Chickenfoot Named “BEST NEW BAND” At Classic Rock Awards
Chickenfoot, 2009’s stand out rock collaboration comprised of guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ drummer Chad Smith, and Van Halen front man Sammy Hagar and bassist Michael Anthony were named “Best New Band” at Classic Rock Magazine’s annual awards ceremony in London on November 2nd.
The guys take a moment out of a show to record a Thank You for being selected as “BEST NEW BAND” at the Classic Rock Awards 2009:
Chickenfoot has also received critical success:
“Hagar and Satriani have embedded plenty of hooks and compact solos in these tunes, and the refreshingly agile rhythm section motors them along.” – USA Today
“Chickenfoot’s self-titled debut favors straight-ahead rockers like the single “Oh Yeah” or the blues-fed “Sexy Little Thing,” and “Soap on a Rope” sounds like a Led Zeppelin outtake sent back from the year 2019.” –Billboard”
The album is an 11-song slab of raging rock.” –Guitar World
Also, dont’ forget Chickenfoot on TV tonight! Chickenfoot will be performing “Sexy Little Thing” and “Oh Yeah” on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Friday, November 6th.
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November 6th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Waaaay cool, and much deserved !!!
Congrats and continued success, guys.
November 6th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
The haters here keep dissing, but those in the know keep loving the Foot. Got the DVR set for Kimmel tonight … woohoo.
November 6th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Footacular!!!
November 6th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Don’t be so pompous bluesbro. No one said anything negative. geez.
November 6th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
I just love love loooooooove that sexy little thing!!!!
November 6th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
This is very cool! Great to see these guys having so much fun. You don’t see that from many bands these days.
November 6th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Rock on fellas!! They deserve it….fo sho!
November 6th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
All the critical success is well deserved. JMHO. It follows naturally when “the goods” you put out are good. Lookin’ forward to Kimmel.
November 6th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
I guess Billboard agreed with Sammy’s Led Zepp comparison.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Well deserved. The album is great. Can’t wait for the Concert DVD and the next album.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
I think what makes this more rewarding than anything else is the fact that Chickenfoot won this award on it’s own merits. Their live shows are proof that they can talk the talk and walk the walk. Can’t wait for Chickenfoot the 2nd. I hear Joe already has the ideas down on his laptop and is ready to begin the writing process with Sammy right after the Holidays are over. Oh Yeah!!!!!!!
November 6th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
yay! best re-hashed new old band ever! not.
November 6th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Who where the other nomeniees?
November 6th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
Rock on Van Hagar
November 6th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
I never watched “Two and a half Men” until I saw the Eddie Van Halen cameo online at the VHND, then watched an episode on the airplane trip. FUNNY!
I watched 20 episodes on DVD now. Sheen also appears in the new “Fall Of The Republic” DVD that came out on Oct. 21.
You will definitely want to see it on YouTube if you value your national sovereignty and freedom to keep “Rocking On”…
November 6th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
congrats!
November 6th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Great job guys! CHICKENFOOT kicks ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 6th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
OH YEA!!!!
November 6th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
The Foot DVD is pretty cool!!!!
November 6th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
chris,you’ll find two and half men is the best half hour of comedy on tv there is.
November 7th, 2009 at 12:35 am
Fact: Sheen gets $850,000 an episode. Unreal.
November 7th, 2009 at 1:53 am
I’m happy for Joe and the guys that they found a new home and that some of the VH fans are pacified with the new music, but Led Zep it ‘aint…
Everyone knows these awards are usually fixed with some corporate agenda. Remember the year Halley Berry & Denzel Washington won awards for just so-so performances?
Or Oksana B. over Nancy Kerrigan at the Olympics?
What about an Oscar for the Al Gore’s film of lies, or a Nobel Peace Prize for yet another warmonger? Believe it with a grain of salt folks…
November 7th, 2009 at 8:46 am
Way To Go Chickenfoot!!!!
November 7th, 2009 at 9:48 am
Just goes to prove that “Right Now”
Sammy Hagar and Chickenfoot
are way better and cooler than
David Lee Roth and Van Halen.
L.O.L.
/|\
November 7th, 2009 at 10:12 am
chris.omeara, are you in showbiz or are you just one of the few who can’t accept the fact that the foot is actually good. guys like you and skutch should just accept the fact the most people like them and if you don’t quit whining about it.
