Maria Loves Music-Red Hot Chili Peppers
“Plots and character don’t make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.” Henry Miller
It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood . . .
Once again Emil White’s little cabin plays host to a mad group of geniuses, The Red Hot Chili Peppers. We would begin by thanking them for supporting us here, hanging as we are on the side of a continent, with condors overhead flipping the bird to extinction.
And the Red Hot Chili Peppers are on their own cliff edge at the beginning of a world tour, with a new album humming and vibrating, waiting in the wings to be released next month, and we, the few joyous souls gathered here in this tiny canyon, get to be a part of its first flight, what a rare moment to be alive here under these redwoods, under these stars close enough to “drink.”
We are also grateful to the kind people at (((folk YEAH!))) without whom this most special event could not have been coordinated with such gossamer strings of perfection.
As a coastal watershed, we here at the Henry Miller library know something about the fragility of this ecosystem, and the beauty inherent in the Big Sur community, our neighbors, on this, our 30th anniversary season. It is important for us to maintain our commitment to artistic freedom, to the environment, to inspiration, and for this we could ask for no more fitting band than the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who are also close to their thirty year anniversary, and who, in all that time, have never failed to “let her rip.”
Maria Garcia Teutsch
President, Henry Miller Memorial Library
Editor-in-chief, Ping-Pong Magazine
“Road Trippin’”
In Big Sur we take some time to linger on
We three hunky dory’s got our snakefinger on
Now let us drink the stars
It’s time to steal away
Let’s go get lost— Red Hot Chili Peppers
Program Notes for The Red Hot Chili Peppers Secret Concert at the Henry Miller Memorial Library
