Claim: Red Hot Chili Peppers' original line-up included guitarist Hillel Slovak until 2008.
Evidence: The band 's original line-up , originally named Tony Flow and the Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem , featured guitarist Hillel Slovak and drummer Jack Irons , alongside Kiedis and Flea.
Prior to his death of a heroin overdose in 1988 , Slovak recorded two albums with the band , Freaky Styley -LRB- 1985 -RRB- and The Uplift Mofo Party Plan -LRB- 1987 -RRB-.