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Video: Chickenfoot Behind the Scenes at Guitar Center

September 3, 2009 58 Comments

The super-group Chickenfoot comprised of Sammy Hagar, Joe Satriani, Chad Smith and Michael Anthony paid a visit to Guitar Center Seattle where the guys let loose! Here’s what happened behind the scenes!

Filed Under: Chickenfoot

DLR

Chicken Food Rox!!!
RA 8 1 2

Seeing the FOOT This weekend in Tahoe and in a couple weeks in Berkeley. CANT WAIT!!! Im bringin my Rockin Shoes and Turnin Left! WOO HOO!
phil

these guys are always having fun…
Vanicionado

Imagine that… a band having natural fun, that is spontaneous and not put on.

Do they do that anymore?
http://mitchgalietta.com Mitch

It’s a nice change to see a band actually have fun together!
RA 8 1 2

They are having fun because it is not all about Big Business!
ben

I prefer Will at Saturday Night Live, he’s funnier!
SCAR

The “F” word rules!!!
Terje

I can’t believe the amount of fun these guys are having. These guys are having a good time, ALL the time.
http://twitter.com/johnnybeane johnnybeane

That was cool!
They are having a great time!
Kinda like VH was in 1986.
JB
Dooley

Not only are they having fun, but they put out a great CD and their live shows rock. Their CD is right up there with AC DC’s Black Ice for best of 2009. All the best to ‘em.
Glen Cunnington

wow i wish i knew they were going there i wouldve went im from walla walla and i wouldve went.
blake

I actually feel bad for my comments on chickenfoot.After further review of other peoples thoughts on the band,I have to say that I will give the band some credit, even though I cant stand em.they do have fun.Thats all folks!
RickieVanWhalen

Love satch but Hagar has no business being in place called “Guitar Center” LOL!!
Shawn

RickieVanWhalen, you are nuts. Hagar is a great guitar player. Get over yourself. Chickenfoot is a good fun band!
http://www.vhnd.com Pat G

Why don’t we see the VH boys having this much fun and being so relaxed? HMMMMMMMMMMMM….interesting…….
kenny

Sammy has white teeth!!!!!!!!! WOW
John

Johnnybeane, you hit the nail on the head, it reminds you of the footage from 1986. Obviously I don’t know for sure, but during that period Eddie seemed his happiest.
Keith

Right on Shawn, Rikki Van Wanker would lose to Sammy in the 1st second of a guitar duel, Think ?! To bad Ed doesnt show up at GC since THEY SELL HIS GEAR !!!
jrod 2009

Hey everyone, let’s rewind to 1997. remember Sammy was the one who released an album first, then Dave (slam dunk) and the VH3. then Sammy released the mas taquilla album and blew them all away. My point is that Sammy has always out done VH since he left the first time. Believe me I love VH but I look at the big picture and that is why I am not suprised with Chiken foot being the band they are and have a album at #4 on the charts. Thanks for reading.
Dooley

right on jrod !!!
jrod 2009

thanks dooley.
Thunder

mike anthony is so uncool its unbelievable
Vanicionado

So you just love Wolfie, eh Thunder?

Just trying to stir the pot up, eh?

Wow… you’re Super Cool!!
phil

i like mikey!
mjc

having fun,that’s what it’s all about,and why the cd is so much fun to listen to.
Terje

Sammy Hagar is all about fun. Satch used to be kinda down to earth but now he’s become a good old boy too! Those guys sure likes their tequila!!
Jack

Talking about Chickenfoot on VHND is like your exwife and company coming over to your party while your friends talk about how great a couple exwife and company are, all the while trash talking you. Come on people, they are all Great musicians. Crossing party lines is weak. Showbusiness is just that, a show. They are all humans when it comes down to it. They all have to wipe their a#$ just like the rest of us. I would like to make some comments about the band that this site is made for. Edward, Congratulations on your new life. Your bride is HOT! Wolf, you are the coolest teenager on the planet. Alex, you are an ANIMAL! COMMON DAVE, GIMME A BREAK!!! Every ounce of music that has came out of VH is phenominal. I am stoaked to hear some new material from this band. I am confident that it will be as much of a timeless masterpiece as previous efforts. God, Bless our world and thank you for the wonderful gift of music!
Chomsky5150

