CHICKENFOOT: North American Shows Sell Out In 'Record Time'
- Apr. 21, 2009
CHICKENFOOT, the new rock supergroup comprised of drummer Chad Smith (RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS), bassist Michael Anthony (ex-VAN HALEN), guitarist Joe Satriani and vocalist Sammy Hagar (ex-VAN HALEN), has issued the following update:
"Beyond our expectations, the public on-sales for the nine road-test shows sold out all tickets in record time. The band was blown away by your response and can't wait to take the show on the road!
"Please remember that all shows require photo ID to enter the venue, so we advise you to NOT buy tickets from online ticket brokers.
"CHICKENFOOT will be back in August and September to play a major North American tour and there will be sufficient tickets to meet your demands. Due to the size of the venues for these shows, we do not forsee any issues with pre-sale availability.
"Fans who joined the fan club and were unable to get a road-test presale ticket, we hope you keep your membership in expectation of the upcoming tour announcement.
"If you have any questions or concerns about your membership, please contact ORDERHELP@FANFIRE.COM.
"The boys are in rehearsal this week, and we'll see you on the road!"
Playing a series of intimate venues, this initial tour is set to launch on May 14 at the El Corazon in Seattle, Washington. The shows will conclude at TLA in Philadelphia, PA on May 29, with tickets prices throughout averaging $50 per show.
CHICKENFOOT's North American dates:
May 14 - El Corazon - Seattle, WA May 15 - Commodore Ballroom - Vancouver, BC May 17 - The Fillmore - San Francisco, CA May 19 - The Roxy Theatre - West Hollywood, CA May 22 - Park West - Chicago, IL May 24 - The Mod Club Theatre - Toronto, ON May 26 - Middle East Upstairs - Cambridge, MA May 28 - The Fillmore NY Irving Plaza - New York, NY May 29 - TLA - Philadelphia, PA
CHICKENFOOT's self-titled debut album will be released through major retailers and digitally on June 9 and will be available for pre-sale through Best Buy beginning April 19 at www.bestbuy.com/chickenfoot. The CD will be made available by earMUSIC in Germany on Friday, June 5 and in the U.K. on Monday. June 8.
"We spent a lot of time together in the recording studio working long hours to make CHICKENFOOT live up to expectations," said Satriani. "We really feel like we've mastered it and recorded a great album but now we're especially excited to take the show on the road and see how the fans react to it live. I think we are really going to feed off of the fan's energy. We're really that type of band."
"Chickenfoot" will be packaged in heat-sensitive artwork, which means when you put your hand on the CD inlay, photos of the band members will be revealed behind the CHICKENFOOT band logo.
"Chickenfoot" track listing:
01. Avenida Revolution 02. Soap on a Rope 03. Sexy Little Thing 04. Oh Yeah 05. Runnin' Out 06. Get It Up 07. Down the Drain 08. My Kinda Girl 09. Learning to Fall 10. Turnin' Left 11. Future in the Past
"Oh Yeah":
"Soap on a Rope":
"Down the Drain":
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COMMENT | posted by : booch 4/21/2009 6:12:06 PM
OH YEAH!
Bring on THE FOOT !
COMMENT | too bad posted by : Zoo Keeper 666 4/21/2009 6:19:34 PM
these songs are really lame....
the guitar playing is cool and interesting though....
COMMENT | posted by : DragonMaster 4/21/2009 6:29:53 PM
Sounds great!! Reminds me of oldschool Hager and Montrose. Nice!!
COMMENT | These songs are lame... posted by : handsolo 4/21/2009 6:42:02 PM
... even by Van Hagar standards.
COMMENT | posted by : Chaos VS Order 4/21/2009 6:44:46 PM
awesome songs!!!
COMMENT | Chickenshit posted by : lazyspud 4/21/2009 7:31:49 PM
Sounds like an even weaker version of Van Hagar.
DLR owns.
