Dani California – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Did you see this on MSN?Â
Red Hot Chili Peppers are a Grammy Award winning rock band that holds the record for the most #1 hits, and most weeks on the top of the charts.Â
This from Wikipedia about ‘Dani California’:
The music video for “Dani California” premiered on MTV on April 4, 2006. Directed by Tony Kaye, acclaimed director of American History X, the video is a quasi-chronology of the evolution of rock music; the band performs the song on a stage, but in a variety of outfits representing important figures and movements in the history of rock music.
However, in the June 2006 issue of UK Classic Rock magazine, Flea was quoted as saying, “We mainly did eras, not actual people: rockabilly, British Invasion, psychedelia, funk, glam, punk, goth, hair, metal, grunge, and ourselves being the sum of all those parts”. The clip finishes with the Red Hot Chili Peppers as themselves again, with flashbacks to the imitated artists featured earlier in the film.
This ‘quasi-chronology of the evolution of rock music’ is really something to behold, and they do have their fun with it. The song is very catchy, and the cryptic lyrics about Dani only make it more so.
You’re welcome, Suzanne.
When I first saw the video on MSN, I just had to link to it. Captivated me for a time. There are parts that are such fun to watch.
The music that’s enchanting me now is by Time For Three, TF3 for short, a bluegrass jazz improvisation band.
Gives me such a community feeling about the internet. Find it so inspiring.
Thanks for posting the link! I hadn’t seen the video, but had always really liked the song. Looks like they were having a lot of fun with it. It’s great when you see performers cutting loose and enjoying themselves in a production 🙂