Two new Chickenfoot songs unofficially leaked

sweet and it just keeps getting better and better

friday june 5 at best buy in west los angeles. their is a meet and greet with chickenfoot if anyone is intrested…8pm

Chad kinda looks like Bub from Day Of The Dead!

Wow, Sammy and the guys would NOT approve of this, yet you release them anyway. Hmmm, Ethics anyone???? I guess not.

Screw ethics, these songs, especially Get It Up, friggin rocked. Hard. Solid. Tight.
Damn, I can hardly wait until their show in T.O. on the 24th….

MA=VH

it seems to me that, lyrically, sammy was a far better writer with van halen, even on the 3 new(er) songs from best of both worlds “learning to see” was great lyrically i think.. anyone else agree? oh well at least its fresh music, far better than nothing at all i suppose.. now its time for ed to play catch up and hit the record button and really blow us all away!! 0: )

Not bad, Get it Up really jams, but damn it Sammy what’s with the Mexican yayeeba yayeeba yell, ruins the damn thing. Sometimes less is more Sammy. If Sammy could just get back to VH Sammy and not Cabo Sammy he would be awesome again.

Seriously guys, this is your much awaited rock ‘n roll supergroup? This time really made an effort to listen first and then judge. Get it up: Musically, even VHIII beats this by miles. And were is the singing? I just hear someone screaming, and not in a good way. Learning to Fall: I guess this is the CF attempt to sound like Led Zeppelin. Unfortunately, Sam is no Robert Plant, neither from the timbre of his voice nor lyrically. Sorry, but its really a bit laughable. Satch’s tone and play is ok I guess, but does this really excite you? As a song, even Sam “Loud” had way more punch than this.

Getting harder to be critical of this stuff.

These are great tunes!!

May not be the second coming of Zeppelin or Halen but in today’s rock world this is a solid offering that we should welcome with open arms!!

I think I even read a back handed compliment to Joe in one of our resident critics posts. “Satch’s tone and play is ok I guess” What the hell does it take to impress you???? He may not be Eddie but come on!!!! Joe is amazing on these tunes and sounds absolutely nothing like Ed.

Where is ED? no one can touch Eddie!! This music seems like it was composed very quickly. Just my opinion. Thanks.

From what I’ve heard so far, I’d say Joe stands out on most occasions better than the rest!! He’s a great player but when you get into the world of where Edward Van Halen, Jimmy Page & Jimi Hendrix ruled supreme, I would say ‘back to the drawing board Chickenfoot’. I can’t hear the signature riff, the sound(s), the hook(s), the fill, the bridge, the lyric(s), a noise, etc. And it doesn’t only have to come from the guitarist (if you know what I mean?). It can come from anybody in the band or the band as a whole. Chad’s personality might be great but he doesn’t thump it or stomps it (like Bonzo, AVH, etc) or he doesn’t have the finesse the fills that speak (e.g. Paice, Ginger, Mitchell etc) Sammy just sounds jaded, nothing new just predictable. Was a good singer, but even his screams have no purpose. I might be a bit harsh but there’s nothing there that screams “NOW HEAR THIS!!!”

This might come as a shock to most reading this; I’m not impressed or blown over by Michael Anthony! Where is the backing vocals we were told about that Van Halen should be nervous about? Sammy hyped us up so much about Mikey that I thought, damn Mike’s been let loose from the so-called evil forces of those Van Halen brothers that he’s going to blow the house down!!! But I have sympathy for Mike on here; he’s always been a team player. Now that the dust is settle, it’s just a shame that he’s taken Sammy’s side when he’s real family is Van Halen.

I’m sure Van Halen will release their long and overdue new album (sooner rather than later I hope!), but let’s not for one talk down and disrespect Van Halen. They have given us over 3 decades of incredible music and concert performances the likes we will never see again; they’ve done it hard, taken the bad knocks, flourished the good ones but always delivered a stellar production. And they are survivors!! The Van Halen 2007/08 Tour was incredible; hats off to Wolfie!! Not even a seasoned musician would have coped with what Van Halen demands. But let’s be honest, for Wolfie it was a cover gig! Now it’s his turn to bring something new/original to the table, his turn to shine! Mikey left a lasting and untouchable legacy, I think Wolfie will bring something new, exciting and let’s face it he’s the heir to the throne!!

And for those that knock Dave, don’t be so narrow minded or naive. Dave (post VH) has experimented more than Van Halen & Sammy put together. Yeah sure some albums failed but the others were spectacular!! Dave never stands still, he has a gift of knowing what the audience needs or demands, it’s just that he needed Van Halen to amplify it to the masses!! I’m just stoked that we are going to hear Edward & Dave make some “Me Wise Magic” Tell me the hairs on the back of your neck didn’t raise or the goose bumps didn’t pop when “Me Wise Magic” was first released!! Man I got my girl and we went cruising down the beach with “Me Wise Magic” blasting out of my car speakers, people could hear me coming from 3 blocks away!!! And you think I turned it down? HELL NO!! Van Halen is meant to be played LOUD!!!!!

