Second Chickenfoot Sample!

February 19, 2009 78 Comments

I think it’s safe to say that they are definitely sticking with “Chickenfoot” as the name…

Filed Under: Chickenfoot

simon

UH OH. I ordered my new/old VAN HALEN LION TEE SHIRT and I am starting to think that this CHICKENFOOT thing is serious. The sound clip is nasty, dirty and damn good. What do the VAN HALEN brothers have in retaliation? I hope they enlist some new blood and inject some songwriting magic that can be awesome. I know what Dave will write BEFORE he writes it so I implore the brothers to bring in some NEW IDEAS wherever they may originate from and knock the shit out of the music industry. NOBODY will beat EDS music, nobody, so add some cool new tunes and maybe even find an “underdog” writer who can add to the VH magic..Think ROCKY and find something nobody thought would go the distance..MAKE IT GOOD.EXPLORE ALL OPTIONS …
Magic Man

This will kick ass!!
Big J

You’re right Ed needs to grow a nut sack and go for it. This bullshit of it may not be what people are exspecting and bang your head against the wall stuff. If its not gonna be what people want then why do it. Don’t give me I’m a pure musican crap cause if Ed was he would of had new music instead of doing a 3/4 reunion tour and same old tunes. Ed this shit isn’t that hard to get right, quit whining cause nobody feels sorry for a millionaire rock guitar legend who whines and talks smack about other people but hasn’t done shit for the past 11 years! Well I hope Ed does deliver and shuts people like me up but I doubt it
Erick

Dave rules!
Rocko

This sounds pretty damn good so far but What is Chickenfoot anyways? I dunno!!! As for Ed in regards to the New Music with Roth, I hope it ain’t the same kinda crap like those last two songs they did in 1996 Best of Volume 1 or like Van Halen 3 with Cherone cause that was some pretty weak shit. I too hope that Ed, Dave, Wolf and Al Delivers and shuts Big J up.
phil

sounds like sam, mike, joe and chad are having some fun. ed and the VH boys should do the same. don’t take it so seriously. music is to entertain and put a smile on peoples faces. long live VH and can’t wait to see chickenfoot live….
Joe S

I will wait and see what this sound like. The snips sound good but how dose the album sond. I hope the album is as good as the snips.
ER

Joe, Sammy, Mike, and Chad – can’t wait for April, so how about a single or two on itunes to tide us over?? Glad you’re getting some exposure on VHND, but how about giving us more on your own site? I’m very excited for this – the only news worth reading that VHND has had all year. (unless you count Eddie saying that his feud with DLR never happened – that was news to me

Chickenfoot is looking/sounding like the real deal, but I’ll reserve complete judgment until I’ve heard the album. Good luck you guys! (been a huge Satch fan since I saw him back in 1990 on the Flying in a Blue Dream tour, just a year before I saw VH for the first time on their For Unlawlful tour. Great times! And it looks like there’ll be more great times on the road coming up…
chris omeara

I didn’t like “You Can’t Get This Stuff No More” much at all, but I LOVED “Me Wise Magic”; It seemed like a perfect progression of where VH should have been had they picked up where they left off; I KNOW they can do it if they try, but Ed’s stuff he wrote for that porno film was WEAK guitar noodling…
Gardog66

I don’t think Chickenfoot and Van Halen will have anything in common as far as sound. The only thing in common is that Sam and Mike were in Van Halen. I hope Chickenfoot sounds like something other than Van Halen. Four very talented musicians got together and made some cool tunes. And I hope they will be. Sam and Mike are out of Van Halen. Might as well face it and move on. I am looking forward to Chickenfoot and new Van Halen. I think VH with Roth will be worth the wait. Just don’t pull a “Guns n’Roses” and take 14+ years Ed. LOLOLOL!
Karl

The clips sound fantastic! I’m gagging for this. But “What is Chickenfoot?”? What genius came up with that crap? We already know exactly what Chickenfoot is. A little worrying that the band themselves don’t seem to know! lol
http://michaelquinn.com.au Michael

Eddie & Dave: Old and Busted.

