"Need Strange" appears on all three albums of American instrumental funk rock band  Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats. This version is of "Meat The Meatbats" The band consists of Red Hot Chili Peppers' drummer Chad Smith, guitarist Jeff Kollman (from Cosmosquad), bassist Kevin Chown (Uncle Kracker, Tarja Turunen), and keyboardist Ed Roth.