They were so much more fun than angry. It's not like they stumbled around and learned to play as they went, they had flea and a series of great guitarists, my favorite being frusciante on blood sugar sex magic. We called them candy punk. Not as an insult. I saw them live two times in New Orleans, the second time with smashing pumpkins and some new band no one heard of called Pearl Jam. They played the Saturday night fever sound track between bands. They had go go dancers. At one point they were buck naked. After blood sugar sex magic, George Clinton was out, they were reduced to provocative millionaires and the fun was much harder to come by.
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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.