YOU might be wondering how that blog title relates to music.
But that was the same question posed by band members of this new Supergroup, called Chickenfoot.
A side project of former Van Halen members Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith and (okay I didn’t believe this until I read it), guitar god Joe Satriani.
I’ve already heard two songs from their still unreleased album. Verdict? Imagine Hagar’s familiar falsetto screams and wails amid the rockin’ riffs of Joesat, Michael Anthony and Smith. (Okay, I must admit I thought I was listening to a VH song). I’ve heard “Soap on a Rope” and “Down the Drain.” The “uuuhs” and the melodies do remind me of Van Halen, perhaps especially with Hagar on vocals.
Now, how do you take a band whose name sounds like a joke, seriously?
Well, they’re not.
It’s a silly name for a band — and album — that kicks a donkey’s a^& 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.
In any case, this is a band that you wouldn’t want to miss.

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