Sammy & Co: New and Shiny.
Scott

What a great lineup Chickenfoot has! You cannot go wrong with Satriani and Anthony. Looks like 09 will shape up to be a great music year for VH Fans if Eddie and the boys can get together and start popping out some new tunes. By the way – I love this site!
FAMAC

It sounds good until Sammy starts singing – and of course the lyrics are brain damaged. The very first clip woth singing and its dumn lyrics.

Personally, I just hate Sammy’s voice. I know technically he’s a capable singer – but I just don’t like his voice, it grinds my ears.

The rest of th erecording does sound good, I’ll give you that. Nice production – very full and live sounding.

Got A Band
Got A Plan (play?)
Drum all night
And Rock and Roll all day
yeah, yeah

Can’t 4 guys come up with something better than that?
FAMAC

Sorry – forgot that Chickenfoot repitition atthe beginning is really annoying and stupid.
Erick

Good thing about Chickenbutt is that Sammy is not in Van Halen.
rodney

So far both samples sound better then anything Sam has put out in the past 3-4 years. Sounds like the tunes are gonna be bad ass. I actually dig the new logo too.

Too be honest im not partial to either Dave or Sam……However I was def. let down when I saw them in concert last year. Of course Ed had his “medical” problem a week after the concert.
Travis

to famac,, before you call something “dumn” make sure you have spellcheck first …. you must be in DLR Army ,,whatever that is…
SCAR

If any of you poser’s can do better than Dave and Sammy, Than do so. If not, shut up and enjoy the tunes!!! That’s what it’s about – THE MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Travis

well said.
Beau

What is Chickenfoot? I dunno.

Haha now that’s the way to do it – with a smile. The music sample sounded great! Can’t wait to see what they do live!
BlindBubbaCheeks

I’m totally not bashing this band or Sammy, but seriously, this is the Van Halen news desk and I’m not really interested in Chickenfoot news. I can understand that most days are probably slow VH news days, but I’d rather not hear anything than see another band, regardless of who is in it, get free airtime from this site.
Cabo Joe

This site serves as a nexus for anything VH related, current AND alumni members. If we ONLY had VH news here, not even merchandise, then there would only be the recent updates regarding VH’s recording future posted in the past few weeks,

The rest of the year, there WAS NO NEWS.

Imagine if this site didn’t exist? They don’t post anything with great frequency on that either. Redrocker.com has updates all the time.(He actually cares about his fans)
Nothing on DLRARMY.com or van-halen.com for months or years at a time!

Keep up the good work VHND!
~JJ
http://vhnd jcn

Proud of Chickenfoot… all you guy’s for putting it together.

You can’t go wrong with Joe. Mike looks bad ass !

PS. I had my pic taken with Joe S. in I think 96 0r 97 but the camera crapped out. Good thing he sighned my double cd of his.
Chicken Joe

What a stupid F’ing name, Chickenfoot? Come on, I was praying it was just a working title. I can’t believe these rock legends settled on such a stupid F’ing name, all momentum straight out the window before one note is heard. With a name like Planet Us they maybe could have ruled the World, now they get to rule the farm. Corny, corny, corny. New VH will certainly blow it out of the water. This will just be cornball funk rock with sick guitar work, I’ll probably buy it, but the new VH will blow it away guaranteed! Sorry Mike and Sam, you guys do rule.
Erick

Why is this a ‘supergroup’? It’s just half of Van Hagar (and not the best half…). Then there’s Joe Satriana; okay, he’s an excellent guitar player (huge chance next year Chickenband sues the Rolling Stones for stealing one of their tunes). And then there’s the drummer from the RHCP. Overall I’m not impressed at all.

The music sounds nice and crisp; good production. Too bad that there’s this singer too. Could pretty much be a boring cd.

