![]() ![]() Realize I don't wanna be a miser, Confide with Sly, you'll be the wiser. Reeling with the feeling, don't stop, continue. What I ve got, you've got to get it, put it in you. What I've got, you've got to get it, put it in you. The entire production is perfectly over-the-top.Give It Away Bass Tab INTRO G|-|-| D|-|-| A|-|-| E|-|-| 1 + + + 2 + + + 3 + + + 4 + + + 1 + + + 2 + + + 3 + + + 4 + + + G|-|-| D|-|-| A|-|-| E|-|-5/17-5/15-| 1 + + + 2 + + + 3 + + + 4 + + + 1 + + + 2 + + + 3 + + + 4 + + + VERSE What I've got, you've got to give it to your mama, What I've got, you've got to give it to your papa, What I've got, you've got to give ti to your daughter, Then you do a little dance, and then you drink a little water. Like Nina Hagen’s super cool jacket, Anthony Kiedis’ lyrics envision a giving process with meaningful assets. And on the nearly naked band members, glitzy statement pieces like horns, mirrored pants, and metallic paint elevate the song’s idealized selflessness with the stakes of rock’n’ roll. (The choice is very Hagen.) A barren landscape condemns material excess. Shot in black-and-white by French fashion photographer Stéphane Sednaoui, the video relies on otherworldly accessories to communicate story in a desolate desert location. The spiritual context of “Give It Away” also drove the song’s experimental music video. Flea’s heavy baseline and riffs transfigure this repetitive set of lyrics with the power of mantra. Guitarist John Frusciante and bassist Flea composed the pared-down melody of “Give It Away” to back Kiedis’ words. It would take until 1991 for him to pen the words, “Give it away, give it away, give it away now,” which (combined with a variety of topics, including River Phoenix, Bob Marley, and, more broadly, lust) would make up the hit song off Blood Sugar Sex Magik. Her karmic message stuck with Kiedis long after their breakup, after the death of his dear friend Hillel Slovak, and even well into his eventual sobriety. Hagen was more than just a partner to the struggling Anthony Kiedis she was a mentor. Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.” Every time I’d be thinking ‘I have to keep,’ I’d remember ‘No, you gotta give away instead.’ When I started going regularly to meetings, one of the principles I had learned was that the way to maintain your own sobriety is to give it to another suffering alcoholic. “It was such an epiphany that someone would want to give me her favorite thing. Hagen eventually branched out from her home country of Berlin, recording the English album Nunsexmonkrock and other American hits, “Zahra” and “New York, New York.” “New York New York” by Nina Hagen Hagen was immediately noticed for her weirdly exaggerated vocal style. A product of West Berlin’s musical epicenter, Kreuzberg, she made her hard rock debut in the self-formed Nina Hagen Band. She taught me a lot about life at a young, tender age…”Īnthony Kiedis’ detailed account of Nina Hagen’s colorful appearance accurately captures what made the international punk rocker such a unique force throughout the 1980’s. Just a radiant lady and I fell in love with her at that moment… That was also the beginning of a romance that sparked up for a little while. She had her colorful, alien, superfreak look, but beyond that she was just very East German. She was so beautiful and so exotic looking. ![]() She had this crazy thick accent and she was all colourful… And it was Nina Hagen. “… but then there was this exquisitely beautiful, older woman, to me because she was probably twenty-nine or thirty and I was maybe twenty or twenty-one. Kiedis describes meeting her in his foreword to Fandemonium by David Mushegain. ![]() Long before the Red Hot Chili Peppers recorded Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Anthony Keidis dated the German musician Nina Hagen in 1983. ![]()
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