Speed Dealer Moms

An acid collaboration between Venetian Snares and John Frusciante.

Little is known about this project. Photos of so-called "2008 Modular Jam At Casa Cyrusrex" have been uploaded on the internet shortly after 10th June that year, the day when the jam took place. John and Aaron were amongst the people in photos and quite a few people pointed out that their collaboration would be an interesting thing. Well, obviously, both musicians had similar thoughts on this and later in the year, John Frusciante went to Winnipeg for a couple of recording sessions with Venetian Snares. It is supposed that circa eight hours of music came out of these sessions.

Speed Dealer Moms were announced as Bangface Weekender '09 act early in January. As per the festival's website, they are festival's highlight:

*SUPERSTAR ACID COLLABORATION ALERT*
John Frusciante (Legendary guitarist of the RHCP) & Aaron Funk(Venetian Snares) are joining forces for the first time to bring us a live 303 & 808 analogue show as...SPEED DEALER MOMS.

Frusciante himself has not said anything about this project, other than vaguely mentioning that he'd be "doing a show but that it will be different" in an interview with the French magazine Guitarist & Bass. This explanation lost on its secrecy as Frusciante's interview was published two months after Speed Dealer Moms' live performance was announced.

On the other hand, Aaron Funk talked about the project in the online edition of Winnipeg sun.

"People seem to be making a huge deal out of it," says Funk, admitting he's not keen on the fuss. "I feel kind of weird about it. I am kind of concerned about having to deal with people who just want to check us out because of John's brand name. Then again, he's not too worried. After all, "any Red Hot Chili Peppers fans who come to one of my shows are in for a shock."

Sadly, due to technical difficulties, the band's performance was cancelled literally a couple of minutes before it was supposed to take place on the last day of the festival. They might appear at the Bangface event in August - presumably Bang Fest 2009, but nothing was confirmed yet.

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