RedHotChiliPeppers.com Website Review – Red Hot Chili Peppers Band – Red Sites – Red Music

Red Hot Chili Peppers .com is the official website for the musical group Red Hot Chili Peppers. The home page is simple and artistic with three choices, Drive In, News, and Log In.

Now that we are past the splash page we are at the true home page. Someone is trying to be a bit too artistic here. There is a car with For Sale written on it but it is reversed. Gee, I guess that means that image has been Photoshoped and reversed. Well, the sky looks cool.

There is a red logo in the upper left corner but don’t click on it. It doesn’t do anything. I would have thought it would return me to the home page from other pages but it doesn’t.

I clicked on “Log In” and learned I could join their fan club and be “instantly be on fire!” There are three levels of fandom, Silver, Gold and Free Message Board Access. The Silver gives you a free blog page, priority ticketing, and limited edition merchandise offers. Go Gold and get a “2007 fan designed RHCP baseball cap!¹ I went through the steps and zammo, I’m a Red Hot Chili Peppers Fan! Cool, as a side note, when I was a D.J. I played the Red Hot Chili Peppers a lot.

I logged in and wished I lived in a city were I could see them because purchasing tickets through the site is very easy. Back to the site.

I clicked on Drive In and am greeted by the backdrop and menu on the left. At the top of the menu is a red box, when you slide it back and forth, the backdrop scrolls left and right. Nice effect, not sure what it is for.

News bring up the last three RSS headlines, links to the News Archive, news search and the ability to sign up for the RSS feed. They have a link for the ability to display their news on my site but it was not working.

I noticed on the left that more options have opened up including Band News, Press Releases, Tour Notes, Bio and Alerts.

I clicked on Band News and it gave me the last three Band News posts but the RSS sign up was for the What’s New RSS feed NOT the Band News, bummer.

Forget about Tour News, there is not any.

Bio is a quick Biography from back at their first album, Stadium Arcadium. It does not include anything recent.

Alerts is NOT for Red Alerts about Red Hot Chili Peppers, at least I don’t think so, there is nothing here.

Fleamail takes you to the 2006 and 2007 journal postings of Flea aka Michael Peter Balzary, the bass player for the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Community has Blogs, Msg Boards, Chat, Gallery, Ask RHCP, S.O.T.M., Members, and Profile. It opens with two questions that people have asked the Red Hot Chili Peppers. However, when I clicked on Read Replies or Answer, neither had either.

There is some meat to the blogs. Dave Rat blogs about his experience as a roadie for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I learned that main stage had “15 deep V-Dosc with triple dV’s under, 6 V’s over 6 dV’s on the side hangs and a thundering 40 Rat Subs across front.”²

I tried to click onto the other Community links but none work while looking at blogs. I had to click out of the Community then go back in to get to Msg Boards. There have been over 26,000 posts in the Funky Monks Message Board who’s content is described as “Discuss the Red Hot Chili Peppers! Their music, news, reviews, magazine articles, info, anything and everything band related.”

I tried to load chat but my membership level did not allow me access to the area. So I clicked back on Community. Ouch, they have a bad link that took me to a 404 page. Someone put a < b > bold into the link url.

Gallery was another disappointment. No photos at all, no promos nothing. The S.O.T.M. is Site of the Month, which there aren’t any. Members shows me nothing because of my level but I’m trapped again. 404 broken links on all the navigation on the left, the < b > problem again.

Because nothing new is in the Tickets section, I’ll assume the Red Hot Chili Peppers are not touring this year.

Exclusives has videos for Hump de Bump, Snow, Dani California, Tell Me Baby, and Suck My Kiss. (Don’t click the “More” button, there isn’t any.)

I tried to look at the Photos but you have to pay the $25+ membership to see them. A band making you pay to see their photos?

More bad website navigation on the Discography section. I clicked on “View all Albums…” and it only showed me one. The cool thing here is that when you click on the albums, you can then click on the words to get the lyrics.

Under “Store” they only have 5 of their 12 albums for sale. bummer.

I’ll have to say it, I like the music but the Red Hot Chili Peppers website could be a little better. It is fancy but how does that help me. I would have liked a few photographs of the group.

1. Retrieved from Red Hot Chili Peppers Website: https://signup.redhotchilipeppers.com/ [↩]
2. Retrieved from Red Hot Chili Peppers Community Website: http://www.redhotchilipeppers.com/blog/?user=daverat [↩]