I can’t imagine that this cd will make us Van Halen fans forget “VH1″ or “1984″.
rodney

I really don’t understand why people complain about new rock music at this point. Too many people are living in 1984. Open yourself up to new ideas…..this may be…..just could be a great cd. I have been listening to Satriani’s music lately and he is an incredible guitar player.

Unfortunately VH hasn’t put out a “good” cd since 95-96. That’s well over 10 years. I gave up on them several years ago. It was great to see them last year …. but still dissapointing.

This is my own opinion…..Sammy is for his fans. Eddie lost focus somewhere along the line and allowed greed and LGD (Lead guitarist disease) to ruin VH. He did it not only once….but with two great singers. Look at the hall of fame induction…….. That was a slap in the face to all the fans that have followed them thru the years.

Im just happy that good rock is back and the rap/hip hop era is slowly fading away. I hated the late 90′s and early 00′s.
vanhalendlrband

Sounds cool, always been into Joe Satriani and Chili Peppers, of course I know all eras of VH quite well even though I prefer the much better VH with Dave era.

As for people who know what Dave is gonna write, or old and busted, they sure killed every other band out there in North America for touring sales (other bands if you subtract their out of north america dates are about the same or less than Van halen) even Hannah Cashcow Montana, can’t tell me that lyrics written by Sammy aren’t something you’d expect from Sammy, or Chili Peppers from the Peppers, Pumpkins from the Pumpkins, Beatles from the Beatles. Everyone has their own style.

If Dave doesn’t write his stuff it won’t be original Van Halen, and I can guarantee it will obliterate almost every genres biggest star in sales within minutes. Bring back every band possible, come out with 50 cent + Kanye West versus Van Halen and Van Halen will win. Something they’d never be able to do with Sammy, they went from being “uncool” (quote from Sammy and Ed) in 2004, to being cool and having a concert of all 20-somethings mostly give a huge thumbs up to something they’ve never seen before. I saw kids 12-19 all with their jaws dropped after the show, never saw that at Van Hagar 2004. Everyone cheered twice as loud for Jump, Panama, and Dave era tunes than Sammy tunes, nobody even knew them they felt like they got jipped out of their money.
Kenny

awsomeeeeeeeeeeee
ER

BlindBubbaCheeks, If you only want to read news of the current band then VHND probably isn’t right for you, as it is a site that covers VH alumni news as well. Who are you to tell the creators of this site what they can or can’t post? If you don’t like it, don’t come here. I’m sure there’s a site out there that covers news of the current line-up only, so go find it. Or if you can’t find one you like then maybe you could start your own. It wouldn’t be hard to manage – you’d only have to update it once a decade.

The service that VHND provides is to give us the news of people involved with VH past and present so that those who are interested can get the scoop on everybody in one place, without having to go to VH’s website, DLR’s site, Sammy’s site, Mike’s site, etc. This is a great service for those of us who do like to keep up with everybody, and there’s plenty of us that come here for this reason. If you don’t like the service provided, again, don’t come here. Simple concept, my friend.
SCAR

Hey you poser’s – be like ER, enjoy the current news and the music!!! Mellow out poser’s!!!!!!!!!!!!
Joe

Sounds good. The music buiness needs this type of music. Wheter it this or any form of Van Halen.

By the way, when did Will Ferrell play drums? More cowbell!!!!
http://vhlinks EL c

to vanhalendlrband,

I saw the 2004 tour as well, and the reason why they were uncool was because EVH was fucking wasted for the whole year and had to be carried throughout the whole tour. Dont mess with the facts. 2004 sucked caused EVH sucked and did everything he could to railroad that tour when he couldnt get his way. As far as VH2009 outselling everything? Well that aint true, cause they have fucked over their loyal fanbase that much that there isnt many left to care these days. You cannot compare them to current day Acdc, Maiden or U2. They care about their fans and it shows. The dysfuntional brothers dont give fuck, but only when it comes to the green.
dawgdaze

Gotta say with all the crap music on the scene now its good to hear rock-n-roll. Can’t wait for the ALBUM from anybody from the past, when rock was fun.
Keith

All you idiots need to chill out
Jason

Sammy has the nicest & whitest TEETH !!
Eric

Having picked up a guitar at the age of 12 because of Eddie Van Halen this is huge to see the current best guitar player on the planet joining forces with three awesome guys and oh yeah great musicians. I have high hopes for this project and so far it sounds great.

