Red Hot Chili Peppers are a band started out in Los Angeles in 1983 producing songs such as Higher Ground, which is a remake of Stevie Wonders Higher Ground. They are now considered as rock band although underneath their rock music lyes some funk and possibly jazz music, this seems to be non-stereotypical of a rock band to use some underlying funk sounds on their rock music.

Although they are now considered a rock band, their music styles vary from; Funk to alternative rock, rock, punk rock and rap.
Some of the band's influences include;

• Jimi Hendrix
• James Brown
• Bob Marely
• Stevie Wonder
• Elvis Presley
• The Beatles 
• Defunkt
• Parliament-Funkadelic

Artists who inspired them from the same-to-current generation include;

• Foo Fighters
• Nirvana
• Pearl Jam
• Radiohead 

Higher Ground - Red Hot Chili Peppers (1989)


Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder (1973)


Californication - a word which was later copyrighted by the band.

This music video looks like a video game

Dani California
//edit the video on vegas - add who they are supposed to be's video in top corner with text under of their name
artists possible or do include;
Elvis
Beatles
Thin lizzie boy george
Guns n roses
David Bowie
The sex pistols
Blue guy Sid barret pink floyd
Misfits
Poison or kiss
Nirvana
Chilis
Switches between them and their inspiration and to who they r supposed to be
Foo fighters
Intertextuality and homage to favourite artists and era

Red Hot Chili Peppers
Rap-Rock
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RHCP interview from 2006 talking about inspiration and originality


The Zephyr Song - A gnarlz barkley song has a similar video effect, may have been influenced by RHCP


Aeroplane

This Red Hot Chili Peppers Can't Stop, I chose to review this video because it's disjunctive which seems to be the case with most rock songs (disjunctive is a theory of Andrew Goodwin, where the lyrics have no relation to the images being shown on the video), I have been looking at on Youtube, Vevo, TV channels/shows. I believe this is a good video from RHCP because it's still interesting but at the same time strange and confusing. There are certain sections of the video which make me think that we could do something similar to that e.g. the start with the camera shot with the tunnel.
Even though the video is disjunctive which means it has no related meaning to the lyrics of the song, the video doesn't have any meaning or reference to anything.



This section of the video, with the camera going down the Yellow tubing, is the part which I like the most and would like to incorporate something like this into our music video, but I expect it wouldn't fit into the type of video we are looking to produce so it's likely that we'll never end up using an effect like that.
I think that it's a great method and original, I don't know of any other type of music video where something similar to this is used. The only way I think we could use it is if we used it as a transition prompt between past/future and present day or a similar effect.

The video includes special effects, but I can only seen one computer generated special effect, it's where the guitarist/singer is in a bin singing and there is two more of him singing next to him.

The music videos I am going to review are;

• Monkey Wrench - Foo Fighters
• Can't Stop - Red Hot Chili Peppers 
• From Yesterday - 30 Seconds to Mars

Here are their Music Videos respectively;

I wanted to embed to videos from RHCP in this post but couldn't find their official music video to embed, the two videos that I wanted to embed was Can't Stop and Under the Bridge.

Can't Stop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfOdWSiyWoc

Under the Bridge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwlogyj7nFE&ob=av3e