\vh/
COMMENT | lazyspud posted by : laggerlugger 4/21/2009 7:44:30 PM
roth can't hold Sammy's mic let alone outperform him. thier solo carrers say it all one a complete failure and one that still going strong.none of roth's shit can compare to Sammy's solo work or what he did in van hagar.let's see roth had funny videos and steve vai played on one of records which you can get for 10 cents now at any discount bin. when was the last time you heard a roth solo song on the radio or better yet listened to your own copy?if you say today you lie!love the stuff he did with vh but solo?come on!not close!thought it would be like gettin 2 vh a year with hiis solo stuff just sad realy. but hey he is back with the brithers that he has been crtin for 25 years about.
COMMENT | NOT SURPRISED ABOUT THE SELLOUT posted by : Brother Maynard 4/21/2009 7:47:13 PM
This the first Supergroup in a while and these are very respected players. The Roxy should be something special. I imagine they'll play the whole record and as reported some songs from each of them which should be awesome.
How cool is going to be to see Satriani shred some Van Halen? How fucking cool is that going to be?
COMMENT | posted by : enterhandman 4/21/2009 7:53:03 PM
Good stuff, but where's Wolfie?
COMMENT | posted by : enterhandman 4/21/2009 7:54:51 PM
Biggest rock album of 2009!
COMMENT | to all you ed lover and chickenfoot haters posted by : sava5150 4/21/2009 7:56:14 PM
the cd rocks i have it can t wait for you haters to hear get it up turnin left and avenida revolution fnnnnnn rock so just wait for the foot!
COMMENT | wolfie??? posted by : maidenhouston 4/21/2009 8:10:01 PM
the wolfie comment was a dumb one. sorry but the kid had NO business replacing michael anthony and his back-up voice was crap compared to anthony's. I thought it was comical to have him on the tour. Like the baseball team w/ the midget-just a thing to make people go "wow" okay so where's the real bassist.
Why hasn't the RiotAct666 posted on this yet. Surely he would say something to the effect of:
Got my tickets in the mail today, should be a kiler show. Now bring on that new album!
COMMENT | posted by : enterhandman 4/21/2009 8:57:08 PM
Dude, just kiddin' 'bout wolfie. Everyone knows Mikey is the best!
COMMENT | laggerlugger posted by : Doros78 4/21/2009 9:29:48 PM
so what DLR songs arent played on the radio? that says so much today about how good you are, or not. its more like the less you are played on the radio the better you are. and then all metal bands shoudl just quit because they arent played on the radio???? but these Chickenfoot songs are very good and the labum should be very good. saw Hagar live 4 years ago and he was a big surprise, he was fucking great!!! great singer and very good guitarist too, and even better showman.
I probably won't buy it but I'll give it a few listens. Sammy's voice kinda grates on my nerves after a while. Joe is the man though, I'd check em out live. Seems they have lots of room for improvisation in these tunes.
COMMENT | posted by : RiotAct666 4/21/2009 9:53:14 PM
See you there!
COMMENT | I knew it. I knew it. I knew it. posted by : vanhagar 4/21/2009 10:06:00 PM
Can't wait. Can't wait. Can't wait. !!!!!!!!
!!!!!! CHICKENFOOT !!!!!!!!
Oh Yeah !
COMMENT | Damn It ??!!?? posted by : vinny3888s 4/21/2009 10:08:36 PM
The damn tickets sold out in Boston, at the Middle East upstairs, just after they went on pre-sale.
COMMENT | Damn It ??!!?? posted by : vinny3888s 4/21/2009 10:08:38 PM
The damn tickets sold out in Boston, at the Middle East upstairs, just after they went on pre-sale.
COMMENT | Sorry for the double. posted by : vinny3888s 4/21/2009 10:11:45 PM
the site had a glitch, damn it. But still love this chickenfoot project and will have to wait until the big tour comes to the TD Banknorth GARDEN, in Boston !
COMMENT | Old School Fan posted by : ALL ME!!11 4/22/2009 1:10:22 AM
From someone who grew up going to the Partys that Van Halan Played in the Pasadina area or seeing them at Walter Mittys in Pomona then going to the Swing Aut. in San Bernardino to see home town boy Sammy Hagar , Sammy has never dissapointed !!! and yet again Pure Rock!! TY Joe You make this band SUPER! My wife is from NY all she ever heard me talk about is the roots of rock in LA. Cant wait to take my new wife to see this band rock the Roxy
COMMENT | posted by : Expanded Consciousness 4/22/2009 1:44:39 AM
9 shows in rooms holding about 50-100 people each. 450-900 tickets and these 4 dudes have been on multi-platinum albums or sold millions if their whole catalogue is tallied - they better sell out "in record time".
