Red Hot Chili Peppers are exclusively a pop group.
Californication is the seventh studio album by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers . Michael Peter Balzary ( born 16 October 1962 ) , better known by his stage name Flea , is an Australian musician and actor best known as bassist and founding member of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers . Red Hot Chili Peppers , also sometimes shortened to The Chili Peppers or abbreviated as RHCP , are an American alternative rock/funk rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1983 . The band 's original line-up , originally named Tony Flow and the Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem , featured guitarist Hillel Slovak and drummer Jack Irons , alongside Kiedis and Flea .