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[ladybird2810]

does anyone know where I can find the One2One Interview, with John, from 2002?

[Iva]

Can you be more specific regarding what it is, what country was it aired in and such?

[ladybird2810]

some screen captures from the interview. courtesy of second-walk.com

http://www.second-wa...ls.php?album=85

[Iva]

I have no idea, I think it's one of the rare interviews I'd never seen before.

Ask there....?! I assume they'll tell you.

[zzz]

oh ! I've been searching for this interview for many months ! It's from french TV, mcm I think. Some months ago, it was on this site http://www.rhcpfrance.com/index.php3 but it has been deleted now it's almost impossible to find it on the internet...
It's sad, it was a really cool interview, it's the only one where we can see John with blond hair in 2002, and I think it was at the end of the year because at the beginning I remember he said that he was happy cause his girlfriend was gone to buy the christmas tree...


Edit: When I think about it, I don't believe he really had blond hair (but it looks like), it is just the light which is very weird

Edited by zzz, 16 June 2011 - 12:11 PM.

[caro-nebraska]

ladybird2810, on Aug 11 2008, 01:00 PM, said:

does anyone know where I can find the One2One Interview, with John, from 2002?

Hi, I've seen this video on www.rhcpfrance.net in 2007, but as zzz has said it, unfortunately this video had been removed from the old video launcher.
But I've just found a website where there are a bunch of RHCP videos (I don't know if we can dowload it, but appearantly yes... ), and there is this video, but I don't know if this is the complete interview, as it is mentionned that it is a "AK Interview Special", let's just hope !

Here is the link, you just have to go down to 2002's videos

http://www.seven1963.com/RHCPVideo.htm

[4thdimension]

I found this on youtube. There is a french translator talking over John's voice, but you still can listen to what he (John) is saying.

[zzz]

oh ! thank you thank you thank you thank you !!!

[Iva]

As a future multimedia student, I really like the way they montaged this. And they made him look quite mysterious.

[markmkm88]

It stinks that you can't understand what he is saying.

Iva, on Jan 27 2009, 02:03 PM, said:

As a future multimedia student, I really like the way they montaged this. And they made him look quite mysterious.

[Iva]

If you listen closely, the most of it is audible even through the overdubs.
Plus, hey, people who understand French can help us transcribe this.

[zzz]

OK, I understand I'll try to translate!

So, when I understand some words I write them, and then I try to build a sentence around those words with the french translation of MCM. When I don't understand, I directly translate from french. That's why it's very approximative

MCM : Hi John, how are you ?
John : Fine, I'm happy.
MCM : You're happy ? But why ?
John : My girlfriend's going to buy the Christmas tree today.
MCM : That's great !
John : Yeah, I love those little things of life. (I hear  « going on » but I don't know how to put it in the sentence)
MCM : What about the video shoot ? (of the video-clip, but I don't know which one)
John : Hum... It's going OK. You know, video shoots are a lot of sitting around, so for me I was waiting, sitting in the ?-home (in french they say « trailer », so maybe it's « mobile-home » ?) that we have out there, listening to Frank Zappa.

You know, anybody who say that they like video shoots are liars I mean... (miss some words) it's a lot of sitting around in your ?-home. It's so much better if you can sit there and smoke pot or listening music or you know... That's the only thing which is funny to do in a video shoot. The real persons who work during a video shoot aren't the actors or the musicians you know, we do almost nothing. We sort to come out for a second and they say « look that way ! » and then they say « OK, thanks a lot » and... It's boring but I think that this time the result will be good, I think that the director has a good taste.

People say that it looks like I'm one with my guitar, and so I mean in that way it's like it was a part of my body. When we were writing the album By The Way, I was also going out in drum-and-bass clubs to listen to drum-and-bass and jungle music, and I danced around. I became very comfortable with dancing around in public without my guitar. I'm alright without my guitar but I prefer with my guitar. My guitar is...everything for me. I definitely feel that it's a part of me.

