Chickenfoot (album)
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October 27, 2009 |
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December 2008 to April 2009 |
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| Label (s) | Chickenfoot, LLC (USA) Edel Entertainment GmbH / Ear Music (Europe) |
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11 (LP and download version: 12) |
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running time |
57:47 |
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Chickenfoot is the 2009 released debut album of the same name US Hard Rock - Supergroup .
Classification in the musical background
Sammy Hagar, guitarist and vocalist, who became known in the United States as the singer of the band Montrose and later rose to superstar status with Van Halen in the 1980s and early 1990s, first left the band in 1996 and relied on his Focused solo career. After a short time in which he recorded four more songs with Van Halen for a best of album and completed a tour with the group, he finally turned his back on the group, but kept in touch with bassist Michael Anthony, who gave him had become a friend.
Both musicians played together regularly at Hagar's performances in his Cabo Wabo Cantina bar . Hagar's neighbors in Cabo San Lucas also included Chad Smith , drummer for the Red Hot Chili Peppers , who was also a regular guest at the Cantina and who finally came up with the idea of producing an album together. Hagar liked the idea, but wanted a top-notch guitarist in the group, so in February 2008 he invited Joe Satriani over to jam .
Because all the musicians had very tight schedules (Smith was working with Glenn Hughes on his album First Nuclear Underground Kitchen at the time , Satriani was prevented by his touring obligations, lecturing and working on his album Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock , and Hagar promoted his solo album Cosmic Universal Fashion with a tour), they decided to meet every two months, write songs and record demos .
In December 2008, the group went to the studio with producer Andy Johns to record the album.
publication
Chickenfoot was released on June 5, 2009 on CD , LP and downloadable versions. The first edition of the CD and the record appeared with a cover printed with non-toxic thermochromatic ink. This made the cover look black, but when the temperature was at least 29 ° C, for example by placing a hand on it, the photos of the band members (front) or the song titles (back) became visible.
The tracks Oh Yeah (April 13, 2009), Soap on a Rope (August 18, 2009) and Sexy Little Thing (October 21, 2009) were released as singles . The album reached number 4 on the Billboard 200 in the USA and number 17 on the charts in Germany.
reception
- Rocks wrote: "The fact that Satriani provides the songs with tasteful leads is the icing on the cake of a classic rock album by a band that sounds a lot like the better Van Halen at the moment."
- Amazon.de said: "On their debut work, the quartet easily succeeds in overshadowing the last Van Halen records and at the same time developing a traditional and ultra-modern sound."
- whiskey-soda.de judged: “The Chickenfoot debut is a versatile collection of punchy lyrics, unfolding melodies and great riffs. Hardly a song works according to the usual 4-minute scheme, most of them literally explode after four minutes. "(...)" Chickenfoot play hard rock in all its facets and at the highest level. "
- Rock Hard came to the conclusion that the line-up of the group “ screwed up the expectations of the debut album into immeasurable”, the group celebrated eleven top-class players on the album “with an almost unabashed casualness,” everything else, “just no hobby rushes from full rock stars “ Be. From a technical point of view, “everything is of the very best anyway,” the songwriting is “always in the foreground” and provides a CD that “easily blows away all Van Halen records from the last 20 years”.
Quotes
"From the first minute we jammed, we knew this was going to be something the world had to hear."
Track list
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- (5:56) Avenida Revolucion - Hagar, Satriani
- (5:32) Soap on a Rope - Hagar, Satriani
- (4:14) Sexy Little Thing - Hagar, Satriani
- (4:54) Oh Yeah - Hagar, Satriani
- (3:52) Runnin 'Out - Hagar, Satriani
- (4:41) Get it up - Hagar, Satriani
- (6:17) Down the Drain - Hagar, Satriani, Anthony, Smith
- (4:32) My Kinda Girl - Hagar, Satriani
- (5:13) Learning to Fall - Hagar, Satriani
- (5:48) Turnin 'Left - Hagar, Satriani
- (6:38) Future in the Past - Hagar, Satriani, Anthony, Smith
- (4:24) Bitten by the Wolf - Hagar, Satriani, Smith (bonus track of the LP and download versions)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sammy Hagar, Joel Selvin Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock . ! t Books, 2011, ISBN 978-0-06-200928-9
- ↑ a b Rocks - The magazine for Classic Rock . Issue 04/2009, page 35
- ↑ Rocks - The magazine for Classic Rock . Issue 03/2009, page 81
- ↑ Amazon.de
- ↑ whiskey-soda.de ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ RockHard Review; Issue 256
- ↑ Chart sources: DE ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. AT CH UK US
