Chickenfoot
Chickenfoot

"Chickenfoot" is the first album by the super-band composed of: Joe Satriani, Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony, and Chad Smith.

The first listed is the legendary Joe Satriani: a virtuoso guitarist who astonished the world with his "Surfing with The Alien". Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony are two former members of the hard-rock band Van Halen. The last on the list is Chad Smith, drummer of the Californian band Red Hot Chili Peppers. With this project, we discover the Hard rock side of the drummer.

We start with the first track "Avenida Revolucion" which vaguely reminds me of a Velvet Revolver song for its voice and rhythm: a brief solo from Joe and the song ends under Sammy Hagar's "cries".

"Soap On A Rope" is the second track that strongly recalls the Red Hot style united with the aggressiveness of Joe Satriani: a great union.

"Sexy Little Thing" completes the initial trio of pure Hard-rock style Chickenfoot songs.

"Oh Yeah!" is my favorite song on the album and it is also the only track released with a relative video: the chorus of the 4 members in the refrain is great. The riff that Satriani keeps from the beginning of the track to endure in all the verses is also excellent. 4.53 minutes to realize this new group not yet fully known by everyone.

"Runnin' Out" breaks the mold compared to the songs already described on this album: a classic solo from Joe with wah going at 1000 miles an hour.

"Get It Up" and "Down the Drain" are the songs that impressed me the least: the rhythm in "Get It Up" is mediocre and quite hard in "Down The Drain".

"My Kinda Girl" is quite cute given the nice intro that starts completely from an arpeggio to then reveal its more typical aspect of this album, namely the Hard Rock of 4 perfect exponents of this genre.

"Learning to Fall" is the softest song on the album: the singer's voice in this more melodic and gentle style is beautiful. The solo surprises this song by entering and moving the listener. My second favorite track on this album.

With "Turnin' Left" we return to the harder side of the CD and almost without even realizing it, we find ourselves at the last track of the album: "Future in the Past". The longest song on the album (6.38 min) which makes us say goodbye to this band with a sigh or with a half intention of restarting it from the beginning.

Almost all the songs were partly written by Joe Satriani who had been looking for perfect musicians for some time to bring this project to life.

P.S: The only thing less fitting about the group was definitely the name…BUT WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS THE MUSIC.