I agree with everyone else that it would be really nice if EVH could slap down some new sober riffs. The past is just that and the future is unknown and right now he isn’t doing anything except pushing new products, maybe he is more into retail business than music. It’s amazing in the old days they could record an album in 7 days do a world tour take a week off and back to the studio complete an album in 10 days and hit the road again but now, 11 years, I guess maybe days are years now.

Hats off to VHND for all the work you do, it is greatly appreciated!
Karl

Maybe Van Halen are working in dog years! lol!
stew

SOUNDS LIKE THE SAME OLE VAN HAGAR SHIT TO ME ! ME WISE MAGIC & CANT GET THIS STUFF NO MORE KICKED ASS BETTER THAN ANY THING SAMMY BUFFET EVER DID!
vhrocks

me wise magic and gcant get this stuff no more kicked ass? please. Dave couldn’t even hit the high notes during the recording like he used to be able to. his voice was shot.

Go on, keep bashing vh singers if you want. Dave, Sam and Gary (for that brief time you didn’t give him a chance) all did their own things. Dave was perfect for his time since it was the 70s and 80s when disco was somewhat alive and starting to fail. But showmanship and arena tours were the norm and Dave could perform. Sammy is more of the songwriter and all around musician and he helped put together a string of hits that would make anyone envious. Gary brought a deeper songwriting ability into the mix and his tunes were thought provoking. That’s what he did on Waiting for the Punchline and Extreeme 3.
I agree with everyone who said Ed is greedy and shameless. He has no loyalty to anyone other than the green and maybe his brother and son. If he can stay sober enough to write new ablums with the current line up it may be interesting, but I’m not holding my breath. You have to admire Sammy’s work ethic and the fact that he has put out albums since his departure from VH and so has Gary. Dave’s solo days were done in the 80s. His second band wasn’t as good as the EAS band with Vai et. al. Oh, and btw Satriani trained Vai. Why get the student when you can get the master.
Oneshare

So many angry people out there. If ya want only Van Halen news go Van-Halen.com. Only Sammy news, go to Redrocker.com, ect…
If ya want to celebrate one of the best bands ever (in all it’s incarnations) then this site rules. Let’s be honest all era’s of VH had shining moments and all era’s had low points.
Let’s just be happy that Sammy and Mike are doing something way cool with two unbelievable musicians. Possible new music with Ed and Dave. It sounds like alot of people just rip Sammy and Mike because they are pissed off that VH is not doing anything, while Sam continually tours and puts out music. VH RULES!!! Let’s be happy that they are all alive and still ROCKIN!!!! VH FOREVER!!!
Drumshine

Personally, I love the Chickenfoot line-up. I hope the project turns out great and I hope VH releases something new by the end of the year. Then I’ll hold out hope for the greatest concert ever if they would tour together. Chickenfoot opening for Van Halen. VH could do a couple of Van Hagar tunes with Sammy and Mike. Mike could play a couple of tunes with Dave and the guys. Holy shit it would be crazy. DLR probably wouldn’t mind since they’d be getting top billing the whole time. Satriani and Ed would probably never share the stage together, but that would absolutely rule too. Who knows? I can dream can’t I?
jrocks

I agree with Phil, VH with Roth should just have fun and loosen up. Not only is music about having fun but that’s what VH was about with Roth…fun, loose, and raw. That’s what attracted me to the music, not like the overly processed, over manipulated stuff they did with VanHagar…even though they did have some decent music without DLR, it wasn’t Van Halen…I think that we all agree on.
Brian

This is annoying, I lost interest. I hope the VHND removes the sound.
Joe

I have no problem with the posting. Sammy was a part of Van Halen for at least 10 years. When David was the solo artist this website kept current about his activities. I think it is appropriate to do the same for Sam. Plus consider that Sam is actually making music. Van Halen has not put anything out music wise in 10 years, except for 3 songs with Sammy for the 2004 tour.

