Joe Satriani: sammy hagar gives the low down on chickenfoot

News:
17-11-2008:
Eddie Trunk posts a new interview, this time with Sammy Hagar

Sammy:

The reason I have a loyal following is because I have delivered time-and-time again. Whether you like my music, my band or my songs, I am out there doing it. I will keep doing it and I will dig it. Hopefully, my new band, Chickenfoot, will fill that Van Halen gap for myself and the fans. You have a super guitar player, Joe Satriani, and you have Chad Smith on drums and [Michael Anthony] on bass and singing. We have the early Van Halen chemistry. When we get together, we start laughing and having a good time, and the music just comes pouring out of us. I am so happy to be in a creative environment like that with other people again. My band is creative; don't get me wrong. They are my solo band and they will always be my band. It is like Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band; they back up Bruce properly. When you put together another kind of band, where everyone inspires each other, and tries to out play each other, and pushes each other to the limit, and I am not running the show — that is what Van Halen was. I love that feeling. It was like that in Montrose and HSAS. Everyone brought things to the table and it is not a solo thing. I am really enjoying this time with Chickenfoot.

Classic Rock Revisited: Is the name Chickenfoot going to stick?

Sammy: Say we change the name tomorrow to The Brown Boys. We will put a new album out and people will say, "Have you heard The Brown Boys?" People will go, "Who are they?" They will answer, "They used to be Chickenfoot." No matter what we change our name to everyone will refer to us as "Chickenfoot." To me, it is more than a silly name. This band is funky and it is like a chicken foot walking around a barnyard. It is down and dirty.

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