<P> During the band's show on June 25, 2017 in Grand Rapids, Kiedis dedicated "Soul to Squeeze" to his father, Blackie Dammett who is currently battling dementia . Dammett was the long time manager of the band's fanclub and ran their website . Kiedis said "If you could be so kind . My father is fixin' to die and that's OK . He's had a wild, great journey and a helluva colourful badass life but he's sick and he's gonna to die now...He's pretty lost; he's just a spirit but I would like for everyone just to take ten seconds to send him some love, to send his spirit some love because pretty soon he will be sailing on and I would appreciate it if his home town could send him love for a whole ten seconds of love . Let's give it up . Ten! Thank you ." Flea also had a moment of silence for Hillel Slovak, who died 29 years earlier . Following the moment of silence, Jack Irons joined his former band onstage for a performance of Jimi Hendrix's "Fire" as a tribute to Slovak . </P> <P> In a June 2017 interview with Eddie Trunk, Chad Smith said he had discussions with Flea about how much longer the band could continue touring . "I was like,' I don't know!' I want to make records, I still love making records, but the touring part...I don't know if we can continue . I mean, three of us are 54 years old--Anthony, me and Flea . Josh is 38 or 39, so he's a young man . But I don't know if we can continue to do the long tours--the year, year - and - a-half we normally do . That's a good question . We all have families and different things, your priorities shift a little bit . You kinda see that what's gonna work for you maybe doesn't necessarily work for other bands . But again, we're just so grateful that people want to come and see us play, and we love to perform . I don't know in the future how that's gonna look . We pride ourselves in putting out a really amazing performance . You want people to just walk away and be like,' Wow, I haven't seen anything like that!' and when you can't do that anymore, you gotta really stop and go,' We're not gonna be sitting on stools up there playing our songs ."' On July 18, 2017 in an interview with TMZ, Flea said of the band possibly retiring "that's just silly talk . We never look past the immediate future but um, were on tour right now, we're rockin' out, we're feeling the spirit, letting the music move us and to be honest since the day we started this band nearly 35 years ago, i've never ever known what's next or what's around the corner or anything and I think that the power of the band lies in that kinda just staying in the moment and staying with the energy that's moving . </P> <P> The Getaway World Tour concluded on October 18, 2017 . The tour consisted of 151 shows lasting a year and almost five months . The band will headline a few festivals in South America in March 2018 . </P> <P> The band performed a short set at the 2017 Stand Up for Heroes fundraiser at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City on November 7, 2017 . The show also featured comedians Jon Stewart, John Oliver, Conan O'Brien and Trevor Noah . The fundraiser was for the Bob Woodruff Foundation, which supports injured veterans and their families . "The Red Hot Chili Peppers bring so much energy to the stage and are one of my favorite bands" Bob Woodruff said . On December 14, 2017, the band will headline the Band Together 2 Benefit Concert at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco . Money raised from the concert goes to the Tipping Point Emergency Relief Fund which since 2005 has raised $150 million to educate, employ, house and support those in need in the Bay Area . </P>

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