Sammy is my hero! However, not only are his lyrics stale on this stuff, but he’s recycling song titles too. Learning to Fall? Sounds alot like Learning to See. And Get it up? Wasn’t that on 5150?

Maybe one of the other songs is going to be called Best of all Worlds or Finish what you started yesterday?

I have Both songs in MP· with CD Quality … Great Great Tunes!

Kriss Oz wrote: “This might come as a shock to most reading this; I’m not impressed or blown over by Michael Anthony! Now that the dust is settle, it’s just a shame that he’s taken Sammy’s side when he’s real family is Van Halen.”

Whiskey.
Tango.
Foxtrot.

I suppose you take your boss’s side after he fires you, right? Mike’s family is Van Halen? Yeah, a family that Photoshopped him out of “family portraits” and then raped him. Great. Some family.

This stuff is amazing!! Sammy rules!!

ughhhhh “Learning to Fall”? Sammy is the worst lyric writer. God, I want to like this, but it just seems so obnoxious. In any case,it’s only going to appeal to a subsection of Van Halen fans and no one else. And there is no way in hell this is going to reignite Rock music.

I’ve been saying the same stuff about all the bashers on here about Sammy.

Music is supposed to be about having fun and to party!

Van Halen gave us that from 1978-1996.

That’s it plain and simple.

Sammy has been giving us music from 1973-2009 and beyond.

I don’t care if Get It Up has the same title as Get Up.

I don’t care if Learning To Fall is close to Learning To See.

The music is different, the lyrics are different.

If you don’t like it, aren’t remotely interesred in it, don’t listen to it!

As for the comment about Michael Anthony?

Really? Are you kidding me here? Since everybody here is such a music critic and a critically acclaimed song writer, go into the studio next time with the Foot and write us a great album and show Joe, Chad, Mike, and Sammy how to do it.

Do you think they give 2 monkey shits what you buzz killers really think? They know who will buy this and who won’t. Every interview I’ve read or listened to, Sammy and Mike have been nothing but short of talking about Van Halen and giving props to them.

Your Van Halen thought it would be cool to erase Mike from the album covers and look where it got them when they tried?
It shows more people like Mike and thought it was a disgrace that your Eddie even tried it.

Go to the guitar hero article and post there!

Van Halen is past for sammy and michael and chickenfoot is future for them

if you want deep lyrics go listen to dave roths bump and grind or hot dog and a shake,now thats deep.

I don’t see how DLR fans are critical of Sammy’s writing. DLR not only never wrote good lyrics the guy can no longer sing. Believe me that is a huge reason for no new VH material. If new material is ever released it will be with a forth singer. DLR was that man at one point but age and mostly cigarettes killed those pipes a long time ago. I’m going to embrace this new music. I am positive it will be much better then the next DLR solo project. Not trying to hate, just stating the facts.

there is just know way the halen boys can even come close to this stuff with dave at the mike. it sure seems nice to hear mikey do his thing. i would be willing to bet that eddie controlled what we heard from mikey for years. this stuff is fantasic. long live the foot……

Ok, let me preface this by saying that I like both eras of VH (sorry Gary, one album doesn’t qualify)but I do prefer Dave, not so much for the singer, but the music just rocked more. VH with Sammy put out some great songs, some of my favorites in fact, but most of it wasn’t as good as Dave era stuff. Just to show that I’m balanced, VH with Dave had some less than stellar music too (half of Diver Down anyone?) That being said, I’m not to impressed with Chickenfoot. For the most part the music is pretty good, although nothing that will have people still talkin about it how great it is in 20 years. My biggest problems with the songs I’ve heard so far is the singing and lyrics. Now Dave is no poet, but he didn’t have “Ariba, Ariba” in his lyrics like in “Get it Up” nor “Hoochie Coochie Man” like in “Oh Yeah”. I’m sorry, but I hear things like that in the lyrics, and it just turns me off. I do like “Learning to Fall” though, and hopefully more of the CD is like that. I won’t be rushing out to buy Chickenfoot like I will be with the new VH (I’m hoping there will be a new VH).

The songs sound good. For those who don’t like Sammy, it is easy. Don’t listen to it. I would take Sammy’s career after VH over DLR’s anyday. Other than Just Like Paradise and Yankee Rose, DLR tanked fast. Once Steve Vai and company left, DLR could not hide his limited musical creativity. Sammy, on the other hand, has produced listenable music before and after VH.

Hate to break it to ya, aarxn, but Axl Rose had nothing to do with Velvet Revolver.

yawn

made me sleepy

Eddie and Dave, blow these guys away!