Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea just gave it away, confirming what everyone already suspected. The rock group's halftime performance at Super Bowl XLVIII was pre-recorded. The band's guitars were not plugged in. The Red Hot Chili Peppers performed Sunday night alongside Bruno Mars. "When we were asked by the NFL and Bruno to play our song Give It Away at the Super Bowl, it was made clear to us that the vocals would be live, but the bass, drums, and guitar would be pre-recorded. "I understand the NFL's stance on this, given they only have a few minutes to set up the stage, there a zillion things that could go wrong and ruin the sound for the folks watching in the stadium and the t.v. viewers. There was not any room for argument on this, the NFL does not want to risk their show being botched by bad sound, period," Flea wrote Tuesday on the band's website.
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Bassist Flea says he "would do it all the same way again"
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He insists the band was not trying to trick anyone but was honoring NFL's stance
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The group's guitars were not plugged in during its Super Bowl XLVIII performance
I met and spoke with Bruno, who was a beautiful dude, a real talented musician, and we worked out something that seemed like it would be fun," @placeholder wrote.