished product.<\/span><\/p>\n

Flea continued, \u201cI am shocked. Andy was one of my heroes, a man who inspired the shit out of Hillel [Slovak], Anthony [Kiedis] and I as youngsters; I was thrilled beyond belief when he agreed to produce our first album. May his beautiful soul be in bliss with the divine, I love you Andy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Following the departure of RHCP guitarist Josh Klinghoffer and return of John Frusciante, Flea revealed that one of the first new projects he and Frusciante were working on together was a track for Gill-curated Gang of Four tribute album.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAfter not being in touch for many years, Andy and I had spoken recently, and communicated a lot of over the last several months about a Gang Of Four tribute album he was putting together,\u201d Flea wrote. \u201cMyself, John Frusciante, and the youth choir from the Silverlake Conservatory of Music just finished recording a track for it, and sent in to Andy on Monday.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/p>\n
\n

View this post on Instagram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

<\/a> <\/p>\n

Andy Gill, one of my favorite guitar players of all time has left us. Go listen to the Gang of Four album ENTERTAINMENT right now. Turn that shit up loud and rock the fuck out. Dance. Think. Thats a record that changed my life forever, and was massively influential on my development as a musician, and showed me what a rock band could be. There is nothing else like it. It cut a fucking hole right the thick LA smog that I wanted to jump through. After not being in touch for many years, Andy and I had spoken recently, and communicated a lot of over the last several months about a Gang Of Four tribute album he was putting together. Myself, John Frusciante, and the youth choir from the Silverlake Conservatory of Music just finished recording a track for it, and sent in to Andy on Monday. I am shocked. Andy was one of my heroes, a man who inspired the shit out of Hillel, Anthony and I as youngsters; I was thrilled beyond belief when he agreed to produce our first album. May his beautiful soul be in bliss with the divine, I love you Andy.<\/a><\/p>\n

A post shared by Flea<\/a> (@flea333) on

Gill died Saturday at a London hospital following a short respiratory illness. He was 64.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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

Flea paid tribute to Gang of Four\u2019s Andy Gill \u2014 the influential guitarist who also produced the Red Hot Chili Peppers\u2019 debut album \u2014 following news of the post-punk pioneer\u2019s death Saturday. \u201cAndy Gill, one of my favorite guitar players of all time has left us. Go listen to the Gang of Four album Entertainment! […]<\/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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-23 23:36:08","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}