Red Hot Chili Peppers’ drummer Chad Smith expects the group to start working on their next album soon.
“We’re probably looking at getting together in September and getting on a roll and starting to write songs for the next record,” Smith said in an interview with Billboard. “We always have little ideas percolating in jams and rehearsal warm-ups and sound checks and gigs. Sometimes we but into stuff. . . We just kind of play whatever, so we always have those little tidbits. But we don’t have any fully-formed songs until the four of us get in a room together. that’s when the real writing process starts.”
The band’s 2011 album I’m With You landed number two on the Billboard 200 and sold 589,000 copies in the U.S according to Billboard.
The band has five shows lined up including the Firefly Music Festival in Delaware, performances in Anchorage, Alaska, The Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival in San Francisco, and according to Detroit News will close the first day of Belle Isle’s Orion Music and More Festival on Saturday, June 8 and will play on the Budweiser-sponsored stage. Metallica will close the second day, Sunday, June 9.
Smith is now working with MusicRadar to creates a series of podcasts titled “Chad Smith in Conversation,” which began last month with Rush’s Alex Lifeson. Future guest on the show include former Faces keyboardist Ian McLagan, Florence Welch, Peal Jam’s Stone Gossard and Elton John.
“The idea is for me to get with people I know or musicians that I know, and it’s not, like, typical question and answer. It’s just a conversation. It’s a lot of fun and something different to do,” Smith said.
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