On October 7, 1991, the Red Hot Chili Peppers played a wild, abbreviated warm-up set at the Music Machine in West Los Angeles, just two weeks after releasing their breakthrough album Blood Sugar Sex Magik.
The club show put the band in front of superfans, friends, and family before a tour that would kick off a week later and conclude the following October, spanning 136 performances across 96 cities in 14 countries. The tour would also include several U.S. West Coast dates where the Peppers headlined with both Nirvana and Pearl Jam as openers.
It all started on this night in 1991 in a club that legally held just over 200 people.
After being holed up in a reportedly haunted house in the otherwise groovy hills of Laurel Canyon while recording what would become their penultimate album, Anthony Kiedis (vocals), John Frusciante (guitar), Flea (bass), and Chad Smith (drums) realized they had something special—something they wanted to deliver to our mothers, our fathers, and our daughters, in that order.
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