Chickenfoot Is Here!!!!

[GuitarSlinger]

It's up on the tube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TT19cB0NTM

[mickeymix]

Thanks Jason ....I thought that was it but wasn't sure. I remember saying to myself.....WTF! at Joe's pedalboard (I wish I could've seen a close-up of that), and wishing that they would've turned Michael Anthony's mike down a bit in the mix.....still can't believe years later that that sound comes out of that mans mouth..... he simultaneously has the lowest tone(Bass) and the highest tone (BU vox) it really cuts thru a bit too much for my taste. :O

[lostylost]

Live gigs like Conan always sound bad, and subdued regardless of the band

I'm not buying that. Some songs, even when performed live and roughly, have a certain primitive power that just can't be suppressed.

The nature of money was ... Irrepressible!

[ShredRex]

That tune they played on Conan was Oh Yeah, the first released single. Not my fav tune by any stretch, but they did a bad job that night. Losty you have to remember those sound stages are not designed for live bands at all. Even back in the day when Saturday Night Live was a must see, and all of the coolest bands played on there.........they all sounded like crap. Live TV performances, even on the likes of say the Ellen Degeneres show.........sounds bad. TV soundstages just suck the life out of band performances. That and the fact they don't have a studio sound engineer at the board to assist in the mix translating live. What you heard there, and what came through the TV were 2 completely different things I bet. How many times at a concert or a club have you noticed the sound difference even from one side of the room or front/back of the venue? Not making excuses for them, as I said it was a bad, but I expected that.

[lostylost]

We are talking different things. Your are talking sound and I'm talking music. Some music is just that fragile that it fails without the sheen of production Some music for better or worse just requires that I suppose. eg A lot of electronic music

But then you have these bleep old recordings of Robert Johnson singing about how he's got a hell hound on his trail. The essence just shines on through. That stuff is more memorable to me.

In other words I'd rather listen to a good song on youtube in low quality than some pristine polished piece of crap.

Let me be *very* clear here that I don't think that ChickenFoot is `crap`. I have only heard the 4 songs on myspace. I thought they were OK, just nothing great.

We all like different stuff.

[ShredRex]

Agreed, but some of the other tunes are pretty good. I am actually getting less and less enthusiastic the more I listen to it.....lol

Still better than most of the stuff out there nowadays......man I sound like an old fossil saying that, but it is true. I still prefer Joe's solo stuff as well

[sixstringoutlaw]

i think that is the whole point of chickenfoot is....not to sound great, at risk of being another supergroup short lived, as opposed to building a foundation from the ground up to be just another band trying to make it. by their own admission thats all they want is to a band and not legends. so i think the music is mediocre on purpose,becuase with all the talent in that band... that is the only explanation!

[beauzeau]

I enjoyed the cd AND the conan performance. Yeah, the BU vox were a bit off, but hey, bu vox are quite often off in live performances. I thought the Conan show was good. I was a VH fan (more of a fan when Hagar was with them) and I was mainly hyped to see him and Anthony getting back to the basics on something like this. No, it's not another Satch album (although his tones are clearly unmistakable), and anyone expecting a Satch album should not buy this.

You gotta love Joe for being a hell of a nice guy though! He knows Conan plays, so he gives the guy his guitar! I've met him twice, and he is indeed a really cool and down to earth guy. Although he's never given me a guitar!

Did you catch Chad Smith's shirt? "I am NOT Will Farell". I've never noticed it before, but he DOES look a lot like Will Farell!

[ShredRex]

I never noticed that either until I saw the shirt......too funny.

[pooterpatty]

From the way it sounds, if Satriani really wants to sell this Chickenfoot thing, he's gonna have to give away a helluva lot of guitars. He can start with me