COMMENT | The Chicken Is Cooking! posted by : Expanded Consciousness 4/22/2009 1:48:36 AM
OH FUCK YEAH!
What the hell is going on?
I dig a Sammy Hagar song?
Fucking Twilight Zone!
“Oh Yeah” is an excellent, great song!
Played it 10 times already.
OK. So, someone got through to Hagar, finally. Satch, Chad or a producer and said none of that Van Hagar crap.
I went to IMEEM and played some Van Hagar cuts to make sure I wasn’t loosing my mind.
Why Van Hagar suxed donkey balls [Van Hagar cringe-worthy elements]:
Over-earnest singing and lyrics.
Singing: Trying to push all the emotion out of each line. Forced. Nerdy. Too precious. No air, no space, no relaxing into a groove. Over-singing. Even the screams are forced. Don’t sound like a natural, uncontrolled celebration, but look-at-me-I’m screaming. Almost over-singing the scream, if you will. And singing and screaming in too high a register. Too high and too forced = nerdy. No art to it. No artist-vibe. Cool, open, free, creative - ya gotta feel it in a relaxed, natural way if yr gonna make music, man. Not look-ma, I’m earnest, I’m straining, I’m over-singing, over enunciating.
Lyrics: Cliche, Hallmark Card, bore-me-to-tears, so common-place they say nothing, can’t get into them. Over-earnest. Little-boy-showing-it-to-mommy sweet lyrics.
Why Oh Yeah! [I'm calling it Oh Fuck Yeah!] is a great song:
Singing: Someone made Hagar relax a little. Restrained him somewhat. Sing in a little lower. Not straining high. There is some space and air, lets a little authentic feeling into the delivery. A little coolness. There you go, Sammy. With “Ain’t nothing I wouldn’t do for you” and a ton of other lines and even with the screams - you can just feel Hagar being restrained and just where the Van Hagar dude would have pushed it outta the zone. “Oh Lord I could sing” - Van Hagar would have forced that line through the stratosphere and drenched it with over-emotions
and strangled it completely to death. And his vocals are louder in the mix than with Van Hagar (where perhaps he is straining just to be heard, huh?).
Lyrics: Not pissing me off. Tells a story. Rock n roll lines. He doesn’t nerdy it up.
What the fuck!
Satch is being very tasty. Bravo. No mechanical “scale” and robotic guitar-work or soloing.
Chad. Don’t miss the drums. He’s got an excellent touch and dynamics and sound quality. And puts alotta details in there. Not boring. Not pedestrian.
Mikey. Someone plugged him in finally and turned up his base (I can hear it!) - and even lets him explore his fretboard. Mikey is part of the song, finally. Satch let’s bass players be bass players in his bands. Listen to the first note and the opener.
So, Bravo! The first rock from old-timers since Velvet Revolver that I really like. Most of the other releases from old-timers have been: Well, boys. Good later day effort. Good to hear from you. Play it a few times, then drift away from it. (That fun Motley Crue last effort The Saints Of Los Angeles was one exception. Still good to spin).
Hell, maybe someone played the first 6 Dave-VH albums for Sammy and explained why they were great - cause they were cool and unforced - had space and air. Now the rest of the album just has to be as natural. They better have controlled his bad habits throughout. I don’t want this to be like U2’s album with “Get On Your Boots” being great and then nothing else on the album sounding even remotely like it. Old bait and switch.
Well, there you go. See, I never was an automatic Hagar-hater. Van Hagar just offended my ears and artistic sensibilities.
Can’t believe they restrained Hagar and made him be cool for once. Actually sounds like a goddamn artist for once. Musta made him look up the word “atmosphere” in the dictionary - cause this song’s got it.
