What is Chickenfoot?
It’s a band featuring Joe Satriani, Sammy Hagar, Anthony Michaels, and Chad Smith. And according to Joe Satriani’s web site, they will have a new album coming out real soon.
Stay tuned to http://www.myspace.com/thechickenfoot for more info - there’s a very brief teaser up already.
The clip sounds decent, but this interests me in [...]

Pack up your riot gear and leave behind the brown M&Ms - there are rumors swirling that Axl Rose will assemble together a group of musicians and hit the road in support of Chinese Democracy, and bring along Van Halen, possibly for a large arena tour.
An article on Blabbermouth mentions a Hits Daily Double article, [...]

Eddie Van Halen recently said he’s planning on going into the studio to lay down some new tracks, with David Lee Roth back in the singer spot.  The classic VH lineup, minus Michael Anthony and plus EVH’s son Wolfgang on bass, played some 2007-2008 reunion shows.  Now, Eddie’s saying they will record after his wedding [...]

I must have been 12 at the time, going on 13, when the video for “Jump” came out. I didn’t listen to much “heavy” music, but I spent at least ten hours a week glued to this new thing called MTV, and I thought that Van Halen was in the same league as Dexy’s [...]

Remember the story about Van Halen requesting no brown M&M’s backstage? David Lee Roth explained this in his book, but he basically buried this in their backstage rider, as a way to check if promoters were paying attention. If there were brown M&M’s in the dressing room, it probably meant the promoters cut [...]