Nick Cave explains how his Red Hot Chili Peppers diss became a meme and how he and Flea have since become friends.

Now, 25 years later, Cage has stepped forward to reveal the burden he’s had to carry, the surprising, long-lasting outcome of his riposte and just what happened when Flea – the famously energetic bassist from the Red Hot Chili Peppers – came face to face with a bear…

There’s a famous Nick Cave quote that gets passed around whenever anyone wants to dismiss the music of a certain long-running Los Angeles funk-metal act: “I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?

Though their exact origins appear to have been lost to time, the quote is often attributed to Cave as, “I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always ‘The Red Hot Chili Peppers.