Michael Anthony gave an exclusive interview to RockConfidential.com: Published Jul 14th, 2010 // Mike, I appreciate you taking time for this today. What’s been going on? I had one daughter just graduate high school. Another daughter just had her 25th birthday and her boyfriend just graduated college. We’ve been in birthday – graduation – home [...]
Gasman talks to Michael Anthony
June 8, 2010 25 Comments
Inquirer: Michael Anthony
June 2, 2010 24 Comments
From GuitarWorld.com Jun 1, 2010 (Originally published in Guitar World, April 2010) By Randy Harward, Photo by Bryan Adams Chickenfoot’s Michael Anthony tells Guitar World why he plays bass, his first gig and his most embarrassing moment on stage. What first inspired you to play bass? It was by default that I started playing bass. [...]
Chickenfoot: Second album update & new video
May 26, 2010 61 Comments
Lots of Chickenfoot news lately: 1) Second album update from Reuters.com: Chickenfoot steps toward second album DETROIT (Billboard) – Its all-star members may be working on other projects — the new Red Hot Chili Peppers album for Chad Smith, solo sets for Sammy Hagar and Joe Satriani — but Chickenfoot has already started work on [...]
Mad Anthony’s Hot Band and Hot Sauce (Part 2)
May 19, 2010 35 Comments
From BryanReesman.com: by Bryan Reesman Mad Anthony back in the day: All Jacked Up. Life is good for Michael Anthony. After three decades achieving fame and fortune playing with Van Halen, he now rocks out in another popular group, Chickenfoot, with ex-VH bandmate Sammy Hagar, guitarist Joe Satriani and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad [...]
Michael Anthony UK interview
May 18, 2010 3 Comments
Mad Anthony’s Hot Band and Hot Sauce (Part 1)
May 11, 2010 36 Comments
From BryanReesman.com:
by Bryan Reesman
Michael Anthony certainly enjoys himself. He’s played in and toured with one of the biggest bands in rock and roll, Van Halen. He has his own hot sauce brand (Mad Anthony) and owns an outrageous collection of cars and bass guitars. And he’s still successful, currently playing with his ex-VH bandmate Sammy Hagar in Chickenfoot, the power quartet they formed with guitarist Joe Satriani and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith. Their self-titled debut album has sold over a half million copies in the U.S. They have a live DVD on the way and a second album in the works. Life is good.
Despite all of this success, the veteran rocker, father and hot rod aficionado was one down-to-earth dude when ADD sat down to chat with him. While I needed 20 minutes or so to chat for my “Eat, Drink and Rock & Roll” story for Grammy.com, Anthony gave me an hour of his time. And he was very forthcoming about his career, his hot sauce business and the positive path he is taking in his life.
So you’re taking a break from Chickenfoot right now?
Well, not really a break. We’re finishing up working on a DVD that we’re putting out [soon]. We filmed
Audio: Chickenfoot Live from Cabo
May 7, 2010 19 Comments
Satriani Speaks on the Future of Supergroup Chickenfoot
May 6, 2010 30 Comments
From Bloginity.com: Coming off of the success of its self-titled debut album, the supergroup Chickenfoot is ready to write the next chapter in the Chickenfoot saga. The band, which features guitar god Joe Satriani, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Sammy Hagar, Van Halen founding member Michael Anthony and Chad Smith of the Red [...]
‘Foot’-notes from a fan: Cabo Wabo 20th Anniversary Bash!
May 5, 2010 17 Comments
Here’s a story that’s fitting for Cinco de Mayo – a full report from Cabo by Darin Bristow, who attended the 20th anniversary of the Cabo Wabo Cantina, April 22-24. Darin conceived and directed the animated video for Chickenfoot’s “Get It Up.”
Cabo San Lucas is pretty damn hot folks. The sun shines there about 350 days out of 365, and at night when that great ball of fire dips behind the famous arch of Land’s End, it only gets hotter. It was never hotter than the 3 tequila-soaked nights of April 22, 23, and 24th, as these days marked the 20th Anniversary of the famous “Cabo Wabo Cantina”. For those of you who have made the trek, you know what kind of off the chart party’s can occur when Sammy appears unannounced and tears up the stage for an awestruck crowd. Redhead and VH fans know to expect the unexpected as countless rock icons have shared the stage with Sammy over the past 2 decades. I myself have taken the long road to Cabo twice, but each time sadly missed the ‘Wham of Sam’. My first trip I missed him by a day. My second trip I actually missed him TWICE in one week! ( Can you believe that??? ) But as they say, the 3rd times’ the charm. Rightly so, for this trip was a going to be a little extra special as this time around I was actually invited to witness Sammy and Chickenfoot rock the house as thanks from the band themselves for conceiving and directing the animated video for “Get It Up”.
Let me tell you- ROCK THE HOUSE THEY DID. Here are some Cantina hi-lights and some special “fanecdotes” from this amazing 3 day rockstravaganza.
Birthday Bash Day 1 – Thursday, April 22nd 2010, 5:10 pm:
Michael Anthony: My 6 career-defining records
May 3, 2010 64 Comments
From MusicRadar.com:
Michael Anthony chooses his six best
From big hits to even bigger hits, Michael Anthony’s provided the foundation
“Being a bass player is like being Rodney Dangerfield,” says Michael Anthony. “The bottom line is, no matter how great we play, we don’t get no respect!”
He laughs and adds: “But hey, I’m used to it. I’ve played alongside Eddie Van Halen and Joe Satriani. Really, when you’re sharing the stage with dudes that amazing, who’s going to look at the bass player? It’s just not done!”
Until now. MusicRadar caught up with the Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer and asked him to single out the six albums that have most defined his career. And while Anthony might not get the same respect of the axe slingers he backs up, with the amount of gold and platinum that line his walls, he sure must be doing something right.
1/6
Van Halen (1978)
Van Halen
Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen, David Lee Roth and Michael Anthony were four upstarts from Pasadena when Warner Brothers head Mo Ostin and in-house producer Ted Templeman caught their show at the Starwood Club in LA. Soon, employees at record stores everywhere would hear a certain hammer-on pattern over and over again…
“Even though we had gigged steadily for a couple of years, we didn’t have a ton of material, so we basically just took our live show and all the songs we knew and went for it. The whole album took a couple of weeks.
“Ted Templeman wanted to make a big, powerful guitar record, and he had all he needed in what Eddie was doing. He fell in love with Ed’s playing. Eruption wasn’t written out or anything. Eddie was just
