On what would have been guitarist Hillel Slovak‘s birthday, we revisit the music he made with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. How many of these do you remember?

• The Red Hot Chili Peppers

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  The Red Hot Chili Peppers debut album dropped on August 10, 1984. At the time Hillel Slovak wasn't in the band, but he was on the album.

• Get Up And Jump

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  Slovak co-wrote the band's debut single "Get Up And Jump," along with the songs "Baby Appeal," "Green Heaven," Out In L.A." and "Police Helicopter" from their first album.

• Freaky Styley

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  By the time RHCP released sophomore album 'Freaky Styley' in August of 1985, Hillel had rejoined the band.
• Jungle Man

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  This was the band's first proper single to be released with Slovak as a full-time member.

• Hollywood (Africa)

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  Follow-up single "Hollywood (Africa)," a cover of The Meters, did what the debut single failed to: it charted in October of 1985.

• The Uplift Mofo Party Plan

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  The Red Hot Chili Peppers third album would prove to be their last with Slovak on guitar.
• Fight Like A Brave

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  The only proper single from the third album features Slovak's guitar work and, ironically, is about the struggles he and singer Anthony Kedis had with herion.

• Behind The Sun

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  "Behind The Sun" wouldn't see a single release until after Slovak's death, in 1992.

• The Abbey Road E.P.

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  Released in May of 1988, the E.P. was used to promote RHCP overseas. Sadly, Slovak would die of a heroin overdose in the following month, on June 25, 1988.
• Fire

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  The Abbey Road E.P. boasted only one new song: a cover of "Fire" by Jimi Hendrix that featured Hillel Slovak's blazing guitar work.

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