Sammy Hagar and Red Hot Chili Pepper member take on Led Zeppelin with future new album from Chickenfoot
May 30, 2008
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Sammy Hagar and Red Hot Chili Pepper member take on Led Zeppelin with future new album from Chickenfoot
According to The Pulse of Radio, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith has joined the new "supergroup" started by former Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar. The band, tentatively called Chickenfoot, also features ex-Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony and guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani and will enter the studio to begin recording its debut album this summer. Smith told The Pulse of Radio he got involved in the project by owning a home near Hagar’s place in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. "If you’re in Cabo, of course you know Sammy ’cause he’s, you know, he rules the joint," he said. "And he’s a really nice man, he’s a great guy actually. Somehow he’s taken a liking to me, and we played in Vegas, and we played some cover songs ? we’re a good cover band now. He got pretty excited about it and it actually sounded really good. Him and Joe got together up at his place and they wrote like five things together, and we’ll see."
Hagar himself spoke about the project in a recent interview, explaining, "We’ve written eight, nine songs…When people hear the music, it’s Led Zeppelin. It’s as good as that. I know that’s a mighty bold statement…We could rival Zep."
Sounds pretty good but I doubt that it will approach the greatest rock band of all time, Led Zeppelin. It’s likely that Sammy was being an excellent salesman, but maybe he had one shot too many.