Yet another celebrity is going back after a long career and hitting the books. Who is it this time? Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers! As of now, he is an enrolled freshman at the University of Southern California. And here is something a little weird — he is going to be studying MUSIC! Some think of this man as the best bassist in the history of modern music. He’ll probably be in some of his own text books!
When asked why after years of success as a rock musician he felt the need to study Bach’s chorales and four-part harmonies, Flea said, “Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works — it’s all the same stuff; it’s just different aesthetics that we’re talking about.”
Flea, whose real name is Michael Peter Balzary, knows the value of music in school. He started the Silver Lake Music Conservatory after returning to his public high school and finding the music practice rooms neglected due to lack of funding.
- PerezHilton.com
