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Animal Bar is a song by Red Hot Chili Peppers from the Mars disc of their 2006 double-album Stadium Arcadium.
The song is about a strip of land in Australia called the Animal Bar. This area gets little rain for most of the year, to the point of threatening life on the strip, and then experiences a period of precipitation. Singer Anthony Kiedis, who has owned houses in Australia, was inspired by this to write Animal Bar.
In an interview with Guitar Player magazine, John Frusciante, Chili Pepper guitarist, commented about the guitar work on "Animal Bar". "The main part is done with volume-knob swells, a wah, and a chorus pedal—but I used the wah pedal exactly the opposite of how it’s normally used. I raise the volume while the wah is in the full treble position, and then close the wah to its full bass position. Then I lower the volume and repeat the move on the next chord. It’s unusual for a guitarist to use a wah that way, but it is the way a synthesist would think. The chorus effect is maxed at some points, as is the Holy Grail, which is set to the Spring sound. The solo is processed with the stereo phasing effect from the Analogue Systems Phaser." [1]
Bass player Flea has stated that his playing on "Animal Bar" is his favorite on Stadium Arcadium. "Animal Bar" is included as one of the songs Flea played in a lesson on the website BassPlayer.tv.
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| Anthony Kiedis | John Frusciante | Flea | Chad Smith |
| Hillel Slovak | Dave Navarro | Cliff Martinez | Jack Sherman | Arik Marshall | Jesse Tobias | D. H. Peligro | Jack Irons |
| Discography |
| Studio albums: The Red Hot Chili Peppers (1984) | Freaky Styley (1985) | The Uplift Mofo Party Plan (1987) | Mother's Milk (1989) | Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991) | One Hot Minute (1995) | Californication (1999) | By the Way (2002) | Stadium Arcadium (2006) |
| EPs, Live albums and compilations: The Abbey Road E.P. (1988) | What Hits!? (1992) | Live Rare Remix Box (1994) | Out in L.A. (1994) | Under the Covers: Essential Red Hot Chili Peppers (1998) | The Best of the Red Hot Chili Peppers (1998) | Greatest Hits (2003) | Live in Hyde Park (2004) |
| Singles: 1984: True Men Don't Kill Coyotes, Get Up and Jump | 1985: Jungle Man, American Ghost Dance, Catholic School Girls Rule, Hollywood (Africa) | 1987: Fight Like a Brave, Me & My Friends | 1989: Knock Me Down, Higher Ground, Taste the Pain | 1990: Show Me Your Soul | 1991: Give It Away | 1992: Under the Bridge, Suck My Kiss, Behind the Sun, Breaking the Girl | 1993: If You Have to Ask, Soul to Squeeze | 1995: Warped, My Friends | 1996: Aeroplane, Coffee Shop, Shallow Be Thy Game, Love Rollercoaster | 1999: Scar Tissue, Around the World | 2000: Otherside, Californication, Road Trippin', Parallel Universe | 2002: By the Way, The Zephyr Song | 2003: Can't Stop, Dosed, Universally Speaking, Fortune Faded | 2006: Dani California, Tell Me Baby, Snow ((Hey Oh)) | 2007: Desecration Smile, Hump de Bump |
| Other pages: Videography | Songs | B-sides Compilation |
| Related articles |
| Chain Reaction | What Is This? | Jane's Addiction | Pearl Jam | Fear | The Mars Volta | Rick Rubin | "Krusty Gets Kancelled" |
| Categories: Red Hot Chili Peppers | Red Hot Chili Peppers Songs |
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