One Hot Minute Tour


The One Hot Minute Tour was a concert tour by the Red Hot Chili Peppers from 1995–1997 to support their album One Hot Minute. This was the first and only major tour with guitarist Dave Navarro.

Background

The One Hot Minute era got off to a rocky start with extensive delays in recording; once the tour was underway there was a variety of mishaps and upheavals. The U.S. leg of the tour was intended to start in 1995 but had to be postponed to the following year because drummer Chad Smith broke his arm in a baseball game. A total of 33 dates were canceled due to other problems, including a broken arm suffered by singer Anthony Kiedis that eventually led to another drug relapse. Lack of chemistry with Navarro had been a major problem since he joined the band and got worse as the tour went on. During the tour, Flea was so miserable that he began to rethink being part the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Navarro played his final show with the band in July 1997 during a massive rain storm that cut the band's set short. After spending 1997 making futile attempts to record new music, Navarro, who himself had another drug relapse which further soured his relationship with Kiedis, was let go in early 1998 and replaced not long after by John Frusciante who had quit the band in 1992.

Songs performed

Tour overview

Some of the U.S. shows opened with a jam that consisted of "Freaky Styley" and Parliament Funkadelic's "Night of the Thumpasorus Peoples" with Kiedis providing his own rap over the Parliament song. The jam would go right into and "Suck My Kiss". Out of the album's thirteen songs, "Falling Into Grace", "One Hot Minute" and "Tearjerker" were the only songs to never be performed live. For almost nineteen years, "Pea" was the only song from the album to be performed live in full since the tour's end in 1997, although "My Friends" and "Walkabout" were briefly teased in 2012 and 2013 respectively. In February 2016, "Aeroplane" was finally performed again.
This tour marked the last time "Coffee Shop", "Deep Kick", "My Friends", "One Big Mob", "Shallow Be Thy Game", "Stone Cold Bush", "Transcending", "Walkabout" and "Warped" were performed live.

Shows

;Festivals and other miscellaneous performances
;Cancellations and rescheduled shows
July 17, 1996Lyon, FranceTransbordeurCancelled
July 23, 1996Honolulu, HawaiiBlaisdell ArenaCancelled
September 1, 1996Resolute, CanadaLocal WarehouseCancelled
September 9, 1996New York City, New YorkCancelled
September 11, 1996Las VegasAladdin Theatre for the Performing ArtsCancelled
September 13, 1996Anchorage, AlaskaSullivan ArenaRescheduled to July 21, 1997
September 16, 1996Honolulu, HawaiiRichardson FieldRescheduled for July 23, 1997
June 8, 1997New York City, New YorkRandall's IslandCancelled
July 17, 1997Los AngelesWhisky a Go GoCancelled
July 21, 1997Anchorage, AlaskaSullivan ArenaRescheduled for September 21, 1997
July 23, 1997Honolulu, HawaiiRichardson FieldRescheduled for September 23, 1997
July 30, 1997Seoul, South KoreaOlympic Weightlifting GymnasiumCancelled
August 1, 1997Taipei, TaiwanKK DiscoCancelled
August 3, 1997Bangkok, ThailandKilevat StadiumCancelled
August 8, 1997Kowloon Bay, Hong KongHong Kong International Trade and Exhibition CentreCancelled
August 10, 1997Kallang, SingaporeSingapore Indoor StadiumCancelled
August 12, 1997Mangilao, GuamUniversity of Guam FieldhouseCancelled
September 11, 1997Las VegasAladdin Theatre for the Performing ArtsCancelled
September 21, 1997Anchorage, AlaskaSullivan ArenaCancelled
September 23, 1997Honolulu, HawaiiRichardson FieldCancelled
October 31, 1997Mexico City, MexicoPalacio de los DeportesCancelled
November 1, 1997Mexico City, MexicoPalacio de los DeportesCancelled
November 3, 1997Rio de Janeiro, BrazilMetropolitanCancelled
November 4, 1997Rio de Janeiro, BrazilMetropolitanCancelled
November 6, 1997São Paulo, BrazilOlympiaCancelled
November 7, 1997São Paulo, BrazilOlympiaCancelled
November 8, 1997São Paulo, BrazilOlympiaCancelled
November 10, 1997Curitiba, BrazilPedreira Paulo LeminskiCancelled
November 11, 1997Porto Alegre, BrazilGigantinhoCancelled
November 13, 1997Santiago, ChileVelódromo del Estadio NacionalCancelled
November 14, 1997Bogotá, ColombiaSimón Bolívar ParkCancelled
November 16, 1997Caracas, VenezuelaPoliedro de CaracasCancelled
November 18, 1997Buenos Aires, ArgentinaEstadio Arquitecto Ricardo EtcheverryCancelled
November 20, 1997San Juan, Puerto RicoCancelled
December 29, 1997Honolulu, HawaiiBlaisdell ArenaCancelled
December 31, 1997Anchorage, AlaskaSullivan ArenaCancelled

First North American leg

All dates on the band's November–December 1995 dates had to be rescheduled because drummer Chad Smith broke his wrist. The North American tour would eventually kick off on February 6, 1996.

Cancelled 1997 tour

The entire leg of this tour was cancelled except for Navarro's final U.S. appearance with the band on the January 24, 1997 episode of the Late Show with David Letterman and June 26, 1997 for the Fuji Rock Festival, which ended up being the last performance with Dave Navarro. The set was cut short due to a massive storm. The band decided to cancel the rest of the tour to focus on recording a new album though both Kiedis and Navarro relapsed into drugs and the follow-up album with Navarro would never get made. Navarro would eventually be fired in April 1998 and replaced not long after by John Frusciante.

Opening acts

Iggy Pop joined the band onstage at the 2/9/96 show to cover his song "I Wanna Be Your Dog". MTV also aired the first few songs of this show live. MTV titled the special "Online and Onstage with the Red Hot Chili Peppers". A segment before the live performance was shown with the band answering online questions from fans in an AOL chatroom. MTV would also air another special from this performance which featured the band as cameras followed them around throughout the day up until showtime. The Peppers also performed with "socks on cocks" for the first time with Dave and were joined by backing singer, Rob Rule, who also wore a sock, and backing singer, Rain Phoenix who performed topless.

Personnel

Red Hot Chili Peppers