*And now we just need Diamond Dave to undergo the same treatment in the studio. Control, restraint. Bring some pot to the studio, if you need to. Make him relax, too. Cause he had some similar problems on his solo work (after Eat Em And Smile, that is - a great record). For him it was straining for an unnatural high note and those pinched lines and those disharmonies. They were nowhere to be found on the first 6 VH records. Well, they made him concentrate on the singing on the ‘07/’08 tour. So, hopefully they will work with a strong producer and put out some shit that’s in the groove.
Like this little new song, “Oh Fuck Yeah”!
COMMENT | No wonder posted by : Lemmyisgod 4/22/2009 2:01:03 AM
The prices they're charging for the Roxy show: Pre-sale only was available and sold out on Fri, before tix went on sale Sat at Ticketrapist.
$95 including fan club package or $250 VIP ticket, which got you into the club "early", a special t-shirt (ohhh) and a poster. These guys know how to rip off their fans. way to go, asshats. And with the pre-sale, there was no option to NOT get the fan club "package". So, if you really wanted to see this 1 show, you had to buy their fucking fan club package, and then some people still didn't get tix. These guys are as bad as Ticketrapist.
COMMENT | Yea well, $ posted by : Expanded Consciousness 4/22/2009 2:12:17 AM
What band does any different?
COMMENT | posted by : Cowboy From Hull 4/22/2009 4:20:43 AM
Got a ticket for the only UK show in London - whatever they sound like, should be a good night out!
COMMENT | Some detailed deconstruction for what it is worth posted by : Expanded Consciousness 4/22/2009 5:03:29 AM
The Classic Rock Verdict - Chickenfoot’s First 2 Tracks terrybezer / Communication Breakdown, News / 23/03/2009 18:08pm
Classic Rock Editor Sian Llewellyn and our Editor At Large Geoff Barton run the rule over the 2 brand new Chickenfoot tracks.
We revealed to you earlier on today that Chickenfoot (the super-group featuring former Van Halen men Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith and Joe Satriani) have posted 2 brand new tracks online. Now check out the Classic Rock verdict on these new tracks!
Sian Llewellyn
Soap On A Rope: Alright, full disclosure: I’m a big fan of Sammy Hagar when he was in Montrose, but I’m not a fan of widdly ‘muso’ guitarists who invariably sacrifice a tune for flashy you-can¹t-play-this, eight-million-notes-a-second technique, y’know your Steve Vais and your Joe Satrianis. So I¹ve been waiting to hear Chickenfoot with an equal sense of excitement and dread.
So it comes as a great (and very, very pleasant) surprise to report that for Chickenfoot¹s Soap On A Roap, Satch has (mostly) kept control of his widdly tendencies and wrapped his formidable guitar talent around a chunky, syncopated riff that wouldn¹t be out of place on a Montrose record. It¹s good time rock¹n¹roll, with moments of ZZ Top-style genius… Hagar sounds in fine voice, and the quartet just sound like they’re having a lot of fun. I don’t know that the melody will stay with you after just one spin, but that killer riff probably will. First listen?
Colour me impressed. And yes, I was caught out by the false ending too.
Down The Drain: If Motley Crüe¹s Dr Feelgood collided with the Red Hot Chili Peppers¹ Give It Away, the result wouldn¹t be unlike Chickenfoot¹s Down The Drain.
Wrapping itself around a Michael Anthony’s lumbering (and I mean that in a good way) bass riff, it begins promisingly enough with a bit of banter from Hagar, a chunky guitar sound and a suitably catchy Anthony Keidis-style spoken-sung vocal line, but then it all goes a bit wrong. Or should I say it all goes a bit *long*.
Down The Drain is a three-minute song that’s ill-advisedly been stretched out to well over six minutes. The chorus hints at greatness, but it never quite manages to convert itself to brain-scrambling melodic idea, then Satch goes a bit mental on his fretboard for the last two minutes of the song. That’d probably be all well and good live on stage, but it’s a little tedious here.
Geoff Barton
Soap On A Rope: Listening to these two tracks, it sounds as if Chickenfoot are trying to recreate the loose, fun-lovin¹ vibe of early Van Halen. These ain¹t songs so much as vehicles for a deal of interplay and general pecking around in the farmyard between frontman Sammy Hagar and guitarist Joe Satriani.
