Red Hot Chili Peppers Postpone Tour Due to Anthony Kiedis’s Foot Injuries

The Red Hot Chili Peppers have been forced to postpone the start of their upcoming U.S. tour in order for frontman Anthony Kiedis to recover from multiple foot injuries.

On Sunday (January 8), the singer was seen hobbling and on crutches at a L.A. Lakers basketball game. Kiedis has suffered ongoing problems with foot fractures dating back to the Chili Peppers’ 2006 Stadium Arcadium tour. In August of 2011, he said, “I stayed out on tour with broken bones in my feet from jumping off the bass drum, which is kind of agonizing, and it led to me being in a bad state of mind.”

Kiedis recently underwent surgery to remove a crushed sesamoid bone and to correct a detached flexor tendon in his foot. He is expected to make a full recovery.

Tickets for the postponed dates will be honored at the rescheduled dates. The band is touring in support of their Grammy-nominated album, I’m With You.

* denotes the show is sold-out

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Chili Peppers’ Anthony Kiedis Reveals Genesis of <em>I’m With You</em>

When it came to naming what is likely the most anticipated rock album of the year, why did Red Hot Chili Peppers pick the simple moniker, I’m With You? As frontman Anthony Kiedis explains, the epiphany came after dreaming up and ditching a long list of possible titles.  

“As an experiment, I started making lists of titles, and all of them, in retrospect, were quite lame, and none of them really captured the spirit of this record, which we had all very much fallen in love with,” Kiedis told MTV News.

Then, new lead guitarist Josh Klinghoffer had a moment of genius.

“Josh showed up one day, maybe a day before there was some sort of deadline for a title, and he wrote [I’m With You] on a piece of paper,” he said, “And very subtly scooched it [in front of me], and I was like, ‘What’s that?’”

Band members glanced at the name “at the same time and went: ‘That is the title of our record.’”

Klinghoffer said the name seemed sublime. It represents where the Peppers are at this point in their careers.

“It seems pretty open, pretty apropos to where the band is, what the band’s doing, how the record wants to be related to, or related with,” Klinghoffer said.

I’m With You hits stores and online retailers on August 30.

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