Blood Sugar Sex Magik Tour

The Blood Sugar Sex Magik Tour was a concert tour by the American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers in support of their highly successful 1991 breakthrough album Blood Sugar Sex Magik.

After many years of hardcore touring and building up a loyal following, the band finally started to gain larger attention with Mother's Milk in 1989 which would also gain them more television and radio exposure helping them break through to a much wider audience and gain notice from major labels. The band was involved in a major bidding war with labels but ultimately decided to sign with Warner Bros in 1991 to record Blood Sugar Sex Magik. The band and management knew they had a very successful album in their hands and it was evident from the album's first single, "Give It Away" and even bigger follow-up single, "Under The Bridge". Both singles received heavy airplay on television and radio and the band was selling out shows in almost every city and country they went to. The early tourdates were very memorable for not only the band but in Alternative rock. The Chili Peppers invited up and coming acts such as Pearl Jam, Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins to open for them and by year's end all three bands were headlining their own show and dominating television and radio.

At the time the band was riding an all-time high however behind the scene problems between Anthony Kiedis and John Frusciante were starting to esculate. The band was invited to perform on Saturday Night Live however during the performance, Kiedis accused Frusciante of trying to sabotage the band's performance by playing different notes and singing off key. Frusciante completely denied this but troubles continued to follow the band for the next few months. Frusciante was also now refusing to support the opening acts such as Nirvana, which at one point he claimed to be a fan of but due to Frusciante's attitude and stubbornness he felt the band wasn't worth his time. Years later Frusciante admitted that he was being immature at the time and regretted how selfish he was towards his band and the opening acts.

By the time the band got to Japan the problems were at an all time high. Things got so bad that Frusciante was starting to isolate himself from the rest of the band while on tour staying backstage with his girlfriend at the time beginning his own drug problems, which were unknown to the band at the time. On May 7, 1992, Frusciante informed then manager, Lindy Goetz that he was quitting the band. Gotez informed the rest of the band and they urged Frusciante to play the show that night, which they later called one of their worst ever. The band was forced to cancel the rest of their Japanese leg. The band quickly scrambled and put out calls to various guitarists including Dave Navarro, who was going through the break up of Jane's Addiction and major drug problems. Navarro turned down the band's offer however he would eventually join the band a year later. The band flew guitarist Zander Schloss out to Australia to audition however after a few days of practicing, the band felt the chemistry just wasn't there and decided to cancel the Australian leg of the tour. In June the band hired Arik Marshall to replace Frusciante. Marshall performed his first show with the band on July 4, 1992 and the entire summer was spent with the band headlining the 1992 Lollapalooza tour which further gave a boost to album sales and only made the band bigger. Marshall finished out the remainder of the tour which included various awards shows and European dates in 1993. Following the tour, the band regrouped and attempted to begin writing for the next album however Marshall was fired due to chemistry problems with the other three members.