New band?

According to ultimate-guitar.com, Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers is starting a new band. The Chili Peppers are legends, and with them "disbanded" for a year to work on other things, word has leaked out that Smith is working on something big. How big? Try RHCP, Van Halen (well, Van Hagar), and Joe Satriani. Smith is joining forces with bassist Michael Anthony and famed singer Sammy Hagar of Van Halen as well as one of the best guitarists of all time, Joe Satriani. The band is called "Chickenfoot" and Hagar is very excited about it.

Hagar said in an interview with Spinner, "The band is like Cream, without the jazz, and with funk mixed in. We'll get up, do a verse of a song and then just go for 20 minutes. It's pretty great." As a mild Cream fan, a fan of Chili Pepper-style funk and not necessarily jazz, that's music to my ears.

But Hagar has even bigger plans. "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."

Chad Smith spoke about the creation of the band. "If you're in Cabo, of course you know Sammy 'cause he's, you know, he rules the joint. 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."

No leak to any of their songs is out yet, but there's no doubt that this is a group to look forward to in the coming years. Imagine that cover band though playing at some function.

Quotes used from www.ultimate-guitar.com and www.spinner.com