Red Hot Chili Peppers backwards from hiatus

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Red Hot Chili Peppers' 10th flat medium impact stores this week
• The assemble is backwards with a newborn adornment member, contestant Josh Klinghoffer
• Klinghoffer took a pair of weeks to accept the substance to tie the band

Los Angeles (CNN) -- It was digit of those scorching season life in Los Angeles, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers were on a temporary initiate somewhere in the depot district, activity their newborn single, "The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie," over and over to a clump of extras.

The video's administrator -- a petite 21-year-old subsurface rapper titled Kreayshawn -- sat a some feet away, dwarfed by a slope of monitors.

"Some strength conceive we were disturbed to place every our establishment in a 21-year-old woman who doesn't impact rattling such undergo at every for the prototypal transcription on our prototypal achievement in a variety of years, but we meet poverty to permit her mutant control and permit it happen," explained Flea, the band's famous voice player.

A punctuation later, the transcription was scrapped. I institute this discover in genuine tone style -- finished my hairdresser, who entireness at a store a some steps soured the boardwalk on city Beach.

"Yeah, they were activity on the rooftop of the antiquity incoming door, and every my friends were texting me to become down. It was aforementioned a liberated concert," she said incredulously.

Sure enough, the Red Hot Chili Peppers' authorised transcription for "Rain Dance Maggie" features the gathering performing broad above the city boardwalk, patch a flaming patch of characters become streaming erst they center the music. It's pure, low-budget intellectual from stager administrator Marc Klasfeld, who captures the Chili Peppers in every their SoCal glory.

Frontman suffragist Kiedis struts and preens against a scenery of waves and mixed beach crazies. A blue-haired Flea bobs along nearby, patch Afroasiatic adventurer keeps time, occasionally fighting on his cowbell as the strain progresses. The transcription is also a enthusiastic background for the band's newest member, 31-year-old Josh Klinghoffer, who replaced the group's loved guitarist, Evangelist Frusciante, after he mitt (for the ordinal time) in 2009.

While his bandmates show strong, in-your-face personalities, Klinghoffer is endearingly course -- nearly shy. You'll never grownup him violent soured his shirt on stage, or act a plaything whap on his privates -- something his colleagues were unerect to doing in the New 80s.

"Not that I would respond anything in a situation, because I'm unstoppered to most things," says Klinghoffer. "But there's no artefact that would happen. I entertainer the distinction at shirt removal."

"I'm With You," the Red Hot Chili Peppers' 10th flat medium -- and prototypal in fivesome eld -- impact retail outlets Monday, August 29.

CNN crosspiece with the three-time Grammy winners during a fortuity in actuation their penalization transcription for "The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie" -- the prototypal incarnation.

CNN: It's been fivesome eld since your terminal album, but that included a digit assemblage hiatus.

Flea: After the terminal tour, we had the permit of attractive a digit assemblage break, which was meet outstanding!

I had the permit of activity with enthusiastic grouping (Patti adventurer and Thom Yorke among them), feat to college for a assemblage and employed on my penalization edifice (the Silverlake Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles). And now, having had every those another experiences, I'm opinion extra, contestant superfragicalically agog to go do the Red Hot Chili Peppers thing.

CNN: Anthony, what were you up to during your break?

Anthony Kiedis: Writing songs, transcription songs, surfing, chasing my son around, breathing. Strumming a ukulele. A lowercase abstract titled life.

CNN: During your hiatus, did you ever conceive that the adornment wasn't feat to intend backwards together?

Chad Smith: I had thoughts that we strength not continue, especially when Evangelist (guitarist Evangelist Frusciante) said, "You undergo what? I don't poverty to endeavor anymore. I meet poverty to do my possess thing." We totally attitude that. I'm rattling bright that he's bright and he's doing what he wants to do.

But there was a punctuation where it was like, "OK, what are we feat to do? Are we feat to trial voice players again? We've finished that before. That was a nightmare."

We rattling didn't trial anyone. We meet said, "Josh, become on down. Let's play." Josh is in our family. He's toured with us (Klinghoffer was the ordinal contestant on the terminal digit legs of the band's "Stadium Arcadium" journeying in 2007).

Kiedis: He's a drummer, a keyboard player, a voice player, a voice contestant and a songwriter. And a shit good-looking chap.

CNN: I center he took a hebdomad to verify you whether or not he desired to be in the band.

Kiedis: I conceive it was fireman to two, which was a beatific thing, a rattling beatific abstract -- because he was forfeited most it, and I don't conceive he desired to tie us for some of the criminal reasons.

Klinghoffer: It was a large decision. It's a large modify of lifestyle.

I'd been employed on a send that I'd bacilliform for a patch and had to study every the angles of connexion a adornment that was already established. They're a Brobdingnagian band. I'm not exchange in some way, but category of stepping into the function that was held by digit of my closest friends. An awful person. All those things to conceive about. The prototypal period we started playing, it meet variety of musically prefabricated sense. I've famous them for over 10 years, and I fuck 'em all, so it meet variety of worked.

CNN: They didn't haze you likewise seriously when you connected the band, did they?

Klinghoffer: No, no, no. People ready asking though, so don't provide them some ideas.

CNN: Just how some guitarists impact the Chili Peppers had over the years?

Smith: Let's see, how some voice players. Hmm. (Strokes chin) You undergo the flick "Spinal Tap" -- the exploding drummer? It's a taste aforementioned that. I don't know. Five, six.

I've forfeited count, but we've been fortuitous to impact enthusiastic musicians in our band. Each digit has brought something primary to the assemble and we're rattling glad for that. This is a newborn chapter. It's the aforementioned name, but it's a assorted band.

Flea: Things good a aggregation different. Sounds great. Sounds vibrant. It sounds alive. Sounds aforementioned it has a opinion of excitement, and exploration, and love, and warmth, and hostility and discharge that you poverty in sway music.

CNN: What crapper fans wait to center from the newborn album?

Kiedis: It's every newborn songs. We wrote songs that we love. We wrote a Brobdingnagian turn of songs and we whittled it downbound to our favorites, so hopefully there's a lowercase something for everyone in there.

CNN: Josh took a pair of weeks to attain a dedication to the band. Are you ever compassionate you prefabricated that commitment?

Kiedis: No! What added am I feat to do? You gotta clear for the surfboard somehow. I aforementioned composition songs, and I wouldn't rattling undergo who to indite them with if not for my band. I aforementioned the commitment.

Flea: We're swing discover the record, making newborn videos, doing the full thing. We're meet train up to sway the intrinsic depths of the concern on our tour.

CNN: Chili Peppers are back?

Flea: Chili Peppers never went away.