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The great funk bassist Bootsy Collins once called Stone “the most talented musician I know.”

Now, 30 years on, as the band prepare to tour again - their first since the death of bassist Mackey - Banks said he believed Common People was "still a song that gets you going".

“You can get a little self-conscious. At the beginning, I f— something up — nothing nobody would know, but we would know — and Flea kind of looked at me,” he said of the Chili Peppers’ bassist.

Even in a major city like Seattle, where Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan grew up a thousand miles away, the sound of Southern California punk was echoing into the consciousness of punk social circles.

Recently, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea selected punk rock icons X as his choice for greatest L.A. band.