When the Red Hot Chili Peppers called the mother to help

As if it were a column of the enigmistic week, perhaps not everyone knows that … in one of their most famous songs i Red Hot Chili Peppers They hired the mother of one of them as chorister.

Let’s go in order. THE Red Hot Chili Peppers They spent part of 1991 to record music in The Mansion, a house with four bedrooms owned by the manufacturer Rick Rubin Located in the Laurel Canyon area in Los Angeles. The fifth album of the group would come out, “Blood Sugar Sex Magik”then published on September 24 of that year. A lucky day for the history of rock, in fact on the same day it also came out “Nevermind” (Read the review here) of the Nirvana.

In addition to creating a large album, those sessions of the Peppers would also have served to convince Rubin to use that house more regularly. After that time he brought us people like Linkin Park, System of A down, Slipknot And Audioslave.

According to what reported in the 2004 ‘Fornication book: The Red Hot Chili Peppers Story’, when he was working on “Under the Bridge” Rick Rubin He believed that the song needed something different than what was published until then by the Californian band. Rubin wanted a different sung, a different choir and the guitarist John Frusciante He knew how to get it. He just had to call his mother.

The mother of Frusciante, Gail Brunohe was a professional singer who also sang in the choir of his church. Mrs. Bruno went to The Mansion and Rubin recorded her voice. “He would then added the key vocal harmonies to the song, which was then recorded by Rubin on several tracks”, wrote Jeff Apter in ‘Fornication: The Red Hot Chili Peppers Story’. And the rest is history.