I experiment a lot of various things by myself, I make a lot of home-recording, and I do a lot of ?ling around with my synthesizer and things like that. So, when it came time to record By The Way some of that experimentations comes through in my ideas (? in french, this sentence isn't very clear so I try to find what John says). But when we try new things with the Chili Peppers, I already have a precise idea of what I'm going to do before going in the studio, so anything that I did with the synthesizer or with other instruments was all clear in my head before. I never experiment in the studio but I think a lot of the experimentations I did by myself end up with standing out on the album.

I've always been a big believer, (the following sentence doesn't really correspond to what John says but I don't hear him... The MCM translation is shit so it doesn't help me !) and with music, I like everything which is sort of imperceptible. When you listen to the albums of some artists,...

Oh, sorry but I give up ! It's too hard When I hear John, I understand, but when the person translates in french, it doesn't corresponds to what John has started to say, so if I try to transcribe I will miss many words, and if I translate it won't correspond...
Why not subtitles instead of a translator ?

Maybe someone else can try to translate the rest ?

[markmkm88]

zzz, on Jan 28 2009, 12:09 PM, said:

OK, I understand I'll try to translate!

So, when I understand some words I write them, and then I try to build a sentence around those words with the french translation of MCM. When I don't understand, I directly translate from french. That's why it's very approximative

MCM : Hi John, how are you ?
John : Fine, I'm happy.
MCM : You're happy ? But why ?
John : My girlfriend's going to buy the Christmas tree today.
MCM : That's great !
John : Yeah, I love those little things of life. (I hear  « going on » but I don't know how to put it in the sentence)
MCM : What about the video shoot ? (of the video-clip, but I don't know which one)
John : Hum... It's going OK. You know, video shoots are a lot of sitting around, so for me I was waiting, sitting in the ?-home (in french they say « trailer », so maybe it's « mobile-home » ?) that we have out there, listening to Frank Zappa.

You know, anybody who say that they like video shoots are liars I mean... (miss some words) it's a lot of sitting around in your ?-home. It's so much better if you can sit there and smoke pot or listening music or you know... That's the only thing which is funny to do in a video shoot. The real persons who work during a video shoot aren't the actors or the musicians you know, we do almost nothing. We sort to come out for a second and they say « look that way ! » and then they say « OK, thanks a lot » and... It's boring but I think that this time the result will be good, I think that the director has a good taste.

People say that it looks like I'm one with my guitar, and so I mean in that way it's like it was a part of my body. When we were writing the album By The Way, I was also going out in drum-and-bass clubs to listen to drum-and-bass and jungle music, and I danced around. I became very comfortable with dancing around in public without my guitar. I'm alright without my guitar but I prefer with my guitar. My guitar is...everything for me. I definitely feel that it's a part of me.

I experiment a lot of various things by myself, I make a lot of home-recording, and I do a lot of ?ling around with my synthesizer and things like that. So, when it came time to record By The Way some of that experimentations comes through in my ideas (? in french, this sentence isn't very clear so I try to find what John says). But when we try new things with the Chili Peppers, I already have a precise idea of what I'm going to do before going in the studio, so anything that I did with the synthesizer or with other instruments was all clear in my head before. I never experiment in the studio but I think a lot of the experimentations I did by myself end up with standing out on the album.

I've always been a big believer, (the following sentence doesn't really correspond to what John says but I don't hear him... The MCM translation is shit so it doesn't help me !) and with music, I like everything which is sort of imperceptible. When you listen to the albums of some artists,...

Oh, sorry but I give up ! It's too hard When I hear John, I understand, but when the person translates in french, it doesn't corresponds to what John has started to say, so if I try to transcribe I will miss many words, and if I translate it won't correspond...
Why not subtitles instead of a translator ?

Maybe someone else can try to translate the rest ?

Thanks for doing as much as you did. That was really nice of you.

[Iva]

Clémence...no one even asked and you did it. You're great.
I do hope someone can take over and finish it. It sounds like a good, relaxed interview.

[zzz]

I just remembered I had never finished to 'translate' this interview, so that's what I did!

It is not exactly what John says because I can't hear some words. I replaced the words I couldn't hear by a translation of the French translation.

