CHICKENFOOT ROCKS OUT WITH ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING BLU-RAY AND DVD LIVE CONCERT RELEASES OF THE YEAR – FILMED IN HI-DEFINTION, MIXED IN DTS SURROUND SOUND
March 11, 2010 by Your Way To Music
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Eagle Rock Entertainment is pleased to announce the April 26th Uk Blu-ray and DVD release of Chickenfoot: Get Your Buzz On “Live” – one of the most highly anticipated live rock’n’roll concert experiences of the year. The Blu-ray & DVD will be released in America on April 20th by EMI America.
Filmed with 16 hi-definition cameras over three sold out concerts, Chickenfoot: Get Your Buzz On “Live” offers fans an unforgettable once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience four rock’n’roll legends sharing the stage and blowing the roof off with their explosive musicianship and dynamic onstage chemistry.
Chickenfoot, who won Best New Band of 2009 at the UK’s prestigious Classic Rock Magazine Awards, and originally formed in 2008, features vocalist Sammy Hagar (ex-Van Halen, Montrose), bassist Michael Anthony (ex-Van Halen), drummer Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers) and guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani.
The band’s self-titled debut album, released in heat sensitive packaging, was released to critical acclaim in June 2009, and has since been certified gold in both America and Canada with sales in excess of 750,000 copies. During the same year, the band embarked on a small North American club tour, performed in Europe in the summer including the Montreux Festival and returned to North America to perform two sold out tours, one in the summer, followed by another in the fall.
During the summer of 2009, the electrifying, hi-energy concert performances were filmed in hi-definition by award-winning director Daniel E. Catullo III (Rush, Creed, Godsmack, Smashing Pumpkins) and mixed in DTS 5.1 Surround Sound by Mike Fraser.
The Blu-ray and DVD features one full concert shot at the Dodge Theater in Phoenix, Arizona on September 23rd, 2009, plus live segments from shows at the Tabernacle in Atlanta, Georgia and The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.
The Blu-ray and DVD editions of this exciting concert are jam-packed with exclusive, never-before-seen backstage footage, rare interviews, extra performance footage, photo gallery and hilarious segments featuring a host of surprise special guests including Adam Corolla, Bob Weir and Christopher Guest alias “Nigel Tufnel” from the hit movie Spinal Tap.
Track Listing:
1. Avenida Revolution
2. Sexy Little Thing
3. Soap On A Rope
4. My Kinda Girl
5. Down The Drain
6. Bitten By The Wolf
7. Oh Yeah
8. Learnin’ To Fall
9. Get It Up
10. Turnin’ Left
11. Future In The Past
12. Bad Motor Scooter
13. My Generation
Main Concert:
Running Time: 97 minutes (approx)
Bonus Features:
Documentary
Band Interviews
Running time: 60 minutes (approx)
Photo Gallery
Chickenfoot – Line-Up:
Sammy Hagar – Vocals, Guitar
Michael Anthony – Bass, Vocals
Joe Satriani – Guitar, Vocals
Chad Smith- Drums, Vocals
Audio:
dts 5.1 Surround Sound
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
Stereo (DVD)
LPCM Stereo (Blu-ray)
Screen Format:
16:9
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CHICKENFOOT DELUXE EDITION DUE
September 24, 2009 by Your Way To Music
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International rock music record label earMUSIC will release a new, Deluxe Edition of the eponymous debut album by 2009′s biggest rock band “Chickenfoot”. The 2-disc Deluxe Edition includes a bonus DVD disc featuring over 60 minutes of live performances and promotional footage.
The band, comprised of former Van Halen and Montrose vocalist Sammy Hagar, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony and world renowned electric guitarist Joe Satriani, is being hailed as one of the most exciting rock and roll guitar bands in years.
This deluxe version of the album will be released in the UK on Monday October 26th and will include an additional DVD, containing exclusive live footage, behind the scenes interviews and both the band’s official music videos, for debut single ‘Oh Yeah’ and upcoming single ‘Soap On A Rope’, set for a November release as a double A side with ‘My Kinda Girl’.
2009 saw Chickenfoot’s debut album reach phenomenal world wide acclaim, debuting at #4 on the American Billboard 200 (to date the band have sold over 300,000 copies of the album in the USA) and charting highly all over the World, including a Top 20 place in the UK album chart, and reaching #10 in Germany and Japan.
After the album’s release in June, Chickenfoot embarked on a huge world tour, selling out every show across Europe and America. The band’s debut UK gig at the o2 London Shepherds Bush Empire was rapturously received by the UK fans and music press alike; Metal Hammer magazine said of the performance “Chickenfoot Live are every bit as electrifying and exhilarating as we had hoped…a fantastic show!”
Due 16 October.
