Hear The Red Hot Chili Peppers 1989 Chance Theater Performance

The Red Hot Chili Peppers sell out stadiums and amphitheaters all over the world. But there was a time when they were out there paying dues and an early tour made a stop at The Chance Theater in Poughkeepsie.

The band was out supporting their Mother's Milk album and hadn't yet released the landmark Blood Sugar Sex Magic. Here's a chance to listen back to the show almost 30 years later.

Red Hot Chili Peppers setlist from The Chance Theater on November 13th, 1989. The one hour and 23-minute set featured a number of early originals as well as covers by NWA, Jimi Hendrix and AC/DC and others.

Out In LA
Backwoods
Funky Crime (Parliment cover)
Stone Cold Bush
Green Heaven
Police Helicopter
Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On (Funkadelic cover)
Boyz-In-The-Hood (NWA cover)
Party On Your P$#@%
Pretty Little Ditty
Subway To Venus
Jam
Hollywood (The Meters cover)
Knock Me Down
Skinny Sweaty Man
Good God (James Brown cover)
Happy #12 & #35 (Thelonious Monster cover)
Sexy Mexican Maid
Back In Black (AC/DC cover)
Subterranean Homesick Blues (Bob Dylan cover)
Castles Made of Sand (Jimi Hendrix cover)
Me And My Friends
Magic Johnson
Unknown
Nevermind
Encore: Baby Appeal
Encore: Fire (Jimi Hendrix cover)

Mothers Milk featured the Red Hot Chili Peppers first big single 'Knock Me Down'.

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