Hamish Duncan ✳️ RHCP Sessions
@rhcpsessions.bsky.social
Author of OUT IN LA: the Red Hot Chili Peppers, 1983. Out now via Chicago Review Press.
Book 2…. TBA
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Book 2…. TBA
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Rated R! 😱
February 3, 2026 at 3:10 AM
Rated R! 😱
HONORA by Flea coming 27 March.
Another collab with Thom Yorke, and my (distant) cousin Nick Cave on the Witchita Lineman cover!
Another collab with Thom Yorke, and my (distant) cousin Nick Cave on the Witchita Lineman cover!
January 14, 2026 at 4:49 AM
HONORA by Flea coming 27 March.
Another collab with Thom Yorke, and my (distant) cousin Nick Cave on the Witchita Lineman cover!
Another collab with Thom Yorke, and my (distant) cousin Nick Cave on the Witchita Lineman cover!
Here's a newly shared glimpse of the original flyer from 16/12/82 from Gary Allen, who was the main driving force of the band playing together for the first time. Also shared in full in my book!
December 16, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Here's a newly shared glimpse of the original flyer from 16/12/82 from Gary Allen, who was the main driving force of the band playing together for the first time. Also shared in full in my book!
My old cat Boo, pictured, used to be obsessed with Oporto (Australian/Portuguese chicken shop) chips. Now I put one on his urn each year on his birthday.
December 4, 2025 at 7:05 AM
My old cat Boo, pictured, used to be obsessed with Oporto (Australian/Portuguese chicken shop) chips. Now I put one on his urn each year on his birthday.
Had no idea Hillel features (quite prominently!) in the 1986 video for Joe Cocker's "Don't You Love Me Anymore?"
He didn't play on the actual recording though, so it looks like he was just picked for his look.
He didn't play on the actual recording though, so it looks like he was just picked for his look.
October 31, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Had no idea Hillel features (quite prominently!) in the 1986 video for Joe Cocker's "Don't You Love Me Anymore?"
He didn't play on the actual recording though, so it looks like he was just picked for his look.
He didn't play on the actual recording though, so it looks like he was just picked for his look.
Hehe. Road Trippin’ cover location! That’s a real wolf on the real streets of LA, by the way.
October 17, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Hehe. Road Trippin’ cover location! That’s a real wolf on the real streets of LA, by the way.
Happy bday, BSSM 😍
September 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Happy bday, BSSM 😍
SPIN Magazine, October 1985.
September 21, 2025 at 2:11 AM
SPIN Magazine, October 1985.
ONE HOT MINUTE is 30 years old today. An album, an era, a mood, that continues to grow on me. Maybe one day soon it'll get some of the attention it deserves!
I've been toying with writing something long and deep about it - in fact I almost did this year - but hopefully one day.
I've been toying with writing something long and deep about it - in fact I almost did this year - but hopefully one day.
September 12, 2025 at 5:32 AM
ONE HOT MINUTE is 30 years old today. An album, an era, a mood, that continues to grow on me. Maybe one day soon it'll get some of the attention it deserves!
I've been toying with writing something long and deep about it - in fact I almost did this year - but hopefully one day.
I've been toying with writing something long and deep about it - in fact I almost did this year - but hopefully one day.
I have a flyer from John’s first show, in October 1988. Two nice bookends of the first era.
August 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I have a flyer from John’s first show, in October 1988. Two nice bookends of the first era.
Probably the high point of my collection now: a stage used setlist from the infamous May 7, 1992 performance in Saitama, Japan - John’s final show until 1998.
August 19, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Probably the high point of my collection now: a stage used setlist from the infamous May 7, 1992 performance in Saitama, Japan - John’s final show until 1998.
Early OHM announcement in the British press with wildly early tracklist.
June 26, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Early OHM announcement in the British press with wildly early tracklist.
Here's a fun curio: a postcard from the 1940s using the same photo later chosen for the Under the Bridge single cover.
May 18, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Here's a fun curio: a postcard from the 1940s using the same photo later chosen for the Under the Bridge single cover.
The source supposedly being Anthony himself gave it a lot of credence, but it never sat right with me.
14 years later, I see for the first time a 2011 interview in Rolling Stone India, proving all along that the band had nothing to do with it. Vindication!
14 years later, I see for the first time a 2011 interview in Rolling Stone India, proving all along that the band had nothing to do with it. Vindication!
May 2, 2025 at 4:44 AM
The source supposedly being Anthony himself gave it a lot of credence, but it never sat right with me.
14 years later, I see for the first time a 2011 interview in Rolling Stone India, proving all along that the band had nothing to do with it. Vindication!
14 years later, I see for the first time a 2011 interview in Rolling Stone India, proving all along that the band had nothing to do with it. Vindication!
North County Times, August 17, 1995. I wonder if they ever identified the guy...
March 15, 2025 at 3:47 AM
North County Times, August 17, 1995. I wonder if they ever identified the guy...
GREAT bootleg JF shirt
February 20, 2025 at 9:48 PM
GREAT bootleg JF shirt
Three different early versions of the BSSM front cover, in varying states of completion.
February 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Three different early versions of the BSSM front cover, in varying states of completion.
Amazingly, the real-life location for the pool on the Californication cover has been found by a Redditor. I’ve spent HOURS searching for it over the last few months. And then it just turns up!
Drained at the moment, but hopefully some recent pics show up soon.
Drained at the moment, but hopefully some recent pics show up soon.
January 8, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Amazingly, the real-life location for the pool on the Californication cover has been found by a Redditor. I’ve spent HOURS searching for it over the last few months. And then it just turns up!
Drained at the moment, but hopefully some recent pics show up soon.
Drained at the moment, but hopefully some recent pics show up soon.
It’s just a translation of the Guitar Player interview we already have.
December 28, 2024 at 3:19 AM
It’s just a translation of the Guitar Player interview we already have.
Notes from John to... well, maybe himself, maybe the mixing engineer, during the By the Way sessions. Changes, fixes, things we probably wouldn't even notice but that needed to be sorted out before it was done.
December 17, 2024 at 12:43 AM
Notes from John to... well, maybe himself, maybe the mixing engineer, during the By the Way sessions. Changes, fixes, things we probably wouldn't even notice but that needed to be sorted out before it was done.