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‘MEET THE MEATBATS’ BOMBASTIC, FUNKY, SEXY AND LOUD… CHAD SMITH IS BREAKING OUT ON HIS OWN!
September 16, 2009 by Your Way To Music
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From the powerhouse drummer behind the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the recently formed supergroup ‘Chickenfoot’, comes Chad Smith’s new instrumental band Bombastic Meatbats, and their debut album ‘Meet the Meatbats’. The album will be released in the UK on Monday 12th October by new international rock music label earMUSIC.
Along with guitar star Jeff Kollman, multi-faceted keyboardist Ed Roth, and Motor City bass ace Kevin Chown, they have created one of the most interesting and unpredictable instrumental bands in years; Chad Smith’s Bombastic Meatbats. Their sound creates a cutting edge sonic experience fusing together Classic Rock, Old School Funk, Punk, and seventies R&B.
The Meatbats’ sound is as uncalculated and spontaneous as their accidental beginnings, forged as an outgrowth of Jeff, Ed, and Chad’s recording and touring with rock legend, Glenn Hughes. Kollman recalls, “Whenever I would jam with Ed and Chad at Glenn Hughes’ rehearsals, we would warm up with some impromptu Jeff Beck-esque grooves. One day Chad said, ‘Hey, we should record something like this!’ Next thing you know we were in the studio making an album!”
Needing a bass player to round out the group, Kollman contacted long time friend, bassist Kevin Chown. “I called him on the day of the first recording session,” continued Kollman. “He came over and saved the day – we got five tunes down in no time and the rest is history!”
Stretching the envelope with their exhilarating live performances, often deviating from the original arrangements to keep things fresh, no one quite knows (even the band it seems at times) just where the Meatbats will go next. Each performance becomes a unique experience enjoyed by the listener.
“My influences, through my brother, were so many of the groups that came out of England in the late 60′s and early 70′s,” reflects Chad, “Led Zeppelin’s John Bonham, Ginger Baker from Cream, Deep Purple with Ian Paice, Queen’s Roger Taylor, Keith Moon with the Who; those groups were the ones that I really loved. I wanted to play like those guys. When I started learning to read music in school during fourth grade, initially I held the sticks in the traditional grip. But, I remember practicing and thinking if I turned my left stick around I could get a lot more power and hit a lot harder. I like to hit hard. Hitting hard is very important for me – that’s the way I play and the way I feel it. Playing guitar, that’s all great and everything, but hittin’ stuff… AWESOME!”
TRACKLISTING:
1) NEED STRANGE
2) THE BATTLE FOR VENTURA BLVD
3) OH! I SPILLED MY BEER
4) TOPS OFF
5) DEATH MATCH
6) NIGHT SWEATS
7) PIG FEET
8) LOLA
9) BREAD BALLS
10) INTO THE FLOYD
BONUS TRACK
11) STATUS / SPECTRUM
“This was the least amount of time each of us has spent agonizing over a record,” notes Kollman. “It’s funky, musical, and compositional. The melody is king.”
These recordings are very much live in the studio… it’s totally old school that way,” adds Ed Roth. “Nothing feels as good as a record cut with four guys recording live together, listening, and playing off of each other. Even without a vocal, you can sing almost everything that everyone played on this record. That’s real soul.”
Since their first live performance in 2007, the Meatbats has sold out a Japanese tour, have thrilled American audiences and regularly perform at L.A.’s famed Jazz venue, the Baked Potato.
“This band has a thing!” insists Kollman. “You can tell Chown and Chad both did their time in Detroit. They come from the same place musically and geographically. They are the funky heartbeat of this group. Chown’s a mix of Detroit Rock and Motown, while Chad brings that sick rock/funk groove that has helped sustain the Chili Peppers for all these years. Ed’s got the gritty funk and 70′s R&B thing going on. His clavinet playing is genius and he’s so great with leaving space in the arrangements. He has taste, knows just what to play, and his life goal is always ‘keeping it sexy.’ As for myself, I protect and defend the rock guitar!”
Released 12 October
ROCK SUPERGROUP “CHICKEN FOOT” (JOE SATRIANI, CHAD SMITH, MICHAEL ANTHONY & SAMMY HAGAR) ANNOUNCE DEBUT ALBUM AND EUROPEAN TOUR
March 25, 2009 by Your Way To Music
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Former Van Halen members join forces with Red Hot Chilli Peppers’ Chad Smith and guitarist Joe Satriani
Tickets on sale Friday 27th March
London O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
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Rock supergroup “Chickenfoot” is set to release their debut self-titled album in June. Comprised of former Van Halen and Montrose vocalist Sammy Hagar, Red Hot Chilli Peppers drummer Chad Smith, former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony and world renowned electric guitarist Joe Satriani, the band is being hailed as one of the most exciting rock and roll guitar bands since Led Zeppelin.
