The Red Hot Chili Peppers will entertain visitors to California's Disneyland Resort during the first few months of 2007 by helping to transform two of the resort's most popular rides with their music.
As part of the Disneyland Resort's "Year Of A Million Dreams" promotion, both the venerable Space Mountain attraction in Disneyland and the California Screamin' roller coaster in neighboring Disney's California Adventure will be given makeovers, sporting new lighting technology and fresh soundtracks featuring the music of the Chili Peppers.
Space Mountain -- which opened in 1976 and was recently given an extensive rebuild from the bottom up -- will become
Rockin' Space Mountain during the promotion's run, with the band's 1989 cover of Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground" accompanying riders as they soar through the ride's virtual outer space setting.
Rockin' California Screamin' will also feature a new soundtrack in the form of the Chili Peppers' 1999 hit single "Around The World." The four-minute ride -- which takes guests from zero to 55 miles per hour in a mere four seconds -- is the world's longest steel-looping coaster, according to a press release.
Read more at liveDaily.com. Tour dates are as folows:
01/12 - Oklahoma City, OK - Cox Business Services Convention Center
01/13 - Dallas, TX - American Airlines Center
01/15 - St. Louis, MO - Scottrade Center
01/17 - Nashville, TN - Gaylord Entertainment Center
01/20 - Cincinnati, OH - U.S. Bank Arena
01/22 - Raleigh, NC - RBC Center
01/23 - Charlotte, NC - Charlotte Bobcats Arena
01/25 - Washington, DC - Verizon Center
01/26 - Charlottesville, VA - John Paul Jones Arena
01/28 - Tampa, FL - St. Pete Times Forum
01/30 - Orlando, FL - Orlando Centroplex
01/31 - Sunrise, FL - BankAtlantic Center
02/27 - Rosemont, IL - Allstate Arena
03/02 - Des Moines, IA - Wells Fargo Arena
03/03 - Champaign, IL - Assembly Arena
03/06 - San Antonio, TX - AT&T Arena
03/07 - Houston, TX - Toyota Center
