>a novelty band at best. George gave them the direction but
>c'mon.
>
>Rick had a long tenure of releases, hits, and producing.
>
>Add his legacy with other musicians and it totally trumps
>them.
>
>They are celebrated as a funk band when in reality they raped
>funk.
>
>SMH.


To me culture vultures are people who take someone else's sound, groove and swag and pass it off as their own or gets praised like they re-invented the wheel...The Peppers never did that...

In fact, not only did they work with many of their funk heroes and cover many of their funk favorites and played with many of those musicians, they have given countless testimonies about their heroes...

But here's what I really dig about the Peppers: They didn't stay in that rock-funk box...They started giving nods to everyone from the Beach Boys to Zappa...Hell, "Under The Bridge" is a mix up of rock, reggae and folk...

Add the fact that in their prime they were a MONEY live act, and you get the Hall pass...

Again, it's the likes of Jackson Browne you should be looking at with a sideeye when Rick was on the outside looking in...