Soap On A Rope is a funky strutalong (”Do the funky Chickenfoot,” you could say) that is probably too long at five-and-a-half minutes; nevertheless Hagar¹s vocals are impressive, and Satriani adds some inventive tweaky bits here and there (there are even some doomy twangs that sound like they¹ve been lifted from Black Sabbath¹s Iron Man).
On the plus side, it¹s great to hear bassist Michael Anthony¹s trademark harmonies once again, and Chad Smith is an appropriately pounding presence on drums.
On the downside, there¹s a slight stench of muso-ness about this, which means the spontaneous, loose-limbed approach of classic VH remains tantalisingly out of reach.
Down The Drain: This track is definitely the better of the two, with its mean, loping Satriani riff and salacious hunk of Hagar repartee. There¹s a scintillating Satch solo at just after the three-minute mark, and later some deep-down-and-dirty six-string sounds that recall Billy Gibbons’s trademark tones.
Again, this is very much a Sam’n'Joe affair. After a great start it tapers off, however, becoming something of a fiddlefest. Both these tracks are very promising and hyper-professional, as you would expect, but you can’t help but feel that someone needed to drag Chickenfoot out of the coop and say: “That’s just great, guys, but where exactly are the songs?”
Incidentally, has anyone noticed the similarity between Chickenfoot and a previous Hagar project? The combination of Hagar-Satriani-Anthony-Smith reminds us of another HSAS: Hagar-Schon-Aaronson-Shrieve, the short-lived band Sam The Man formed with Neal Schon (guitar), Kenny Aaronson (bass) and Michael Shrieve (drums) back in 1984.
We recently spoke exclusively to ex-Van Halen men Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony about the Chickenfoot project, while Joe Satriani also offered an update of his own last week.
COMMENT | Obviously a Roth lover ^^^^ posted by : Get up and make it work 4/22/2009 12:58:38 PM
Roth's career was over after Vai left. That was 20 years ago. Yeah, "just like paradise" gets a lot of air play these days.
Yeah, these tunes are weak considering the hype, but at least they are making new music, and people are jumping over people to get tickets. Roth continues to ride Edward Van Has Beens coat tails.
Satch has done much, much better before. Likewise Chad Smith. Mikey hasn't done this good in 25 years.
...and Captain Chickenshit himself - Sammy Hagar - will never be any good, by any standards.
Too bad Chickenshit has Sammy on vocals. Could've been an otherwise great band.
Chalk up another American band ruined by Captain Chickenshit.
"Chickenshit" track listing:
01. Arby's Chicken Revolution 02. Sam on a Rope 03. Sexy Little Thing (Written by Sammy, dedicated to Mikey) 04. Oh Yeah, I'm Up For Chicken Breakfast 05. Runnin' Out Like A Chicken Without It's Foot 06. Get It Up (new commercial for Viagra) 07. (My Career Is Learning To Fall) Down the Drain 08. My Kinda Girl Is Mikey 09. My Career Is Learning to Fall (Down The Drain) 10. Turnin' Left 'Cause I Still Can't Drive 55 11. My Future Is Stuck in the Past
COMMENT | Lemmyisgod posted by : longsincedark 4/22/2009 1:45:23 PM
I am sure this wasn't their idead but a marketing plan to launch the band... it is a special PRE TOUR which 1,000 of bands have been doing this sort of thing for years. Sure the tickets are expensive but you are seeing them up close and personal so the extra price is worth it. How often do any of these people play small venues like this? Exactly... NEVER... so quit crying because you didn't get a ticket a wait for the full tour to come by. Compared to what most concerts cost $250 for a VIP ticket, shirt, poster (probably autographed even), and to see these guys up close and personal is not asking that much where if this was an arena show you could play $100 to see them from the nose bleeds.
COMMENT | DLR_EngineRoom posted by : longsincedark 4/22/2009 1:48:42 PM
You have way too much time on your hands my friend and even if I wasn't a fan of Hagar your third grade humor was not funny.
COMMENT | Van Halen did it here. posted by : Gunner1234 4/22/2009 4:18:34 PM
I was there but couldn't get in but man had to be 200,000 people walking the streets hoping that they did it outside, it was awsome. So that is why Chickenfoot is doing it.
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