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There's no sitting still in this show
By TImes staff writer
Published January 25, 2007
A double billing of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Gnarls Barkley is enough to make any music lover dizzy. Both bands jump from genre to genre and sound to sound, often within the same song. The Chili Peppers go from juiced-up Petty to half-nonsense funk to spacey rock shuffles - and that's just on their latest album, Stadium Arcadium. Such eclecticism, along with a long lineup of hits like Under the Bridge, Otherside and Dani California, puts the Chili Peppers in a league with Pearl Jam and U2 as the most vital veteran rock bands still making music. Cee-Lo Green and Danger Mouse, the voice and producer/musical mastermind behind Gnarls Barkley, are even more restless. With its weird, heady stew of funk, soul, rap and rock, their debut CD, St. Elsewhere, was one of the most surprising and exciting of last year. Cee-Lo's tuneful, playful solo albums after leaving the Southern rap group Goodie Mob gave a sense of his ambitions to chart a new hip-hop future, while Danger Mouse's pioneering The Grey Album, a mashup of Jay-Z and the Beatles, declared his talent and genre agnosticism. That talent and ambition came together as the insanely catchy - and definitely strange - smash Crazy. Add a penchant for performing in costume, shared by the Chili Peppers' spastic bassist Flea, and this is bound to be a wacky, head-spinning night. The Red Hot Chili Peppers with Gnarls Barkley, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, St. Pete Times Forum, 401 Channelside Drive, Tampa. $58.25. (813) 301-2500.
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