Date: Sunday, June 04, 2006
Subject:
From: "Michael Balzary"
To: members@redhotchilipeppers.com

hey so i can't even remember when i wrote my last fleamail
we've only been out on tour for about a week and a half so it cant be
that long
being on tour is like falling into a timeless time continuum so i
have no idea what is going on
the one thing i know for sure is i am sitting in a hotel room in cologne
and outside my window is a beautiful river with a beautiful bridge
and trains keep rolling by
when the sun was setting it looked so great
and there is a piano in my room

we made a video for the song 'tell me baby' and we just saw it
yesterday i am so excited about it
it is the best one we ever did, it was done by dayton and faris they
made us the best video of our career
and i cant say what it is and ruin the debut of it, not to sound so
high and mighty like it is such an important thing
but, i think it is the most beautiful piece of film that has ever
represented us
i cant wait for y'all to see it, i dont know exactly when it is
coming out but it will be soon for sure

the last couple of shows have been really good for us
just rockin, hitting our stride, diggin deep playing together better
than we have in a while

i have been reading about these u.n conferences on the state of AIDS
in the world and it makes me so sad
just the fact that there are healing drugs there than can make people
better
yet, people are dying and sick and dont get to have any of the drugs
i think about it alot
i dont know much about pharmaceutical companies
but one thing i know for sure is they are mighty and powerful and
have a lot of money
and they are in cahoots with governments at the highest levels
and that people in africa and around the world are dying and sick and
need the drugs
and the pharmaceutical companies are holding onto the drugs that they
have
why the hoarding of the drugs when people who are dying need them?
why
there has got to be a better way
surely they could part with a lot of drugs and still make money off
all the people who can afford them

on another note
my friend the weissmaster butterfly has a blog that is very worth
reading
he is a creative and eternally youthful untethered soul
anyone who wants to read it can at
masterbutterlyeatsyesterday@blogspot.com

i'm listening to siouxe and the banshees right now
now i am listening to the tom waits
it is on shuffle songs
before i was listening to babs gonzales
i love babs gonzales
he wrote a great book called 'i paid my dues'
he was a wild character who hung around with the great bop guys
and he sang, scat sang and he had a group called 'three bips and a bop'
there is one song he sings that is the happiest sounding song i ever
heard
he has another song called 'weird lullaby'
i would tell you the name of the happy one but i cant remember it
right now

opps now i'm listening to miles
yeaah!
the quintet with those wild youngsters tony williams, ron carter,
herbie hancock, and wayne shorter

i watched the movie about truman capote recently
and it made me think of our song 'true men dont kill coyotes'
because anthony told me he first thought of those words when he was
sitting in the parking lot at canters a jewish themed restaurant in
los angeles and he wrote down on a piece of paper 'true men dont kill
coyotes just ask my good man truman capote'