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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 who had replaced his own replacement, Jack Sherman. The Freaky Styley Tour was even more successful than the band's previous tours and started to gain them much more underground attention. A music video for the band's single, "Jungle Man" was filmed by then manager, Lindy Goetz during various tourdates.

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 marked 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 artists at the time such as Run DMC, The Alarm and X. The band also featured two up and coming groups, Guns N' Roses and Beastie Boys as their openers for a few dates on this tour. Over 25 years later the three groups were inducted into the 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame together.

Songs performed

• Anarchy In The U.K. (Sex Pistols)
• Cat Scratch Fever (Ted Nugent)
• Cosmic Slop (Parliament Funkadelic)
• Foxy Lady (Jimi Hendrix)
• Get Up, Stand Up (Bob Marley and the Wailers)
• Heartbreaker (Led Zeppelin)
• Nervous Breakdown (Black Flag)
• How Many More Times (Led Zeppelin)
• Rapper's Delight (The Sugarhill Gang)
• Theme from "Rocky" (Bill Conti)
• We Got The Neutron Bomb (The Weirdos)

Tour overview

All fourteen songs from the album have been performed live. During the latter parts of the tour after Irons rejoined the band started to perform songs from their next album, 1987's The Uplift Mofo Party Plan like "Backwoods", "Me and My Friends", "Organic Anti-Beat Box Band", and "Party on Your Pussy". "Me and My Friends" would go on to become on of the band's most played songs and has been heavily performed on every tour since this one. This tour marked the last time songs such as "The Brother's Cup", "Stranded" and "Why Don't You Love Me? were performed live.

Opening acts

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)

References

1. "Past Shows - RHCP Tour". Redhotchilipeppers.com. 2012-03-28. Retrieved 2012-07-24.
2. "2011 Tour". The Side. 2012-06-30. Retrieved 2012-07-24.

External links

• Red Hot Chili Peppers website
• The Side: Red Hot Chili Peppers Touring History

• Red Hot Chili Peppers concert tours
• 1985 concert tours
• 1986 concert tours