“[It was] very sad to have to cancel a show, we don’t really do that”. “I’d rather play deathly ill than not at all but in this particular instance, I was starting to go (into) the ground”. “We don’t unequivocally do that”, Keidis told ET Canada in his initial talk given being expelled from a hospital.
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Kiedis explained that the cause for him falling sick was due to an inflammation in his gut, which got complicated by the recent virus and existing scar tissue from a previous hernia operation.
“I sing loud and dance, and sometimes you rip your stomach open”, he said, adding that his illness became an “incredibly painful situation where you get a fever and pass out”.
Chad also confirmed that the Red Hot Chili Peppers will return to the stage for their scheduled gig in OH “this weekend” and will be good for their headline slots at T in the Park and the Reading and Leeds Festival.
While he’s on the road to recovery, Anthony Kiedis admits he is still not 100 percent back to his old self.
Saying he now feels “good, not great, but good”, Kiedis said that he thinks the hospitalization provided needed reflection on his life.
“I think it was a slow news day”, he joked. “When we non-stop my phone and we saw we was on a news, we was like, ‘Everything contingency be OK in a universe now if that’s what’s creation a news'”.
Bassist Flea told the crowd Saturday in Orange County that the Chili Peppers would be unable to perform.
Shortly after the California-based event concluded, the USA outfit announced on their website that Kiedis was suffering “complications from the intestinal flu”.
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Hopefully a little more R&R will help Kiedis, as the band still has tour dates ahead of them and are expected to release their 11th studio album, The Getaway, in June.