The debut album, which will be packaged in exclusive “heat sensitive” artwork, will be released on edel entertainment’s recently launched new international rock label earMUSIC in Europe, Australia and Japan on Friday June 5th and in the UK on Monday June 8th, the album will be released by Best Buy in America on Sunday June 7th.
Tracklist:
1. Avenida Revolution
2. Soap on a Rope
3. Sexy Little Thing
4. Oh Yeah
5. Runnin’ Out
6. Get It Up
7. Down the Drain
8. My Kinda Girl
9. Learning to Fall
10. Turnin’ Left
11. Future in the Past
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The album will coincide with a European tour in June and July that will take in a number of outdoor festivals and intimate indoor dates, including a rare concert at the London 02 Shepherd’s Bush Empire on Thursday June 25th.
Tickets for the London show are priced at £29.50 and go on sale Friday March 27th at 9am. Box Office: 08444 77 2000, Book Online: www.livenation.co.uk. 24 hour credit card hotline: 0844 576 5483.
Chickenfoot 2009 European Tour
Saturday June 20AUSTRIA Nova Rock Festival
Tuesday June 23CORK, IRELAND: Live at the Marquee
Thursday June 25LONDON Shepherd’s Bush Empire
Friday June 26HOLLAND: Heerhugowaard
Sunday June 28BELGIUM Graspop Metal Meeting Festival
With Marylyn Manson, Nightwish, Disturbed, Chickenfoot
Monday June 29PARIS: Olympia
Wednesday July 1MADRID (venue tbc)
Friday July 3PISTOIA, ITALY: Blues Festival (line-up TBA)
Saturday July 4MONTREUX, SWITZERLAND: Stravinski Hall
Featuring Steely Dan, Dave Matthews, Chickenfoot
Sunday July 5UDINE, ITALY: Lignano Sbbiadoro
Tuesday July 7HAMBURG: Grosse Freiheit
Wednesday July 8COPENHAGEN: Vega
Friday July 10KILAFORS, SWEDEN: Rockweekend Festival
Sunday July 12WEERT, HOLLAND: Bospop Festival
Featuring Bryan Adams, Journey and Chickenfoot
Chickenfoot – Biography
Rarely has a band come freighted with such expectation and promise than the new outfit that calls itself Chickenfoot.
Yes, you read correctly – Chickenfoot. Say that name again, just to get used to its sound. Chickenfoot.
It’s a silly name for a band – - and album – - that kicks a donkey’s ass six ways to Sunday and back again. Maybe that’s because long before the four men who comprise Chickenfoot came together they already filled the pages of rock history with enough individual mind-blowing chapters to boggle the mind.
The news that they’ve pooled their inordinate talents to one collective whole quickly spread across the Internet last year (and perhaps that crazy name helped just a little). The fact that they’ve succeeded artistically beyond anyone’s wildest dreams (except perhaps their own) is all the more reason to celebrate.
First, let’s consider the stellar line-up. There’s Joe Satriani, he of guitar god status, a dream born on the fateful day of September 18, 1970. It was the day Jimi Hendrix died, and it was the same day that Satriani, upon hearing the news, quit his high school football team and decided, at age 14, to devote his life to the electric guitar.
Interesting, what Satriani wanted more than anything was to be part of a big-time rock band fronted by a larger-than-life singer. He bounced around from group to group, but nothing hit the mark. Finally, he scraped money together and made a record of his solo guitar recordings. Not of this Earth attracted the attention of the guitar cognostici. But it was 1987′s Surfing with the Alien that made Satriani a household name. The album went Gold (it has since gone multi-Platinum) and went on to become a benchmark of its kind.
Since that time, Satriani has become one of the world’s most influential guitarists, releasing albums such as The Extremist and Super Colossal that have sold in the millions around the world. “It was all by accident,” the soft-spoken guitarist says. “I never mapped out a plan to be an instrumentalist. Â I really wanted to be a part of a big vocal-oriented rock band. I had offers, but nothing seemed to fit. Everything seemed like career move…until Chickenfoot.”
So what about that singer? Well, that would be another guy who needs no introduction; Sammy Hagar, the original “Red Rocker”, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee for his tenure with Van Halen, who made his professional debut as the singer for the much-revered group Montrose during the early 70′s. As a replacement for the iconic David Lee Roth, Hagar faced what many would have viewed as an unenviable, if not impossible fast, but as Hagar sees it, “I decided I wasn’t going to get criticized for being the second singer in the band – - I was going to be the only singer in the band.”
Hagar carried the Van Halen brand to new heights, and together they scored a string of No. 1 albums and sold tens of millions of albums. “I upheld the artistry of the band,” reflects Hagar, “and brought them to new places they normally wouldn’t have gone. That, to me, is what I really accomplished in that band.”
