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- Red Hot Chili Peppers headlined Silverlake Conservatory of Music's 25th anniversary benefit at Hollywood Palladium on Saturday, closing with 'Give It Away' after dusting off 'Organic Anti-Beat Box Band' and 'Blackeyed Blonde' — both not performed live since 2000.
- Silverlake Conservatory of Music, co-founded in 2001 by Flea and Keith 'Tree' Barry, provides music lessons to 1,000 LA students weekly and channels aid to 200+ students whose families couldn't otherwise afford lessons.
- Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters performed a cover of Gerry Rafferty's 'Baker Street' for the first time in 20 years, with Grohl noting the band last opened for RHCP 'maybe 25 fucking years ago' on their first arena tour in 2000.
- Vince Staples performed tracks from his rock album 'Cry Baby' alongside SCM alumni bandmates guitarist Jennifer Haack and bassist Chloe Haack, calling them 'the beautiful children of the Silverlake Conservatory.'
- John Frusciante played 'Nevermind' with RHCP for the first time since 1992 and performed a solo rendition of Carole King's 'Will You Love Me Tomorrow.'
- The night doubled as a birthday celebration for Flea, with student brass band the Hollywood Highsteppers playing 'When the Saints Go Marching In' as he was presented with a birthday cake onstage.
- Grohl's daughter Violet joined the Foo Fighters for covers of X's 'Nausea' and Nerves' 'Hanging on the Telephone,' noting the latter was famously covered by Blondie.
Why it matters: Silverlake Conservatory's benefit underwrites free music lessons for 200+ scholarship students out of the 1,000 it serves weekly — a quarter-century pipeline Flea launched in 2001 that now produces working musicians like the Haack sisters performing alongside Vince Staples on the same Hollywood Palladium stage.
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