Chickenfoot

This album kind of came out of nowhere. I didn't find out about it until the week it was being released. Given who was in it, I would have thought I'd have heard about it sooner than I did. I mean, you have two former members of Van Halen, Joe Satriani, and the drummer from Red Hot Chili Peppers in the band. That's not a bunch of nobodies there.

I've been into Joe Satriani for a long time, and was excited when he was briefly in Deep Purple in 1994, he's a somewhat different guitarist when in a band structure. His solo/regular work is fairly free flowing, and has a way different sound than most rock albums by bands. The Chickenfoot album is no different. While you can definitely tell it's Satch on the guitar, it has a more "reigned in" sound to it.

But he can still riff like nobody's business, and the songs have a nice feel to them. It has that Van Halen sound, because Michael Anthony is here doing his harmonizing like he did in Van Halen. It's got Satch's guitar, and I don't know anything about the Chili Peppers guy (except there's another drummer by the same name who is in Geezer Butler's solo band - this isn't him).

I'd give this album a 7 - it's not the greatest rock album I've ever heard, but it's most definitely enjoyable. Especially if you liked Van Hagar. As an extra bonus, I got this legally cheap. When it was FIRST released, Amazon ran a sale on the album from it's MP3 store - I got it for $5. Was hard to pass that up - even buying blind. Song highlights for me are "Soap on a Rope", "Oh Yeah", & "Get it Up".