Quote

MCM : Hi John, how are you?
John : Fine, I'm happy.
MCM : You're happy? But why?
John : My girlfriend's going to buy the Christmas tree today.
MCM : It's great!
John : Yeah, I love those little things that are going on in your life.
MCM : What about the video shoot ?
John : Hum... It's going OK. You know, video shoots are a lot of sitting around, so for me I was waiting, sitting in the mobile-home that we have out there, listening to Frank Zappa. You know, anybody who tells you that they like shooting videos is a liar I mean, it's boring, it's a lot of sitting around in your mobile-home. It's so much better if you can sit there and smoke pot or listen to music or you know... That's the only thing which is funny to do in a video shoot. The actual making of a movie for actors or for musicians, you know... we have almost nothing to do with it. We sort of come out for a second and they say «look that way!» and then they say «OK, go back to your lodge». It's boring but I think that this time the end result will be good, I think that the guy who directs it has style.

People say that it looks like I'm one with my guitar, and so I mean in that way, it's like a part of my body. While we were writing the album By The Way, I was going out to drum-and-bass clubs to listen to drum-and-bass and jungle music, and I danced around my face off. I became very comfortable with dancing around in public without the guitar. I'm alright without my guitar, but I prefer with my guitar. Guitar is really something I love and, I definitely feel that it's a part of me.

I experiment a lot of various things by myself at home, I make a lot of home-recording, and I do a lot of fooling around with my synthesizer and things like that. So, when it came time to record (for example By The Way), some of that experimentation comes through in my ideas. But I never do any experimentation in the studio. When we try new things with the Chili Peppers, I already have a precise idea of what I'm going to do before going in the studio, so anything that I did with the synthesizer in the studio or with other instruments, it was all clear in my head before I did it. I never experiment in the studio... But I think a lot of the experimentation I did at home end up coming out on the album.

I've always been a big believer in... huh... I've been a lot into what people can't see. I think there are certain entertainers who... what you hear when you hear their albums is everything that they have inside... For me, there's a lot of my songs that might never be heard by people. I make a lot of music that I just don't have the time to record. But I think it will all come through in some album we'll make, or songs that i do have time to record. Its just the only way I can console myself, because I don't have the time to record all that I write as quickly as I write it, but I'm sure someday I'll catch up on lost time.

I'm making a record right now and I'm working on a soundtrack for my friend's movie. About this summer I think I'll have finished the music for Vincent Gallo's movie and the other solo album that I've been working on.

I try to play in a simple way and I try to also have maybe a depth in the harmonic aspect of it. I wanted to do as much to put forward what the others do as possible to create a 'rich musical universe'. It's my natural tendency to kind of play in a more bues-rock seventyish kind of playing like the guitarists I love, like Jimmy Page or Frank Zappa or Eric Clapton or Jimi Hendrix or people like that. And I try to not play like that, just to be myself, and you know... I think my playing is pretty original, and now I'm in a completely different way, I'm a lot more like people I just mentioned. I have to keep changing and... I tried to keep this style that I had in the album (to use it) on tour, but just play a little more flashy... I've been doing this.. but it's a lot better playing following how you feel like.

I mean, it's not really a new chemistry, it's the same chemistry as is was before but I think we all appreciate each other more now. Before I didn't care at all about our chemistry but... I think the other guys didn't care either. We were kind of, in our own trip... in our own way I think we were all kind of ego-centric, we thought we were the most important one. It's definitely not that way anymore. We have a lot respect for the other guys. Each guy make sure that the other guys are happy. That's the only way to make a band work ― people can be comfortable and happy, and therefore to express themselves to the greatest degree that they're capable of.
On stage... our spontaneity and our ability of improvisation we have on stage has to do with the kind of team work that we do. The four people really trust each other, they listen to the other guys and they're supporting each other.

I have really good memories of being in France and, I like the way the air feels like and, I like the way the buildings look and, one of my top two favorite men who have lived there is Marcel Duchamp. (I like many French artists.) It makes me happy to be there.

And as the video has been deleted from everywhere, I posted it on my Youtube channel:

[Iva]

The video can also be found in the site's video archive.
http://invisible-mov...-itv-one-on-one

And thank you so much for the transcript. Funny how nobody reacted yet, a couple of years ago this one would've caused major drama. In 2011, there can only be me, concerned if they were killing trees or buying plantable/plastic ones.