GuyLaCroix wrote: Wed Mar 25, 2026 11:59 am The trumpet looming in the foreground before he grabbed it made me giggle

I can think of two reasons why this performance would have been better if he had never touched the trumpet.

1. It would have been funny.

And we all know the second reason.

I don't want to watch this, not so much because it's Flea playing trumpet but because it's on Fallon

A muzak Frank Ocean cover is not the worst idea I could conceive of, but his trumpet playing is embarrassingly flat.

Kenny Flea

Krev wrote: Wed Mar 25, 2026 4:57 pmKenny Flea

Ouch.

Krev wrote: Wed Mar 25, 2026 4:57 pmKenny Flea

Hahahahahahahahaha!

It was worth it for that

I don't think it's bad. Kind of endearing, playing Local on the 8's with band nerds.

It's not like he's blowing masterfully through changes or anything. But he's doing a thing that seems personal to him. God knows he could do a lot worse, like forming another shitty supergroup with LA douchebags.

His trumpet doesn't sound flat to me. Nice to see another trumpet playing bassist.

Damn, Jeff Parker. At one point he looks up at Flea and smiles like "Your really doing it, Man!"

The Trumpet is bad, but Flea isn't really known to be a hornsman. I think most of the bass playing is sloppy and poorly executed, buzzy, flubbed notes etc... He should have gotten that part right.

Krev wrote: Wed Mar 25, 2026 4:57 pmKenny Flea

I'm sure Flea thinks of himself as more of a Funk Mangione

jfv wrote: Tue Mar 24, 2026 9:10 pm

enframed wrote: Tue Mar 24, 2026 8:07 pm

jfv wrote: Tue Mar 24, 2026 6:42 pm People are playing actual musical instruments.

Yeah, this needs to no longer be a defense of shitty [anything].

When most high profile live performances nowadays are karaoke or lip synching??

Yeah, I’ll continue using this defense.

+1. Even at my level & smaller venue, it is more OFTEN the case than not these days that touring "live" bands are coming through with dense backing tracks.