Red Hot Chili Peppers Psyched to Hit the Studios

Earlier this month the Red Hot Chili Peppers briefly announced they would be reuniting in October and now the band has explained they are ready to rock the world once again.

With each musician following their own path during the past two years, it seemed as if a reunion would be unlikely. Drummer Chad Smith revealed they would enter the studio this fall but didn't shed any details. Recently, singer Anthony Keidis and bassist Flea told Rolling Stone they are definitely going into the studio and this time, with a lot of enthusiasm. "We’ve decided to write some songs," said Keidis. "We imposed a two-year hiatus, which we felt we needed, then we went back to the round table and the decision was, ‘Let’s do this.’"

Adds Flea, "After being kind of burnt at the end of our last tour, I feel major enthusiasm and vigor."

The yet-untitled album has no official release date yet but the band has been noted to be hanging around with longtime producer/friend Rick Rubin recently. Rubin produced their last record Stadium Arcadium in 2006 which sold over 7 million copies to date and had three #1 singles on the US Modern Rock chart. Since their last tour, Chad Smith joined the rock supergroup Chickenfoot while Flea enrolled at USC to study music theory so it should be interesting to see what influences the band brings to the studio.

Hopefully we'll get some of those good catchy guitar riffs with a bit of funk thrown in...

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