Josh Klinghoffer sounds exhausted even after taking a nap, "I didn't feel so well today," he says over the phone from Los Angeles. He has worked himself into the ground over the past few days, working with the Red Hot Chili Peppers on their new album, but he's excited about coming to play in Japan.

For a while, Klinghoffer says his own band, Dot Hacker, "never really left L.A." It was too difficult to match up the schedules of the band members, so he laughs when he says last year they finally made it as far as Texas. But now Dot Hacker is coming as far as Tokyo.

"I'm just so happy to come play in Japan," he said. "We don't get a chance to be a band that often."