The breakthrough 1991 album Blood Sugar Sex Magik by The Red Hot Chili Peppers turned 30 this month, and our latest Docn' episode concerns Funky Monks, a promotional vehicle/making-of documentary about that very album.

Funky Monks was directed by Gavin Bowden and released one day after Blood Sugar Sex Magik, an accompanying visual spectacle to pair with an album that would (it turns out) need very little of a push to become not just tremendously successful but also instrumental in the evolution of what was then known as “alternative” rock. Funky Monks shows the band at a creative apex and on the cusp of major changes, and without hyperbole at what is possibly the most defining and important part of their career.

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