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Warlocks is a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers from their 2006 album, Stadium Arcadium. It is the eleventh song on the 'Jupiter' disc and it features a guest appearance from Billy Preston who plays the Clavinet on the song. Reportedly, Preston, who was bedridden at the time, listened to the tape the band sent him, jumped out of bed, recorded his part, then got back in bed. This was one of Preston's final works, as he died on June 6th 2006.
Though not confirmed, this song appears to be about drugs. Lead singer Anthony Kiedis uses a lot of the same lingo for drugs that he used in his autobiography, "Scar Tissue."
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The song uses the word "Rockapotamus." This is obviously not a real word, but it is a little something thrown in for the Peppers fan club, formerly known as the Rockinfreakapotamus. This was also part of the proposed title for the album that became Mother's Milk after the fatal heroin overdose of former Chili's guitarist Hillel Slovak. Also, Rockinfreakapotamus is repeated throughout the solo on "Good Time Boys" on the album Mother's Milk. This song is mainly featuring Flea on bass guitar, with his funky riff played again and again (with the exception of the chorus) and lead singer Anthony Kiedis, although John Frusciante does have a guitar solo.
| 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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