Contrary to the interpretation you may have read in some outlets, the Red Hot Chili Peppers haven’t really distanced themselves from or disavowed the upcoming Netflix documentary, The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel.
What the band said, in a statement on Instagram, was that they participated in a documentary about original co-founding member Hillel Slovak and it’s now being presented as a documentary about the Red Hot Chili Peppers — which, they insist, was never how they saw it.
Based on the cumbersome title and, honestly, a lot of Ben Feldman’s film, it’s easy to see the source of their concern.
From title to execution, The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel feels like the first installment of a two-part Red Hot Chili Peppers documentary, one that pays ample and justifiable tribute to Hillel Slovak, but one in…