Red Hot Chili Peppers

What started as a flight of fancy by high school friends Anthony Keidis, Flea, Hillel Slovak, and Jack Irons has turned out to be a solid business venture for all. They say that it was related to old-school Jazz band names like Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five and other bands that had “Red Hot” in it.

The group originally started as Tony Flow and the Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem. By comparison, the name Red Hot Chili Peppers isn’t very long, and seemed to be much more marketable.