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The Best Supergroups In History
After some brief dalliances with Arik Marshall and Jesse Tobias, according to Diffuser, the Red Hot Chili Peppers found a more permanent lead guitarist in Dave Navarro, who, with his years in the popular Jane’s Addiction under his belt, turned the Chili Peppers into a supergroup. Navarro officially joined in 1994, per MTV News, and his very first performance with the group was a massive and important one: a set at the Woodstock ’94 festival in upstate New York.
…And he had to play while wearing a silver jumpsuit and gigantic, working light bulb on his head, a concept devised for the band by frontman Anthony Kiedis. “He drew it on a napkin or on a piece of paper, and we handed it to these guys, and none of saw the actual prop until we were 10 minutes away from going onstage, in front of a festival audience, cameras, satellite productions,” Navarro told SiriusXM Volume (via Yahoo!) of the bulbs that weighed about 60 pounds and didn’t stay put.
Months later, the band played “The Late Show with David Letterman,” which taped in a studio kept chilly, per the host’s liking. The band dressed appropriately, in hooded, fur-lined coats, along with mirrored shades. “But we didn’t realize at the time that we looked exactly like the police sketch” of the Unabomber, highly sought after by federal authorities in the mid-1990s.
