33 Things You Should Know About Red Hot Chili Peppers

           

21. Kiedis still owes Courtney Love $20.
At a '91 concert with Nirvana, Kiedis spied Love — at the time Kurt Cobain's girlfriend — and thought she looked familiar. Turned out they'd known each other in the early '80s, when Love was stripping in L.A. "I used to pick you up hitchhiking down Melrose in the middle of the night," she told him. "I lent you 20 bucks!" Kiedis grins. "I still haven't paid her back."

22. Kiedis got clean with help from a magical elk.
Christmas, 1994: Kiedis, strung out on coke and heroin, was driving home to Michigan with his girlfriend when a "gigantic super-elk" leapt into the road. "It [was] an omen," he wrote in his memoir, Scar Tissue. "The spirit of that elk was saying to me, 'Wake up motherfucker, because you're dying.'"

23. They stopped smoking the Buddha and started studying him instead.
"Rick Rubin turned me on to transcendental meditation," Flea said in a 2002 interview. "It helps me to just be in the moment and not to be scared of pain and anxiety." Kiedis and Frusciante are also devotees.

24. Kiedis almost knocked Liam Gallagher's lights out.
During an Oasis show in 1996, Kiedis and a girlfriend ducked into an electrical closet for a little what's-the-story-morning-glory. Flush with passion, they accidentally flipped a switch, plunging the room into darkness; a few inches left and they'd have cut the lights to the whole arena. "We were," Kiedis wrote, "one lever away from bringing the concert to a grinding halt." So to speak.

25. Ladies have loved to suck Anthony's kiss.
Kiedis, a lifelong bachelor, has a list of exes that would make George Clooney jealous: Heidi Klum, Sinead O'Connor, Sofia Coppola, Ione Skye, Sporty Spice, etc. His secret? Easy, says Smith. "He's charismatic, handsome, powerful, rich and smart. If I were a woman, I'd get with him."