Red Hot Chili Peppers troll Warriors fans at Bay Area show

Flea, the band’s hyperactive bassist, entered the stage first, announcing himself as the focal point of the show by leaping and head-banging with rage-like intensity during a 10-minute jam before sending the crowd into a roar with the riff to ” Can’t stop.”

Following the opener, the Chili Peppers continued with classics like “Dani California,” “Universally Speaking” and “Snow” before breaking into their newest album “Unlimited Love” during the middle of the set. The crowd waited patiently through new songs like “Whatchu Thinkin'” and “Aquatic Mouth Dance” — a few die-hards knew the words to sing along — but the energy clearly dipped between the hits.

While more controlled than Flea — it wouldn’t take much — lead singer Anthony Kiedis was hardly stoic. Dressed in all black save for a pink lightning bolt over his crotch, Keidis ran laps, pranced and karate-kicked around the stage without ever missing a note.

Kiedis’ job is not easy. The Chili Peppers’ catalog is varied enough that he needs to be able to belt, sing melodically and rap at Busta Rhymes-level speed depending on the track. Throughout the nearly 2-hour set, Kiedis did all this without breaking much of a sweat. And, as it always does during a RHCP show, Kiedis’ shirt came off about three-quarters through the set for “Tell Me Baby.”

On guitar, John Frusciante was the laid-back foil to Flea and Keidis’ manic energy. Frusciante originally joined Chili Peppers in 1989, but has had an on-and-off again relationship with the band in the ensuing years and hasn’t toured with RHCP since 2007. Frusciante showed no signs of rust, easily keeping up with his bandmates in technique, if not in energy. The guitarist seemed happiest when jamming out during interludes between songs.

Throughout the set, the band kept mostly to the music, save for a joke by Kiedis about the heavy marijuana wafts from the crowd and the occasional unintelligible outburst from Flea.

After finishing the middle section of mostly newer material, the band dialed the intensity back up with “Californication” and “Give It Away” — which may have gotten the biggest crowd reaction of the night — before cutting to black. During a long break before an encore, concert-goers broke into an impromptu light show with cell phones and lighters as they waited.

The only boos came on the final song of the night. As a sneering parting gift, Flea broke out his Los Angeles Lakers-themed bass guitar for the last song, much to the chagrin of the Warriors-adoring Bay Area crowd. The insult was quickly forgiven when the Chili Peppers turned in a max-effort rendition of “By The Way” to close the night.

In a truly surprising turn of events, the band neglected to play their biggest song: the multi-platinum ballad “Under the Bridge.” Was this a senior moment from the aging band? Or, after sifting through four decades worth of hits, maybe they simply ran out of time.