A Red Hot Custom Card (And a Giveaway)

I suppose the title of this blog post could be a little cryptic.

But if you happened to have music or rock bands on your mind, you might have guessed where this was going.

 

It's the Red Hot Chili Peppers on a custom card!

 

Design-wise, the 1974 "rookie" template worked very well, as it provided plenty of room at the top for the band's full name. And the red color seemed the right fit, for obvious reasons. 

 

As for the personnel, I had to go with John Frusciante as the guitarist—although that takes nothing away from the other guitarists who've been part of the band, like Hillel Slovak or Dave Navarro.

Regardless, because the templates I use for these customs are usually taken from sports trading cards, something I try to do with these posts whenever I can is to tie sports into them. And in this case, there's a pretty cool sports tie-in.

 

Did you know that the Chili Peppers teamed up with tennis star Andre Agassi to make a Nike commercial back in 1991?

 

Check this out!

 

 

 

Man, that was such a fun time for American tennis.

And the fun kept going and going after that. Andre Agassi won his first major championship the following year (Wimbledon, 1992). He won 8 majors in all, the final one coming at the Australian Open in 2003. He collected 60 career ATP tour titles from 1987 through 2005.

 

As for the Chili Peppers, they've created 13 studio albums, starting with their self-titled release in 1984. Their most recent releases were in 2022. It's impressive to me that the band has written hit songs and maintained a certain amount of freshness across all those years.

My favorite Chili Pepper era spans the late-80s and early '90s. (Think Mother's Milk and Blood Sugar Sex Magik). I do like the Californication (1999) and Stadium Arcadium (2006) albums as well, but they just can't hold a candle to that earlier stuff.

I think it's because to me, the Chili Peppers are guys that should just never get old. And I know you can say that about almost any rock band that ever existed. We tend to remember rockers when they're young, and full of raw energy. But I don't know. Maybe that's not always the case. I mean, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards don't need to be young, right? I don't necessarily picture them as young guys when they come to mind. Anthony Kiedis, however? Somehow I always see him as that young punk up there on the top left of the card.

In any case, I'm glad to have some copies of this card in hand now, including a few extras. And here's a question for you that has a Chili Peppers–themed answer:

What am I going to do with one of those extra copies?

 

The answer:

 

Give it away, give it away, give it away, now!

 

(How many of you saw that one coming?)

 

Last year I tried the fun and goofy duck race to choose the winner of a giveaway, and that seemed to go over pretty well with readers. So I think I'll do that again. And just like last time, all you have to do to enter is leave a comment below. If you have a favorite Chili Peppers song, add that to your comment as well.

I'll start out by offering one custom Chili Peppers card to the winner of the duck race, but how about this? If at least 10 people enter the giveaway, I'll award a Chili Peppers custom card to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place finisher.

Sound good? 

 

Alright. Get to it, then. Comment below. You have until next Sunday, January 12th, to enter. After that I'll close it up and get the ducks ready to race.

 

Thanks for reading, as always!