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The Red Hot Chili Peppers were going to be a onetime act for a friends album release party

Forty years later the funk rock band is arguably one of the best known and the longest running in the United States

Everything that happened in 1983 set the course for the rest of the bands career The scrappy band quickly rose to scenewide fame playing all over Los Angeles and gaining fans and media attention wherever they performed Before the year was out they had played approximately thirty shows put together an early beloved repertoire recorded a blistering demo that secured them a recording contract with EMI/Enigma and lost two of their founding members to a rival band

Out in LA is an attempt at finding out exactly what happened during that first year and exploring what it is that makes the Red Hot Chili Peppers so compelling and fresh even as they continue on their musical journey today