CHILI PEPPERS RED HOT SILVERLAKE PEARL JAM TO SAVE MUSIC

Red Hot Chili Peppers Anthony Kiedis gushed recently about the recent Silverlake Conservatory benefit with bandmate Flea.

Earlier this month the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Eddie Vedder headlined the Hullabaloo Benefit Concert, a show that raises money to support scholarships for the Silverlake Conservatory. The organization is a pet project of bassist Flea, who said it will provide at least 100 underprivileged but deserving kids an opportunity to study music.

Anthony Kiedis, who showed up at the Musician’s Assistance Program benefit shortly after Hullabaloo, said that the impromptu group of former Chili Pepper and Pearl Jam drummer Jack Irons, Flea and Eddie Vedder rocked the house while the concert did its job.

“It was really fun. Eddie Vedder got up there with a power trio consisting of Jack Irons on drums and Flea on bass, and he came off and the guy was drenched as if he had just come in from the ocean. It was kind of like if The Who were a trio today, it might be like that. It brought in a ton of money. Kids will benefit. Kids will get scholarships, and they’ll get lessons to learn music. That’s what it’s there for. (It’s) very simple.”

Flea has been involved with the Silverlake Conservatory of Music for years trying to help out locally in California, after discovering many of the programs he was involved in were shut down because funding was cut off.