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Chili Peppers Enthusiastic About New Record

• 24th Aug 2009

Following an extended break, the Red Hot Chili Peppers are ready to return to the studio.Drummer Chad Smith recently told Billboard the band would reconvene in the studio this autumn, and Kiedis and Flea have confirmed to Rolling Stone they are indeed ready to rock again.

“We’ve decided to write some songs,” Kiedis told us at a benefit for the Silverlake Conservatory of Music, the Los Angeles school Flea founded. “We imposed a two-year hiatus, which we felt we needed, then we went back to the roundtable and the decision was, ‘Let’s do this.’ “

There’s no timetable yet on a new album, their first since 2006’s double-platinum Stadium Arcadium, but Flea, for one, is anxious to get going. “After being kind of burnt at the end of our last tour, I feel major enthusiasm and vigour,” he said. “Not like a restlessness, but a really healthy excitement. I’m just into it and ready to go forward.”