How Flea’s First Grammy Turned a Backyard Shovel

Pink Scorching Chill Peppers bassist Flea recalled how his first Grammy award grew to become a backyard shovel by the hands of his younger daughter.

The band received Greatest Exhausting Rock Efficiency for “Give It Away” in 1993, and the members obtained their gold-plated trophies accordingly. Someday later, Flea’s hand-built gong went lacking.

“Grammys are superior,” he advised KROQ in a current interview. “However after we received our first Grammy, like three years later, my mother mentioned, ‘Michael, the place’s your Grammy?’ And I used to be like, ‘I don’t know, Mother – I put it someplace.’” He didn’t notice that Clara, who was 5 on the time, had acquired her arms on it.

“Months after that, my gardener got here out of the yard, within the backyard, and you understand how the Grammy seems to be like an previous file participant with the horn on it? My daughter had unscrewed it and was utilizing it as a shovel for the backyard. It had been on the market within the grime for the entire winter!”

Whereas Flea mentioned he was “grateful to win” the accolade, he added that he was “simply not likely an awards man.” Requested how he celebrated a win, he joked: “I normally drop about six or seven hits of acid, get bare, paint my complete physique in lipstick and run down the road screaming like mad. It’s not likely a celebration – I really do this daily.”

The Chili Peppers – who’ve received six Grammys up to now – simply launched a brand new album, Limitless Love, their first to characteristic guitarist John Frusciante since 2006’s Stadium Arcadium. They’ll begin a world tour in July.