Chickenfoot – 12 Days of the Foot: Day 2 (Soap On A Rope)

Notice the word “FUN” being used over and over again – that’s what good rock music should be and Chickenfoot delivers it right to your speakers!!! So for all you haters out there before you start the drama go out and have ya some “FUN” – you might just like it!!!!!

The cocktail that is these four seems to be generating serious personality fun and quality musical mayhem. Can’t wait for the CD. Can’t wait for the show.

Dave isn’t that great without EVH.
Sam isn’t that great without EVH.

BUT…

Sam is better with Joe Satriani than Dave was with Steve Vai.

There’s always some dickhead that has to make a negative comment in every posting. Every frickin time. It’s like a race. I wonder who will sign up to be dickhead when the 3rd song is added? Who will it be? I can’t stand the suspense! Dickhead.

“Chickenfoot takes the super out of supergroup
By Steve Newton

Don’t get me wrong: unlike most music critics, I’ve got nothing against Sammy Hagar. He used to seriously rock my teenaged world with Montrose in the ’70s, then I thoroughly enjoyed his early solo albums (before he decided he couldn’t drive 55), and I even liked a couple of tracks from his mid-’80s stint with Van Halen (“Finish What Ya Started”, “Dreams”.). I always thought he had a great rock ‘n’ roll voice.

But enough is enough. Judging by last night’s concert at the Commodore with his new “supergroup”, Chickenfoot, it’s definitely time for Hagar to grab himself a bottle of that premium tequila he so proudly promotes and head off into the Cabo sunset.

The quartet—which includes guitar hero Joe Satriani, former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony, and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith—showcased all the songs from its upcoming self-titled CD, and there didn’t seem to be a strong one in the bunch. They sounded forced, formulaic, and extremely safe; most of them came off as substandard rejects from Van Halen’s OU812 sessions. Hagar tried hard to make it seem like he was having the time of his life trotting out these tedious odes to the endless party, but come on, pal. you’re 61. Isn’t it time you branched out from songs about your “Sexy Little Thing”? Your new tunes make Nickelback seem edgy.

And Satriani is just wasted in this group. The guy’s a real artist on guitar, as he’s proven via a dozen instrumental albums, so to see him up there grinding through vapid, contrived arrangements is just sad. I predict he’s going to get fed up with this misstep of a “supergroup” very soon and go back to being an adventurous axeman of the highest order, the type who’d much rather trade licks with a virtuosic bassist like Stu Hamm than the lowly Michael Anthony.

I got much more of a buzz from the night’s opening act, Vancouver’s Rich Hope and His Evil Doers. Hope only has one evil doer, actually, ace drummer Adrian “Mad” Mack, but between the two of them they churn out the type of raw, honest, gutbucket rock ‘n’ roll that Sammy Hagar now seems truly incapable of.”

I say you guys need to start pushing rock n roll b/c if you dont, pretty soon it will be nothing but hip hop and rap. Get the young ones to listen to this and the old stuff. The young kids dont know VH but they know lil wayne pot head!

Rick you forgot to have ya some fun eh? Well roll yourself a fatty ok dickhead!!! As for Steve Newton, that fucking idiot has a nasty speech impediment…his foot!!!!

i don’t know about everybody else, but i’ve personally seen enough Chickenfoot on this site…

Any fool can condemn, criticize, and ridicule and most fools do!!!

Good, funky, tight rock ‘n’ roll! If I ever get too old to enjoy this kind of music, well… just put me out of my misery!

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