I think it is disappointing that people still feel the need to bash Sammy. I know that I am in the minority on this board, but I preferred Van Halen with Sammy, then under Roth. I respect Roth’s stuff, and enjoy listening to it whenever possible, I thought Van Halen sounded more like a band with Hagar. With Roth, it felt like a minstrel show. The Sammy era produced a lot of great songs that people love. The biggest mistake of the 2007 tour with Roth was to ignore all of Sammy’s stuff. It felt like a timewarp of guys stuck in the past.

I hope EVH and the rest of the boys can come up with some rocking new material that does not sound like recycled Van Halen. I hope that Sammy does well with Chickenfoot, though bands by this nature don’t last beyond 1 or 2 albums. Whichever way its goes, good luck to all of them.
VAN HALENER

HEY JOE,THEY DIDNT PLAY ANY SAMMY SONGS FOR A GOOD REASON.I AGREE WITH STEW,ME WISE MAGIC WAS BETTER THAN ANY SONG FROM ANTHING SAMMY HAS EVER DONE.IF THE NEW CD SOUNDS ANYTHING LIKE ME WISE MAGIC, I SAY WOW!SAMMY WAS OK, DONT GET ME WRONG,BUT HE BELONGS RIGHT WHERE HE IS. ITS ONLY FITTING THAT DAVE IS THE FRONTMAN FOR THE NUMBER ONE BAND ON THE PLANET.DAVE STARTED VH,AND HE WILL FINISH IT , IN STYLE.
VAN HALENER

DAVE DEFINITELY BRINGS OUT SOMETHING IN EDS GUITAR PLAYING THAT SAMMY DID NOT.EVEN THOUGH I LIKED THE 5150 CD,IT SOUNDED TO ME ALOT LIKE SAMMY WAS TRYING TO COPY SOME OF DAVES VOCALS. ANYONE AGREE? ALSO I REALLY LIKED THE DRUMS ON 5150, WISH ALEX WOULD BRING THEM BACK FOR THE NEW CD.
Deja Vu

I told you all. Theres only one way to rock. Thanks again Sammy. Rock on Bro. Cant wait till the tour. I will be in the front row!!!!!!!!!!!
Kris

Hey FAMAC!!

Amen bro!! You nailed it right on!! I said the same thing when the Chickenfoot teaser 1st came out. The band sounded tight yet the moment Sammy joined in with those predictable and middle of the road lyric’s/singing he just destroyed it!!! Sammy’s the weakest link in the band!!!! Can you imagine if a David Coverdale or Dio putting their art to that? WOW! Now we’re talking!!

Diamond Dave and Van Halen stand the test of time, they’re raw, dirty, push the boundaries, break and make new rules, no bullshit just pure brutal ROCK!! If Eddie’s hinting that “it’s not what you’d expect” then it’s the SECOND COMING!!!! FUCK YEAH!!! Give it to me, hit me right between the eyes!!!

It takes years to soak up every moment in Van Halen’s music, yet I still discover new little jems in their music!!! What these Sammy lovers don’t GET! is Dave enriches and brings out of Eddie and the band a certain sound, style, magic, always something new, but most important Dave vocals is the only vocal that can speak with Eddie’s guitar!! FACT!!!! The thing that these Sammy lovers don’t want to admit is Dave has experimented far more than Van Halen and Sammy put together, yeah sure he hasn’t sold as many records like he did with his 1st 3 solo albums but I got more respect for the man for having the guts to do it, instead of Sammy always playing (corporate!) safe!!!

Dave = A true Rock n’ Roller

Sammy = A corporate slut!!!

All I can say is I wish I was a fly on the walls of 5150 so I can see and hear the magic return to Van Halen!!!
aztroutboy4u

i hear KFC has chickenfoot on its menu.1 to go please.hold the mayo.xtra claw.