Finally!!

Vids of Joe's recent appearance on 107.7 The Bone, check out all the vids!!

Hey Cuth, if you go to youtube and search under Chickenfoot you should find three complete songs...Soap on a Rope, Down the Drain, and Oh Yeah! Welcome back stranger....

Aw I just missed Joe!!!!

I just wanna tell you guys I successfully got the city of Davis (CA) to let me start a summer ROCKBAND CAMP!! A bunch of my students signed up and I'm real excited to start making a band outta these kids!!

Haha I hope we get a band that'll play "Highway Star" thats the most wicked DP tune ever... We got all kinds of interesting instruments signed up as well, got a 12 year old Harp player!!!!! Though I don't think the kids will be playing "Chords of Life" wah wah, I might have her play it for me just to jam with her though haha.

Joe is Trundrumbalind!!!

So I was going to post a quick message saying I'm about to drive up to San Francisco to visit an old T2Jer on Friday (Does anyone remember Julie, juju808? She's visiting from Denver.) and then another T2Jer from way back when shows up here. Pretty cool!

cuthbert1776 - How've you been, man? It's been a long while...and happy 2,500! ;-)

SkippyGirl: excellent work. Thanks for that. I'll bring a bootleg for you.

I cannot believe that "OH Yeah" promo cd went for $115 on eBay! F*&&%(*#%#&((&$(!!!!!!

Oh well, it's only money I guess......

;)

Soooooo, Chickenfoot has booked a 30-city tour for US and Canada beginning August 2nd, WOO HOO....

now, ermmmm.....how soon do we get to know the dates and places :)

roo - I thought you had bought it? Sheesh $115USD OMG I could never get that past the monthly family economic summit.

Joe - lovin' all the blue!!! So good of you to take time to post something and keep the little birdy singing too.

Thanks for all the links everyone, much appreciated.

Austin have fun in SF.

Scuby - special hi to you, hope all is well, any more riddles? Wish you lived in Melbourne I think you would be a good guitar teacher for someone like me.

burl - 'mornin burly, woo hoo it's Friday for you, almost Sat for me :0).

Jam-packed weekend, got a birthday party tomorrow night, theme "Casino Royale" so lots of dressups, then I have a passell of friends over for lunch Sunday with some visitors from Canada and New Zealand.

Don't u just love being the 24-hour on-call support guy...and now I have just 2 hours before I wake up again and head back to work...zzzzzzzzzzzz

At least he's not yelling he's the Prince of Pork chops.

Cuth, welcome back!

Cuth

congrats on 2500, too bad it was not the "open face" sammich post under Joe's that put you over!!!!

Don't be a stranger...

"Today, is gonna be the day...."

Have a great long weekend everyone...those of you who have a bank holiday that is...

listen to plenty of joe while you do whatever you do!!

Good to see so much of you Joe...Hope you are enjoying your stay in the UK at the moment.

Hugs Satriella xx

Jeepers this has to be the longest Joe interview I have ever seen...4 parts!

Hey Joe,

where can i find the full tracks of ur previous band "The Squares" ? Man i got some of them but they are all short versions

the song "Pictures" is great.

Can you help me with finding them ?... It's really important for me

Thanks in advance.

Longtime rock 'n' roll frontman Sammy Hagar knows a great guitarist when he hears one. After all, the Red Rocker has shared the stage with the likes of Ronnie Montrose, Ted Nugent and Eddie Van Halen. So you know Hagar knows what he's talking about when he compliments guitarist Joe Satriani, one of his collaborators in a new band, Chickenfoot. While Hagar and his regular band, the Wabos, will play Friday and Saturday at Harrah's Lake Tahoe, he's moving on to a new group -- in this case, with a guitarist he has long admired.

