Just wanted to say I think it’s fabulous. That cabbie is so funny. I especially like the scene where he dances with the flares.
The cabbie is actually their drummer Chad Smith. Personally I think the song and the video are poop. Give me Freaky styley anyday of the week over the new stuff.
Re: CabDriver
I thought the CabDriver was the guy from the movie Ghost World.
The one who was hanging around the convenience store with the
numchucks.
He looks a little weedy to be the drummer.
I wouldn’t think the cabdriver was the drummer. Specially when at the end of the video, the drummer is the cabbie’s next passenger. They look so different! The whole previous shots of the cabbie, and then the shot of the drummer…they didn’t look like the same person.
Am I the only one who thought the crazy dancing stuff under a bridge was a spoof from RHCP’s previous video “Under The Bridge”?
I think I am one of a very few people who are down with old Chilis (freaky styley, Uplift mofo, ect) and I like their new albums too. It seems like anyone who liked them way back when thinks they suck now, and anyone who is really into them now just gives you a blank stare when you ask them if they like “Me and My Friends” or “Catholic School Girls Rule” better.
Since Frusciante got back with them I think they took a big step up. Californication while not great, was solid. I just got the new one and after a couple listens, I think I like it. Now, they sucked when Dave Navarro was with them – but he’s a pretentious turd, so what should I have expected?
Just saw the video for “by the way” the first time tonight, parts of it were funny. Same thought as irish_bill, that cabdriver reminded me very much of the “THIS IS AMERICA, MAN!” nunchuck greaseball from Ghost World.
I lose… as usual.
The cabbie is somone named David Sheridan. I thought it looked like chad smith but I guess not.
I also like both the old RHCP and the new, although I’m not crazy about the song in the video (I find something annoying about the beginning of it). I am glad to see John Frusciante back in the band, though, because I shudder to think what direction they’d have gone had they stuck with Navarro. I apparently have pretty indiscriminate musical tastes, though, since there aren’t many bands I’ve loved for years whose newer music I can’t stand.
Although I’m devoutly hoping that R.E.M.'s last album was an aberration and that they aren’t on a fast train to Suckville.