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Released
  
November 29, 2013

I'm Beside You (2013)
  
2012-13 Live EP (2014)

Release date
  
29 November 2013

Producer
  
Rick Rubin

Length
  
1:13:17

Artist
  
Red Hot Chili Peppers

Label
  
Warner Bros. Records

Recorded
  
September 14, 2010 – March 18, 2011 at East West Studios in Los Angeles, California, and Shangri La Studio in Malibu, California and 2012-2013 additional work done at JHOC, Pasadena, CA

Genres
  
Alternative rock, Funk rock

Similar
  
Red Hot Chili Peppers albums, Alternative rock albums

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I'm Beside You is a double vinyl LP by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers that was exclusively released on Black Friday, November 29, 2013 for Record Store Day. A limited number of copies were made and the LP has since gone out of print. The LP compiles all seventeen songs from the band's I'm with You Sessions which were released in 2012-2013 on 7" vinyl and digital download and were originally recorded for the band's tenth studio album, I'm with You

Contents

Guitarist Josh Klinghoffer has stated that the songs were recorded during the album sessions for I'm With You; however, in 2012 and 2013 the band went back for some post-session work on some of the songs.

As of 2016, nothing from the album has ever been performed live in their entirety however eleven of the songs have been teased mostly during jams.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Chad Smith & Josh Klinghoffer

Personnel

Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Flea – bass, backing vocals
  • Anthony Kiedis – lead vocals
  • Josh Klinghoffer – guitar, backing vocals
  • Chad Smith – drums, percussion
    • Additional musicians
  • Mauro Refosco – additional percussion ("Strange Man", "Long Progression", "Victorian Machinery", "This is the Kitt")
  • Lenny Castro – additional percussion ("Magpies on Fire")
  • Greg Kurstin – piano ("Never is a Long Time", "Hometown Gypsy", "How It Ends")
  • Henry Kwapis – shaker ("Never is a Long Time")
  • Vanessa Freebairn-Smith – string arrangements, cello ("Pink as Floyd")
  • Alwyn Wright – viola ("Pink as Floyd")
  • Caroline Campbell – violin ("Pink as Floyd")
  • Kathleen Sloan – viola ("Pink as Floyd")
    • Recording personnel
  • Rick Rubin – production
  • Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering  – mastering

    • Songs

    1Strange Man3:36
    2Long Progression3:58
    3Magpies On Fire3:44

    References

    I'm Beside You Wikipedia
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