"I've made this statement a million times -- some people don't like it, some people do -- but Joe is the best guitarist I have ever played with," Hagar said during a recent phone interview. "That's a strong statement. I realize that. You've got to give Eddie (Van Halen) a lot of love for his innovation of what he did as a stylist with the guitar," Hagar added. "He broke a lot of ground. But Joe is a master. He can play anything and everything -- folk, blues, jazz, hard rock, soft rock, fusion, you name it. As a guitar technician, Joe is the best guy I've ever stood in the same room with on any instrument. And he's so soulful when he solos. He puts more feeling into a solo than any other player I've been with."

Hagar hardly can control the enthusiasm he has for Chickenfoot, a proverbial supergroup featuring Satriani, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony and himself.

"This band is blowing my mind," Hagar said.

He's not alone. The band in May will embark on what Hagar calls a nine-show North American test tour. He calls it a "test" because it will be Chickenfoot's first live shows before starting a full-scale tour this summer in Europe. The band will return for a tour of the United States in late August or September, Hagar said.

Although the band's self-titled debut album won't be released until June, the nine shows sold out within 40 minutes of going on sale, Hagar said.

The idea to form Chickenfoot came from informal jam sessions at Hagar's Cabo Wabo Cantina in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.

Of course, Hagar and Anthony had played together for decades in Van Halen. Both men found they enjoyed playing with Smith at the jams.

"Chad Smith is the hardest-hitting ... he's got more chops than any drummer I've ever seen with his right foot in the pocket," Hagar said.

Once Satriani joined the trio, the jam sessions became a full-time venture.

"I'm sure Chad is going to have to do something with the Chilis," Hagar said. "Every time they have a break, he'll be back with us. We'll work around it, until maybe it's more important to everyone than anything else."

Hagar's work with Chickenfoot means the demise of his own band, the Wabos.

"An era is coming to an end," he said. "I really want to concentrate on Chickenfoot. I think Chickenfoot probably will go back into the studio next year and make another record. I just don't see why we would not do that. This is way too good."

Hagar said he isn't parting ways with the Wabos. He's just putting his focus elsewhere.

"I'll keep on paying them," he said. "Honestly. I want them to stay a band because we'll still do parties and play the Cabo Wabos."

Hagar said there's no jealousy on the part of Wabos' guitarist Vic Johnson, drummer David Lauser and bass guitarist Mona.

"Oh, hell no, man," Hagar said. "Vic and Dave are the greatest people on the planet. If there were any animosity, I'd say 'OK guys, you go do your own thing and I'll do mine.' But they've been so cool about it. Vic's at the studio with Joe helping him fix the foot pedals before rehearsals. And Mona and Mike are like twins. They're great people." The Tahoe shows

When Hagar and the Wabos perform this weekend at Harrah's Lake Tahoe, they'll cull songs from Montrose, Van Halen, the pre-Van Halen-Red Rocker era, the post-Van Halen era and Hagar's 2008 studio album, "Cosmic Universal Fashion."

"It'll be a party," Hagar said. "My fans know that this (The Wabos) is coming to a close."

Hagar said he'll be back in Northern California later this year for several performances with Chickenfoot.

"We'll play a Sacramento show, San Jose, maybe Oakland," he said. "We'll play a bunch of Bay Area shows because Joe and I are Bay Area boys and Chickenfoot is a Bay Area band."

And the Wabos will be back in Tahoe because of the success of Hagar's Cabo Wabo Cantina inside Harrah's Lake Tahoe.

"If not for the Cabo Wabos, I probably wouldn't be making music today," Hagar said. "It's not profitable enough to work that hard. It's so ... expensive to go on tour this day and age. The cantinas gave people a place to party and drink tequila, listen to loud rock 'n' roll music and have a good time.

That's really cool, what Sammy has to say about Joe :) And not in the least bit surprising, lol! Thanks for posting that D_O_M

castle, pretty good for 6:30 in the morning. LOL!

cuthbert1776

Welcome back.

I dropped you an email or 2 a while back - figured the goverment finally tracked you down, since I never heard back.

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