Mother's Milk tour
The Mother's Milk Tour was a worldwide concert tour by Red Hot Chili Peppers to support their fourth studio album Mother's Milk.
Founding membmers, Anthony Keidis and Flea regrouped the following year following the death of Hillel Slovak and departure of Jack Irons. After a brief stint with DeWayne McKnight and D.H. Peligro (who would be given writing credits on Mother's Milk) the duo decided the two replacements didn't fit and by year's end, guitarist John Frusciante and drummer Chad Smith forming the band's most well known and iconic lineup which continued to evolve the band's sound and future success. Mother's Milk instantly garnered more attention than the band's previous records and, as such, the venues the band performed in were able to accommodate far larger crowds. The band was now playing more arenas than ever before and and gaining more television and radio exposure especially through college radio, which was a huge supporter of the album and helped the band to eventually gain more mainstream attention. For the first time the band also upgraded to a full-fleged tour bus and added backup musicians and singers.
A VHS video documenting the tour titled Psychedelic Sexfunk Live from Heaven was released in 1990.
Songs performed
- Originals
- American Ghost Dance
- Baby Appeal
- Backwoods
- Blackeyed Blonde
- Fight Like A Brave
- Freaky Styley
- Funky Crime
- Get Up And Jump
- Good Time Boys
- Green Heaven
- The Greeting Song (intro only)
- Knock Me Down
- Love Trilogy
- Magic Johnson
- Me and My Friends
- Mommy Where's Daddy
- Naked In The Rain (first and only time ever performed)
- Nevermind
- Nobody Weird Like Me
- Organic Anti-Beat Box Band
- Out In L.A.
- Party On Your Pussy
- Police Helicopter
- Pretty Little Ditty
- Punk Rock Classic
- Sexy Mexcian Maid
- Show Me Your Soul (lip-synched performance)
- Sir Psycho Sexy (intro only)
- Skinny Sweaty Man
- Stone Cold Bush
- Subway To Venus
- Taste The Pain
- True Men Don't Kill Coyotes
- Yertle The Turtle
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- Cover songs
- Anarchy In The U.K. (Sex Pistols)
- Back In Black (AC/DC)
- Batman T.V. Theme song
- Boyz-n-the-Hood (Eazy-E)
- Bulletproof (George Clinton)
- Castles Made Of Sand (Jimi Hendrix)
- Cosmic Slop (Parliament Funkadelic)
- Crosstown Traffic (Jimi Hendrix)
- Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey (Sly and the Family Stone)
- Dr. Funkenstein (Parliament Funkadelic)
- F.U. (Bemsha Swing (Thelonious Monk)
- Fire (Jimi Hendrix)
- Foxy Lady (Jimi Hendrix)
- God God (James Brown)
- Heaven On Their Minds (Jesus Christ Superstar)
- Higher Ground (Stevie Wonder)
- Hollywood (Africa) (The Meters)
- How Many More Times (Led Zeppelin)
- If You Got Funk, You Got Style (Parliament Funkadelic)
- Inca Roads (Frank Zappa)
- My Michelle (Guns N Roses)
- Nervous Breakdown (Black Flag)
- No Head, No Backstage Pass (Parliament Funkadelic)
- Red Hot Mama (Parliament Funkadelic)
- Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On (Parliament Funkadelic)
- Subteranean Homesick Blues (Bob Dylan)
- Tiny Dancer (Elton John)
- What Is Soul? (Parliament Funkadelic)
- Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin)
- Why Do Fools Fall In Love? (Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers)
- Your Song (Elton John)
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- American Ghost Dance, Baby Appeal, Fight Like A Brave, Good Time Boys, Knock Me Down, Punk Rock Classic, Naked in the Rain, Sexy Mexican Maid, Taste The Pain and True Men Don't Kill Coyotes have not been peformed again since this tour.
- When they appeared on the Arsenio Hall Show as a intro to Higher Ground they performed a song called Ode To Arsenio
Opening Acts
Personnel
Additional musicians
- Keith "Tree" Barry - saxophone/horns, backing vocals
- Kristen Vigard - backup singer
- Vickie Calhoun - backup singer
- Robbie Allen (aka Rob Rule) - opening comedy act, roadie
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