 After spending 1997 making futile attempts to record new music, Navarro, who himself had another drug relapse which further soured his relationship with Kiedis, was let go in early 1998 and replaced not long after by John Frusciante who had quit the band in 1992.Some of the U.S. shows opened with a jam that consisted of "Freaky Styley" and Parliament Funkadelic's "Night of the Thumpasorus Peoples" with Kiedis providing his own rap over the Parliament song.The jam would go right into and "Suck My Kiss".