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| Tour by Red Hot Chili Peppers | |
| Associated album | Freaky Styley |
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| Start date | January, 1985 |
| End date | November, 1986 |
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The Freaky Styley Tour (also known as the Infinity Tour) was a concert tour by Red Hot Chili Peppers to support their second studio album Freaky Styley. The album and tour saw the return of founding member and guitarist, Hillel Slovak. In the spring of 1986 while still on tour, the band started work on their next album, The Uplift Mofo Party Plan however by this time drummer Cliff Martinez felt he no longer had the heart to continue with the band but instead of quitting, Kiedis and Flea fired him. Martinez was quickly replaced by founding member Jack Irons who joined the band to complete the Freaky Styley tour and record their third album. This was the first time since 1983 when the original lineup of the band toured together. During the tour, both singer Anthony Keidis and Slovak developed severe drug problems and following the tour, drug problems for Kiedis were so bad that he was briefly fired from the band and given a month to rehabilitate. The tour saw the band open for a few notable bands including Run DMC, The Alarm and X. Another notable act who opened for the band was a up and coming L.A. bar band known as Guns N' Roses. 25 years later the two groups were announced as 2012 inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The music video for the band's single, "Jungle Man" was shot during various tourdates.
Songs performed
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- The Brother's Cup, Lovin' And Touchin', Stranded and Why Don't You Love Me? have not been performed again since this tour.
- Backwoods, Me And My Friends, Party On Your Pussy and Organic Anti-Beat Box Band all made their live debut on this tour and would be released on the 1987 album, The Uplift Mofo Party Plan.
Opening Acts
- Agent Orange
- The Alarm (Chili Peppers opened for them)
- Beastie Boys
- Beat Orgy
- Bolero Lava
- Bootsey X And The Love Monsters
- Camper van Beethoven
- Channel 3
- Crazy 8s
- Desperation Squad
- The Dick Nixons
- The Dickies
- Dot 3
- The Enemy
- Exobiota
- Fishbone
- Flamthrowers
- Geri Rieg
- Guns N' Roses
- Lyres
- Manifesto
- Meat Puppets
- Muddog
- Paper Bag
- The Preachers
- Psychobud
- Run DMC (Chili Peppers opened for them)
- Screamin' Sirens
- Sex & Vandals
- Thelonious Monster
- Trouble Funk
- Tupelo Chain
- Velez
- X (Chili Peppers opened a few shows for them)
Personnel
- Flea - bass, backing vocals
- Anthony Kiedis - lead vocals
- Hillel Slovak - guitar, backing vocals
- Cliff Martinez - drums, backing vocals (fired in spring of 1986)
- Jack Irons - drums (re-joined the band in spring of 1986)
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