November 7th, 2009 at 11:33 am
I’m not in showbiz, but “All The World’s A Stage”, to quote Shakespeare (& Geddy Lee & Neal Peart)…
I’m actually glad for Mike Anthony that this is going well, even though CF isn’t my cup of tea. Hell, After Fair Warning, even VH falls under scrutiny in my book.
It’s not that I could do better, it’s just the fact that I’ve seen what they are capable of giving us in the past, and they just won’t do it (except occasionally)…
November 7th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
I think Michael got the last laugh here. I started playing bass in 1979 because of Mike and continue to this day. I think he was done dirty by the brothers and as more time pass’s by we see it and hear it. The bass players that got be going was first Mike but then Ross Valery (journey’s bass player) and Jaco. Geddy Lee is like Vai and Satch…. just too damm busy and plays hooks and not enough Rhythum and Groove. CF is a great band but there is still something that bothers me…. not sure what that is yet though.
November 7th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Congrats Chickenfoot! The album rocks and gets better everytime I hear it.
November 8th, 2009 at 8:28 am
This is really cool…I’m so happy to have something new and cool to follow. These guys are the real deal. I appreciate their productivity as much as anything because it gets pretty boring when there’s nothing to look forward to in the music store or on the concert trail.
Thank you Chickenfoot!
November 8th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Skutch says:
November 6th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Don’t be so pompous bluesbro. No one said anything negative. geez.
Hey Skutch … after reading the rest of the posts here, or in the Kimmel thread, what do you think now? I was just anticipating the inevitable. I don’t think I’ve ever been called pompous though … another first, thanks
November 8th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
its cool that a rock band is getting alot of success but man i really wish the Led Zeppelin comparisons would stop. CF sounds nothing, NOTHING like ANYTHING Zep ever did. EVER. i dont even hear any influence whatsoever.
it would be like Fall Out Boy saying “Yeah our new record sounds like The Beatles in 2010!” hmmmm
November 9th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
/// You will definitely want to see it on YouTube if you value your national sovereignty and freedom to keep “Rocking On”… ///
Uh, Charlie Sheen begging Obama to “investigate” how Bush was behind 9/11 is for whackjobs. The Radical Islamists did it, dude.
You DO know that they made a video bragging about how they were behind it (on top of, you know, every piece of material evidence at hand).
Back slowly away from the left-wing propaganda machine, please…..
November 9th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Please folks.
I’m a VAN HALEN fan, Van Halen Music, and everything created by the band with, of course, the blessed EVH hands and mind.
Please, Stop bullshiting us (me) with Hagar, Cherone and other stuff’s that definetly does not improve anything for really VH Fans.
As for Mike, good luck on your carrer but, and sadly, now he is only history.
Long live migthy VAN HALEN.
November 13th, 2009 at 9:19 am
chris.omeara, thanx for all your posts…they are the most ridiculous reads around and always get me laughing! To quote “Neal” Peart: “My name is spelled N-E-I-L, dude.”
Long live the Foot!
November 13th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
The foot rocks! I saw them in Tahoe. Ive seen Van Halen 7 times now with Dave and Sammy. Ive seen joe 10 times now. My take is these are two of the greatest Guitarists ever each at what they do. Eddie changed rock and roll with his inovations and his sound. But no one does flowing instrumentals like Joe NO ONE! as far as the zepplin thing… I dont think Sammy meant That they sounded like Zep I think he meant that chickenfoot would be something new and fresh like when Zep started. we should all stop bickering and realize that great music isnt about whos better its about how it makes us feel, its each mans opinion be thankful for all the great talents and enjoy! we’ll have new VH to enjoy soon Im sure!!!!!
November 13th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
Thanks whambamsam, for not taking me too serious; Some people are getting really pis**d, and I try to temper my legitimate right to cynicism with implicit or explicit humor. I’m just a guy trying to express to folks what’s been lost since that first day I saw VH in Circus magazine & a buddy gave me a copy of VH’s first album.
It permanently moved my radio dial from the top 10 local station I grew up on to the contemporary rock station 50 miles away, and saved me from missing the end of the seventies before MTV came in and ruined it all.
My mom was a huge Linda Ronstadt fan, and when I heard the VH version of “You’re No Good” on the time & temperature channel on TV before school, I FLIPPED. Incredible! Brilliant! The rest of the album was just as good, too!
I never could understand my junior year why “Fair Warning” wasn’t embraced as the masterpiece of genius that it was. And I don’t need to rehash everything that followed.
‘Tis a dark tale, like in Lord Of The Rings (Strings?). History turned to legend. And legend turned to myth. And finally, it was as if the hard rock band VH had never been a hard rock band…