Live at Slane Castle (Red Hot Chili Peppers video) explained

Live at Slane Castle
Type:	video
Artist:	Red Hot Chili Peppers
Cover:	Slane_castle.jpg
Released:	November 17, 2003
Recorded:	August 23, 2003 at Slane Castle grounds
Genre:	Alternative rock, funk rock
Length:	142:00
Label:	Warner Bros.
Director:	Nick Wickham
Producer:	Emer Patten
Prev Title:	Off the Map
Prev Year:	2001
Next Title:	Greatest Hits and Videos
Next Year:	2003

Live at Slane Castle is a Red Hot Chili Peppers concert video released on November 17, 2003, two years after the release of their last concert DVD, Off the Map. The concert, which took place on August 23, 2003, was their first headlining show at Slane Castle in Ireland having previously performed there in August 2001 opening for U2. The show was one of the biggest ever for the band with 80,000 fans in attendance with tickets selling out in under two and a half hours.^[1] Foo Fighters also played as one of several supporting acts, and have their own DVD footage of the concert. Other acts supporting on the day included Queens of the Stone Age, PJ Harvey, Feeder and Morcheeba.

Track listing

1. "Opening Titles" John Frusciante, Flea and Chad Smith begin with an improvised jam
2. "By the Way"
3. "Scar Tissue"
   • The first verse uses audio from another live performance to cover a mistake when the song was performed
4. "Around the World "
5. "Maybe" (cover by John Frusciante)
   • The performance cuts out a mistake John Frusciante makes.
6. "Universally Speaking"
7. "Parallel Universe"
   • The intro is "Latest Disgrace" by Fugazi from the album Red Medicine
8. "The Zephyr Song"
9. "Throw Away Your Television"
10. "Havana Affair" (Ramones cover)
11. "Otherside"
    • "I Feel Love" (cover by John Frusciante) was played after "Otherside" but was cut from DVD release^[2]
12. "Purple Stain"
13. "Don't Forget Me"
14. "Right on Time"
    • The intro is "London Calling" by The Clash from the 1979 album London Calling
    • "Soul to Squeeze" was played after "Right on Time" but was cut from DVD release due to Frusciante breaking a string during the song.
15. "Can't Stop"
16. "Venice Queen"
17. "Give It Away"
    • Trumpet/Drum duet with Flea and Chad
18. "Californication"
    • Segued from an improvised intro by Flea and Frusciante
19. "Under the Bridge"
20. "The Power of Equality"
21. "Closing Credits"

Personnel

• Anthony Kiedis - lead vocals
• Flea - bass, trumpet, backing vocals
• John Frusciante - guitar, backing vocals
• Chad Smith - drums

Charts

Chart (2003)	Peak position
Hungarian DVDs Chart^[3]	6
Norwegian Music DVDs Chart^[4]	7
Swedish Music DVDs Chart^[5]	12
US Music Videos Chart^[6]	22

Chart (2004)	Peak position
Australian DVDs Chart^[7]	12
Austrian Music DVDs Chart^[8]	5
Dutch Music DVDs Chart^[9]	20

Notes and References

1. Web site: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Live at Slane Castle. Amazon. 18 November 2003.
2. Web site: Slane Festival: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, PJ Harvey, Feeder.
3. Web site: Archívum: Kereső – Előadó/cím Szerint . . LightMedia . hu . February 12, 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120924070100/http://zene.slagerlistak.hu/archivum/kereso-eloado-cim-szerint . September 24, 2012 . Search for Red Hot Chili Peppers and click Keresés.
4. Web site: DVD Audio uke 49, 2003 . . no . February 12, 2013.
5. Web site: Sveriges Officiella Topplista . . sv . February 12, 2013. Search for Red Hot Chili Peppers Live at Slane Castle and click Sök.
6. December 6, 2003 . Top Music Videos . . 115 . 49 . 40 . 0006-2510 . February 12, 2013 .
7. January 26, 2004 . ARIA Top 40 DVD . . 726 . 19 . February 12, 2013 . https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20040209130000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20040210-0000/Issue726.pdf . dead . 2004-02-09 .
8. Web site: Austria Top 40 – Musik-DVDs Top 10 04.01.2004 . Austriancharts.at . Hung Medien . de . February 12, 2013.
9. Web site: DVD Music Top 30 . GfK Dutch Charts . Hung Medien . nl . February 12, 2013.