CHICKENFOOT: Quality Italian Footage Posted Online

Quality video footage of CHICKENFOOT performing the song "Sexy Little Thing" live on July 5, 2009 at the Arena of Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy can be viewed below (courtesy of "farco777").

CHICKENFOOT was forced to cancel its sold-out shows in Hamburg (Große Freiheit, July 7) and Copenhagen (Vega, July 8) after drummer Chad Smith aggravated an old injury that had not healed while playing the Olympia in Paris. In addition, Smith is suffering from a tear of various tendons in the shoulder and upper arm/biceps.

CHICKENFOOT's self-titled debut album has sold 220,000 copies in the United States since its June 5 release. The LP is packaged in heat-sensitive artwork, which means when you put your hand on the CD inlay, photos of the band members are revealed behind the CHICKENFOOT band logo.

CHICKENFOOT first got together more than a year ago when they started jamming in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Although they called the band CHICKENFOOT at the time, guitarist Joe Satriani told The Pulse of Radio that nobody thought the name would stick. "Sammy's [Hagar] saying, 'Oh, you know, we can call it CHICKENFOOT,' and everybody laughs and says, 'Yeah, okay, it'll never be called CHICKENFOOT, of course, that's a horrible name.' And that's the way it was for about nine months, until finally someone said, 'You know, you can't change it now, everyone's calling you guys CHICKENFOOT.' So we wound up with that name, I think, quite by accident."

The band will launch its first major North American tour on August 2 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, finishing up on September 27 in Universal City, California.