Hagar wasn’t looking to form a new group in his post-Van Halen career. “I really wasn’t looking to have a real band, but when I got involved with these guys, only a fool would say, ‘No, I’m not going to do this.’ The minute we started jamming it was obvious, like, ‘This is something that needs to be heard.’”
A great band is nothing without a great rhythm section, and Chickenfoot has one of the best in the two-man team of bassist Michael Anthony and drummer Chad Smith.
As a founding member (and fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Famer) of Van Halen, Anthony laid the bedrock for which guitar genius Eddie Van Halen could fly. More than that, he provided a signature style of background vocal that became an intrinsic part of that band. “A total fluke,” the good-natured bassist humbly asserts. “I was just doing what came naturally.”
Hagar sees Anthony’s abilities differently – “Michael keeps the band going. Listen, he’s never going to get the kind of credit he deserves – - he played next to Eddie Van Halen. Hell, Jack Bruce didn’t get much credit compared to Eric Clapton – - that’s just the nature of things. Mikey held down the fort, and he still does.”
Aiding Anthony in holding down the fort is Chad Smith, drummer for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who have, since Smith joined the group in the late Eighties, gone from cult faves to a worldwide force. Â Heretofore thought of as a “funk/alternative” drummer, Smith gets to rock hard with Chickenfoot, and the percussion explosion he creates might come as a surprise to those who only know of his work from tracks like Under The Bridge.
“The guy’s from Detroit, for God’s sake!” says Hagar. “He can play the hell out of funk, but he’s a rocker. He plays hard, man. You could put one mic in a room with Chad, and you can hear all the parts of his kit – - he’s hard, but he’s balanced. The band wouldn’t exist without his groove.”
The members of Chickenfoot admit that the band came together almost by accident, a result of jams held at Hagar’s club, Cabo Wabo Cantina, in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
“We were just having fun,” recalls Michael Anthony. “After Sammy and I left Van Halen, we’d get together with musicians, and certain people seemed to really gel. Chad came down and we got on well with him. Gradually, we started talking about doing something more serious, but we needed a guitarist. Somebody smokin’ – somebody who could take us to the Promised Land.”
Enter Satch, who hooked up with Hagar, Anthony and Smith and felt “an immediate connection unlike anything I’d ever experienced before.” To Satriani, who had almost abandoned his lifelong dream of being a part of a “big-time rock band,” here was his chance, and here were his band mates. “After just a few songs, it became stunningly obvious that we shared an overall musical agenda. The only question was could we make a great album?”
The band answered that question last fall when they hunkered down with the illustrious producer Andy Johns at George Lucas’ Skywalker Studios and knocked out a batch of songs that sets a new standard for rock music in the new millennium.
From the thunderous, ominous opening strains of Avenida Revolution (detailing the bloody drug wars in Tijuana, in which Hagar makes his feelings come through his skin) to the album closer, the shimmering rock ballad Future’s in the Past,“Chickenfoot” is a firebomb of a record, the likes of which we haven’t heard in ages.
The band kicks and snorts their way through a passel of take-no-prisoners rockers like Soap on a Rope, Sexy Little Thing, Oh Yeah and My Kind of Girl.
These are the kinds of songs I could never do on my own,” says Satriani, “I needed a band like this to make those songs come alive.” The band explores mature themes on songs such as Runnin’ Out, about a world stretched to the breaking point to Learning to Fall, perhaps the most poignant love song Hagar has ever written lyrics for. As both a vocalist and songwriter, Hagar’s intensity and forcefulness are on vivid display on ”Chickenfoot”.
“I write what comes to mind,” the singer says. “I’m not bound by anything subject-wise. I’m inspired by the music. When I heard the music Joe was going for, it made me reach, it made me stretch. I think it made me sing in a way that I normally wouldn’t have done. We seem to have that kind of effect on each other.”
Satriani agrees. “People have this idea of what this band is about, or what Sammy Hagar is about as a lyricist and a vocalist. The thing is that we manage to get each guy to up his game in a non-confrontational way. When I play with Chickenfoot, I find myself wanting to give them more all the time. I don’t hold anything back. I think the rest of the guys feel the same way.”
That Satriani unleashes sheets of shred magna is, of course, a given, but what’s interesting is, as individualistic and recognizable as his talents are – - and this is true of all the players – - they transform in a strange and beautiful way on “Chickenfoot”.
Likewise, Anthony and Smith, channel past heroes. For Anthony it’s Electric Flag bassist Harvey Brooks. For Smith it’s Zeppelin’s John Bonham. Together, they perform something of an astonishing balancing act, dispending performances that meet at the intersection of Heavy and Nimble. This is what a rhythm section does, drives the band in forceful, creative ways. Listen to Chickenfoot and you’ll hear what a true rhythm section sounds like.
By the way, did we mention they have a weird name?
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