Hahaha I love these guys! That’s how a band should be! Too bad you guys canceled the Pittsburgh show
Phil

Way past tired of hearing about these guys. But they enjoy what they’re doing as do others, or so I’m led to beleive. Just so long as whatever musical project Hagar has going is NOT called Van Halen…
Bluesbro

It beats a Twitter feed or Myspace update.
SCAR

Thunder must be related to RickiVanWiener, who is related to blake, who is related to J5149.5, who is related to Bubbaco, who is related to TheTruthHurts. All blow jobs gone wrong!!!
SCAR

The hater’s can’t stand the fact that the Foot can jam and have fun doing it!!! Guess the haters will have to call the Fun Police again!!!!
Dooley

Phil…Just so long as whatever musical project Hagar has going is NOT called Van Halen…

I know you don’t like Sam…I think he’s great. But there’s no need to be concerned about this, chances are slim at most…At this point, Hagar doesn’t need VH and VH doesn’t need Hagar. Unless Ed develops a fondness for Chickenfoot’s music (as he did with Montrose years ago)AND things DON’T go well with Dave in the studio. But that’s a lot of “ifs”, and I’m not betting the house on it.
john

Guitar Center has alot of cheap guitars and ocasionally have a couple of real nice ones….but they are just a chain store….cant expect much…not like the stores I used to go to….
phil

this phil likes hagar!
Doug

The guys look like they are having fun……..saw them play at the Rock Hall in Cleveland and had a great time!……but why doesn’t Sammy ever take his shades off? ……..even Bono takes them off from time to time………
Jack

Hagar doesn’t take the shades off because he has had too much tequilla.
Jack

Going to Guitar Center is alot like going to a used car lot. You get swarmed by cheeseball salesworms. I felt the need to shower after my LAST visit.
http://www.chickenfoot.us/ crazy5150

SORRY, DLR lovers, /|\ CHICKENFOOT /|\ is the new Van Halen, like it or not, and Sammy should have still been in Van Halenthe past 11 years. they still would have rocked if it wasn’t for Eddie getting messed up, too bad???????
http://www.chickenfoot.us/ Van Hagar

VHND, thanks for being true to Van Halen and their FANS and showing all the Van Halen albums, but, your missing one the CHICKENFOOT ALBUM !!!! lol.
john

LOL I know what you mean….cheesball salesworms that bug you when your playing…they should just hire groupies that blow you if you buy one
RickieVanWhalen

Shawn – this is real guitar playing, not guitar hero dude. Hagar is a hack and you don’t play so shut your ignorant pie hole. He is standing next to Satch… get a clue on what you are talking about. Hagar wrote one good tune 30 years ago. His playing is elementary three finger blues.

SCAR – you finally get off your mom’s nipple and you go right to the cool aid. Brilliant.
RickieVanWhalen

Right on Jack! That is why it is perfect for Hagar.
Shawn

I hope you feel better now. Don’t forget to take your meds.
Shawn

RVW-First,”Hagar has no business in a place called Guitar Center”. Next, “That is why it (Guitar Center) is perfect for Hagar”. Third,”Get a clue on what your are talking about”. Hmmm,Interesting. P.S. Typing is from your hands not your “pie hole”. Ingnorant?
Jor-L5150

sam is no slouch on guitar.
no one – least of all him, suggests he is in the caliber of eddie or joe.

but sammy is pretty damn impressive.
he did some of ed’s solo’s on the 5150 tour, and his work on ” i never said goodbye” was excellent.
http://myspace.com/breakaswefall t1m

I like the Buddy Holly reference, he is classic
http://www.chickenfoot.us deathmetal4u812

Wait, SAMMY HAGAR is an excelent guitarist, who do you think play have of the guitar work on the 4 #1 albums Van Halen put out from 1985 – 1996 ???????
http://www.chickenfoot.us deathmetal4u812

Anwser, SAMMY HAGAR of course. Not just a great lyrics writer, but a great guitarist. Check it out !!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyyLshCQUEU&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Enme%2Ecom%2Fvideo%2Fid%2FYyyLshCQUEU%2Fsearch%2Fevh&feature=player_embedded