Good Time Boys

Album: Mother's Milk (1989)
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Songfacts®:

  • The song describes the band. They have stated that they are the "Good Time Boys" who just play music to make you feel good.
  • The bridge of the song is very strange, and plays quick samples of three other songs. Those songs are Fishbone's "Bonin' in the Boneyard," a song by Firehose, and X's "Living with a White Girl." Both Fishbone and Firehose are mentioned during the song.
  • The Red Hot Chili Peppers original fanclub was called Rockinfreakapotamus, named after the made-up word Anthony Kiedis chants during the song's outro. The fan club was run by Blackie Dammett, Anthony's father.

    Among fans, the word "rockinfreakapotamus" can be used as an adjective or noun to describe something very RHCP-like. For instance: "Did you hear the new Lettuce song? The bass line is very rockinfreakapotamus. Sounds like Flea."

Comments: 4

  • Eloquentracer92 from SomewhereThis song does make me feel good. Really, REALLY good in fact. But the first time I listened to the song, I thought my music was hacked because the samples are played in such a weird way; instead of being integrated with the music, the samples are played back-to-back-to-back without any transition between the guitar solo before (a little bit of the solo plays before the samples), any of the samples, and also after the last sample when it goes back to the original music.
  • Katie from Detroit, MiThe song also mentions the band X, by way of mentioning John Doe, the singer/bassist.
  • Jonathon from Canberra, Australiachad smiths first performance with the band was january 22 1989 with this song.
  • Ethan from Mt. Pleasent, ScThe Rockafreakinpotamus is also referred to in the song Warlocks, with the line "Warlocks in Wonderland, I gotta Rockapotamus in my hand".
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