Vintage Red Hot Chili Peppers

The vintage Red Hot Chili Peppers T-shirt is a potent artifact from the era of their 1991 magnum opus, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, the album that propelled them from funk-punk cult favorites into global stadium rock stars. The front graphic features an ornate, almost Renaissance-style square, echoing the album’s inner sleeve artwork and lyrically referencing the core themes of the record: “Blood” (addiction/mortality), “Sugar” (drugs), “Sex” (lust/relationships), and “Magik” (the flow of creativity), with a central red rose motif. This record, produced by Rick Rubin and famously recorded in an allegedly haunted Hollywood mansion, marked the classic formation of Kiedis, Flea, Frusciante, and Smith, yielding monster hits like the deeply personal “Under the Bridge” and the Grammy-winning funk anthem “Give It Away,” which are considered definitive tracks of 1990s alternative rock. The shirt, with the band’s iconic asterisk logo on the back, commemorates the tour that followed, a chaotic and massive undertaking that, while launching their success, famously led to guitarist John Frusciante’s overwhelmed and abrupt departure in 1992.

Size 64x56cm
Condition 8/10 (Hole)