Flea admitted on the Red Hot Chili Peppers' website to faking playing his bass during the Super Bowl halftime show Sunday.
Flea has given away the truth about faking his Super Bowl halftime performance Sunday.
The 51-year-old bassist issued an open letter to fans on the Red Hot Chili Peppers' official website, admitting that he pretended play bass during his band’s hit song “Give it Away.” He added that the NFL made it "clear to us that the vocals would be live, but the bass, drums and guitar would be pre-recorded.”
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Flea said the group was told that it would be too complicated to
perform the song live, which is why he mimed playing his instrument.
The musician also said that he originally wasn’t keen to play air
guitar on a worldwide stage, but relented because “it was a
surreal-like, once in a lifetime crazy thing to do and we would just
have fun and do it.”
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The speculation that Flea had faked his bass playing began when Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid tweeted his suspicions.
“That guitar is plugged into NOTHING,” he tweeted soon after Flea and his bandmates took the stage.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ halftime performance with Bruno Mars was seen by hundreds of millions of viewers, since the Super Bowl game featuring the Seattle Seahawks’ rout of the Denver Broncos was the most watched event in television history.
Link to source: http://www.nydailynews.com
The 51-year-old bassist issued an open letter to fans on the Red Hot Chili Peppers' official website, admitting that he pretended play bass during his band’s hit song “Give it Away.” He added that the NFL made it "clear to us that the vocals would be live, but the bass, drums and guitar would be pre-recorded.”
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Flea, left, leaps untethered as he only pretended to perform playing bass while on stage with the Red Hot Chili Peppers during the band’s Super Bowl halftime show performance of ‘Give it Away’ with Bruno Mars.
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The speculation that Flea had faked his bass playing began when Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid tweeted his suspicions.
“That guitar is plugged into NOTHING,” he tweeted soon after Flea and his bandmates took the stage.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ halftime performance with Bruno Mars was seen by hundreds of millions of viewers, since the Super Bowl game featuring the Seattle Seahawks’ rout of the Denver Broncos was the most watched event in television history.
Link to source: http://www.nydailynews.com
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